2026 September - 16 articles
Objectives: To compare functional recovery during inpatient rehabilitation, assessed by Functional Independence Measure (FIM) gain and FIM efficiency, between the pre-pandemic and COVID-19 pandemic periods in older adults after hip fracture. Methods:...
To identify whether a relationship exists between COVID-19 and appendicitis and compare the incidence of appendicitis during three pandemic years to the year prior to the pandemic, we conducted two observational retrospective studies: a propensity sc...
This study measured the severity and frequency of self-reported symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Psychology students in a Dutch university before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing insights into how this populat...
Ensitrelvir and nirmatrelvir are the two most widely used oral SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors, yet their toxicological profiles have never been compared under a single computational panel. An identical panel of 105 toxicity endpoints per compoun...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes systemic inflammation and multi-organ injury that may persist beyond the acute illness. The Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index and the aspartate aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) are inexpensive liver fi...
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant healthcare, economic and social impacts. This study described characteristics of COVID-19 mortality and determined risk of COVID-19 death by wave period in Jamaica. A cross-sectional analysis was con...
Isolation, quarantine, and contact tracing are some of the most critical and commonly employed non-pharmaceutical interventions used to control the spread of COVID-19. However, the effectiveness of these strategies and their implementation depends on...
This paper focuses on the wellbeing of a sample of older and predominantly middle-class UK individuals drawn from the Mass Observation Project (MOP) participant panel in 2020, covering the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic and first UK nat...
Long COVID, defined by the National Academies of Sciences as an infection-associated chronic condition persisting at least three months following SARS-CoV-2 infection, presents a growing public health challenge. Despite national prevalence estimates...
Background: This study aims to characterise the clinical and radiological features of Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) in the context of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), consolidating reported cases to aid cli...
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns heavily impacted the stress levels of families worldwide. We examined parental stress levels regarding a variety of subtopics (including finances, schooling, and seeing extended family) in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. A...
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play an important role in innate immunity, mediating viral recognition, antiviral responses, and cytokine production. This study evaluated TLR7 and TLR9 expression levels in COVID-19 patients and their associations with COV...
Background: Transparent measurement is essential when organizational capacity is compared across public health institutions. The supplied analytic dataset did not contain repeated annual scores or indicator-level evidence for the previously proposed...
Mathematical modeling has played a crucial role in epidemiological research, its importance amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. This comprehensive review provides a five-year analysis of mathematical models developed to understand and control COV...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic simultaneously affected vascular risk and healthcare utilization. We evaluated whether monthly trajectories of Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde; SUS)-financed hospitalizations for...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in substantial global morbidity and mortality since its emergence in late 2019. This retrospective study aims to determine t...
