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Shojaei M, Shamshirian A, Monkman J, Grice L, Tran M, Tan CW, Teo SM, Rodrigues Rossi G, McCulloch TR, Nalos M, Raei M, Razavi A, Ghasemian R, Gheibi M, Roozbeh F, Sly PD, Spann KM, Chew KY, Zhu Y, Xia Y, Wells TJ, Senegaglia AC, Kuniyoshi CL, Franck CL, dos Santos AFR, de Noronha L, Motamen S, Valadan R, Amjadi O, Gogna R, Madan E, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Lamperti L, Zuñiga F, Nova-Lamperti E, Labarca G, Knippenberg B, Herwanto V, Wang Y, Phu A, Chew T, Kwan T, Kim K, Teoh S, Pelaia TM, Kuan WS, Jee Y, Iredell J, O’Byrne K, Fraser JF, Davis MJ, Belz GT, Warkiani ME, Gallo CS, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes F, Nguyen Q, Mclean A, Kulasinghe A, Short KR, Tang B. IFI27 transcription is an early predictor for COVID-19 outcomes, a multi-cohort observational study. Front Immunol 2023; 13:1060438. [PMID: 36685600 PMCID: PMC9850159 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1060438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Purpose Robust biomarkers that predict disease outcomes amongst COVID-19 patients are necessary for both patient triage and resource prioritisation. Numerous candidate biomarkers have been proposed for COVID-19. However, at present, there is no consensus on the best diagnostic approach to predict outcomes in infected patients. Moreover, it is not clear whether such tools would apply to other potentially pandemic pathogens and therefore of use as stockpile for future pandemic preparedness. Methods We conducted a multi-cohort observational study to investigate the biology and the prognostic role of interferon alpha-inducible protein 27 (IFI27) in COVID-19 patients. Results We show that IFI27 is expressed in the respiratory tract of COVID-19 patients and elevated IFI27 expression in the lower respiratory tract is associated with the presence of a high viral load. We further demonstrate that the systemic host response, as measured by blood IFI27 expression, is associated with COVID-19 infection. For clinical outcome prediction (e.g., respiratory failure), IFI27 expression displays a high sensitivity (0.95) and specificity (0.83), outperforming other known predictors of COVID-19 outcomes. Furthermore, IFI27 is upregulated in the blood of infected patients in response to other respiratory viruses. For example, in the pandemic H1N1/09 influenza virus infection, IFI27-like genes were highly upregulated in the blood samples of severely infected patients. Conclusion These data suggest that prognostic biomarkers targeting the family of IFI27 genes could potentially supplement conventional diagnostic tools in future virus pandemics, independent of whether such pandemics are caused by a coronavirus, an influenza virus or another as yet-to-be discovered respiratory virus.
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- Maryam Shojaei
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia,Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, NSW, Australia,Department of Medicine, Sydney Medical School Nepean, Nepean Hospital, University of Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia,*Correspondence: Arutha Kulasinghe, ; Kirsty R. Short, ; Maryam Shojaei,
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Centre, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Centre, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Antimicrobial Resistance Research Centre, Department of Infectious Diseases, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran
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- Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Immunology and Infection Control, Faculty of Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Science, Edith Cowan University; School of Biomedical Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Complexo Hospital de Clinicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil,Core for Cell Technology, School of Medicine, PontifìciaUniversidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Complexo Hospital de Clinicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil,Core for Cell Technology, School of Medicine, PontifìciaUniversidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Molecular and Cell Biology Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran,Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Centre, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark,Novo Nordisk Foundation centre for Stem Cell Biology, DanStem, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Campania Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Centre, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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- Molecular and Translational Immunology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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- Molecular and Translational Immunology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile,Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Tarumanagara, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia,Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, NSW, Australia,Department of Medicine, Sydney Medical School Nepean, Nepean Hospital, University of Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia,Westmead Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Sydney Informatics Hub, Core Research Facilities, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore,Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia,Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia,Westmead Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Genomics and PersonalisedHealth, School of Biomedical Sciences, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Critical Care Research Group, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia,Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Australia Centre for Health Technologies (CHT) & Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile,Exosome Biology Laboratory, Centre for Clinical Diagnostics, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Frazer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,*Correspondence: Arutha Kulasinghe, ; Kirsty R. Short, ; Maryam Shojaei,
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia,*Correspondence: Arutha Kulasinghe, ; Kirsty R. Short, ; Maryam Shojaei,
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia,Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, NSW, Australia
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Mousavi SA, Heydari K, Mehravaran H, Saeedi M, Alizadeh‐Navaei R, Hedayatizadeh‐Omran A, Shamshirian A. Melatonin effects on sleep quality and outcomes of COVID-19 patients: An open-label, randomized, controlled trial. J Med Virol 2022; 94:263-271. [PMID: 34460132 PMCID: PMC8662261 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.27312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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This trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of adding melatonin to the treatment protocol of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. This was an open-label, randomized controlled clinical trial in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Patients were randomized into a treatment arm receiving melatonin plus standard care or a control arm receiving standard care alone. The trial's primary endpoint was sleep quality examined by the Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire (LSEQ). The trial's secondary endpoints were symptoms alleviation by Day 7, intensive care unit admission, 10-day mortality, white blood cell count, lymphocyte count, C-reactive protein status, and peripheral capillary oxygen saturation. Ninety-six patients were recruited and allocated to either the melatonin arm (n = 48) or control arm (n = 48). Baseline characteristics were similar across treatment arms. There was no significant difference in symptoms on Day 7. The mean of the LSEQ scores was significantly higher in the melatonin group (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in laboratory data, except for blood oxygen saturation, which has improved significantly in the melatonin group compared with the control group (95.81% vs. 93.65% respectively, p = 0.003). This clinical trial study showed that the combination of oral melatonin tablets and standard treatment could substantially improve sleep quality and blood oxygen saturation in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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- Seyed Abbas Mousavi
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Addiction InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
- Student Research Committee, School of MedicineMazandaran University of Medical SciencesRamsarIran
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, School of MedicineMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research CenterMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical ScienceMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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Ghasemian R, Shamshirian A, Heydari K, Malekan M, Alizadeh‐Navaei R, Ebrahimzadeh MA, Ebrahimi Warkiani M, Jafarpour H, Razavi Bazaz S, Rezaei Shahmirzadi A, Khodabandeh M, Seyfari B, Motamedzadeh A, Dadgostar E, Aalinezhad M, Sedaghat M, Razzaghi N, Zarandi B, Asadi A, Yaghoubi Naei V, Beheshti R, Hessami A, Azizi S, Mohseni AR, Shamshirian D. The role of vitamin D in the age of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Clin Pract 2021; 75:e14675. [PMID: 34322971 PMCID: PMC8420549 DOI: 10.1111/ijcp.14675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Evidence recommends that vitamin D might be a crucial supportive agent for the immune system, mainly in cytokine response regulation against COVID-19. Hence, we carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis in order to maximise the use of everything that exists about the role of vitamin D in the COVID-19. METHODS A systematic search was performed in PubMed, Scopus, Embase and Web of Science up to December 18, 2020. Studies focused on the role of vitamin D in confirmed COVID-19 patients were entered into the systematic review. RESULTS Twenty-three studies containing 11 901 participants entered into the meta-analysis. The meta-analysis indicated that 41% of COVID-19 patients were suffering from vitamin D deficiency (95% CI, 29%-55%), and in 42% of patients, levels of vitamin D were insufficient (95% CI, 24%-63%). The serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration was 20.3 ng/mL among all COVID-19 patients (95% CI, 12.1-19.8). The odds of getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 are 3.3 times higher among individuals with vitamin D deficiency (95% CI, 2.5-4.3). The chance of developing severe COVID-19 is about five times higher in patients with vitamin D deficiency (OR: 5.1, 95% CI, 2.6-10.3). There is no significant association between vitamin D status and higher mortality rates (OR: 1.6, 95% CI, 0.5-4.4). CONCLUSION This study found that most of the COVID-19 patients were suffering from vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency. Also, there is about three times higher chance of getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 among vitamin-D-deficient individuals and about five times higher probability of developing the severe disease in vitamin-D-deficient patients. Vitamin D deficiency showed no significant association with mortality rates in this population.
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- Roya Ghasemian
- Antimicrobial Resistance Research CenterDepartment of Infectious DiseasesMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory SciencesStudent Research CommitteeSchool of Allied Medical ScienceMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research CenterNon‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research CenterNon‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
- Student Research CommitteeSchool of MedicineMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Student Research CommitteeSchool of MedicineMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research CenterNon‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research CenterDepartment of Medicinal ChemistrySchool of PharmacyMazandaran University of Medical ScienceSariIran
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- School of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Technology SydneySydney, UltimoNSWAustralia
- Institute of Molecular MedicineSechenov First Moscow State UniversityMoscowRussia
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- Student Research CommitteeSchool of MedicineMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- School of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Technology SydneySydney, UltimoNSWAustralia
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- Neuromusculoskeletal Research CenterDepartment of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationIran University of Medical SciencesTehranIran
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- Department of SurgeryFaculty of MedicineKashan University of Medical SciencesKashanIran
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- Department of Internal MedicineFaculty of MedicineKashan University of Medical SciencesKashanIran
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- Department of PsychiatrySchool of MedicineIsfahan University of Medical SciencesIsfahanIran
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- Department of RadiologyIsfahan University of Medical SciencesIsfahanIran
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- Department of Internal MedicineImam Hossein HospitalShahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesTehranIran
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- Student Research CommitteeGolestan University of Medical SciencesGorganIran
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- Student Research CommitteeIran University of Medical SciencesTehranIran
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research CenterDepartment of Medicinal ChemistrySchool of PharmacyMazandaran University of Medical ScienceSariIran
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research CenterDepartment of Medicinal ChemistrySchool of PharmacyMazandaran University of Medical ScienceSariIran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory SciencesStudent Research CommitteeSchool of Allied Medical ScienceMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory SciencesSchool of Allied Medical ScienceMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory SciencesSchool of Allied Medical ScienceMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
- Thalassemia Research CenterHemoglobinopathy InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research CenterNational Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD)Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesTehranIran
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Hessami A, Shamshirian A, Heydari K, Pourali F, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Moosazadeh M, Abrotan S, Shojaie L, Sedighi S, Shamshirian D, Rezaei N. Cardiovascular diseases burden in COVID-19: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Emerg Med 2021; 46:382-391. [PMID: 33268238 PMCID: PMC7561581 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/11/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND High rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been reported among patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Meanwhile there were controversies among different studies about CVD burden in COVID-19 patients. Hence, we aimed to study CVD burden among COVID-19 patients, using a systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS We have systematically searched databases including PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science as well as medRxiv pre-print database. Hand searched was also conducted in journal websites and Google Scholar. Meta-analyses were carried out for Odds Ratio (OR) of mortality and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission for different CVDs. We have also performed a descriptive meta-analysis on different CVDs. RESULTS Fifty-six studies entered into meta-analysis for ICU admission and mortality outcome and 198 papers for descriptive outcomes, including 159,698 COVID-19 patients. Results of meta-analysis indicated that acute cardiac injury, (OR: 13.29, 95% CI 7.35-24.03), hypertension (OR: 2.60, 95% CI 2.11-3.19), heart Failure (OR: 6.72, 95% CI 3.34-13.52), arrhythmia (OR: 2.75, 95% CI 1.43-5.25), coronary artery disease (OR: 3.78, 95% CI 2.42-5.90), and cardiovascular disease (OR: 2.61, 95% CI 1.89-3.62) were significantly associated with mortality. Arrhythmia (OR: 7.03, 95% CI 2.79-17.69), acute cardiac injury (OR: 15.58, 95% CI 5.15-47.12), coronary heart disease (OR: 2.61, 95% CI 1.09-6.26), cardiovascular disease (OR: 3.11, 95% CI 1.59-6.09), and hypertension (OR: 1.95, 95% CI 1.41-2.68) were also significantly associated with ICU admission in COVID-19 patients. CONCLUSION Findings of this study revealed a high burden of CVDs among COVID-19 patients, which was significantly associated with mortality and ICU admission. Proper management of CVD patients with COVID-19 and monitoring COVID-19 patients for acute cardiac conditions is highly recommended to prevent mortality and critical situations.
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- Amirhossein Hessami
- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran; Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Disease Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Disease Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Disease Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Disease Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran; Health Science Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Cardiology, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Research Center for Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, Departments of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy and Autoimmunity (NIIMA), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran; Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Hosseinzadeh MH, Shamshirian A, Ebrahimzadeh MA. Dexamethasone vs COVID-19: An experimental study in line with the preliminary findings of a large trial. Int J Clin Pract 2021; 75:e13943. [PMID: 33332726 PMCID: PMC7883081 DOI: 10.1111/ijcp.13943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The preliminary report of the RECOVERY large randomised controlled trial indicated a promising survival effect for dexamethasone therapy of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study aimed to investigate the anti-hypoxic activities of dexamethasone to understand a possible mechanism of its action in hypoxia-induced lethality through experimental models of hypoxia. METHODS In this investigation, 84 Male BALB/c mice were randomly divided into groups of seven (12 groups). Treatment groups received 10 days of dexamethasone intraperitoneal injection at both human dose (~0.1 mg/kg) and the animal does (~1 mg/kg). Control negative and positive groups were treated with 10 ml/kg of normal saline and 30 mg/kg of propranolol, respectively. Three experimental models of hypoxia, asphyctic, circulatory, and hemic were applied in this study. RESULTS The findings showed that dexamethasone significantly prolonged the latency for death in the asphyctic model concerning the control group in both humans (P < .0001) and animal dose (P < .0001). The results were also highly significant for both doses in the hemic model (P < .001). In the circulatory model, although a small increase was observed in death prolongation, results were not statistically significant for both doses in this model (P > .05). CONCLUSIONS This experimental in vivo investigation demonstrated an excellent protective effect for 10 days of dexamethasone treatment against hypoxia, especially in asphyctic and hemic models. In addition to promising dexamethasone outcomes, using propranolol as the positive control illustrated a very substantial anti-hypoxic effect even much better than dexamethasone in all models. It seems that propranolol would be a safe, potential, and prudent choice to invest in treating COVID-19 patients.
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research CenterNon‐Communicable Diseases InstituteMazandaran University of Medical SciencesSariIran
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research CenterDepartment of Medicinal ChemistrySchool of PharmacyMazandaran University of Medical ScienceSariIran
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Roozbeh F, Saeedi M, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Hedayatizadeh-Omran A, Merat S, Wentzel H, Levi J, Hill A, Shamshirian A. Sofosbuvir and daclatasvir for the treatment of COVID-19 outpatients: a double-blind, randomized controlled trial. J Antimicrob Chemother 2021; 76:753-757. [PMID: 33338232 PMCID: PMC7798988 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkaa501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Effective treatments are urgently needed to tackle the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This trial aims to evaluate sofosbuvir and daclatasvir versus standard care for outpatients with mild COVID-19 infection. METHODS This was a randomized controlled clinical trial in outpatients with mild COVID-19. Patients were randomized into a treatment arm receiving sofosbuvir/daclatasvir plus hydroxychloroquine or a control arm receiving hydroxychloroquine alone. The primary endpoint of the trial was symptom alleviation after 7 days of follow-up. The secondary endpoint of the trial was hospital admission. Fatigue, dyspnoea and loss of appetite were investigated after 1 month of follow-up. This study is registered with the IRCT.ir under registration number IRCT20200403046926N1. RESULTS Between 8 April 2020 and 19 May 2020, 55 patients were recruited and allocated to either the sofosbuvir/daclatasvir treatment arm (n = 27) or the control arm (n = 28). Baseline characteristics were similar across treatment arms. There was no significant difference in symptoms at Day 7. One patient was admitted to hospital in the sofosbuvir/daclatasvir arm and four in the control arm, but the difference was not significant. After 1 month of follow-up, two patients reported fatigue in the sofosbuvir/daclatasvir arm and 16 in the control arm; P < 0.001. CONCLUSIONS In this study, sofosbuvir/daclatasvir did not significantly alleviate symptoms after 7 days of treatment compared with control. Although fewer hospitalizations were observed in the sofosbuvir/daclatasvir arm, this was not statistically significant. Sofosbuvir/daclatasvir significantly reduced the number of patients with fatigue and dyspnoea after 1 month. Larger, well-designed trials are warranted.
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- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Liver and Pancreatobiliary Diseases Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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Shamshirian A, Hessami A, Heydari K, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Ebrahimzadeh MA, Yip GW, Ghasemian R, Sedaghat M, Baradaran H, Mohammadi Yazdii S, Aboufazeli E, Jafarpour H, Dadgostar E, Tirandazi B, Sadeghnezhad R, Karimifar K, Eftekhari A, Shamshirian D. The Role of Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 Treatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ann Acad Med Singap 2020. [DOI: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2020370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Objective: A systematic review and meta-analysis was carried out to examine the role of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of COVID-19. Methods: We performed a systematic search in PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Cochrane- Library, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and medRxiv pre-print databases using available MeSH terms for COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine. Data from all studies that focused on the effectiveness of HCQ with or without the addition of azithromycin (AZM) in confirmed COVID-19 patients, which were published up to 12 September 2020, were collated for analysis using CMA v.2.2.064. Results: Our systematic review retrieved 41 studies. Among these, 37 studies including 45,913 participants fulfilled the criteria for subsequent meta-analysis. The data showed no significant difference in treatment efficacy between the HCQ and control groups (RR: 1.02, 95% CI, 0.81–1.27). Combination of HCQ with AZM also did not lead to improved treatment outcomes (RR: 1.26, 95% CI, 0.91–1.74). Furthermore, the mortality difference was not significant, neither in HCQ treatment group (RR: 0.86, 95% CI, 0.71–1.03) nor in HCQ plus AZM treatment group (RR: 1.28, 95% CI, 0.76–2.14) in comparison to controls. Meta-regression analysis showed that age was the factor that significantly affected mortality (P<0.00001). Conclusion: The meta-analysis found that there was no clinical benefit of using either HCQ by itself or in combination with AZM for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Hence, it may be prudent for clinicians and researchers to focus on other therapeutic options that may show greater promise in this disease. Keywords: Azithromycin, coronavirus outbreaks, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 disease
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- Halal research center of Islamic Republic of Iran, FDA, Tehran, Iran
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Shamshirian A, Aref AR, Yip GW, Ebrahimi Warkiani M, Heydari K, Razavi Bazaz S, Hamzehgardeshi Z, Shamshirian D, Moosazadeh M, Alizadeh-Navaei R. Diagnostic value of serum HER2 levels in breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Cancer 2020; 20:1049. [PMID: 33129287 PMCID: PMC7603697 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-020-07545-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Measurement of serum human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2/neu) levels might play an essential role as a diagnostic/screening marker for the early selection of therapeutic approaches and predict prognosis in breast cancer patients. We aimed to undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis focusing on the diagnostic/screening value of serum HER-2 levels in comparison to routine methods. METHODS We performed a systematic search via PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane-Library, and Web of Science databases for human diagnostic studies reporting the levels of serum HER-2 in breast cancer patients, which was confirmed using the histopathological examination. Meta-analyses were carried out for sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, area under the ROC curve (AUC), positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), positive likelihood ratio (PLR), and negative likelihood ratio (NLR). RESULTS Fourteen studies entered into this investigation. The meta-analysis indicated the low sensitivity for serum HER2 levels (Sensitivity: 53.05, 95%CI 40.82-65.28), but reasonable specificity of 79.27 (95%CI 73.02-85.51), accuracy of 72.06 (95%CI 67.04-77.08) and AUC of 0.79 (95%CI 0.66-0.92). We also found a significant differences for PPV (PPV: 56.18, 95%CI 44.16-68.20), NPV (NPV: 76.93, 95%CI 69.56-84.31), PLR (PLR: 2.10, 95%CI 1.69-2.50) and NLR (NLR: 0.58, 95%CI 0.44-0.71). CONCLUSION Our findings revealed that although serum HER-2 levels showed low se nsitivity for breast cancer diagnosis, its specificity, accuracy and AUC were reasonable. Hence, it seems that the measurement of serum HER-2 levels can play a significant role as a verification test for initial negative screening test results, especially in low-income regions due to its cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation.
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- Amir Shamshirian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02215, USA.
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- Department of Anatomy, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117594, Singapore
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, 2007, Australia
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- Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Health Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
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Shamshirian A, Heydari K, Shams Z, Aref AR, Shamshirian D, Tamtaji OR, Asemi Z, Shojaie L, Mirzaei H, Mohammadi N, Zibaee B, Karimifar K, Zarandi B, Hedayatizadeh-Omran A, Alizadeh-Navaei R. Breast cancer risk factors in Iran: a systematic review & meta-analysis. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2020; 41:/j/hmbci.ahead-of-print/hmbci-2020-0021/hmbci-2020-0021.xml. [PMID: 33079703 DOI: 10.1515/hmbci-2020-0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Breast cancer is known as one of the deadliest forms of cancer, and it is increasing globally. There are a variety of proven and controversial risk factors for this malignancy. Herein, we aimed to undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis focus on the epidemiology of breast cancer risk factors in Iran. METHODS We performed a systematic search via PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Persian databases for identifying studies published on breast cancer risk factors up to March 2019. Meta-analyses were done for risk factors reported in more than one study. We calculated odds ratios (ORs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using a fixed/random-effects models. RESULTS Thirty-nine studies entered into the meta-analysis. Pooling of ORs showed a significant harmful effect for risk factors including family history (OR: 1.80, 95%CI 1.47-2.12), hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) (OR: 5.48, 95%CI 0.84-1.74), passive smokers (OR: 1.68, 95%CI 1.34-2.03), full-term pregnancy at age 30 (OR: 3.41, 95%CI 1.19-5.63), abortion (OR: 1.84, 95%CI 1.35-2.33), sweets consumption (OR: 1.71, 95%CI 1.32-2.11) and genotype Arg/Arg (crude OR: 1.59, 95%CI 1.07-2.10), whereas a significant protective effect for late menarche (OR: 0.58, 95%CI 0.32-0.83), nulliparity (OR: 0.68, 95%CI 0.39-0.96), 13-24 months of breastfeeding (OR: 0.68, 95%CI 0.46-0.90), daily exercise (OR: 0.59, 95%CI 0.44-0.73) and vegetable consumption (crude OR: 0.28, 95%CI 0.10-0.46). CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that factors such as family history, HRT, passive smokers, late full-term pregnancy, abortion, sweets consumption and genotype Arg/Arg might increase risk of breast cancer development, whereas late menarche, nulliparity, 13-24 months breastfeeding, daily exercise and vegetable consumption had an inverse association with breast cancer development.
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- Amir Shamshirian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Heshmat Hospital, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Medicine, Research Center for Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Non-Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Heydari K, Shamshirian A, Lotfi-Foroushani P, Aref A, Hedayatizadeh-Omran A, Ahmadi M, Janbabei G, Keyhanian S, Zaboli E, Ghasemzadeh SM, Alizadeh-Navaei R. The risk of malignancies in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Transl Oncol 2020; 22:1825-1837. [PMID: 32108275 DOI: 10.1007/s12094-020-02322-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is widely used in the treatment of malignant and non-malignant diseases. Due to advances in the number of survivors of this treatment, the number of survivors is increasing, but the late complications of this therapeutic approach such as secondary cancers have been long term and have not been fully controlled. METHODS The present meta-analysis study was performed by considering English-language articles in the databases including Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed. This meta-analysis included cohort studies that reported an incidence of cancer following stem cell transplantation (SCT). Random/fixed effect size meta-analyses were used to standardize the incidence ratio for different cancers. RESULTS 22 studies that evaluated patients receiving SCT (n = 270,063) were included in the study. The study found 9233 cases of cancer after transplantation. Meta-analysis showed that the risk of cancer after SCT was SIR = 1.66 (95% CI 1.47-1.86). The most common cancers observed in SCT recipients were bone tissue, head and neck cancers, and melanoma, with SIRs of 10.04 (3.48-16.61), 6.35 (4.76-7.93) and 3.52 (2.65-4.39), respectively. CONCLUSION The meta-analysis findings showed that the risk of secondary cancers after HSCT was significantly increased in most types of cancers. Consequently, diagnostic tests for common cancers should be included in the screening program of these patients for the prevention and early detection of high-risk cancers.
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- K Heydari
- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
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Heydari K, Shamshirian A, Alizadeh-Navaei R. Reply to: "The risk of malignancies in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis". Clin Transl Oncol 2020; 22:1908. [PMID: 32415516 DOI: 10.1007/s12094-020-02356-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- K Heydari
- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
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Shamshirian A, Hessami A, Heydari K, Navaei RA, Ebrahimzadeh MA, Yip GW, Ghasemian R, Sedaghat M, Baradaran H, Yazdi SM, Aboufazeli E, Jafarpour H, Dadgostar E, Tirandazi B, Sadeghnezhad R, Karimifar K, Eftekhari A, Shamshirian D. The Role of Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Ann Acad Med Singap 2020; 49:789-800. [PMID: 33283842 DOI: pmid/33283842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE A systematic review and meta-analysis was carried out to examine the role of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of COVID-19. METHODS We performed a systematic search in PubMed, Scopus, Embase, CochraneLibrary, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and medRxiv pre-print databases using available MeSH terms for COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine. Data from all studies that focused on the effectiveness of HCQ with or without the addition of azithromycin (AZM) in confirmed COVID-19 patients, which were published up to 12 September 2020, were collated for analysis using CMA v.2.2.064. RESULTS Our systematic review retrieved 41 studies. Among these, 37 studies including 45,913 participants fulfilled the criteria for subsequent meta-analysis. The data showed no significant difference in treatment efficacy between the HCQ and control groups (RR: 1.02, 95% CI, 0.81-1.27). Combination of HCQ with AZM also did not lead to improved treatment outcomes (RR: 1.26, 95% CI, 0.91-1.74). Furthermore, the mortality difference was not significant, neither in HCQ treatment group (RR: 0.86, 95% CI, 0.71-1.03) nor in HCQ plus AZM treatment group (RR: 1.28, 95% CI, 0.76-2.14) in comparison to controls. Meta-regression analysis showed that age was the factor that significantly affected mortality (P<0.00001). CONCLUSION The meta-analysis found that there was no clinical benefit of using either HCQ by itself or in combination with AZM for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Hence, it may be prudent for clinicians and researchers to focus on other therapeutic options that may show greater promise in this disease.
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- Amir Shamshirian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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Karkhah S, Ghazanfari MJ, Shamshirian A, Panahi L, Molai M, Zeydi AE. Clinical Features of Patients with Probable 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infected Pneumonia in Rasht, Iran: A Retrospective Case Series. Open Access Maced J Med Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.3889/oamjms.2020.4755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is the first pandemic infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus. Viral pneumonia is a severe complication of COVID-19.
AIM: Due to the high prevalence of this disease globally, especially in Iran, the aim of this study was to determine the clinical features of seven patients with probable COVID-19 infected pneumonia in Rasht, North Iran.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective case series study, we described the clinical, laboratory, and radiological features of seven patients with probable COVID-19 infected pneumonia at Razi Hospital, Rasht, north of Iran, from February 27 to March 16, 2020.
RESULTS: In this study, the most common clinical symptoms during hospitalization in patients with COVID-19 were poor appetite (seven cases), dehydration (seven cases), cough (six cases), dyspnea (six cases), fatigue (six cases), fever above 38°C (five cases), myalgia (five cases), Chills (five cases), feeling fever (five cases), sore throat (five cases), and nausea (five cases), respectively. The average body temperature in these patients was 39.32°C. In laboratory findings, erythrocyte sedimentation rate was elevated in three patients. Contrary to most of the evidence, C-reactive protein was not elevated in five patients. All patients received antibiotic and antiviral medications and received symptomatic treatment. Finally, four patients responded to the treatments and were discharged from the hospital; two patients were still hospitalized and only one patient died.
CONCLUSION: Patients with COVID-19 associated pneumonia can be treated by evaluating and implementing appropriate therapeutic management. However, at the moment the disease progression for patients with COVID-19 cannot be accurately predicted.
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Shamshirian A, Mohseni AR, Pourfathollah AA, Mehdipour S, Hosseini S, Ghorbanpour A, Azizi S. A review of blood usage and wastage in a tertiary heart center. Acta Clin Belg 2020; 75:96-103. [PMID: 30513064 DOI: 10.1080/17843286.2018.1555113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Background/Objectives: Blood is a vital resource that its utilization is ever increasing throughout the world and blood wastage is a global challenge that needs to be controlled. Most blood resources are used during complications of pregnancy, trauma, severe childhood anemia, gynecology, cancers, surgery, hematology disorders, and chronic diseases. Units that are expired, broken bags, returning the blood unit after 30 min, blood clotted units, etc., which are due to lack of awareness may result in the wastage of blood products. The objective of this study is to analyze the usage and wastage of blood and its products in Mazandaran heart center.Methods: In this retrospective study, the survey was carried out on the data that were obtained from Mazandaran heart center of Sari, Iran during 2012-2017. Data included details of usage and wastage on blood and its product units. MS Excel 2016 and SPSS 16.0 were used in analysis and diagrams.Results: A total of 35,686 blood units were consumed, which included 55.7% packed red blood cells (PRBCs), 33.9% platelets (Plts), 8.9% fresh-frozen-plasma (FFP), and 8.9% cryoprecipitates. Moreover, 823 blood units including 41.4% FFP, 37.2% PRBCs, and 21.4% Plts were wasted mostly because of inappropriate order (70.6%). Cross-match to transfusion ratio was 1.13. The intensive care unit reported the highest level of blood intake by 45.0%. The blood group O+ was the most frequent by 34.8%. In addition, blood wastage has decreased over study period by approximately 10.0%.Conclusion: Our study showed not only the increasing pattern of blood usage but also the dropping pattern of blood wastage due to hemovigilance performance and additional training in our healthcare center. We found that the main reason for the blood wastage in this center is an excessive order of blood units.
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- Amir Shamshirian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Thalassemia Research Center, Hemoglobinopathy institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Blood Transfusion Research Centre, High Institute for Research and Education in Transfusion Medicine, Tehran, Iran
- Departments of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Mazandaran Heart Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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Shamshirian A, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Abedi S, Jafarpour H, Fazli H, Hosseini S, Hessami A, Karimifar K, Yosefi S, Zahedi M, Motamen S, Ghorbanpour A, Zarandi B, Esfahani A, Rostamian-Moghaddam Y, Mehdipour S, Heydari K, Aghajanian S, Mehdi SP, Azad A, Azizi S. Levels of Blood Biomarkers among Patients with Myocardial Infarction in Comparison to Control Group. Ethiop J Health Sci 2020; 30:5-12. [PMID: 32116427 PMCID: PMC7036464 DOI: 10.4314/ejhs.v30i1.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction (MI) as a term for a heart attack happens due to reduced blood flow to heart myocardium and lack of oxygen supply caused by plaques in the interior walls of coronary arteries. With respect to the importance of MI etiology, we aimed to study the relationship of MI and blood examination variables. METHODS This study was conducted in Mazandaran Heart Center as a hospital-based case-control Comprising 894 participants including 465 cases and 429 controls, individually matched by sex and age. Considered blood markers were analyzed using routine laboratory methods and equipment. RESULTS Of all participants, 64.3% of the cases and 51.0% of the controls were males with a mean age of 61.2 (±13.8) in cases and 62.4 (±14.) in controls. We could not find any differences between cases and controls for total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and alkaline-phosphatase (ALP) (P>0.05). However, levels of creatine-kinase-muscle/brain (CK-MB) (P<0.0001), fasting-blood-sugar (FBS) (P<0.0001), aspartate-aminotransferase (AST) (P<0.0001), alanine-transferase (ALT) (P<0.0001) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (P=0.001) were significantly higher in cases compared to the controls (P<0.05). Multivariable analyses revealed that the risk of MI was associated with high levels of AST (adjusted OR=24.3, 95%CI=3.5±165.6, P=0.001) and LDL (adjusted OR=7.4, 95%CI=1.0±51.8, P=0.001). CONCLUSION Our investigation indicated that the levels of CK-MB, FBS, AST, ALT and ESR were significantly higher in patients with MI. Besides, our findings showed that the risk of MI in cases with high levels of AST and LDL was about 24 and 7 times more than the control group respectively.
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- Amir Shamshirian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Mazandaran Heart Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
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- Department of Hematology, Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Hematology, Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Mazandaran Heart Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Mazandaran Heart Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Mazandaran Heart Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Allied Medical sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
- Mazandaran Heart Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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Fitzmaurice C, Abate D, Abbasi N, Abbastabar H, Abd-Allah F, Abdel-Rahman O, Abdelalim A, Abdoli A, Abdollahpour I, Abdulle ASM, Abebe ND, Abraha HN, Abu-Raddad LJ, Abualhasan A, Adedeji IA, Advani SM, Afarideh M, Afshari M, Aghaali M, Agius D, Agrawal S, Ahmadi A, Ahmadian E, Ahmadpour E, Ahmed MB, Akbari ME, Akinyemiju T, Al-Aly Z, AlAbdulKader AM, Alahdab F, Alam T, Alamene GM, Alemnew BTT, Alene KA, Alinia C, Alipour V, Aljunid SM, Bakeshei FA, Almadi MAH, Almasi-Hashiani A, Alsharif U, Alsowaidi S, Alvis-Guzman N, Amini E, Amini S, Amoako YA, Anbari Z, Anber NH, Andrei CL, Anjomshoa M, Ansari F, Ansariadi A, Appiah SCY, Arab-Zozani M, Arabloo J, Arefi Z, Aremu O, Areri HA, Artaman A, Asayesh H, Asfaw ET, Ashagre AF, Assadi R, Ataeinia B, Atalay HT, Ataro Z, Atique S, Ausloos M, Avila-Burgos L, Avokpaho EFGA, Awasthi A, Awoke N, Ayala Quintanilla BP, Ayanore MA, Ayele HT, Babaee E, Bacha U, Badawi A, Bagherzadeh M, Bagli E, Balakrishnan S, Balouchi A, Bärnighausen TW, Battista RJ, Behzadifar M, Behzadifar M, Bekele BB, Belay YB, Belayneh YM, Berfield KKS, Berhane A, Bernabe E, Beuran M, Bhakta N, Bhattacharyya K, Biadgo B, Bijani A, Bin Sayeed MS, Birungi C, Bisignano C, Bitew H, Bjørge T, Bleyer A, Bogale KA, Bojia HA, Borzì AM, Bosetti C, Bou-Orm IR, Brenner H, Brewer JD, Briko AN, Briko NI, Bustamante-Teixeira MT, Butt ZA, Carreras G, Carrero JJ, Carvalho F, Castro C, Castro F, Catalá-López F, Cerin E, Chaiah Y, Chanie WF, Chattu VK, Chaturvedi P, Chauhan NS, Chehrazi M, Chiang PPC, Chichiabellu TY, Chido-Amajuoyi OG, Chimed-Ochir O, Choi JYJ, Christopher DJ, Chu DT, Constantin MM, Costa VM, Crocetti E, Crowe CS, Curado MP, Dahlawi SMA, Damiani G, Darwish AH, Daryani A, das Neves J, Demeke FM, Demis AB, Demissie BW, Demoz GT, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Derakhshani A, Deribe KS, Desai R, Desalegn BB, Desta M, Dey S, Dharmaratne SD, Dhimal M, Diaz D, Dinberu MTT, Djalalinia S, Doku DT, Drake TM, Dubey M, Dubljanin E, Duken EE, Ebrahimi H, Effiong A, Eftekhari A, El Sayed I, Zaki MES, El-Jaafary SI, El-Khatib Z, Elemineh DA, Elkout H, Ellenbogen RG, Elsharkawy A, Emamian MH, Endalew DA, Endries AY, Eshrati B, Fadhil I, Fallah Omrani V, Faramarzi M, Farhangi MA, Farioli A, Farzadfar F, Fentahun N, Fernandes E, Feyissa GT, Filip I, Fischer F, Fisher JL, Force LM, Foroutan M, Freitas M, Fukumoto T, Futran ND, Gallus S, Gankpe FG, Gayesa RT, Gebrehiwot TT, Gebremeskel GG, Gedefaw GA, Gelaw BK, Geta B, Getachew S, Gezae KE, Ghafourifard M, Ghajar A, Ghashghaee A, Gholamian A, Gill PS, Ginindza TTG, Girmay A, Gizaw M, Gomez RS, Gopalani SV, Gorini G, Goulart BNG, Grada A, Ribeiro Guerra M, Guimaraes ALS, Gupta PC, Gupta R, Hadkhale K, Haj-Mirzaian A, Haj-Mirzaian A, Hamadeh RR, Hamidi S, Hanfore LK, Haro JM, Hasankhani M, Hasanzadeh A, Hassen HY, Hay RJ, Hay SI, Henok A, Henry NJ, Herteliu C, Hidru HD, Hoang CL, Hole MK, Hoogar P, Horita N, Hosgood HD, Hosseini M, Hosseinzadeh M, Hostiuc M, Hostiuc S, Househ M, Hussen MM, Ileanu B, Ilic MD, Innos K, Irvani SSN, Iseh KR, Islam SMS, Islami F, Jafari Balalami N, Jafarinia M, Jahangiry L, Jahani MA, Jahanmehr N, Jakovljevic M, James SL, Javanbakht M, Jayaraman S, Jee SH, Jenabi E, Jha RP, Jonas JB, Jonnagaddala J, Joo T, Jungari SB, Jürisson M, Kabir A, Kamangar F, Karch A, Karimi N, Karimian A, Kasaeian A, Kasahun GG, Kassa B, Kassa TD, Kassaw MW, Kaul A, Keiyoro PN, Kelbore AG, Kerbo AA, Khader YS, Khalilarjmandi M, Khan EA, Khan G, Khang YH, Khatab K, Khater A, Khayamzadeh M, Khazaee-Pool M, Khazaei S, Khoja AT, Khosravi MH, Khubchandani J, Kianipour N, Kim D, Kim YJ, Kisa A, Kisa S, Kissimova-Skarbek K, Komaki H, Koyanagi A, Krohn KJ, Bicer BK, Kugbey N, Kumar V, Kuupiel D, La Vecchia C, Lad DP, Lake EA, Lakew AM, Lal DK, Lami FH, Lan Q, Lasrado S, Lauriola P, Lazarus JV, Leigh J, Leshargie CT, Liao Y, Limenih MA, Listl S, Lopez AD, Lopukhov PD, Lunevicius R, Madadin M, Magdeldin S, El Razek HMA, Majeed A, Maleki A, Malekzadeh R, Manafi A, Manafi N, Manamo WA, Mansourian M, Mansournia MA, Mantovani LG, Maroufizadeh S, Martini SMS, Mashamba-Thompson TP, Massenburg BB, Maswabi MT, Mathur MR, McAlinden C, McKee M, Meheretu HAA, Mehrotra R, Mehta V, Meier T, Melaku YA, Meles GG, Meles HG, Melese A, Melku M, Memiah PTN, Mendoza W, Menezes RG, Merat S, Meretoja TJ, Mestrovic T, Miazgowski B, Miazgowski T, Mihretie KMM, Miller TR, Mills EJ, Mir SM, Mirzaei H, Mirzaei HR, Mishra R, Moazen B, Mohammad DK, Mohammad KA, Mohammad Y, Darwesh AM, Mohammadbeigi A, Mohammadi H, Mohammadi M, Mohammadian M, Mohammadian-Hafshejani A, Mohammadoo-Khorasani M, Mohammadpourhodki R, Mohammed AS, Mohammed JA, Mohammed S, Mohebi F, Mokdad AH, Monasta L, Moodley Y, Moosazadeh M, Moossavi M, Moradi G, Moradi-Joo M, Moradi-Lakeh M, Moradpour F, Morawska L, Morgado-da-Costa J, Morisaki N, Morrison SD, Mosapour A, Mousavi SM, Muche AA, Muhammed OSS, Musa J, Nabhan AF, Naderi M, Nagarajan AJ, Nagel G, Nahvijou A, Naik G, Najafi F, Naldi L, Nam HS, Nasiri N, Nazari J, Negoi I, Neupane S, Newcomb PA, Nggada HA, Ngunjiri JW, Nguyen CT, Nikniaz L, Ningrum DNA, Nirayo YL, Nixon MR, Nnaji CA, Nojomi M, Nosratnejad S, Shiadeh MN, Obsa MS, Ofori-Asenso R, Ogbo FA, Oh IH, Olagunju AT, Olagunju TO, Oluwasanu MM, Omonisi AE, Onwujekwe OE, Oommen AM, Oren E, Ortega-Altamirano DDV, Ota E, Otstavnov SS, Owolabi MO, P A M, Padubidri JR, Pakhale S, Pakpour AH, Pana A, Park EK, Parsian H, Pashaei T, Patel S, Patil ST, Pennini A, Pereira DM, Piccinelli C, Pillay JD, Pirestani M, Pishgar F, Postma MJ, Pourjafar H, Pourmalek F, Pourshams A, Prakash S, Prasad N, Qorbani M, Rabiee M, Rabiee N, Radfar A, Rafiei A, Rahim F, Rahimi M, Rahman MA, Rajati F, Rana SM, Raoofi S, Rath GK, Rawaf DL, Rawaf S, Reiner RC, Renzaho AMN, Rezaei N, Rezapour A, Ribeiro AI, Ribeiro D, Ronfani L, Roro EM, Roshandel G, Rostami A, Saad RS, Sabbagh P, Sabour S, Saddik B, Safiri S, Sahebkar A, Salahshoor MR, Salehi F, Salem H, Salem MR, Salimzadeh H, Salomon JA, Samy AM, Sanabria J, Santric Milicevic MM, Sartorius B, Sarveazad A, Sathian B, Satpathy M, Savic M, Sawhney M, Sayyah M, Schneider IJC, Schöttker B, Sekerija M, Sepanlou SG, Sepehrimanesh M, Seyedmousavi S, Shaahmadi F, Shabaninejad H, Shahbaz M, Shaikh MA, Shamshirian A, Shamsizadeh M, Sharafi H, Sharafi Z, Sharif M, Sharifi A, Sharifi H, Sharma R, Sheikh A, Shirkoohi R, Shukla SR, Si S, Siabani S, Silva DAS, Silveira DGA, Singh A, Singh JA, Sisay S, Sitas F, Sobngwi E, Soofi M, Soriano JB, Stathopoulou V, Sufiyan MB, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Tabuchi T, Takahashi K, Tamtaji OR, Tarawneh MR, Tassew SG, Taymoori P, Tehrani-Banihashemi A, Temsah MH, Temsah O, Tesfay BE, Tesfay FH, Teshale MY, Tessema GA, Thapa S, Tlaye KG, Topor-Madry R, Tovani-Palone MR, Traini E, Tran BX, Tran KB, Tsadik AG, Ullah I, Uthman OA, Vacante M, Vaezi M, Varona Pérez P, Veisani Y, Vidale S, Violante FS, Vlassov V, Vollset SE, Vos T, Vosoughi K, Vu GT, Vujcic IS, Wabinga H, Wachamo TM, Wagnew FS, Waheed Y, Weldegebreal F, Weldesamuel GT, Wijeratne T, Wondafrash DZ, Wonde TE, Wondmieneh AB, Workie HM, Yadav R, Yadegar A, Yadollahpour A, Yaseri M, Yazdi-Feyzabadi V, Yeshaneh A, Yimam MA, Yimer EM, Yisma E, Yonemoto N, Younis MZ, Yousefi B, Yousefifard M, Yu C, Zabeh E, Zadnik V, Moghadam TZ, Zaidi Z, Zamani M, Zandian H, Zangeneh A, Zaki L, Zendehdel K, Zenebe ZM, Zewale TA, Ziapour A, Zodpey S, Murray CJL. Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. JAMA Oncol 2019; 5:1749-1768. [PMID: 31560378 PMCID: PMC6777271 DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.2996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1437] [Impact Index Per Article: 287.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Importance Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now widely recognized as a threat to global development. The latest United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs reaffirmed this observation and also highlighted the slow progress in meeting the 2011 Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the third Sustainable Development Goal. Lack of situational analyses, priority setting, and budgeting have been identified as major obstacles in achieving these goals. All of these have in common that they require information on the local cancer epidemiology. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is uniquely poised to provide these crucial data. Objective To describe cancer burden for 29 cancer groups in 195 countries from 1990 through 2017 to provide data needed for cancer control planning. Evidence Review We used the GBD study estimation methods to describe cancer incidence, mortality, years lived with disability, years of life lost, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs). Results are presented at the national level as well as by Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a composite indicator of income, educational attainment, and total fertility rate. We also analyzed the influence of the epidemiological vs the demographic transition on cancer incidence. Findings In 2017, there were 24.5 million incident cancer cases worldwide (16.8 million without nonmelanoma skin cancer [NMSC]) and 9.6 million cancer deaths. The majority of cancer DALYs came from years of life lost (97%), and only 3% came from years lived with disability. The odds of developing cancer were the lowest in the low SDI quintile (1 in 7) and the highest in the high SDI quintile (1 in 2) for both sexes. In 2017, the most common incident cancers in men were NMSC (4.3 million incident cases); tracheal, bronchus, and lung (TBL) cancer (1.5 million incident cases); and prostate cancer (1.3 million incident cases). The most common causes of cancer deaths and DALYs for men were TBL cancer (1.3 million deaths and 28.4 million DALYs), liver cancer (572 000 deaths and 15.2 million DALYs), and stomach cancer (542 000 deaths and 12.2 million DALYs). For women in 2017, the most common incident cancers were NMSC (3.3 million incident cases), breast cancer (1.9 million incident cases), and colorectal cancer (819 000 incident cases). The leading causes of cancer deaths and DALYs for women were breast cancer (601 000 deaths and 17.4 million DALYs), TBL cancer (596 000 deaths and 12.6 million DALYs), and colorectal cancer (414 000 deaths and 8.3 million DALYs). Conclusions and Relevance The national epidemiological profiles of cancer burden in the GBD study show large heterogeneities, which are a reflection of different exposures to risk factors, economic settings, lifestyles, and access to care and screening. The GBD study can be used by policy makers and other stakeholders to develop and improve national and local cancer control in order to achieve the global targets and improve equity in cancer care.
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Iranian Center of Neurological Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Oncology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran
- Research Center for Non-communicable Diseases, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Tehran, Iran
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- Public Health Research Center, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Public Health, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia
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- Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Social Behavioral Research Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
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- Department of Health, Directorate for Health Information and Research, Pieta, Malta
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- Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
- Vital Strategies, Gurugram, India
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- Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- John T. Milliken Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Clinical Epidemiology Center, VA Saint Louis Health Care System, Department of Veterans Affairs, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Evidence-Based Practice Research Center, Mayo Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia
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- Department of Health Care Management and Economics, Urmia University of Medical Science, Urmia, Iran
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Health Economics, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
- International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding, National University of Malaysia, Bandar Tun Razak, Malaysia
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- Department of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Research Group in Health Economics, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
- Research Group in Hospital Management and Health Policies, Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia
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- Department of Urology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Services Management, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Health Services Management, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran
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- Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Health Management and Safety Promotion Research Institute, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Sociology and Social Work, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
- Center for International Health, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Healthcare Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Health Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Education Development Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
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- University Institute of Public Health, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
- College ofPublic Health, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia
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- School of Business, University of Leicester, Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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- Center for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Bénin Clinical Research Institute, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
- Contrôle des Maladies Infectieuses, Laboratory of Studies and Research-Action in Health, Porto Novo, Benin
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- Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
- Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, India
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- Department of Nursing, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia
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- The Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- General Office for Research and Technological Transfer, Peruvian National Institute of Health, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Public Health Department, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Health Sciences, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Public Health Risk Sciences Division, Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
- Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Foundation for Research & Technology, Ioannina, Greece
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- School of Nursing and Allied Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Public Health Department, Mizan-Tepi University, Teppi, Ethiopia
| | - Yared Belete Belay
- Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Social Pharmacy, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
- AC Environments Foundation, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | - Eduardo Bernabe
- Dental Institute, King's College London, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Mircea Beuran
- Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Nickhill Bhakta
- Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
| | - Krittika Bhattacharyya
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India
| | - Belete Biadgo
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
| | - Ali Bijani
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | - Muhammad Shahdaat Bin Sayeed
- National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Dhaka, Ramna, Bangladesh
| | - Charles Birungi
- The UCL Centre for Global Health Economics, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- Fast-Track Implementation Department, United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Gaborone, Botswana
| | - Catherine Bisignano
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Helen Bitew
- School of Pharmacy, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
| | - Tone Bjørge
- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway
| | - Archie Bleyer
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland
- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas, Houston
| | | | - Hunduma Amensisa Bojia
- School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
| | - Antonio M Borzì
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - Cristina Bosetti
- Department of Oncology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
| | | | - Hermann Brenner
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Jerry D Brewer
- Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Al Shifa School of Public Health, Al Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
| | - Giulia Carreras
- Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network, Florence, Italy
| | - Juan J Carrero
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Félix Carvalho
- Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Clara Castro
- Department of Epidemiology, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- EpiUnit, Instituto de Saúde Pública, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
| | - Franz Castro
- Department of Research and Health Technology Assessment, Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies, Panama City, Panama
| | - Ferrán Catalá-López
- National School of Public Health, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain
- Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| | - Ester Cerin
- Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
| | - Yazan Chaiah
- College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- China Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| | - Pankaj Chaturvedi
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
| | - Neelima Singh Chauhan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, People's College of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Bhopal, India
| | - Mohammad Chehrazi
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Epidemiology Research Center, Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran
| | | | | | - Onyema Greg Chido-Amajuoyi
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas, Houston
| | - Odgerel Chimed-Ochir
- Institute of Industrial Ecological Science, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
| | - Jee-Young J Choi
- Departments ofBiochemistry and Biomedical Science, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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- Faculty of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Department of Cancer Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Maria-Magdalena Constantin
- Department of Dermatology, 2nd Clinic of Dermatology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- 2nd Department of Dermatology, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Vera M Costa
- UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, Laboratory of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Emanuele Crocetti
- Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy
| | | | - Maria Paula Curado
- Department of Epidemiology, A. C. Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - Saad M A Dahlawi
- Department of Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
| | - Giovanni Damiani
- Department of Dermatology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | | | - Ahmad Daryani
- Toxoplasmosis Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - José das Neves
- Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering (INEB), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Feleke Mekonnen Demeke
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
| | - Asmamaw Bizuneh Demis
- Nursing Department, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia
- Department of Nursing, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
| | | | - Gebre Teklemariam Demoz
- School of Pharmacy, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia
- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | - Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez
- Center for Nutrition and Health Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
| | - Afshin Derakhshani
- Department of Immunology, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
| | | | - Rupak Desai
- Division of Cardiology, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia
| | | | - Melaku Desta
- Department of Midwifery, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán Rosales, Mexico
| | | | - Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Community Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
| | - Meghnath Dhimal
- Health Research Section, Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
| | - Daniel Diaz
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán Rosales, Mexico
- Center of Complexity Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
| | | | - Shirin Djalalinia
- Research and Technology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
| | - David Teye Doku
- Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
| | - Thomas M Drake
- Department of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
| | - Manisha Dubey
- United Nations World Food Programme, New Delhi, India
| | | | - Eyasu Ejeta Duken
- College of Health Sciences, Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia
- Mycobacteriology Research Center, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
| | - Hedyeh Ebrahimi
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Liver and Pancreaticobiliary Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Andem Effiong
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Aziz Eftekhari
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Basic Sciences, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
| | - Iman El Sayed
- Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
| | | | | | - Ziad El-Khatib
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | | | - Hajer Elkout
- Department of Community Medicine, Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya
- Department of Health Information, World Health Organization, Tripoli, Libya
| | - Richard G Ellenbogen
- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington
| | - Aisha Elsharkawy
- Endemic Medicine and Hepatogastroenterology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Mohammad Hassan Emamian
- Ophthalmic Epidemiology Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
| | | | - Aman Yesuf Endries
- Public Health Department, St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | - Babak Eshrati
- Center of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
- School of Public Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
| | - Ibtihal Fadhil
- Department of Non-communicable Diseases, Ministry of Public Health, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
| | | | | | | | - Andrea Farioli
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
| | - Farshad Farzadfar
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Netsanet Fentahun
- Department of Public Health Nutrition, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
| | | | - Garumma Tolu Feyissa
- Department of Health Education and Behavioral Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
- Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia
| | - Irina Filip
- Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana, California
- School of Health Sciences, A.T. Still University, Mesa, Arizona
| | - Florian Fischer
- School of Public Health Medicine, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
| | - James L Fisher
- James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
| | - Lisa M Force
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
| | | | - Marisa Freitas
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Takeshi Fukumoto
- Gene Expression and Regulation Program, Cancer Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Dermatology, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
| | - Neal D Futran
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Silvano Gallus
- Department of Environmental Health Science, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
| | - Fortune Gbetoho Gankpe
- Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Fez, University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco
- Non-communicable Disease Department, Laboratory of Studies and Research-Action in Health, Porto Novo, Benin
| | | | | | | | - Getnet Azeze Gedefaw
- Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
- Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
| | | | - Birhanu Geta
- Department of Pharmacy, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia
| | - Sefonias Getachew
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Institute of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Informatics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
| | | | - Mansour Ghafourifard
- Medical Surgical Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Alireza Ghajar
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
| | - Ahmad Ghashghaee
- Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Asadollah Gholamian
- Physiology Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Medical Department, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
| | - Paramjit Singh Gill
- Unit of Academic Primary Care, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, United Kingdom
| | - Themba T G Ginindza
- Department of Public Health Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
| | - Alem Girmay
- Department of Nursing, A.C.S. Medical College and Hospital, Aksum, Ethiopia
| | - Muluken Gizaw
- School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | | | - Sameer Vali Gopalani
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
- Department of Health and Social Affairs, Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia
| | - Giuseppe Gorini
- Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Section, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, Florence, Italy
| | | | - Ayman Grada
- School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
| | | | | | - Prakash C Gupta
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Mumbai, India
| | - Rahul Gupta
- West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, Charleston
- Department of Health Policy, Management & Leadership, West Virginia University, Morgantown
| | | | - Arvin Haj-Mirzaian
- Department of Pharmacology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Obesity Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Arya Haj-Mirzaian
- Department of Pharmacology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Randah R Hamadeh
- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain
| | - Samer Hamidi
- School of Health and Environmental Studies, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
| | | | - Josep Maria Haro
- Biomedical Research Networking Center for Mental Health Network, Madrid, Spain
- Research and Development Unit, San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain
| | - Milad Hasankhani
- School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Amir Hasanzadeh
- Department of Microbiology, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
- Department of Microbiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Hamid Yimam Hassen
- Public Health Department, Mizan-Tepi University, Teppi, Ethiopia
- Unit of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
| | - Roderick J Hay
- International Foundation for Dermatology, London, England, United Kingdom
- St John's Institute of Dermatology, King's College London, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Simon I Hay
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
| | | | - Nathaniel J Henry
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Claudiu Herteliu
- Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Hagos D Hidru
- Department of Epidemiology, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia
| | - Chi Linh Hoang
- Center of Excellence in Behavioral Medicine, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
| | | | - Praveen Hoogar
- Transdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Methods, Manipal University, Manipal, India
| | - Nobuyuki Horita
- Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama City University, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan
- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
| | - H Dean Hosgood
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
| | - Mostafa Hosseini
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
- Department of Computer Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Computer Science, University of Human Development, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
| | - Mihaela Hostiuc
- Department of General Surgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Internal Medicine, Bucharest Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Sorin Hostiuc
- Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Clinical Legal Medicine, National Institute of Legal Medicine Mina Minovici, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Mowafa Househ
- Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
- Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
| | | | - Bogdan Ileanu
- Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
- Center for Health Outcomes & Evaluation, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Milena D Ilic
- Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
| | - Kaire Innos
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
| | - Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Kufre Robert Iseh
- Department of Surgery, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria
| | - Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
- Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Farhad Islami
- Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
| | | | - Morteza Jafarinia
- ,Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
| | - Leila Jahangiry
- Health Education and Health Promotion Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | | | - Nader Jahanmehr
- School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Spencer L James
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
| | | | - Sudha Jayaraman
- Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
| | - Sun Ha Jee
- Department of Public Health, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
- Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Ensiyeh Jenabi
- Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Ravi Prakash Jha
- Department of Community Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
| | - Jost B Jonas
- Department of Ophthalmology, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, China
| | - Jitendra Jonnagaddala
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- NSW Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Tamas Joo
- Health Services Management Training Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
| | | | - Mikk Jürisson
- Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Ali Kabir
- Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Farin Kamangar
- Department of Biology, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - André Karch
- Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - Narges Karimi
- Immunogenetics Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Department of Neurology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Ansar Karimian
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Amir Kasaeian
- Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Hematologic Malignancies Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Belete Kassa
- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University, Dessie, Ethiopia
| | | | - Mesfin Wudu Kassaw
- Nursing Department, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia
- Department of Public Health, Amhara Public Health Institute, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
| | - Anil Kaul
- School of Health Care Administration, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa
- Health Care Delivery Sciences, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
| | | | | | - Amene Abebe Kerbo
- Department of Public Health, Madda Walabu University, Goba, Ethiopia
- School of Public Health, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia
| | - Yousef Saleh Khader
- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Ramtha, Jordan
| | - Maryam Khalilarjmandi
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | - Ejaz Ahmad Khan
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - Gulfaraz Khan
- Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
| | - Young-Ho Khang
- Division of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - Khaled Khatab
- Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University, Zanesville
| | - Amir Khater
- Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, National Hepatology and Tropical Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Maryam Khayamzadeh
- Cancer Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Academy of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Maryam Khazaee-Pool
- Department of Public Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Salman Khazaei
- Department of Epidemiology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Abdullah T Khoja
- Department of Public Health, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Mohammad Hossein Khosravi
- Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- International Otorhinolaryngology Research Association, Tehran, Iran
| | - Jagdish Khubchandani
- Department of Nutrition and Health Science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
| | - Neda Kianipour
- Department of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Daniel Kim
- Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Yun Jin Kim
- School of Medicine, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Malaysia
| | - Adnan Kisa
- Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Health Services Policy & Management, University of South Carolina, Columbia
| | - Sezer Kisa
- Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
| | | | - Hamidreza Komaki
- Neurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
- Brain Engineering Research Center, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Ai Koyanagi
- Networking Center for Mental Health Network, San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Kristopher J Krohn
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Burcu Kucuk Bicer
- Department of Public Health, Yüksek Ihtisas University, Ankara, Turkey
- Department of Public Health, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
| | - Nuworza Kugbey
- Department of Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
- Department of Psychology and Health Promotion, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
| | - Vivek Kumar
- Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Desmond Kuupiel
- Department of Public Health Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Department of Nursing, St. John of God Hospital, Duayaw Nkwanta, Ghana
| | - Carlo La Vecchia
- Clinical Medicine and Community Health, A.C.S. Medical College and Hospital, Milan, Italy
| | - Deepesh P Lad
- Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
| | - Eyasu Alem Lake
- Department of Nursing, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia
| | - Ayenew Molla Lakew
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
| | | | - Faris Hasan Lami
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Academy of Medical Science, Baghdad, Iraq
| | - Qing Lan
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland
| | - Savita Lasrado
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, India
| | - Paolo Lauriola
- Institute of Clinical Physiology, Italian National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
| | | | - James Leigh
- Asbestos Diseases Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | | | - Yu Liao
- Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Alliance for Improving Health Outcomes, Inc, Quezon City, Philippines
| | | | - Stefan Listl
- Department of Dentistry, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Section for Translational Health Economics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Alan D Lopez
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Queensland, Australia
| | - Platon D Lopukhov
- Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
| | - Raimundas Lunevicius
- Department of General Surgery, Aintree University Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
- Department of Surgery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
| | - Mohammed Madadin
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
| | - Sameh Magdeldin
- Proteomics and Metabolomics Unit, Suez Canal University, Cairo, Egypt
- Department of Physiology, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
| | | | - Azeem Majeed
- Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Afshin Maleki
- Department of Environmental Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Environmental Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Reza Malekzadeh
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
| | - Ali Manafi
- Department of Plastic Surgery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Navid Manafi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | | | - Morteza Mansourian
- Department of Health Education and Promotion, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mohammad Ali Mansournia
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Saman Maroufizadeh
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
| | - Santi Martini S Martini
- Department of Epidemiology, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
- Indonesian Public Health Association, Surabaya, Indonesia
| | | | | | | | - Manu Raj Mathur
- Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Colm McAlinden
- Department of Ophthalmology, Hywel Dda University Health Board, Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom
| | - Martin McKee
- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Hailemariam Abiy Alemu Meheretu
- Department of Nursing, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia
- School of Public Health, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
| | - Ravi Mehrotra
- Department of Preventive Oncology, National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, India
| | - Varshil Mehta
- Department of Internal Medicine, SevenHills Hospital, Mumbai, India
| | - Toni Meier
- Institute for Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
- Innovation Office, Competence Cluster for Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health, Halle, Germany
| | - Yohannes A Melaku
- Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
| | - Mulugeta Melku
- Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
| | - Peter T N Memiah
- Department of Public Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
| | - Walter Mendoza
- Peru Country Office, United Nations Population Fund, Lima, Peru
| | - Ritesh G Menezes
- Forensic Medicine Division, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
| | - Shahin Merat
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Tuomo J Meretoja
- Breast Surgery Unit, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Tomislav Mestrovic
- Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology Unit, Dr. Zora Profozic Polyclinic, Zagreb, Croatia
- University Centre Varazdin, University North, Varazdin, Croatia
| | - Bartosz Miazgowski
- Center for Innovation in Medical Education, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Tomasz Miazgowski
- Department of Hypertension, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
| | | | - Ted R Miller
- Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland
- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Edward J Mills
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
| | - Seyed Mostafa Mir
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Golestan, Iran
| | - Hamed Mirzaei
- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
| | - Hamid Reza Mirzaei
- Department of Medical Immunology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Rashmi Mishra
- Department of Oral Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Babak Moazen
- Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Addiction Research, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - Dara K Mohammad
- Department of Biology, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq
- Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Aso Mohammad Darwesh
- Department of Information Technology, University of Human Development, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
| | - Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
| | - Hiwa Mohammadi
- Department of Neurology, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Moslem Mohammadi
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Mahdi Mohammadian
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
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- School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
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- Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Health Systems and Policy Research Unit, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
| | - Farnam Mohebi
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Iran National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Ali H Mokdad
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Lorenzo Monasta
- Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste, Italy
| | - Yoshan Moodley
- Department of Public Health Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
| | - Mahmood Moosazadeh
- Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Maryam Moossavi
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
| | - Ghobad Moradi
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Mohammad Moradi-Joo
- Department of Economics and Management Sciences for Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Maziar Moradi-Lakeh
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Farhad Moradpour
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Lidia Morawska
- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | | | - Naho Morisaki
- Department of Social Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Setagaya, Japan
| | | | - Abbas Mosapour
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
| | - Seyyed Meysam Mousavi
- Department of Health Management and Economics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Oumer Sada S Muhammed
- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | - Jonah Musa
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
- Center for Global Health, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
| | - Ashraf F Nabhan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Knowledge Translation and Utilization, Egyptian Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Mehdi Naderi
- School of Paramedical Sciences, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan
- Department of Research and Analytics, Initiative for Financing Health and Human Development, Chennai, India
- Department of Research and Analytics, Bioinsilico Technologies, Chennai, India
| | - Gabriele Nagel
- Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
| | - Azin Nahvijou
- Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Gurudatta Naik
- O'NealComprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham
| | - Farid Najafi
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Luigi Naldi
- Department of Dermatology, San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
- GISED Study Center, Bergamo, Italy
| | - Hae Sung Nam
- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea
- Daejeon Regional Cancer Center, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, South Korea
| | - Naser Nasiri
- Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran
| | - Javad Nazari
- Department of Pediatrics, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
- Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
| | - Ionut Negoi
- Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Subas Neupane
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
| | - Polly A Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Haruna Asura Nggada
- Department of Histopathology, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Nigeria
- Department of Human Pathology, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria
| | | | - Cuong Tat Nguyen
- Institute for Global Health Innovations, Duy Tan University, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | - Leila Nikniaz
- Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum
- Department of Public Health Sciences, State University of Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan
| | | | - Molly R Nixon
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Chukwudi A Nnaji
- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
- School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Marzieh Nojomi
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Shirin Nosratnejad
- Department of Health Economics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | | | | | - Richard Ofori-Asenso
- Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Independent consultant, Accra, Ghana
| | - Felix Akpojene Ogbo
- Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
| | - In-Hwan Oh
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemun-gu, South Korea
| | - Andrew T Olagunju
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
| | - Tinuke O Olagunju
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
| | - Mojisola Morenike Oluwasanu
- Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | - Abidemi E Omonisi
- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria
- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
| | - Obinna E Onwujekwe
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Anu Mary Oommen
- Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
| | - Eyal Oren
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle
- Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
| | | | - Erika Ota
- Department of Global Health Nursing, St. Luke's International University, Chuo-ku, Japan
| | | | - Mayowa Ojo Owolabi
- Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | - Mahesh P A
- Department of TB & Respiratory Medicine, Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeswara University, Mysore, India
| | | | - Smita Pakhale
- Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| | - Amir H Pakpour
- Department of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
- Department of Nursing, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden
| | - Adrian Pana
- Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
- Center for Health Outcomes & Evaluation, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Eun-Kee Park
- Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Kosin University, Busan, South Korea
| | - Hadi Parsian
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | - Tahereh Pashaei
- Environmental Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Shanti Patel
- Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
| | - Snehal T Patil
- Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Deemed University, Karad, India
| | - Alyssa Pennini
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - David M Pereira
- Requimte/LAQV, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
| | - Cristiano Piccinelli
- ReferenceCenter for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, CPO Piedmont, Torino, Italy
| | - Julian David Pillay
- Basic Medical Sciences Department, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa
| | - Majid Pirestani
- Departments of Parasitology and Entomology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
| | - Farhad Pishgar
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Uro-Oncology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Maarten J Postma
- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - Hadi Pourjafar
- Department of Public Health, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
- Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
| | - Farshad Pourmalek
- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| | - Akram Pourshams
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Swayam Prakash
- Department of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
| | - Narayan Prasad
- Department of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
| | - Mostafa Qorbani
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
| | - Mohammad Rabiee
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
| | - Navid Rabiee
- Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Divisions of Chemistry and Diseases, Advanced Technologies Research Group, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Alireza Rafiei
- Department of Immunology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Molecular and Cell Biology Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Fakher Rahim
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathy Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
| | - Mahdi Rahimi
- Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Muhammad Aziz Rahman
- Austin Health Clinical School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- National Centre for Farmer Health, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia
| | - Fatemeh Rajati
- Department of Health Education and Promotion, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Saleem M Rana
- Department of Public Health, Contech School of Public Health, Lahore, Pakistan
- Public Health Department, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
| | - Samira Raoofi
- Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Goura Kishor Rath
- Department of Radiation Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
| | - David Laith Rawaf
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training, Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- University College London Hospitals, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Salman Rawaf
- Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom
- Academic Public Health, Public Health England, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Robert C Reiner
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Andre M N Renzaho
- School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Nima Rezaei
- Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy, and Autoimmunity, Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, Tehran, Iran
| | - Aziz Rezapour
- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Ana Isabel Ribeiro
- Epidemiology Research Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Daniela Ribeiro
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
| | - Luca Ronfani
- Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste, Italy
| | - Elias Merdassa Roro
- School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Public Health, Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia
| | - Gholamreza Roshandel
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
| | - Ali Rostami
- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | | | - Parisa Sabbagh
- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | - Siamak Sabour
- Department of Epidemiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Basema Saddik
- Medical Department, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
| | - Saeid Safiri
- Managerial Epidemiology Research Center, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
| | - Amirhossein Sahebkar
- Biotechnology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Neurogenic Inflammation Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
| | | | - Farkhonde Salehi
- Taleghani Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Hosni Salem
- Department of Urology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Marwa Rashad Salem
- Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
| | - Hamideh Salimzadeh
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Joshua A Salomon
- Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California
| | - Abdallah M Samy
- Department of Entomology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Juan Sanabria
- Department of Surgery, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
- Departments of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
| | | | - Benn Sartorius
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England, United Kingdom
| | - Arash Sarveazad
- Colorectal Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Brijesh Sathian
- Surgery Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
| | - Maheswar Satpathy
- UGC Centre of Advanced Study in Psychology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India
- Udyam-Global Association for Sustainable Development, Bhubaneswar, India
| | | | - Monika Sawhney
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
| | - Mehdi Sayyah
- Education Development Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
| | - Ione J C Schneider
- School of Health Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Ararangua, Brazil
| | - Ben Schöttker
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Mario Sekerija
- Department of Medical Statistics, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
- Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases, Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - Sadaf G Sepanlou
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
| | - Masood Sepehrimanesh
- Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
| | - Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi
- Center of Expertise in Microbiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Invasive Fungi Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Faramarz Shaahmadi
- Department of Health Promotion and Education, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
| | - Hosein Shabaninejad
- Department of Health Policy, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mohammad Shahbaz
- Department of Epidemiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Amir Shamshirian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Morteza Shamsizadeh
- Chronic Diseases (Home Care) Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Heidar Sharafi
- Department of Molecular Hepatology, Middle East Liver Disease Center, Tehran, Iran
| | - Zeinab Sharafi
- Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
| | - Mehdi Sharif
- Department of Basic Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
- Department of Laboratory Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
| | - Ali Sharifi
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
| | - Hamid Sharifi
- HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
| | - Rajesh Sharma
- University School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India
| | - Aziz Sheikh
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Reza Shirkoohi
- Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Cancer Biology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Sharvari Rahul Shukla
- Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
| | - Si Si
- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Soraya Siabani
- Imam Ali Cardiovascular Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
- Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | | | - Dayane Gabriele Alves Silveira
- University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
- Department of the Health Industrial Complex and Innovation in Health, Ministry of Health, Brasília, Brazil
| | - Ambrish Singh
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Global Patient Outcome and Real World Evidence, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
| | - Jasvinder A Singh
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
| | - Solomon Sisay
- Medical Department, German Leprosy and TB Relief Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | - Freddy Sitas
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Eugène Sobngwi
- Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon
- Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Central Hospital of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon
| | - Moslem Soofi
- Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Joan B Soriano
- Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
| | - Vasiliki Stathopoulou
- Department of Occupational Therapy, Athens University of Applied Sciences, Athens, Greece
| | | | - Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos
- Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- Biomedical Research Networking Center for Mental Health Network, Carlos III Health Institute, Madrid, Spain
| | - Takahiro Tabuchi
- Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
| | - Ken Takahashi
- Asbestos Diseases Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Omid Reza Tamtaji
- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
| | | | | | - Parvaneh Taymoori
- Department of Public Health, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Community Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mohamad-Hani Temsah
- College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Omar Temsah
- College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | | | - Fisaha Haile Tesfay
- Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
- Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | | | - Gizachew Assefa Tessema
- Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
- School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Subash Thapa
- Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | | | - Roman Topor-Madry
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
- The Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System, Warsaw, Poland
| | | | - Eugenio Traini
- Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste, Italy
| | - Bach Xuan Tran
- Department of Health Economics, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | - Khanh Bao Tran
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Department of Clinical Hematology and Toxicology, Military Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | | | - Irfan Ullah
- Gomal Center of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
| | - Olalekan A Uthman
- Division of Health Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, United Kingdom
| | - Marco Vacante
- Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
| | - Maryam Vaezi
- Women's Reproductive Health Research Center, A.C.S. Medical College and Hospital, Tabriz, Iran
- Alzahra Teaching Hospital, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Patricia Varona Pérez
- Department for International Development, Health Network of Cuba, Havana, Cuba
- Centre of Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Yousef Veisani
- Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran
| | - Simone Vidale
- Department of Neurology & Stroke Unit, Sant'Anna Hospital, Como, Italy
| | - Francesco S Violante
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Occupational Health Unit, Sant'Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
| | - Vasily Vlassov
- Department of Health Care Administration and Economy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
| | - Stein Emil Vollset
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Theo Vos
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
| | - Kia Vosoughi
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Giang Thu Vu
- Center of Excellence in Behavioral Medicine, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
| | | | - Henry Wabinga
- Department of Pathology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
| | | | | | - Yasir Waheed
- Foundation University Medical College, Foundation University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
| | - Fitsum Weldegebreal
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
| | | | - Tissa Wijeratne
- Department of Psychology and Counselling, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, St Albans, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
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- Department of Nursing, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia
- Department of Nursing, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
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- Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Physics, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Management, Policy, and Economics, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
- Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- School of Allied Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
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- Health Economics & Finance, Global Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
- Department of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Physiology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Bioelectric Group, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Epidemiology and Cancer Registry Sector, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Hospital of Setif, Setif, Algeria
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- Student Research Committee, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
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- Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Parasitology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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- Health Promotion Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
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Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017. Nature 2019; 574:353-358. [PMID: 31619795 PMCID: PMC6800389 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1545-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable child deaths by 2030-we need consistently estimated data at the subnational level regarding child mortality rates and trends. Here we quantified, for the period 2000-2017, the subnational variation in mortality rates and number of deaths of neonates, infants and children under 5 years of age within 99 low- and middle-income countries using a geostatistical survival model. We estimated that 32% of children under 5 in these countries lived in districts that had attained rates of 25 or fewer child deaths per 1,000 live births by 2017, and that 58% of child deaths between 2000 and 2017 in these countries could have been averted in the absence of geographical inequality. This study enables the identification of high-mortality clusters, patterns of progress and geographical inequalities to inform appropriate investments and implementations that will help to improve the health of all populations.
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- Roy Burstein
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran
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- The Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Epidemiology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Research Department, Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Quezon City, The Philippines
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, South Korea
- Department of Community Medicine, Kathmandu University, Devdaha, Nepal
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- School of Health, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
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- Department of Community Medicine, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
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- Environmental Technologies Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- James P. Grant School of Public Health, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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- Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Evidence Based Practice Center, Mayo Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Prevention Division, Queensland Health, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Public Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Health Care Management and Economics, Urmia University of Medical Science, Urmia, Iran
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- Health Economics Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Policy and Management, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
- International Centre for Casemix and Clinical Coding, National University of Malaysia, Bandar Tun Razak, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
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- Medical Research Center, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Medical Parasitology, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
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- Research Group in Health Economics, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
- Research Group in Hospital Management and Health Policies, Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla, Colombia
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- Health Services Management Department, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, The Philippines
- Online Programs for Applied Learning, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Health Services Management Department, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran
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- Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine-Health Management and Safety Promotion Research Institute, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, The Philippines
- Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Promotion and Education, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Health Sciences, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran
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- School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- Oral Health Services, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Education Development Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Dr D. Y. Patil Medical College, Pune, India
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- The Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- General Office for Research and Technological Transfer, Peruvian National Institute of Health, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Family and Community Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Public Health Risk Sciences Division, Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Tissue Engineering and Applied Cell Sciences Division, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
- Division of Diseases, Advanced Technologies Research Group, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Health Human Resources Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Community Medicine, Gandhi Medical College Bhopal, Bhopal, India
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Hepatitis Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Pharmacoepidemiology and Social Pharmacy, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Department of Global Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Nepal Academy of Science & Technology, Patan, Nepal
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- The Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Karaj Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Neuroscience Department, Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services, City of Knowledge, Panama
- Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies, Panama, Panama
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- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department for Health Care Management, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Al Shifa School of Public Health, Al Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Global Ehealth Unit, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Population and Health, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Colombian National Health Observatory, National Institute of Health, Bogota, Colombia
- Epidemiology and Public Health Evaluation Group, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
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- Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Division of Epidemiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
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- Faculty of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute of Public Health Kalyani, Kalyani, India
- School of Health Science, Orebro University, Orebro, Sweden
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Toxoplasmosis Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- James P. Grant School of Public Health, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of General Surgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Surgery, Clinical Emergency Hospital St Pantelimon, Bucharest, Romania
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- Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- School of Pharmacy, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia
- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Global Health and Infection, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
| | - Rupak Desai
- Division of Cardiology, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, GA, USA
| | - Aniruddha Deshpande
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | | | - Sagnik Dey
- Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
| | - Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Community Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
| | - Meghnath Dhimal
- Health Research Section, Nepal Health Research Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
| | - Daniel Diaz
- Center of Complexity Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
- Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacan Rosales, Mexico
| | - Leila Doshmangir
- Department of Health Policy and Economy, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Andre R Duraes
- School of Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- Diretoria Médica, Roberto Santos General Hospital, Salvador, Brazil
| | - Laura Dwyer-Lindgren
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Lucas Earl
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Roya Ebrahimi
- Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | | | - Andem Effiong
- Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Aziz Eftekhari
- Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Basic Sciences, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
| | - Elham Ehsani-Chimeh
- National Institute for Health Researchers, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Iman El Sayed
- Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
| | | | - Maha El Tantawi
- Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
- Preventive Dental Sciences, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
| | - Ziad El-Khatib
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Mohammad Hassan Emamian
- Ophthalmic Epidemiology Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran
| | - Shymaa Enany
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
| | - Sharareh Eskandarieh
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Oghenowede Eyawo
- Epidemiology and Population Health, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
| | - Maha Ezalarab
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | | | - Mohammad Fareed
- College of Medicine, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Roghiyeh Faridnia
- Department of Parasitology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Andre Faro
- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Sergipe, Sao Cristovao, Brazil
| | - Ali Akbar Fazaeli
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Mehdi Fazlzadeh
- Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
| | - Netsanet Fentahun
- Department of Public Health Nutrition, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
| | - Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad
- Department of Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Neurology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| | - João C Fernandes
- Center for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry, Catholic University of Portugal, Porto, Portugal
| | - Irina Filip
- Psychiatry Department, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana, CA, USA
- Department of Health Sciences, A.T. Still University, Mesa, AZ, USA
| | - Florian Fischer
- Department of Public Health Medicine, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
| | - Nataliya A Foigt
- Institute of Gerontology, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
| | | | - Joel Msafiri Francis
- Clinical Medicine and Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - Takeshi Fukumoto
- Gene Expression & Regulation Program, Cancer Institute (W.I.A.), Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Dermatology, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
| | - Nancy Fullman
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Silvano Gallus
- Department of Environmental Health Science, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
| | | | | | | | - Bradford D Gessner
- Vaccines Department, Pfizer, Collegeville, PA, USA
- Agency of Preventive Medicine, Paris, France
| | - Birhanu Geta
- Department of Pharmacy, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia
| | - Peter W Gething
- Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Reza Ghadimi
- Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | | | - Mahsa Ghajarzadeh
- Department of Neurology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Ahmad Ghashghaee
- Department of Health Services Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Tiffany K Gill
- Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Nick Golding
- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
| | - Nelson G M Gomes
- Department of Chemistry, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- REQUIMTE/LAQV, Porto, Portugal
| | - Philimon N Gona
- Nursing and Health Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Sameer Vali Gopalani
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Department of Health and Social Affairs, Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, Palikir, Federated States of Micronesia
| | - Giuseppe Gorini
- Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Section, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute, Florence, Italy
| | | | - Nicholas Graetz
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Felix Greaves
- Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, London, UK
| | | | - Yuming Guo
- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
| | - Arvin Haj-Mirzaian
- Department of Pharmacology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Obesity Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Arya Haj-Mirzaian
- Department of Pharmacology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Brian James Hall
- Global and Community Mental Health Research Group, University of Macau, Macao, China
| | - Samer Hamidi
- School of Health and Environmental Studies, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
| | | | - Josep Maria Haro
- Biomedical Research Networking Center for Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
- Research and Development Unit, San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park, Sant Boi De Llobregat, Spain
| | - Milad Hasankhani
- School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Edris Hasanpoor
- Healthcare Management, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
| | - Amir Hasanzadeh
- Department of Microbiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Microbiology, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
| | - Hadi Hassankhani
- School of Nursing and Midwifery Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Independent Consultant, Tabriz, Iran
| | - Hamid Yimam Hassen
- Public Health Department, Mizan-Tepi University, Teppi, Ethiopia
- Unit of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University Hospital Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
| | | | - Delia Hendrie
- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Fatemeh Heydarpour
- Medical Biology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Thomas R Hird
- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Population Health, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Chi Linh Hoang
- Center of Excellence in Behavioral Medicine, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
| | - Gillian Hollerich
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Enayatollah Homaie Rad
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
- Guilan Road Trauma Research Center, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
| | | | - Naznin Hossain
- Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
| | - Mostafa Hosseini
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mehdi Hosseinzadeh
- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Computer Science Department, University of Human Development, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
| | - Mihaela Hostiuc
- Department of General Surgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Internal Medicine, Bucharest Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Sorin Hostiuc
- Faculty of Dentistry, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Clinical Legal Medicine, National Institute of Legal Medicine Mina Minovici, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Mowafa Househ
- Division of Information and Computing Technology, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
- Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, Doha, Qatar
| | - Mohamed Hsairi
- Faculty of Medicine Tunis, Medicine School of Tunis, Baab Saadoun, Tunisia
| | | | | | - Usman Iqbal
- Global Health and Development Department, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan
| | - Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani
- Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Nazrul Islam
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
- Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
- Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Mikk Jürisson
- Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | | | - Amir Jalali
- Psychiatric Department, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Javad Javidnia
- Department of Medical Mycology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Achala Upendra Jayatilleke
- Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
| | - Ensiyeh Jenabi
- School of Midwifery, A.T. Still University, Mesa, AZ, USA
| | - John S Ji
- Environmental Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
| | | | - Kimberly Johnson
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jost B Jonas
- Department of Ophthalmology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, China
| | - Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Opole, Opole, Poland
- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Opole, Opole, Poland
| | - Ali Kabir
- Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Amaha Kahsay
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
| | - Hamed Kalani
- Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
| | - Rohollah Kalhor
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran
| | - Manoochehr Karami
- Department of Epidemiology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Surendra Karki
- Research and Development, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Amir Kasaeian
- Hematologic Malignancies Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Nicholas J Kassebaum
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | | | - Grant Rodgers Kemp
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
| | - Roghayeh Khabiri
- Tabriz Health Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Yousef Saleh Khader
- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Ramtha, Jordan
| | - Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
| | - Ejaz Ahmad Khan
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan
| | - Junaid Khan
- Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
| | - Muhammad Shahzeb Khan
- Department of Internal Medicine, John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
| | - Young-Ho Khang
- Institute of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
| | - Khaled Khatab
- Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
- Department of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University, Zanesville, OH, USA
| | - Amir Khater
- Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, National Hepatology and Tropical Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt
| | - Mona M Khater
- Department of Medical Parasitology, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
| | | | - Mohammad Khazaei
- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Salman Khazaei
- Department of Epidemiology, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Maryam Khazaei-Pool
- Department of Public Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Jagdish Khubchandani
- Department of Nutrition and Health Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA
| | - Neda Kianipour
- Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
- School of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Yun Jin Kim
- School of Medicine, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Malaysia
| | | | - Damaris K Kinyoki
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Adnan Kisa
- Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Health Services Policy and Management, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
| | - Sezer Kisa
- Nursing and Health Promotion, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
| | - Tufa Kolola
- Department of Public Health, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia
| | | | - Parvaiz A Koul
- Department of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India
| | - Ai Koyanagi
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBERSAM, San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park, Sant Boi De Llobregat, Spain
| | - Moritz U G Kraemer
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Kewal Krishan
- Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
| | - Kris J Krohn
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Nuworza Kugbey
- Family and Community Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
- Psychology and Health Promotion, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
| | - G Anil Kumar
- Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
| | - Manasi Kumar
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK
| | | | - Desmond Kuupiel
- Department of Public Health Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Nursing, St John of God Hospital, Duayaw Nkwanta, Ghana
| | - Ben Lacey
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Oxford, UK
| | - Sheetal D Lad
- Department of Pediatrics, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
| | - Faris Hasan Lami
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Academy of Medical Science, Baghdad, Iraq
| | - Anders O Larsson
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Paul H Lee
- School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
| | - Mostafa Leili
- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
| | - Aubrey J Levine
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Shanshan Li
- School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Lee-Ling Lim
- Department of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, China
| | - Stefan Listl
- Department of Dentistry, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Section for Translational Health Economics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Joshua Longbottom
- Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
| | - Jaifred Christian F Lopez
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, The Philippines
- Alliance for Improving Health Outcomes, Quezon City, The Philippines
| | - Stefan Lorkowski
- Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
- Competence Cluster for Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health (NUTRICARD), Jena, Germany
| | - Sameh Magdeldin
- Physiology Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
- Proteomics and Metabolomics Unit, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
| | | | | | - Azeem Majeed
- Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Afshin Maleki
- Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Reza Malekzadeh
- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
| | - Deborah Carvalho Malta
- Department of Maternal and Child Nursing and Public Health, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
| | - Abdullah A Mamun
- Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Navid Manafi
- Ophthalmology Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department Ophthalmology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | - Ana-Laura Manda
- Surgery Department, Emergency University Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Morteza Mansourian
- Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | - Anthony Masaka
- Faculty of Health and Education, Botho University-Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
| | | | - Pallab K Maulik
- School of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Research Department, The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
| | - Benjamin K Mayala
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Mohsen Mazidi
- Department of Biology and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
| | - Martin McKee
- Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
| | - Ravi Mehrotra
- Preventive Oncology Department, National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, India
| | - Kala M Mehta
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
| | | | - Walter Mendoza
- Peru Country Office, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Lima, Peru
| | - Ritesh G Menezes
- Forensic Medicine Division, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
| | - Atte Meretoja
- Neurocenter, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
| | - Tuomo J Meretoja
- Breast Surgery Unit, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Tomislav Mestrovic
- Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology Unit, Dr Zora Profozic Polyclinic, Zagreb, Croatia
- University Centre Varazdin, University North, Varazdin, Croatia
| | - Ted R Miller
- School of Public Health, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
- Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation, Calverton, MD, USA
| | - Molly K Miller-Petrie
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Edward J Mills
- Health, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
| | - George J Milne
- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - G K Mini
- Department of Public Health, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India
| | - Seyed Mostafa Mir
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
| | - Hamed Mirjalali
- Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Erkin M Mirrakhimov
- Faculty of General Medicine, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- Department of Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease, National Center of Cardiology and Internal Disease, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
| | - Efat Mohamadi
- Health Equity Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Dara K Mohammad
- Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Food Technology, College of Agriculture, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Erbil, Iraq
| | - Aso Mohammad Darwesh
- Information Technology Department, University of Human Development, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
| | | | | | - Shafiu Mohammed
- Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- Health Systems and Policy Research Unit, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
| | - Ali H Mokdad
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Mariam Molokhia
- Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Lorenzo Monasta
- Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health, Trieste, Italy
| | - Yoshan Moodley
- Department of Public Health Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
| | - Mahmood Moosazadeh
- Health Sciences Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
| | - Ghobad Moradi
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
| | - Masoud Moradi
- Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Yousef Moradi
- Department of Epidemiology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Maziar Moradi-Lakeh
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mehdi Moradinazar
- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Paula Moraga
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK
| | - Lidia Morawska
- International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| | - Abbas Mosapour
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
| | - Seyyed Meysam Mousavi
- Department of Health Management and Economics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Ulrich Otto Mueller
- Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Center for Population and Health, Wiesbaden, Germany
| | - Atalay Goshu Muluneh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
| | - Ghulam Mustafa
- Department of Pediatric Medicine, Nishtar Medical University, Multan, Pakistan
- Department of Pediatrics & Pediatric Pulmonology, Institute of Mother & Child Care, Multan, Pakistan
| | - Behnam Nabavizadeh
- Department of Urology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mehdi Naderi
- Operating Room Department, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | - Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan
- Research and Analytics, Initiative for Financing Health and Human Development, Chennai, India
- Research and Analytics, Bioinsilico Technologies, Chennai, India
| | - Azin Nahvijou
- Cancer Research Center of Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Farid Najafi
- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
| | | | | | - Nahid Neamati
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
| | - Ionut Negoi
- Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- General Surgery Department, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Ruxandra Irina Negoi
- Anatomy and Embryology Department, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Cardiology, Cardio-aid, Bucharest, Romania
| | | | | | - Long Hoang Nguyen
- Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
| | - Son Hoang Nguyen
- Center for Excellence in Behavioral Health, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
| | - Katie R Nielsen
- Global Health Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum
- State University of Semarang, Public Health Science Department, Kota Semarang, Indonesia
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City, Taiwan
| | | | - Molly R Nixon
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Chukwudi A Nnaji
- Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
- Public Health Science Department, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - Marzieh Nojomi
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Mehdi Noroozi
- University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Shirin Nosratnejad
- Department of Health Economics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Centre of Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Independent Consultant, Accra, Ghana
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- Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Public Health Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Center for the Aid Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) TB and HIV Pathogenesis Unit, United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Gastroenterology and Liver Disease Research Center, A.C.S. Medical College and Hospital, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Food Science and Postharvest Technology, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda
- Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu, Nigeria
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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- School of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, The Institute for Health Research Foundation Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana
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- Analytical Center, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
- Committee for the Comprehensive Assessment of Medical Devices and Information Technology, Health Technology Assessment Association, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Tb & Respiratory Medicine, Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeswara University, Mysore, India
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- Toxoplasmosis Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Kosin University, Busan, South Korea
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Research and Evaluation, Population Council, New Delhi, India
- Indian Institute of Health Management Research University, Jaipur, India
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- Department of Genetics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Parasitology and Entomology Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
- Department of Public Health, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
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- International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
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- Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies, Panama, Panama
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- Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- College of Graduate Health Sciences, A.T. Still University, Mesa, AZ, USA
- Medichem, Barcelona, Spain
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- Molecular and Cell Biology Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Department of Immunology, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular-Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Thalassemia and Hemoglobinopathy Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Education & Promotion, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Nephrology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India
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- Prevention of Metabolic Disorders Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Critical Care Quality Improvement Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Policy Research Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development, Yonsei University, Wonju, South Korea
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- Institute of Public Health, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- Gonçalo Moniz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil
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- School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- Social Science and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Epidemiology, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Research, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil
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- Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Public Health, Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia
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- Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
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- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- School of Biotechnology, Ikiam Amazon Regional University, Tena, Ecuador
- Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Faculty of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Neuroscience, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Neurogenic Inflammation Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Biotechnology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- School of Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Taleghani Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
- Taleghani Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Center for Health Policy & Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Post-graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Community Medicine, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, India
- PSG-FAIMER South Asia Regional Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- Department of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Applied and Environmental Sciences, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Surgery Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Faculty of Health & Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK
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- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Center of Expertise in Microbiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Invasive Fungi Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Health Promotion and Education, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- School of Medicine, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran
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- Medical Laboratory Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Chronic Diseases (Home Care) Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
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- Department of Laboratory Sciences, Karaj Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
- Department of Basic Sciences, Karaj Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- University School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India
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- Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit (UCIBIO), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Preventive Oncology, Patna, India
- Department of Epidemiology, Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Department of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Næstved-Slagelse-Ringsted Hospitals, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Medical Division, German Leprosy and TB Relief Association Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Nursing, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, Kartasura, Indonesia
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- Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Neurology Department, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India
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- Carlos III Health Institute, Biomedical Research Networking Center for Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- School of Social Work, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- University Institute 'Egas Moniz', Monte Da Caparica, Portugal
- Research Institute for Medicines, Faculty of Pharmacy of Lisbon, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Pediatrics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Anesthesiology Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Health Economics, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Clinical Hematology and Toxicology, Military Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Gomal Center of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
- TB Culture Laboratory, Mufti Mehmood Memorial Teaching Hospital, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Education and Health, Trauma Research Center, Tehran, Iran
- Critical and Intensive Care Department, Trauma Research Center, Tehran, Iran
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- Argentine Society of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Velez Sarsfield Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Psychosocial Injuries Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran
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- Raffles Neuroscience Centre, Raffles Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Occupational Health Unit, Sant'orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Information Technologies and Management, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia
- Department of Information and Internet Technologies, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Health Care Administration and Economy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center of Excellence in Behavioral Medicine, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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- Foundation University Medical College, Foundation University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Cardiology Department, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Competence Center of Mortality-Follow-Up, Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Cochrane South Africa, Medical Research Council South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
- Department of Pharmacology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Zhejiang Spine Research Center, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
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- School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Health Management, Policy and Economics, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
- Health Services Management Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
- Department of Pediatrics, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria
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- Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Psychopharmacology, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Health Economics & Finance, Global Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA
- Research Center for Public Health, Tsinghua University, Peking, China
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- Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Health Management and Economics, A.C.S. Medical College and Hospital, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Electrical Engineering, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
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- Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Student Research Committee, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
- Department of Community Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Science, Ardabil, Iran
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- Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Maternal and Child Wellbeing Unit, African Population Health Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
- Public Health Department, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia
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- Department of Preventative Medicine, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Tamtaji OR, Mirzaei H, Shamshirian A, Shamshirian D, Behnam M, Asemi Z. New trends in glioma cancer therapy: Targeting Na + /H + exchangers. J Cell Physiol 2019; 235:658-665. [PMID: 31250444 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.29014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Glioma is the oneof the most prevalent primarybrain tumors. There is a variety of oxidative stresses, inflammatory pathways, apoptosis signaling, and Na+ /H + exchangers (NHEs) involved in the pathophysiology of glioma. Previous studies have indicated a relationship between NHEs and some molecular pathways in glioma. NHEs, including NHE1, NHE5, and NHE9 affect apoptosis, tumor-associated macrophage inflammatory pathways, matrix metalloproteinases, cancer-cell growth, invasion, and migration of glioma. Also, inhibition of NHEs contributes to increased survival in animal models of glioma. Limited studies, however, have assessed the relationship between NHEs and molecular pathways in glioma. This review summarizes current knowledge and evidence regarding the relationship between NHEs and glioma, and the mechanisms involved.
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- Omid Reza Tamtaji
- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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Shamshirian A, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Pourfathollah AA, Alipoor R, Mohseni AR. Seroprevalence and geographical distribution of hepatitis C virus in Iranian patients with thalassemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J LAB MED 2019. [DOI: 10.1515/labmed-2018-0150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Background
Thalassemia as a hereditary hemoglobinopathy is the most common monogenic disease worldwide. Patients with thalassemia require regular blood transfusion, which provides the risk for the transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) as the most common post-transfusion infection in such patients, and this rate is very diverse in different parts of the world. We aimed to determine the prevalence of HCV among patients with thalassemia in Iran.
Methods
In this study, we searched for articles on the prevalence of HCV among Iranian thalassemia patients in English and Persian databases up to 2017. Heterogeneities were assessed by using an I-square (I2) test. Prevalence and 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated using the random effects model.
Results
In total, 37 studies with 9185 patients were included in the meta-analysis. The prevalence of HCV among Iranian thalassemia patients was 17.0% (95% CI: 14.5–19.8). The rate of prevalence among male and female subjects was 17.4% (95% CI: 13.8–21.9) and 16.8% (95% CI: 13.2–21.1), respectively.
Conclusions
We found that the prevalence of HCV among Iranian thalassemia patients declined over time and the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization has had a reasonable performance in HCV screening.
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Azizi S, Shamshirian A, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Jafarpour H, Asemi Z, Tamtaji OR, Vaziri MS, Homayounfar R, Rezaei Shahmirzadi A, Alipoor R. A Genetic Association Study of MTHFR C677T Polymorphism with Risk of Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Galen Med J 2019; 8:e1472. [PMID: 34466514 PMCID: PMC8343661 DOI: 10.31661/gmj.v8i0.1472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is an enzyme that plays a crucial role as a methyl-group donor in demethylation of homocysteine. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to study the relationship between MTHFR gene polymorphism and metabolic syndrome (MS). We used search engines and databases such as Science Direct, Google Scholar, Embase, Cochrane Library, and PubMed to identify eligible studies up to 2018. The articles were studied based on keywords including MTHFR, mutation, variant, and polymorphism in combination with MS. Data was analyzed using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis version 2.2.064 software. After extracting the data from seven articles, the total number of subjects was 1280 in the patient group and 1374 in the control group. The odds ratio was estimated to be 1.078 for the allele model of T vs. C (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.626-0.715), 1.157 for the allele model of CC vs. CT (95% CI: 0.829-1.615), 1.020 for the allele model of CT + TT vs. CC (95% CI: 1.611-0.646) and 0.799 for the allele model of TT vs. CC + CT (95% CI: 1.185- 0.539). As well, the results showed no statistically significant correlation between polymorphism genotypes of the MTHFR gene and MS (P<0.05). In general, this study showed that the presence of C677T polymorphism in the MTHFR gene has no effect on the incidence of MS.
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- Soheil Azizi
- Department of Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Paramedicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Physiology Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Disease Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran
- Non-Communicable Disease Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran
- Correspondence to: Reza Alipoor, Student Research Committee, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran Telephone Number: +989174462124 Email Address:
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Moosazadeh M, Maleki I, Alizadeh-Navaei R, Kheradmand M, Hedayatizadeh-Omran A, Shamshirian A, Barzegar A. Normal values of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio among Iranian population: Results of Tabari cohort. Caspian J Intern Med 2019; 10:320-325. [PMID: 31558995 PMCID: PMC6729162 DOI: 10.22088/cjim.10.3.320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), lymphocyte-monocyte ratio (LMR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have a prognostic value in several types of diseases such as cancers and they vary in different races. So, we aimed to evaluate the normal range of these markers among healthy people to determine the normal value in Iranian population. METHODS In the present study, cross-sectional data of population-based cohort study named "Tabari cohort study" was utilized. In the first phase of Tabari cohort, 10255 participants aged 35-70 years from urban and rural areas of Sari, Mazandaran, Iran entered into the study. The study included a questionnaire survey and blood collection. Blood samples were collected after 12 hours fasting from all participants during the study. Hematological indices were measured for all samples using Celltac Alpha MEK-6510 K (Tokyo, Japan). RESULTS After sample exclusion, 2212 healthy subjects of Tabari's normal cohort population were investigated. The mean age of the samples was 47.9±9.29 years. The mean of NLR, LMR, PLR were 1.70±0.70, 11.15±3.14 and 117.05±47.73, respectively. CONCLUSION Our investigation provides preliminary reference values for NLR, LMR, and PMR among Iranian population that can be used for disease progress in various clinical procedures.
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- Mahmood Moosazadeh
- Health Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gut and Liver Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Health Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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Tabrizi R, Tamtaji OR, Lankarani KB, Akbari M, Dadgostar E, Dabbaghmanesh MH, Kolahdooz F, Shamshirian A, Momen-Heravi M, Asemi Z. The effects of resveratrol intake on weight loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2018; 60:375-390. [PMID: 30421960 DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2018.1529654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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This systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was conducted to summarize the effect of resveratrol intake on weight loss. We searched the following databases until July 2018: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Data were pooled using the inverse variance method and expressed as standardized mean difference (SMD) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Out of 831 reports, 36 RCTs were eligible for including to our meta-analysis. The pooled results, using random-effects model showed that resveratrol supplementation significantly decreased body weight (SMD = -0.17; 95% CI, -0.33, -0.01; P = 0.03; I2: 62.6), body mass index (BMI) (SMD = -0.20; 95% CI, -0.35, -0.05; P = 0.01; I2: 60.6), fat mass (SMD = -0.32; 95% CI, -0.62, -0.03; P = 0.03; I2: 77.9) and waist circumference (WC) (SMD = -0.42; 95% CI, -0.68, -0.16; P = 0.001; I2: 75.2), and significantly increased lean mass (SMD = 1.21; 95% CI, 0.75, 1.67; P < 0.001; I2: 87.6). We found no significant effect of resveratrol administration on leptin (SMD = -0.20; 95% CI, -0.68, 0.27; P = 0.40; I2: 85.3) and adiponectin levels (SMD = 0.08; 95% CI, -0.39, 0.55; P = 0.74; I2: 91.0). Resveratrol supplementation significantly decreased body weight in obese patients (SMD -0.43; 95% CI, -0.60, -0.26) compared with other diseases (SMD 0.02; 95% CI, -0.29, 0.33), and type 2 diabetes mellitus (SMD -0.17; 95% CI, -0.37, 0.02). Overall, the current meta-analysis demonstrated that resveratrol intake significantly reduced weight, BMI, WC and fat mass, and significantly increased lean mass, but did not affect leptin and adiponectin levels.
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- Reza Tabrizi
- Health Policy Research Center Institute of Health, Student Research Committee Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Physiology Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.,FDA, Halal Research Center of IRI, Tehran, Iran
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- Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Health Policy Research Center Institute of Health, Student Research Committee Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Indigenous and Global Health Research, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Student Research Committee, School of Allied Medical Science, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Infectious Disease school of medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.,Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Research Center for Biochemistry and Nutrition in Metabolic Diseases, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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Shamshirian A, Alikhani S, Alipoor R, Jafarpour H, Espahbodi F, Azizi S. Evaluation of Immunogenicity of Hepatitis B Vaccine in Hemodialysis Patients at Mazandaran Heart Center, Iran. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.13005/bpj/1141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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