Background:During the past six decades,remarkable success on malaria control has been made in *** major experience could be shared with other malaria endemic countries including Tanzania with high malaria ***,China’s...
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Background:During the past six decades,remarkable success on malaria control has been made in *** major experience could be shared with other malaria endemic countries including Tanzania with high malaria ***,China’s 1-3-7 model for malaria elimination is one of the most important refined experiences from many years’efforts and key innovation measures for malaria elimination in ***:The China-UK-Tanzania pilot project on malaria control was implemented from April,2015 to June,2018,which was an operational research with two communities receiving the proposed interventions and two comparable communities serving as control *** World Health Organization"Test,Treat,Track"(WHO-T3)Initiative,which calls for every suspected case to receive a diagnostic test,every confirmed case to be treated,and for the disease to be tracked,was integrated with Chinese experiences on malaria control and elimination for exploration of a proper model tailored to the local *** of China’s 1-3-7 model integrating with WHO-T3 initiative and local resources aiming at reducing the burden of malaria in terms of morbidity and mortality by 30%in the intervention communities in comparison with that at the baseline ***:The China-UK-Tanzania pilot project on malaria control was that at China’s first pilot project on malaria control in Africa,exploring the feasibility of Chinese experiences by China-Africa collaboration,which is expected that the strategies and approaches used in this project could be potential for scaling up in Tanzania and African countries,and contribute to the acceleration of malaria control and elimination in Africa.
BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)course may be affected by environmental *** studies previously suggested a link between climatological factors and COVID-19 fatality ***,individual-level impact of thes...
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BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)course may be affected by environmental *** studies previously suggested a link between climatological factors and COVID-19 fatality ***,individual-level impact of these factors has not been thoroughly evaluated *** To study the association of climatological factors related to patient location with unfavorable outcomes in *** In this observational analysis of the society of Critical Care Medicine Discovery Viral Infection and Respiratory Illness Universal study:COVID-19 Registry cohort,the latitudes and altitudes of hospitals were examined as a covariate for mortality within 28 d of admission and the length of hospital *** for baseline parameters and admission date,multivariable regression modeling was *** estimating equations were used to fit the *** Twenty-two thousand one hundred eight patients from over 20 countries were *** median age was 62(interquartile range:49-74)years,and 54%of the included patients were *** median age increased with increasing latitude as well as the frequency of ***,the percentage of comorbidities was lower in elevated *** within 28 d of hospital admission was found to be 25%.The median hospital-free days among all included patients was 20 *** the significant linear relationship between mortality and hospital-free days(adjusted odds ratio(aOR)=1.39(1.04,1.86),P=0.025 for mortality within 28 d of admission;aOR=-1.47(-2.60,-0.33),P=0.011 for hospital-free days),suggesting that adverse patient outcomes were more common in locations further away from the Equator;the results were no longer significant when adjusted for baseline differences(aOR=1.32(1.00,1.74),P=0.051 for 28-day mortality;aOR=-1.07(-2.13,-0.01),P=0.050 for hospital-free days).When we looked at the altitude’s effect,we discovered that it demonstrated a non-linear association with mortality wi
BACKGROUND Hypertension is a common public health problem worldwide and is a well-known risk factor for increased risk of cardiovascular diseases,contributing to high morbidity and ***,there has been no systematic rev...
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BACKGROUND Hypertension is a common public health problem worldwide and is a well-known risk factor for increased risk of cardiovascular diseases,contributing to high morbidity and ***,there has been no systematic review and meta-analysis of a multiethnic population such as that of *** To determine the trend in prevalence,awareness and control rate of hypertension in *** systematic searches were conducted in six databases(PubMed,scopus,Ovid,CINAHL,Malaysian Medical Repository and Malaysia Citation Index)for articles published between 1980 and *** authors reviewed the studies and performed quality assessment and data extraction *** estimates of hypertension prevalence,awareness and control rate were calculated using the Dersimonian-Laird random-effects *** and sensitivity analyses were *** We included 56 studies involving a total of 241796 *** overall pooled prevalence of hypertension aged≥18 years was 29.7%.The prevalence of hypertension was the lowest in the 1980s(16.2%,95%confidence interval(CI):13.4,19.0),increasing up to 36.8%(95%CI:6.1,67.5)in the 1990s,then decreasing to 28.7%(95%CI:21.7,35.8)in the 2000s and 26.8%(95%CI:21.3,32.3)in the *** prevalence of awareness was 51.4%(95%CI:46.6,56.3),while 33.3%(95%CI:28.4,38.2)of those on treatment had achieved control of their blood *** In Malaysia,three in ten adults aged≥18 years have hypertension,while four in ten adults aged≥30 years have *** out of ten people are aware of their hypertension status and only one-third of those under treatment achieved control of their *** efforts by policymakers and healthcare professionals to improve awareness and control of hypertension should be of high priority.
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