• 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and Clostridium difficile Infection: A Meta-Analysis 

      Furuya-Kanamori, L.; Wangdi, K.; Yakob, L.; McKenzie, S.J.; Doi, S.A.R.; ... more authors ( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Background: Well-known risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are exposure to antibiotics and gastric acid suppressants. Recent studies have provided some evidence of an association between hypovitaminosis ...
    • Albumin administration in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: A meta-analytic update 

      Ashour, A.A.; Atta, M.A.; Sadek, K.W.; Obaid, K.R.; Ashour, M.A.; ... more authors ( Lippincott Williams and Wilkins , 2021 , Article Review)
      End-stage liver disease and its related complications exert a huge disease burden and reduce the survival rates of many patients. Albumin administration for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis has been a controversial ...
    • Diagnostic accuracy of ELISA kits for measurement of rabies antibodies 

      Ling, W.; Doi, S.A.R.; Lau, C.L.; Mills, D.J.; Kostoulas, P.; ... more authors ( NLM (Medline) , 2021 , Article)
      [No abstract available]
    • Dysregulation of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 expression and function in comorbid disease conditions possibly contributes to coronavirus infectious disease 2019 complication severity 

      Hammoud, Safaa H.; Wehbe, Zena; Abdelhady, Samar; Kobeissy, Firas; Eid, Ali H.; ... more authors ( American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy , 2021 , Article Review)
      ACE2 has emerged as a double agent in the COVID-19 ordeal, as it is both physiologically protective and virally conducive. The identification of ACE2 in as many as 72 tissues suggests that extrapulmonary invasion and damage ...
    • Flight Versus Ground Out-of-hospital Rapid Sequence Intubation Success: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 

      Fouche, P.F.; Stein, C.; Simpson, P.; Carlson, J.N.; Zverinova, K.M.; ... more authors ( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      Introduction: Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a critical procedure performed by both air medical and ground based emergency medical services (EMS). Previous work has suggested that ETI success rates are greater for air ...
    • Generalisability theory analyses of concept mapping assessment scores in a problem-based medical curriculum 

      Kassab, Salah E; Fida, Mariam; Radwan, Ahmed; Hassan, Adla B; Abu-Hijleh, Marwan; ... more authors ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      Context In problem-based learning (PBL), students construct concept maps that integrate different concepts related to the PBL case and are guided by the learning needs generated in small-group tutorials. Although an ...
    • Identification of SER-PRO-CYS Peptide in Blood Serum of Multiple Sclerosis Patients 

      Myronovkij, Severyn; Negrych, Nazar; Nehrych, Tetyana; Tkachenko, Volodymyr; Souchelnytskyi, Serhiy; ... more authors ( Bentham Science Publishers , 2016 , Article)
      Monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS) requires additional molecular markers. Recently, we used original TCA-precipitation/extraction approach in combination with MALDI TOF/TOF mass-spectrometry and identified earlier unknown ...
    • In honour of Professor Jackie Ying, recipient of the Journal of Drug Targeting's Lifetime Achievement Award�for 2020 

      Akhtar S. ( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2020 , Article)
      [No abstract available]
    • In honour of Professor Patrick Couvreur, recipient of the Journal Of Drug Targeting?s Lifetime Achievement Award For 2019 

      Akhtar S. ( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      [No abstract available]
    • In vitro evaluation of Neosetophomone B inducing apoptosis in cutaneous T cell lymphoma by targeting the FOXM1 signaling pathway 

      Kuttikrishnan, Shilpa; Masoodi, Tariq; Ahmad, Fareed; Sher, Gulab; Prabhu, Kirti S.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Background: Cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a T cell-derived non-Hodgkin lymphoma primarily affecting the skin, with treatment posing a significant challenge and low survival rates. Objective: In this study, we ...
    • Information on harm outcomes was insufficiently reported in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of individual participant data 

      Xu, Chang; Kwong, Joey S. W.; Jia, Pengli; Liu, Yu; Zhang, Weixin; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Other)
      Meta-analysis is an important tool for summarizing findings from scientific research. But for harm outcomes,issues may arise due to the distribution problems, zero-events problems, as well as low statistical power. Individual ...
    • Intersection between genes controlling vascularization and angiogenesis in renal cell carcinomas 

      Souchelnytskyi, S ( Springer Nature , 2018 , Article)
      To show that application of the systemic analysis may significantly improve comparison of different datasets. Different genes and proteins may converge on the same functional outputs. A comparison of 2 datasets by only ...
    • Is there truly an increase in risk of cardiovascular and hematological adverse events with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors? 

      Furuya-Kanamori L.; Doi S.A.; Onitilo A.; Akhtar S. ( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2020 , Article)
      Objectives: Recent studies have shown an increase risk of cardiovascular and hematological adverse events associated with vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (VEGF-TKIs). The authors hypothesize ...
    • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Rafael, Lozano; Fullman, Nancy; Mumford, John Everett; Knight, Megan; Barthelemy, Celine M; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      BackgroundAchieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority ...
    • Metronidazole in conjunction with penicillin neither prevents recurrence nor enhances recovery from peritonsillar abscess when compared with penicillin alone: A prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial 

      Wiksten, Johanna E.; Pitkaranta, Anne; Blomgren, Karin ( Oxford University Press , 2016 , Article)
      Objectives The objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of metronidazole in conjunction with penicillin in preventing the recurrence of peritonsillar abscess (PTA) and to learn whether metronidazole enhances ...
    • Pharmacotherapy in COVID-19 patients: a review of ACE2-raising drugs and their clinical safety 

      Akhtar, S.; Benter, I.F.; Danjuma, M.I.; Doi, S.A.R.; Hasan, S.S.; ... more authors ( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2020 , Article Review)
      The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the severe acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2 that uses ACE2 as its receptor. Drugs that raise serum/tissue ACE2 levels include ACE inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin-II receptor ...
    • Reply to: Let us not rush back to odds ratios in meta-analysis 

      Doi, S.A.; Furuya-Kanamori, L.; Xu, C. ( Elsevier Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      [No abstract available]
    • Research Methods for Zero Event Proportion Studies: The Incidence of Bleeding After Thoracentesis and Tube Thoracostomy in Patients With Uncorrected Coagulopathy 

      Xu, C.; Doi, S.A. ( Elsevier Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      In a recent meta-analysis published in CHEST (November 2021), Fong et al1 investigated the incidence of bleeding after thoracentesis and tube thoracostomy in patients with uncorrected coagulopathy. The authors used the ...
    • Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Impact of Early Metabolic Impairment: Interplay between Dysbiosis and Adipose Inflammation 

      Dwaib, Haneen S.; AlZaim, Ibrahim; Ajouz, Ghina; Eid, Ali H.; El-Yazbi, Ahmed ( American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy (ASPET) , 2022 , Article)
      The evolving view of gut microbiota has shifted toward describing the colonic flora as a dynamic organ in continuous interaction with systemic physiologic processes. Alterations of the normal gut bacterial profile, known ...
    • The coincidence of increased risk of atrial fibrillation in randomized control trials of omega-3 fatty acids: a meta-analysis 

      Kow, C.S.; Doi, S.A.R.; Hasan, S.S. ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2021 , Article)
      [No abstract available]