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Compton W, Weiss S. Commentary on Petrilli et al.: Assessing cannabis use in real-world settings - advances using standard THC units. Addiction 2024; 119:784-785. [PMID: 38263762 DOI: 10.1111/add.16440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Wilson Compton
- National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Stephens S, Motl RW, Narang I, Weiss S, Finlayson M, Yeh EA. Sleep, physical activity, and psychological outcomes in children and adolescents with pediatric onset multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler Relat Disord 2023; 79:105025. [PMID: 37776826 DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2023.105025] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/02/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Sleep, physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SED) have bidirectional associations with mental health in children. The relationships among sleep, PA, SED, with depressive and fatigue symptoms have not been investigated in Pediatric Onset Multiple Sclerosis (POMS) but are needed to inform sleep and PA behavior change interventions. OBJECTIVES (1) To describe sleep quality including: sleep efficiency, latency, total sleep time, number of awakenings, time in bed, and wake after sleep onset using actigraphy in children and adolescents ages 11 to 18 diagnosed with POMS, and to compare these sleep metrics to those of an age- and sex-matched non-MS group (2) To examine the relationship between time spent in sedentary, light (LIPA), moderate and vigorous PA (MVPA), sleep quality, with depression, fatigue, and quality of life in children and adolescents with POMS and an age and sex matched non-MS group. METHODS A cross-sectional study recruited children and adolescents with POMS ages 11 to 18 years followed at a tertiary pediatric hospital (Toronto, Canada) and an age and sex matched non-MS group from the general population. Participants were consented prior to initiation of study procedures. Participants wore an Actiwatch monitor and GT3X accelerometer and completed standardized questionnaires validated to capture data on sleep disturbances, depression, fatigue, and quality of life. Objective sleep data were collected using an Actiwatch including sleep efficiency, total sleep time, number of awakenings, wake after sleep onset (WASO), and sleep latency. A GT3X accelerometer was used to collect PA data including time spent in SED, light (LPA), and moderate to vigorous (MVPA) PA. Correlational analyses and tests of difference were used to compare the groups. RESULTS 25 POMS (21F; 16.6 years ±1.1 yrs., median Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) =1.5, IQR=1) and 25 Non-MS (22 F; 16±1.3 yrs.) took part. POMS had higher BMI (T= -5.1, P<0.001) compared to Non-MS. No differences in sleep efficiency (MS mean = 87%, vs. 88%) sleep time (MS Mean = 7.3 hrs. vs. 7.4 hrs.,), WASO (MS mean=37 mins. vs. 36 mins), latency (MS mean=15 mins vs. 11 mins), SED (MS mean =763 mins. vs. 730 mins) or PA (MS, mean LPA = 68 mins. vs 60 mins; MS mean MVPA = 12.7 mins. vs. 12.4 mins). Within POMS, higher sleep efficiency was associated with more SED (SR= 0.4, p = 0.05), while higher sleep efficiency was associated with less SED in Non-MS (SR = -0.7, p< 0.0). In children with POMS, less sleep time, shorter sleep onset latency and more WASO was associated with more SED (SR range = -0.45 to -0.58, P< 0.01). Higher sleep efficiency was associated with less fatigue. Less WASO was associated with lower depression, lower fatigue (SR = 0.67, p<0.01) and better quality of life (SR= -0.6, p<0.01). Greater LPA was associated with lower sleep onset latency (-0.45, p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS Children with POMS did not differ in Actiwatch monitored sleep quality metrics. However, within the POMS group sleep quality was associated with better fatigue, depression and QOL. Further, total sleep time, WASO and latency associated with time spent SED and LPA, which independently associate with mental health outcome. Longitudinal work should determine the temporal associations between WASO, sleep latency, sleep time, PA, and mental health outcomes and whether reallocation of specific sleep or PA behaviors (time to sleep, total sleep time, sedentary to MVPA) result in improved depression fatigue, or quality of life in children and adolescents with POMS.
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- S Stephens
- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- The University of Chicago at Irvine, Illinois, United States
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Entzel P, Nielsen M, Weiss S, Park YA, Lu R, Baskin-Miller J, Hutchinson B, Obioma P, An X, Balfanz G. How do I reduce variation in red blood cell transfusion practices in a large integrated health care system? Transfusion 2023. [PMID: 37190781 DOI: 10.1111/trf.17383] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Reducing variation in transfusion practices can prevent unwarranted transfusions, an outcome that improves quality of care and patient safety, while lowering costs and eliminating waste of blood. We developed and assessed a system-wide initiative to reduce variation in red blood cell (RBC) transfusion in terms of both transfusion utilization and the number of units transfused. INTERVENTION DESIGN AND METHODS Our initiative combined a single-unit default order for RBC transfusion in hemodynamically stable, non-bleeding patients with a "Why Give 2 When 1 Will Do?" Choosing Wisely campaign, while also promoting a restrictive hemoglobin threshold (Hb <7 g/dl). This multimodal intervention was implemented across an academic medical center (AMC) with over 950 beds and 10 community hospitals. RESULTS Between our baseline (CY 2020) and intervention period (CY 2021), single-unit orders increased from 57% to 70% of all RBC transfusion orders (p < .001). The greatest change in ordering practices was at community hospitals, where single-unit orders increased from 46% to 65% (p < .001). Over the same time period, the system-wide mean (SD) Hb result prior to transfusion fell from 7.3 (0.05) to 7.2 g/dl (0.04) (p < .05). We estimate this effort saved over 4000 units of blood and over $4 million in direct and indirect costs in its first year. DISCUSSION By combining a single-unit default setting in the RBC order with a restrictive hemoglobin threshold, we significantly reduced variation in ordering practices. This effort demonstrates the value of single-unit policies and "nudges" in system-wide patient blood management initiatives.
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- Pamela Entzel
- Care Redesign Department, UNC Health, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Urology, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Carolinas Pathology Group, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- UNC Rex Hematology Oncology, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pathology, UNC Rex Healthcare, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Care Redesign Department, UNC Health, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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Bousquet J, Melén E, Haahtela T, Koppelman GH, Togias A, Valenta R, Akdis CA, Czarlewski W, Rothenberg M, Valiulis A, Wickmann M, Aguilar D, Akdis M, Ansotegui IJ, Barbara C, Bedbrook A, Bindslev Jensen C, Bosnic-Anticevich S, Boulet LP, Brightling CE, Brussino L, Burte E, Bustamante M, Canonica GW, Cecchi L, Celedon JC, Chaves-Loureiro C, Costa E, Cruz AA, Erhola M, Gemicioglu B, Fokkens WJ, Garcia Aymerich J, Guerra S, Heinrich J, Ivancevich JC, Keil T, Klimek L, Kuna P, Kupczyk M, Kvedariene V, Larenas-Linnemann DE, Lemonnier N, Lodrup Carlsen KC, Louis R, Makris M, Maurer M, Momas I, Morais-Almeida M, Mullol J, Naclerio RN, Nadeau K, Nadif R, Niedoszytko M, Okamoto Y, Ollert M, Papadopoulos NG, Passalacqua G, Patella V, Pawankar R, Pham-Thi N, Pfaar O, Regateiro FS, Ring J, Rouadi PW, Samolinski B, Sastre J, Savouré M, Scichilone N, Shamji MH, Sheikh A, Siroux V, Sousa-Pinto B, Standl M, Sunyer J, Taborda-Barata L, Toppila-Salmi S, Torres MJ, Tsiligianni I, Valovirta E, Vandenplas O, Ventura MT, Weiss S, Yorgancioglu A, Zhang L, Abdul Latiff AH, Aberer W, Agache I, Al-Ahmad M, Alobid I, Arshad HS, Asayag E, Baharudin A, Battur L, Bennoor KS, Berghea EC, Bergmann KC, Bernstein D, Bewick M, Blain H, Bonini M, Braido F, Buhl R, Bumbacea R, Bush A, Calderon M, Calvo G, Camargos P, Caraballo L, Cardona V, Carr W, Carreiro-Martins P, Casale T, Cepeda Sarabia AM, Chandrasekharan R, Charpin D, Chen YZ, Cherrez-Ojeda I, Chivato T, Chkhartishvili E, Christoff G, Chu DK, Cingi C, Correia da Sousa J, Corrigan C, Custovic A, D'Amato G, Del Giacco S, De Blay F, Devillier P, Didier A, do Ceu Teixeira M, Dokic D, Douagui H, Doulaptsi M, Durham S, Dykewicz M, Eiwegger T, El-Sayed ZA, Emuzyte R, Emuzyte R, Fiocchi A, Fyhrquist N, Gomez RM, Gotua M, Guzman MA, Hagemann J, Hamamah S, Halken S, Halpin DMG, Hofmann M, Hossny E, Hrubiško M, Irani C, Ispayeva Z, Jares E, Jartti T, Jassem E, Julge K, Just J, Jutel M, Kaidashev I, Kalayci O, Kalyoncu O, Kardas P, Kirenga B, Kraxner H, Kull I, Kulus M, La Gruta S, Lau S, Le Tuyet Thi L, Levin M, Lipworth B, Lourenço O, Mahboub B, Mäkelä MJ, Martinez-Infante E, Matricardi P, Miculinic N, Migueres N, Mihaltan F, Mohamad Y, Moniusko M, Montefort S, Neffen H, Nekam K, Nunes E, Nyembue Tshipukane D, O'Hehir RE, Ogulur I, Ohta K, Okubo K, Ouedraogo S, Olze H, Pali-Schöll I, Palomares O, Palosuo K, Panaitescu C, Panzner P, Park HS, Pitsios C, Plavec D, Popov TA, Puggioni F, Quirce S, Recto M, Repka-Ramirez R, Roballo-Cordeiro C, Roche N, Rodriguez-Gonzales M, Romantowski J, Rosario Filho N, Rottem M, Sagara H, Sarquis-Serpa F, Sayah Z, Scheire S, Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Sisul JC, Sole D, Soto-Martinez M, Sova M, Sperl A, Spranger O, Stelmach R, Suppli Ulrik C, Thomas M, To T, Todo-Bom A, Tomazic PV, Urrutia-Pereira M, Valentin-Rostan M, van Ganse E, Van Hage M, Vasankari T, Vichyanond P, Viegi G, Wallace D, Wang DY, Williams S, Worm M, Yiallouros P, Yiallouros P, Yusuf O, Zaitoun F, Zernotti M, Zidarn M, Zuberbier J, Fonseca JA, Zuberbier T, Anto JM. Rhinitis associated with asthma is distinct from rhinitis alone: The ARIA-MeDALL hypothesis. Allergy 2023; 78:1169-1203. [PMID: 36799120 DOI: 10.1111/all.15679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2022] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
Abstract
Asthma, rhinitis and atopic dermatitis (AD) are interrelated clinical phenotypes that partly overlap in the human interactome. The concept of "one-airway-one-disease", coined over 20 years ago, is a simplistic approach of the links between upper- and lower-airway allergic diseases. With new data, it is time to reassess the concept. This article reviews (i) the clinical observations that led to Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA), (ii) new insights into polysensitisation and multimorbidity, (iii) advances in mHealth for novel phenotype definition, (iv) confirmation in canonical epidemiologic studies, (v) genomic findings, (vi) treatment approaches and (vii) novel concepts on the onset of rhinitis and multimorbidity. One recent concept, bringing together upper- and lower-airway allergic diseases with skin, gut and neuropsychiatric multimorbidities, is the "Epithelial Barrier Hypothesis". This review determined that the "one-airway-one-disease" concept does not always hold true and that several phenotypes of disease can be defined. These phenotypes include an extreme "allergic" (asthma) phenotype combining asthma, rhinitis and conjunctivitis. Rhinitis alone and rhinitis and asthma multimorbidity represent two distinct diseases with the following differences: (i) genomic and transcriptomic background (Toll-Like Receptors and IL-17 for rhinitis alone as a local disease; IL-33 and IL-5 for allergic and non-allergic multimorbidity as a systemic disease), (ii) allergen sensitisation patterns (mono- or pauci-sensitisation versus polysensitisation), (iii) severity of symptoms and (iv) treatment response. In conclusion, rhinitis alone (local disease) and rhinitis with asthma multimorbidity (systemic disease) should be considered as two distinct diseases, possibly modulated by the microbiome, and may be a model for understanding the epidemics of chronic and auto-immune diseases.
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Affiliation(s)
- J Bousquet
- Institute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Allergology and Immunology, Berlin, Germany.,University Hospital Montpellier, Montpellier, France.,Inserm, Equipe d'Epidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, Villejuif, France
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- Sach´s Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, and Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Beatrix Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Pediatric Allergology, GRIAC Research Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation (DAIT), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, USA
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- Division of Immunopathology, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Medical Consulting Czarlewski, Levallois, France.,MASK-air, Montpellier, France
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- Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine and Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius, Lithuania.,Medical Faculty of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Environmental medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biomedical Research Networking Center in Hepatic and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD), Barcelona, Spain
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Department of Allergy and Immunology, Hospital Quironsalud Bizkaia, Bilbao, Spain
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- Portuguese Nacional Programme for Respiratory Diseases, Direção -Geral da Saúde, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Instituto de Saúde Ambiental, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis (ORCA), and Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Finland
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- Quality Use of Respiratory Medicine Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.,Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Laval University, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Institute of Lung Health, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Department of Respiratory and Infection Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Mauriziano Hospital, Torino, Italy
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- Inserm, Equipe d'Epidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Univ. Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy.,Personalized Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center IRCCS, Rozzano, Italy
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- SOS Allergology and Clinical Immunology, USL Toscana Centro, Prato, Italy
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Pneumology Unit, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- UCIBIO, REQUINTE, Faculty of Pharmacy and Competence Center on Active and Healthy Ageing of University of Porto (Porto4Ageing), Porto, Portugal
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- Fundaçao ProAR, Federal University of Bahia and GARD/WHO Planning Group, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Pirkanmaa Welfare district, Tampere, Finland
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain
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- Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, University Hospital Munich - Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Munich
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- Servicio de Alergia e Immunologia, Clinica Santa Isabel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.,State Institute of Health, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany.,Center for Rhinology and Allergology, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Barlicki University Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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- Division of Internal Medicine, Asthma and Allergy, Barlicki University Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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- Institute of Clinical medicine, Clinic of Chest diseases and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.,Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Center of Excellence in Asthma and Allergy, Médica Sur Clinical Foundation and Hospital, México City, Mexico
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, UGA - INSERM U1209 - CNRS UMR5309, Site Santé, Allée des Alpes, La Tronche, France
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, CHU, Liege, Liège, Belgium.,GIGA I3 research group, University of Liege, Belgium
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- Allergy Unit "D Kalogeromitros", 2nd Dpt of Dermatology and Venereology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, Greece
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- Institute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Public health and health products, Paris Descartes University-Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 4064 and Paris Municipal Department of social action, childhood, and health, Paris, France
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- Rhinology Unit & Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.,Clinical & Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, University of Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford, USA
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- Inserm, Equipe d'Epidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Univ. Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Allergology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan.,Chiba Rosai Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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- Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis (ORCA), and Department of Dermatology and Allergy Centre, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Finland.,Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Allergy Department, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Allergy and Respiratory Diseases, IRCCS Policlinico San Martino, University of Genoa, Italy
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, "Santa Maria della Speranza" Hospital, Battipaglia, Salerno, Italy.,Agency of Health ASL, Salerno, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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- Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, IRBA (Institut de Recherche bio-Médicale des Armées), Bretigny, France
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- Section of Rhinology and Allergy, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Marburg, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.,Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research (ICBR), Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.,Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.,Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-Care), Davos, Switzerland
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Eye and Ear University Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dar Al Shifa Hospital, Salmiya, Kuwait
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- Department of Prevention of Environmental Hazards, Allergology and Immunology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
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- Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, CIBERES, Faculty of Medicine, Autonoma University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Inserm, Equipe d'Epidémiologie Respiratoire Intégrative, CESP, Villejuif, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Univ. Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
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- PROMISE Department, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, and NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
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- Usher Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- INSERM, Université Grenoble Alpes, IAB, U 1209, Team of Environmental Epidemiology applied to Reproduction and Respiratory Health, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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- MEDCIDS - Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences; Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research; University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,RISE - Health Research Network; University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain.,IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Immunoallergology, Cova da Beira University Hospital Centre, Covilhã, Portugal.,UBIAir - Clinical & Experimental Lung Centre and CICS-UBI Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
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- Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Allergy Unit, Málaga Regional University Hospital-IBIMA, Málaga, Spain
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- International Primary Care Respiratory Group IPCRG, Aberdeen, Scotland.,Health Planning Unit, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece
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- Department of Lung Diseases and Clinical Immunology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Terveystalo Allergy Clinic, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Chest Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire UCL, Namur, and Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
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- Unit of Geriatric Immunoallergology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy
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- Harvard Medical School and Channing Division of Network Medicine, Boston, USA
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- Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey
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- Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing TongRen Hospital and Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, Beijing, China
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- Allergy & Immunology Centre, Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Faculty of Medicine, Transylvania University, Brasov, Romania
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- Microbiology Department, College of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro Médico Teknon, Barcelona, Spain
| | - H S Arshad
- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton.,David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, Isle of Wight, UK
| | - E Asayag
- Argentine Society of Allergy and Immunopathology, Buenos Ayres, Argentian
| | - A Baharudin
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia
| | - L Battur
- Mongolian Association of Hospital Managers, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
| | - K S Bennoor
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
| | - E C Berghea
- Department of Pediatrics, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
| | - K C Bergmann
- Institute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
| | - D Bernstein
- Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| | - M Bewick
- University of Central Lancashire Medical School, Preston, UK
| | - H Blain
- Department of Geriatrics, Montpellier University hospital, MUSE, Montpellier, France
| | - M Bonini
- Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy and National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital & Imperial College London, UK
| | - F Braido
- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine (DiMI), and IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
| | - R Buhl
- Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Mainz University Hospital, Mainz, Germany
| | - R Bumbacea
- Department of Allergy, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Romania
| | - A Bush
- Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
| | - M Calderon
- Imperial College and National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK
| | - G Calvo
- Pediatrics Department, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valvidia, Chile
| | - P Camargos
- Federal University of Minas Gerais, Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
| | - L Caraballo
- Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena, Campus de Zaragocilla, Edificio Biblioteca Primer piso, Cartagena, Colombia
| | - V Cardona
- Allergy Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.,ARADyAL research network, Barcelona, Spain
| | - W Carr
- Allergy & Asthma Associates of Southern California, A Medical Group , Southern California Research, Mission Viejo, CA, USA
| | - P Carreiro-Martins
- NOVA Medical School/Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC), Lisbon, Portugal.,Serviço de Imunoalergologia, Hospital de Dona Estefânia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal
| | - T Casale
- Division of Allergy/immunology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FLA, USA
| | - A M Cepeda Sarabia
- Allergy and Immunology Laboratory, Metropolitan University, Simon Bolivar University, Barranquilla, Colombia and SLaai, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Allergia, Asma e Immunologia, Branquilla, Columbia
| | - R Chandrasekharan
- Department of ENT, Badr al Samaa Hospital, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman
| | - D Charpin
- Clinique des bronches, allergie et sommeil, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France
| | - Y Z Chen
- The capital institute of pediatrics, Beijing, China
| | - I Cherrez-Ojeda
- Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondón, Ecuador.,Respiralab Research Group, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador
| | - T Chivato
- School of Medicine, University CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain
| | - E Chkhartishvili
- David Tatishvili Medical Center; David Tvildiani Medical University-AIETI Medical School, Tbilisi, Georgia
| | - G Christoff
- Medical University - Sofia, Faculty of Public Health, Sofia, Bulgaria
| | - D K Chu
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact & Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
| | - C Cingi
- skisehir Osmangazi University, Medical Faculty, ENT Department, Eskisehir, Turkey
| | - J Correia da Sousa
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
| | - C Corrigan
- Division of Asthma, Allergy & Lung Biology, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King's College London, London, UK
| | - A Custovic
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
| | - G D'Amato
- Division of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases,Hospital 'A Cardarelli', University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
| | - S Del Giacco
- Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health and Unit of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital "Duilio Casula", University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
| | - F De Blay
- Allergy Division, Chest Disease Department, University Hospital of Strasbourg, and Federation of translational medicine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
| | - P Devillier
- VIM Suresnes, UMR 0892, Pôle des Maladies des Voies Respiratoires, Hôpital Foch, Université Paris-Saclay, Suresnes, France
| | - A Didier
- Department of Respiratory Diseases, Larrey Hospital, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
| | - M do Ceu Teixeira
- Hospital Dr Agostinho Neto,Praia, Faculdade de Medicina de Cabo Verde
| | - D Dokic
- University Clinic of Pulmology and Allergy, Medical Faculty Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
| | - H Douagui
- Service de Pneumo-Allergologie, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire de Béni-Messous, Algiers, Algeria
| | - M Doulaptsi
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital of Crete, Heraklion, Crete
| | - S Durham
- Allergy and Clinical Immunology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - M Dykewicz
- Section of Allergy and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
| | - T Eiwegger
- The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Paediatrics, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Food allergy and Anaphylaxis Program, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| | - Z A El-Sayed
- Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
| | - R Emuzyte
- Clinic of Children's Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
| | - R Emuzyte
- Clinic of Children's Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
| | - A Fiocchi
- Allergy, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Rome, Italy
| | - N Fyhrquist
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - R M Gomez
- School of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Salta, Salta, Argentina
| | - M Gotua
- Center of Allergy and Immunology, Georgian Association of Allergology and Clinical Center of Allergy and Immunology, David Tvildiani Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
| | - M A Guzman
- Immunology and Allergy Division, Clinical Hospital, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
| | - J Hagemann
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany
| | - S Hamamah
- Biology of reproduction department, INSERM 1203, University hospital, Montpellier, France
| | - S Halken
- Hans Christian Andersen Children's Hospital, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
| | - D M G Halpin
- University of Exeter, Medical School, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
| | - M Hofmann
- Institute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Children's Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
| | - M Hrubiško
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Oncology Institute of St Elisabeth, Bratislava, Slovakia
| | - C Irani
- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St Joseph University, Hotel Dieu de France Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon
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- President of Kazakhstan Association of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Allergology and clinical immunology of the Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Servicio de Alergia, Consultorios Médicos Privados, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- EDEGO Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Medical University of Gdańsk, Department of Pneumology, Gdansk, Poland
| | - K Julge
- Tartu University Institute of Clinical Medicine, Children's Clinic, Tartu, Estonia
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- Sorbonne université, Hôpital américain de Paris, Neuilly, France
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Wrocław Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland.,ALL-MED Medical Research Institute, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Unit, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Immunology and Allergy Division, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
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- Makerere University Lung Institute, Kampala, Uganda
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Sach´s Children and Youth Hospital, Södersjukhuset, and Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases and Allergology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Crital Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Hochiminh City, Vietnam
| | - M Levin
- Division Paediatric Allergology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Scottish Centre for Respiratory Research, Cardiovascular & Diabetes Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee, UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences and CICS - UBI, Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE
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- Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Pediatric Pulmonology, Immunology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Allergy Division, Chest Disease Department, University Hospital of Strasbourg, and Federation of translational medicine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- National Institute of Pneumology M Nasta, Bucharest, Romania
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- National Center for Research in Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University School of Medicine, Latakia and Syrian Private University-, Damascus, Syria
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Immune Regulation, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystock, Poland
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, Msida, MSD, Malta
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- Director of Center of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Diseases, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Hungarian Allergy Association, Budapest, Hungary
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- Eduardo Mondlane University · Faculty of Medicine, Maputo, Mozambique
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- Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Alfred Hospital and Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- National Hospital Organization Tokyo National Hospital, and JATA Fukujuji Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Dept of Otolaryngology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Dept of Comparative Medicine; Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Medical University, and University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Chemistry, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Helsinki and Hospital for Skin and Allergic Diseases, Helsinki, Finland
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- OncoGen Center, County Clinical Emergency Hospital "Pius Branzeu," and University of Medicine and Pharmacy V Babes, Timisoara, Romania
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- Department of Immunology and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Hospital in Pilsen, Charles University in Prague, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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- Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea
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- Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Srebrnjak Children's Hospital, Zagreb; Medical Faculty, University JJ Strossmayer of Osijek, Croatia
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- Clinic of Occupational Diseases, University Hospital Sveti Ivan Rilski, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy
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- QDepartment of Allergy, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain
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- Asian Hospital And Medical Center, Manilla, Philippines
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- Division of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Clinics Hospital, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
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- Pneumologie, AP-HP, Centre Université de Paris Cité, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France.,UMR 1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
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- Pediatric Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Hospital Espanol de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - J Romantowski
- Department of Allergology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
| | - N Rosario Filho
- Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
| | - M Rottem
- Division of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology, Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel
| | - H Sagara
- Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Asthma Reference Center - School of Medicine of Santa Casa de Misericórdia of Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- SMAIC Société Marocaine d' Allergologie et Immunologie Clinique, Rabat, Morocco
| | - S Scheire
- Pharmaceutical Care Unit, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Allergy Unit, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Allergy & Asthma, Medical Director, CLINICA SISUL, FACAAI, SPAAI, Asuncion, Paraguay
| | - D Sole
- Division of Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Soto-Martinez
- Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Nacional de Niños, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
| | - M Sova
- Department of Respiratory Medicine and Tuberculosis, University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic
| | - A Sperl
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany
| | - O Spranger
- Global Allergy and Asthma Platform GAAPP, Vienna, Austria
| | - R Stelmach
- Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital da Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Suppli Ulrik
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital-Hvidovre, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Thomas
- University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
| | - A Todo-Bom
- Imunoalergologia, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- Dept of General ORL, H&NS, Medical University of Graz, ENT-University Hospital Graz, Austria
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- Research on Healthcare Performance (RESHAPE), INSERM U1290, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Lyon, France
| | - M Van Hage
- Division of Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - T Vasankari
- Fihla, Finnish Lung Association, Helsinki, Finland.,University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - P Vichyanond
- Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University Faculty of Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - G Viegi
- Pulmonary Environmental Epidemiology Unit, CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa
| | - D Wallace
- Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
| | - D Y Wang
- Department of Otolaryngology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - S Williams
- International Primary Care Respiratory Group IPCRG, Aberdeen, Scotland
| | - M Worm
- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Dermatology, Allergy and Venerology Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany
| | - P Yiallouros
- Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
| | - P Yiallouros
- Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
| | - O Yusuf
- The Allergy and Asthma Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Lebanese-American University, Clemenceau Medical Center DHCC, Dubai, UAE
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- Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Villa Maria, Argentina
| | - M Zidarn
- University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Golnik, Slovenia.,University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- MEDCIDS - Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences; Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research; University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.,RISE - Health Research Network; University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute of Allergology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology ITMP, Allergology and Immunology, Berlin, Germany
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- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.,ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain.,IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
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Brooks R, Weiss S, Steigelman D. EFFECT OF OMALIZUMAB ON VENOM SPECIFIC IGE AND VENOM SKIN TESTING. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2022.08.802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Steger D, Weiss S, Wilhelm O. The Short Inventory of Creative Activities (S-ICA): Compiling a Short Scale Using Ant Colony Optimization. Creativity Research Journal 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2022.2128574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Thieleke-Matos C, Endjala N, Nepolo E, Winter C, Nowaseb V, Mataranyika M, Ochurus P, Jansen A, Weiss S, Ellerbrok H. Establishment of the Namibian National Public Health Institute: laboratory systems strengthening. Eur J Public Health 2022. [PMCID: PMC9593457 DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac131.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
In 2020, the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) started a twinning project with the long-term goal of establishing a Namibia Institute of Public Health (NIPH). A fundamental pillar of an NIPH is a fully operational Public Health laboratory system. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for strengthening the existing Namibian Laboratory system became eminent. Following the Intra-Action Review (IAR) of the COVID-19 response in Namibia in 2020, three regional diagnostic laboratories, at points of entry, were assessed. The major issues identified were long delays between sampling of both suspected cases and COVID-19 patients and receiving test results due to extended sample transport times to the central laboratory in Windhoek and the overload of the central capacities due to overwhelming numbers of samples during peak times. This led to the establishment of three SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostic laboratories through procurement and installation of equipment, provision of consumables/reagents, and on-site training of laboratory technicians with continued virtual technical support. Consequently, an important reduction of the diagnosis turnaround time was achieved. Of great value was the technical support given by the staff at the central laboratory during the trainings allowing for immediate validation of the newly established laboratories and to strengthen the communication between regional laboratories and the central laboratory. The Namibian molecular diagnostic capacities have increased in important regions in Namibia and will provide data to support the health policies of the future NIPH. New diagnostic protocols will be developed to foster the sustainability of the established laboratories and could support the implementation of genomic surveillance capacities. Finally, stronger relationships were built through these joint activities, which will support and the next steps of the establishment of the NIPH. Key messages • Supporting and Strengthening the Namibian Public Health Laboratory system. • Long-term goal of establishing a Namibia Institute of Public Health (NIPH).
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- Namibia Institute of Pathology , Windhoek, Namibia
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- University of Namibia , Windhoek, Namibia
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- Robert Koch Institute , Berlin, Germany
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- Namibia Institute of Pathology , Windhoek, Namibia
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- Ministry of Health and Social Sciences , Windhoek, Namibia
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- Ministry of Health and Social Sciences , Windhoek, Namibia
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- Robert Koch Institute , Berlin, Germany
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- Robert Koch Institute , Berlin, Germany
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Sigal A, Tauscher S, Trupp R, Singh H, Deaner T, Sandhu C, Shah P, Mene-Afejuku T, Shrestha B, Weiss S. 131 Adulterated Heroin: Presentations and Outcomes of a Large Case Series of Contaminated Heroin. Ann Emerg Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.08.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Oberndorfer S, Woehrer A, Borkovec M, Marosi C, Payer F, Urbanic-Purkart T, Nowosielski M, Iglseder S, Stockhammer G, Kleindienst W, Florea C, Hager A, Tinchon A, Stultschnig M, Surboeck B, Pichler J, Leibetseder A, Weiss S, Hutterer M, Seebrecht L, Roetzer T, Hainfellner A, Hainfellner J. OS06.6.A Real-World Pattern of Care Study on Glioblastoma in the Austrian Population. Final results from 2014-2020. Neuro Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac174.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
The Austrian ABTR-SANO Glioblastoma Registry is the first population-based assessment of patterns of care for patients with Glioblastoma across Austrian healthcare institutions. The primary aim is to assess the real world effectiveness of administered therapies.
Material and Methods
Clinical data are collected via a common web-based IT platform “ABTR-SANO Net” since 2014. The database and the ongoing evaluation of clinical parameters, as well as interims analysis are provided in cooperation with a review board. First Outcome analysis, including patients from 2014-2020, was performed at the end of 2021.
Results
Eleven centers across Austria are involved, and the data of 1416 patients (m/f ratio: 1,35, median age: 66 years) were recently analyzed in detail. Age, extent of resection, as well as ECOG was associated with improved survival. Methylated MGMT Status also showed a moderate survival benefit. Patients with re-resection and re-radiation also exhibited improved survival, which however may be attributed to a selection bias.Second line treatment manly comprised of antiangiogenic treatment, followed by alkylated agents, re-radiation and re-surgery. Median overall survival of all patients was 344 days and clearly age dependent (best for <50 years, worse for>80 years).
Conclusion
This is the first population based outcome analysis of Glioblastoma in Austria. Results regarding prognostic markers and outcome are mostly comparable with international data. Robust population based data are important in order to monitor quality of health care, and to match the data with results from clinical studies.
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- S Oberndorfer
- Department Neurology, University Clinic , St Poelten , Austria
- KL-Institute for Neurology and Neuropsychology , St. Poelten, St. Poelten , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department Neurology, University Clinic Graz , Graz , Austria
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- Department Neurology, University Clinic Innsbruck , Innsbruck , Austria
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- Department Neurology, University Clinic Innsbruck , Innsbruck , Austria
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- Department Neurology, University Clinic Innsbruck , Innsbruck , Austria
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- Department Neurology, CDK-University Clinic Salzburg , Salzburg , Austria
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- Department Neurology, CDK-University Clinic Salzburg , Salzburg , Austria
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- Department Neurology, LKH Wiener Neustadt , Wiener Neustadt , Austria
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- Department Neurology, KLPU, University Clinic , St Pölten , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Clinic Klagenfurt , Klagenfurt , Austria
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- Department Neurology, KFJ Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department Internal Medicine, J Kepler University Clinic, Linz , Linz , Austria
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- Department Neurology, J Kepler University Clinic, Linz , Linz , Austria
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- Department Neurolopathology, J Kepler University Clinic Linz , Linz , Austria
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- Department Neurology, J Kepler University Clinic, Linz , Linz , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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- Department Neurology, Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry, Medical University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria
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Kaszycki M, Weiss S, Feinn R, Fogarasi M. 076 Can melanoma origin sites be related to metastatic sites? J Invest Dermatol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Siland JE, Geelhoed B, Roselli C, Wang B, Lin HJ, Weiss S, Trompet S, van den Berg ME, Soliman EZ, Chen LY, Ford I, Jukema JW, Macfarlane PW, Kornej J, Lin H, Lunetta KL, Kavousi M, Kors JA, Ikram MA, Guo X, Yao J, Dörr M, Felix SB, Völker U, Sotoodehnia N, Arking DE, Stricker BH, Heckbert SR, Lubitz SA, Benjamin EJ, Alonso A, Ellinor PT, van der Harst P, Rienstra M. Resting heart rate and incident atrial fibrillation: A stratified Mendelian randomization in the AFGen consortium. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0268768. [PMID: 35594314 PMCID: PMC9122202 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Both elevated and low resting heart rates are associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), suggesting a U-shaped relationship. However, evidence for a U-shaped causal association between genetically-determined resting heart rate and incident AF is limited. We investigated potential directional changes of the causal association between genetically-determined resting heart rate and incident AF. Method and results Seven cohorts of the AFGen consortium contributed data to this meta-analysis. All participants were of European ancestry with known AF status, genotype information, and a heart rate measurement from a baseline electrocardiogram (ECG). Three strata of instrumental variable-free resting heart rate were used to assess possible non-linear associations between genetically-determined resting heart rate and the logarithm of the incident AF hazard rate: <65; 65–75; and >75 beats per minute (bpm). Mendelian randomization analyses using a weighted resting heart rate polygenic risk score were performed for each stratum. We studied 38,981 individuals (mean age 59±10 years, 54% women) with a mean resting heart rate of 67±11 bpm. During a mean follow-up of 13±5 years, 4,779 (12%) individuals developed AF. A U-shaped association between the resting heart rate and the incident AF-hazard ratio was observed. Genetically-determined resting heart rate was inversely associated with incident AF for instrumental variable-free resting heart rates below 65 bpm (hazard ratio for genetically-determined resting heart rate, 0.96; 95% confidence interval, 0.94–0.99; p = 0.01). Genetically-determined resting heart rate was not associated with incident AF in the other two strata. Conclusions For resting heart rates below 65 bpm, our results support an inverse causal association between genetically-determined resting heart rate and incident AF.
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- J. E. Siland
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics; Department of Functional Genomics; University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research); partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Public Health Sciences and Department of Medicine, Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Section on Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research); partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America
- Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States of America
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research); partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B-Cardiology, Pneumology, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research); partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B-Cardiology, Pneumology, Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics; Department of Functional Genomics; University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research); partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Division of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Unites States of America
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute, Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University SOM, Baltimore, MD, Unites States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and the Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Unites States of America
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- Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Unites States of America
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- Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Unites States of America
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, The Netherlands
- University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Heart and Lungs, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Scholtz J, Weiss S, Redecker C, Müller H. P 41 Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) influences sentence completion in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Clin Neurophysiol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.01.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Michalet X, Ulku A, Smith J, Bruschini C, Weiss S, Charbon E, Intes X. NIR Fluorescence lifetime macroscopic imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 2022; 11965:1196507. [PMID: 35992190 PMCID: PMC9385163 DOI: 10.1117/12.2607833] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The performance of SwissSPAD2 (SS2), a large scale, widefield time-gated CMOS SPAD imager developed for fluorescence lifetime imaging, has recently been described in the context of visible range and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of dyes with lifetimes in the 2.5 - 4 ns range. Here, we explore its capabilities in the NIR regime relevant for small animal imaging, where its sensitivity is lower and typical NIR fluorescent dye lifetimes are much shorter (1 ns or less). We carry out this study in a simple macroscopic imaging setup based on a compact NIR picosecond pulsed laser, an engineered diffuser-based illumination optics, and NIR optimized imaging lens suitable for well-plate or small animal imaging. Because laser repetition rates can vary between models, but the synchronization signal frequency accepted by SS2 is fixed to 20 MHz, we first checked that a simple frequency-division scheme enables data recording for different laser repetition rates. Next, we acquired data using different time gate widths, including gates with duration longer than the laser period, and analyzed the resulting data using both standard nonlinear least-square fit (NLSF) and phasor analysis. We show that the fixed synchronization rate and large gate widths characterizing SS2 (10 ns and over) are not an obstacle to accurately extracting lifetime in the 1 ns range and to distinguishing between close lifetimes. In summary, SS2 and similar very large gated SPAD imagers appear as a versatile alternative to other widefield time-resolved detectors for NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging, including preclinical molecular applications.
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- X. Michalet
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, USA,
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- AQUA Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- AQUA Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, USA
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- AQUA Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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Prewitt B, Weiss S, White K. M095 TAKING CYCLOSPORINE TO NEW HEIGHTS- DELAYED PRESSURE URTICARIA ASSOCIATED WITH ALTITUDE CHAMBER RESPONSIVE TO CYCLOSPORINE. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.08.249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Poller C, Nageswaran V, Kuss A, Gast M, Tzvetkova A, Wang X, Weiss S, Mochmann L, Zeller T, Beling A, Nakagawa S, Landmesser U, Rauch B, Klingel K, Haghikia A. A novel class of small tRNA-like noncoding transcripts arising from the human NEAT1-MALAT1 region critically influences innate immunity and angiogenesis. Eur Heart J 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.3357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
The evolutionary conserved NEAT1-MALAT1 gene cluster encounters high interest in cardiovascular medicine and oncology. The cluster generates large primary transcripts which remain nuclear, whereas novel tRNA-like transcripts (mascRNA, menRNA) enzymatically generated from these precursors translocate to the cytosol. We previously found that NEAT1 and MALAT1 deficient mice display accelerated atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation due to immune dysfunctions.
Methods
While the previously investigated mice were deficient in the entire NEAT1 or MALAT1 locus, here we aimed to selectively disrupt only tRNA-like transcripts “menRNA” arising from NEAT1, or “mascRNA” arising from MALAT1. To none of these a biological function has been assigned so far. Both lncRNAs give rise to transcripts of vastly different size (NEAT1: 23kb MENb, 3.7kb MENe, 59nt “menRNA”; MALAT1: 8.3 kb primary, 59nt “mascRNA”), and traditional knockout methods are unable to selectively inactivate one of the small transcripts only. Through CRISPR/Cas9 editing we therefore developed human monocyte-macrophage cell lines with short deletions in the respective tRNA-encoding sequences to disrupt normal menRNA or mascRNA formation, respectively. These editing procedures do not affect transcription of the respective lncRNA parent transcripts, and also not disturb regular formation of the triple-helix structures at their 3'-ends which support stabilization of the respective lncRNAs (Fig. 1).
Results
We found the tRNA-like transcripts menRNA and mascRNA critically influence innate immunity and angiogenesis. In addition to common anomalies resulting from their selective CRISPR-Cas9 mediated deletion (Fig. 1), there are specific disturbances associated with either Δmasc or Δmen cells (Fig. 2).
Both ΔmascRNA and ΔmenRNA human monocytes show profoundly altered ribosomal RNA/protein and tRNA-modifying enzyme expression, display anomalous growth/ angiogenetic factor expression, fundamentally change angiogenetic patterns in co-cultures with human endothelial cells, and have gravely disturbed innate immune responses (LPS, DNA and RNA viruses) (Fig. 1).
CRISPR-engineered ΔmenRNA cells share remakable similarities with human post-MI PBMCs, suggesting the NEAT1-menRNA system may significantly contribute to post-MI residual inflammatory risk despite optimal standard therapy (Fig. 2).
Conclusions
Beyond prior work in knockout mice documenting immune function of the NEAT1-MALAT1 cluster, the current study identifies menRNA and mascRNA as important novel components of human innate immunity with relevance for angiogenetic processes. These data provide a second mechanistic link for the apparent relevance of the NEAT1-MALAT1 gene cluster in cardiovascular and malignant diseases. As prototypes of a novel class of small noncoding RNAs (distinct from miRNAs and siRNAs) they may constitute cytosolic therapeutic targets.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: Other. Main funding source(s): DZHK Shared Expertise Project/B19-006_SE/FKZ 81X2100257/Transcriptome analysis of circulating immune cells to improve the assessment of prognosis and the response to novel anti-inflammatory treatments after myocardial infarction Figure 1. Common anomaliesFigure 2. Specific anomalies
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- C Poller
- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- University Heart Center Hamburg, General and interventional cardiology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Charite University Hospital, Institute of Biochemistry, Berlin, Germany
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- Hokkaido University, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sapporo, Japan
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Department of Pharmacology, Greifswald, Germany
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- University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Tübingen, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Cardiology CC11 Cardiovascular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Chaarani B, Hahn S, Allgaier N, Adise S, Owens MM, Juliano AC, Yuan DK, Loso H, Ivanciu A, Albaugh MD, Dumas J, Mackey S, Laurent J, Ivanova M, Hagler DJ, Cornejo MD, Hatton S, Agrawal A, Aguinaldo L, Ahonen L, Aklin W, Anokhin AP, Arroyo J, Avenevoli S, Babcock D, Bagot K, Baker FC, Banich MT, Barch DM, Bartsch H, Baskin-Sommers A, Bjork JM, Blachman-Demner D, Bloch M, Bogdan R, Bookheimer SY, Breslin F, Brown S, Calabro FJ, Calhoun V, Casey BJ, Chang L, Clark DB, Cloak C, Constable RT, Constable K, Corley R, Cottler LB, Coxe S, Dagher RK, Dale AM, Dapretto M, Delcarmen-Wiggins R, Dick AS, Do EK, Dosenbach NUF, Dowling GJ, Edwards S, Ernst TM, Fair DA, Fan CC, Feczko E, Feldstein-Ewing SW, Florsheim P, Foxe JJ, Freedman EG, Friedman NP, Friedman-Hill S, Fuemmeler BF, Galvan A, Gee DG, Giedd J, Glantz M, Glaser P, Godino J, Gonzalez M, Gonzalez R, Grant S, Gray KM, Haist F, Harms MP, Hawes S, Heath AC, Heeringa S, Heitzeg MM, Hermosillo R, Herting MM, Hettema JM, Hewitt JK, Heyser C, Hoffman E, Howlett K, Huber RS, Huestis MA, Hyde LW, Iacono WG, Infante MA, Irfanoglu O, Isaiah A, Iyengar S, Jacobus J, James R, Jean-Francois B, Jernigan T, Karcher NR, Kaufman A, Kelley B, Kit B, Ksinan A, Kuperman J, Laird AR, Larson C, LeBlanc K, Lessov-Schlagger C, Lever N, Lewis DA, Lisdahl K, Little AR, Lopez M, Luciana M, Luna B, Madden PA, Maes HH, Makowski C, Marshall AT, Mason MJ, Matochik J, McCandliss BD, McGlade E, Montoya I, Morgan G, Morris A, Mulford C, Murray P, Nagel BJ, Neale MC, Neigh G, Nencka A, Noronha A, Nixon SJ, Palmer CE, Pariyadath V, Paulus MP, Pelham WE, Pfefferbaum D, Pierpaoli C, Prescot A, Prouty D, Puttler LI, Rajapaske N, Rapuano KM, Reeves G, Renshaw PF, Riedel MC, Rojas P, de la Rosa M, Rosenberg MD, Ross MJ, Sanchez M, Schirda C, Schloesser D, Schulenberg J, Sher KJ, Sheth C, Shilling PD, Simmons WK, Sowell ER, Speer N, Spittel M, Squeglia LM, Sripada C, Steinberg J, Striley C, Sutherland MT, Tanabe J, Tapert SF, Thompson W, Tomko RL, Uban KA, Vrieze S, Wade NE, Watts R, Weiss S, Wiens BA, Williams OD, Wilbur A, Wing D, Wolff-Hughes D, Yang R, Yurgelun-Todd DA, Zucker RA, Potter A, Garavan HP. Baseline brain function in the preadolescents of the ABCD Study. Nat Neurosci 2021; 24:1176-1186. [PMID: 34099922 PMCID: PMC8947197 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-021-00867-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study® is a 10-year longitudinal study of children recruited at ages 9 and 10. A battery of neuroimaging tasks are administered biennially to track neurodevelopment and identify individual differences in brain function. This study reports activation patterns from functional MRI (fMRI) tasks completed at baseline, which were designed to measure cognitive impulse control with a stop signal task (SST; N = 5,547), reward anticipation and receipt with a monetary incentive delay (MID) task (N = 6,657) and working memory and emotion reactivity with an emotional N-back (EN-back) task (N = 6,009). Further, we report the spatial reproducibility of activation patterns by assessing between-group vertex/voxelwise correlations of blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) activation. Analyses reveal robust brain activations that are consistent with the published literature, vary across fMRI tasks/contrasts and slightly correlate with individual behavioral performance on the tasks. These results establish the preadolescent brain function baseline, guide interpretation of cross-sectional analyses and will enable the investigation of longitudinal changes during adolescent development.
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- B Chaarani
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Institute of Physics UC, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Pontificia, Chile
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute of Justice, Washington DC, USA
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA
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- Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
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Makaloski V, Lutz E, Bühlmann R, Weiss S, Schmidli J. Outcome after cervical debranching for proximal landing zone extension in thoracic endovascular aortic repair. Br J Surg 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab202.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Abstract
Objective
Aim of this study was to assess perioperative and long-term outcome after cervical debranching for proximal landing zone extension in thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR).
Methods
Retrospective analysis of all patients undergoing left-sided carotid-subclavian bypass (CSB) and subclavian-carotid transposition (SCT) with simultaneous or staged TEVAR between 2010 and 2019. Endpoints were patency and re-intervention due to the debranching, postoperative stroke, cranial nerve injury and mortality at 30 days and during follow-up.
Results
Forty-eight patients (66 ± 12 years, 81 % male) had 25 (52%) CSB and 23 (48%) SCT. TEVAR was performed simultaneously in 39 (81%). Eleven (23%) patients had simultaneous emergency debranching and TEVAR. There were eight (17%) re-interventions within 30 days: four due to local hematoma, one for bypass occlusion, two for stenosis (of which one was not confirmed intraoperatively), and one after initially abandoned SCT with subsequent CSB on the next day. Thirty-day mortality was 2 %; one patient died on the first postoperative day after combined CABG surgery and multiorgan failure. Four (8%) patients suffered postoperative strokes; three occurred after simultaneous emergency procedures and none was fatal. Seven (15%) patients had postoperative ipsilateral cranial nerve lesions: two occurred after CSB and five after SCT. Two patients had recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy, two had phrenic nerve injury and three had Horner syndrome. All patients had mild symptoms and recovered mostly.
During a mean follow-up of 31±29 months with a Follow-up Index of 0.77, there were no reinterventions or occlusions, and no graft infections. Primary patency was 94%, primary assisted patency 96%, and secondary patency 100%. 9 patients died during follow-up after a mean of 30±29 months (range 0-82) all of them with patent cervical debranching.
Conclusion
Cervical debranching for proximal landing zone extension in TEVAR is a safe procedure with an acceptable rate of early re-interventions. There is a higher risk for postoperative stroke during simultaneous emergency debranching and TEVAR. Cranial nerve injuries and hematomas remain relevant periprocedural complications. During follow-up, excellent patency can be expected.
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- V Makaloski
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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Makaloski V, Broger D, Weiss S, Jungi S, Becker D, Schmidli J. In-hospital and mid-term outcome after complex endovascular aortic repair with fenestrated and branched stent-grafts. Br J Surg 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znab202.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Abstract
Objective
The aim of the study is to evaluate in-hospital and mid-term outcome after complex endovascular aortic repair with fenestrated and branched stent-grafts (fEVAR / bEVAR).
Methods
This is a single-center retrospective analysis from a prospectively collected database of all patients treated electively with fEVAR or bEVAR for para/suprarenal (PAA) and thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) between September 2010 and June 2019. In-hospital and mid-term mortality, major adverse events and re-interventions were assessed.
Results
Fifty-one patient (84% male) with a mean age of 74±7 years were analysed. Eighteen patients (35%) had TAAA, four patients (8%) suprarenal, and 29 patients (57%) pararenal aortic aneurysms. Mean aneurysm diameter was 64±8 mm. Thirty-eight patients (75%) underwent fEVAR and 13 patients (25%) bEVAR. A total of 157 target vessels were incorporated: 22 celiac trunks (CT), 40 superior mesenteric arteries (SMA), 92 renal arteries (RA), two separate hepatic arteries and one splenic artery. No in-hospital death or stroke was recorded. One patient suffered from early postoperative paraplegia and did not recover and one had paraparesis after 38 days and recovered completely. Six patients (12%) with patent renal arteries experienced acute postoperative kidney injury; one required temporary dialysis. Five in-hospital re-interventions were stent-graft related (four bridging stents angioplasty and one iliac leg extension) and seven re-interventions were not stent-graft related.
Mean follow-up was 19±17 months. Eleven patients (22%) died during follow-up: nine were not aortic-related and two were unknown. The Kaplan-Meier estimated survival rates at 1 and 2 years were 81% and 77%, respectively. Five renal stents (5%, 5/92) occluded during follow-up: three were successfully recanalized and two remained occluded. Ten stents (three CT, five SMA, and two RA stents required relining after 13±16 months postoperatively, resulting with estimated primary assisted patency at 2 years of 100%, 100%, 93%, and 95% for the CT, SMA, right RA and left RA, respectively.
Conclusion
Complex endovascular aortic repair with fEVAR / bEVAR for PAA and TAAA is safe with very low early mortality and morbidity. In-stent stenosis/occlusions occurred within the first two years. However, primary assisted patency was high. A surveillance program to detect potential stent-graft related complications is mandatory.
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- V Makaloski
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
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Li Y, Thompson WK, Reuter C, Nillo R, Jernigan T, Dale A, Sugrue LP, Brown J, Dougherty RF, Rauschecker A, Rudie J, Barch DM, Calhoun V, Hagler D, Hatton S, Tanabe J, Marshall A, Sher KJ, Heeringa S, Hermosillo R, Banich MT, Squeglia L, Bjork J, Zucker R, Neale M, Herting M, Sheth C, Huber R, Reeves G, Hettema JM, Howlett KD, Cloak C, Baskin-Sommers A, Rapuano K, Gonzalez R, Karcher N, Laird A, Baker F, James R, Sowell E, Dick A, Hawes S, Sutherland M, Bagot K, Bodurka J, Breslin F, Morris A, Paulus M, Gray K, Hoffman E, Weiss S, Rajapakse N, Glantz M, Nagel B, Ewing SF, Goldstone A, Pfefferbaum A, Prouty D, Rosenberg M, Bookheimer S, Tapert S, Infante M, Jacobus J, Giedd J, Shilling P, Wade N, Uban K, Haist F, Heyser C, Palmer C, Kuperman J, Hewitt J, Cottler L, Isaiah A, Chang L, Edwards S, Ernst T, Heitzeg M, Puttler L, Sripada C, Iacono W, Luciana M, Clark D, Luna B, Schirda C, Foxe J, Freedman E, Mason M, McGlade E, Renshaw P, Yurgelun-Todd D, Albaugh M, Allgaier N, Chaarani B, Potter A, Ivanova M, Lisdahl K, Do E, Maes H, Bogdan R, Anokhin A, Dosenbach N, Glaser P, Heath A, Casey BJ, Gee D, Garavan HP, Dowling G, Brown S. Rates of Incidental Findings in Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children. JAMA Neurol 2021; 78:578-587. [PMID: 33749724 PMCID: PMC7985817 DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.0306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Importance Incidental findings (IFs) are unexpected abnormalities discovered during imaging and can range from normal anatomic variants to findings requiring urgent medical intervention. In the case of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), reliable data about the prevalence and significance of IFs in the general population are limited, making it difficult to anticipate, communicate, and manage these findings. Objectives To determine the overall prevalence of IFs in brain MRI in the nonclinical pediatric population as well as the rates of specific findings and findings for which clinical referral is recommended. Design, Setting, and Participants This cohort study was based on the April 2019 release of baseline data from 11 810 children aged 9 to 10 years who were enrolled and completed baseline neuroimaging in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, the largest US population-based longitudinal observational study of brain development and child health, between September 1, 2016, and November 15, 2018. Participants were enrolled at 21 sites across the US designed to mirror the demographic characteristics of the US population. Baseline structural MRIs were centrally reviewed for IFs by board-certified neuroradiologists and findings were described and categorized (category 1, no abnormal findings; 2, no referral recommended; 3; consider referral; and 4, consider immediate referral). Children were enrolled through a broad school-based recruitment process in which all children of eligible age at selected schools were invited to participate. Exclusion criteria were severe sensory, intellectual, medical, or neurologic disorders that would preclude or interfere with study participation. During the enrollment process, demographic data were monitored to ensure that the study met targets for sex, socioeconomic, ethnic, and racial diversity. Data were analyzed from March 15, 2018, to November 20, 2020. Main Outcomes and Measures Percentage of children with IFs in each category and prevalence of specific IFs. Results A total of 11 679 children (52.1% boys, mean [SD] age, 9.9 [0.62] years) had interpretable baseline structural MRI results. Of these, 2464 participants (21.1%) had IFs, including 2013 children (17.2%) assigned to category 2, 431 (3.7%) assigned to category 3, and 20 (0.2%) assigned to category 4. Overall rates of IFs did not differ significantly between singleton and twin gestations or between monozygotic and dizygotic twins, but heritability analysis showed heritability for the presence or absence of IFs (h2 = 0.260; 95% CI, 0.135-0.387). Conclusions and Relevance Incidental findings in brain MRI and findings with potential clinical significance are both common in the general pediatric population. By assessing IFs and concurrent developmental and health measures and following these findings over the longitudinal study course, the ABCD study has the potential to determine the significance of many common IFs.
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- Yi Li
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
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- Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
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- Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Psychiatry, Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science, Georgia State University, Georgia Tech, Emory University, Atlanta
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia
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- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland
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- Institute of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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- Department of Psychiatry, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan
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- Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami
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- Department of Clinical Research, 2M Research Services, Arlington, Virginia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles/University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami
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- Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, New York
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
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- Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Scientific Programs, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychology, National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Public Health, University of California, Irvine
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- Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
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- Departments of Radiology and Neurology, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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- Department of Radiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
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- Center for Behavioral Health Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington
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- Department of Health Behavior and Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington
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- Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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Markmann AJ, Giallourou N, Bhowmik DR, Hou YJ, Lerner A, Martinez DR, Premkumar L, Root H, van Duin D, Napravnik S, Graham SD, Guerra Q, Raut R, Petropoulos CJ, Wrin T, Cornaby C, Schmitz J, Kuruc J, Weiss S, Park Y, Baric R, de Silva AM, Margolis DM, Bartelt LA. Sex disparities and neutralizing antibody durability to SARS-CoV-2 infection in convalescent individuals. medRxiv 2021:2021.02.01.21250493. [PMID: 33564775 PMCID: PMC7872367 DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.01.21250493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has now caused over 2 million deaths worldwide and continues to expand. Currently, much is unknown about functionally neutralizing human antibody responses and durability to SARS-CoV-2. Using convalescent sera collected from 101 COVID-19 recovered individuals 21-212 days after symptom onset with forty-eight additional longitudinal samples, we measured functionality and durability of serum antibodies. We also evaluated associations between individual demographic and clinical parameters with functional neutralizing antibody responses to COVID-19. We found robust antibody durability out to six months, as well as significant positive associations with the magnitude of the neutralizing antibody response and male sex. We also show that SARS-CoV-2 convalescent neutralizing antibodies are higher in individuals with cardio-metabolic comorbidities.
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- Alena J. Markmann
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Centre of Excellence in Biobanking and Biomedical Research, Molecular Medicine Research Center, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- LabCorp-Monogram Biosciences, South San Francisco, CA 94080
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
- UNC HIV Cure Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- UNC HIV Cure Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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Oremus M, Taylor-Wilson R, Aldrich M, Bell K, Gaudino J, Palevsky S, Payne J, Raynes-Greenow C, Sim F, Smith M, Weiss S, Zhang Y. The role of epidemiologists in SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Public Health 2021; 190:e3-e4. [PMID: 33228975 PMCID: PMC7568048 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2020.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- M Oremus
- University of Waterloo, School of Public Health and Health Systems, 200 University Ave. W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
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- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Temple University, 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- University of Sydney, School of Public Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Public Health and Gaudino Consulting, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- University of Sydney, School of Public Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Royal Society for Public Health, London, UK
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- Global Drug Safety, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- University of Sydney, School of Public Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Garnier S, Harakalova M, Weiss S, Mokry M, Isnard R, Jouven X, Dubourg O, Dorent R, De Groote P, Fauchier L, Trochu J, Duboscq-Bidot L, Komajda M, Cambien F, Deleuze J, Dörr M, Asselbergs F, Villard E, Trégouët D, Charron P. Genome wide association analysis in dilated cardiomyopathy reveals two new key players in systolic heart failure on chromosomes 3p25.1 and 22q11.23. Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.acvdsp.2020.10.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Weiss S, Steger D, Kaur Y, Hildebrandt A, Schroeders U, Wilhelm O. On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and its Relation with Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight. Eur J Pers 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/per.2288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies ( N = 152 and N = 298), we evaluate competing measurement models for a variety of DT tests and examine the relationship between DT and established cognitive abilities, personality traits, and insight. A nested factor model with a general DT and a nested originality factor described the data well. In Study 1, DT was moderately related with working memory, fluid intelligence, crystallized intelligence, and mental speed. In Study 2, we replicate these results and add insight, openness, extraversion, and honesty–humility as covariates. DT was associated with insight, extraversion, and honesty–humility, whereas crystallized intelligence mediated the relationship between openness and DT. In contrast, the nested originality factor (i.e. the specificity of originality tasks beyond other DT tasks) had low variance and was not meaningfully related with any other constructs in the nomological net. We highlight avenues for future research by discussing issues of measurement and scoring.
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- S. Weiss
- Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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Poller C, Kuss A, Weiss S, Haghikia A, Gast M, Mochmann L, Zeller T, Blankenberg S, Felix S, Voelker U, Doerr M, Voelzke H, Hoffmann W, Landmesser U, Rauch B. Experimental and population-genetic evidence for inflammation control functions of long noncoding RNAs and a novel tRNA-like transcript arising from the human NEAT1-MALAT1 genomic region. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.3759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
Uncontrolled inflammation is a key driver of atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction (MI), and multiple other diseases. Beyond proteins and microRNAs, long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are implicated in inflammation control. We previously reported suppression of lncRNA NEAT1 in circulating immune cells of post-MI patients. In mice lacking lncRNAs NEAT1 or MALAT1 we observed major immune disturbances affecting monocyte-macrophage and T cell differentiation and rendering the immune system unstable and highly vulnerable to immune stress. Here, we report functions of a novel tRNA-type transcript arising from the NEAT1-MALAT1 gene cluster, and on genetic heterogeneity of this region in the human population.
Methods and results
While previously investigated mice were deficient in the entire NEAT1 or MALAT1 locus, we here aimed to selectively disrupted only the novel 59-nt tRNA-like transcript “menRNA” with hitherto unknown functions. Through CRISPR/Cas9 editing we developed 4 human THP-1 monocyte-macrophage cell line clones with deletions of different extension all of which prevented, however, normal transcript folding and formation of “menRNA”. Transcriptome mapping of all clones by RNA-sequencing identified dysregulation of innate immunity-related genes (IFI16, IFITM3, IRAK3, IRF2BP2, IRF3), chemokine and interleukin receptors (CCR10, IL11RA, IL12RB2, IL23A), cell surface receptors (CD37, CD40LG, CD72, FOCAD, ITGA6, MAEA, THY1), macrophage function-associated genes (ELANE, GRN, MIF, MMP25, MST1P2, PRTN3), tRNA-processing transcripts (GARS, QRSL1P3, QTRT1P1, THG1L, VARS), and small nucleolar RNAs (SNORA26.62.64, SNORD65.112). These data and functional assays indicate functions of NEAT1-derived “menRNA” distinct from those previously described for MALAT1-derived mascRNA.
As multiple data suggest inflammation control functions of the NEAT1-MALAT1 region, we investigated the extent of genetic variability of this region in humans. In cohorts from the SHIP study coordinated by the Institute for Community Medicine Greifswald, screening of this region for sequence variants and possible phenotype associations was conducted the results of which are given in Figure 1. Consistent with prior findings, a MALAT1 SNP with very low minor allele frequency (MAF=0.01) was associated (p=0.0062) with systemic low level inflammation (CRP >3.0 mg/L). Unexpected was the association (p<0.01) of eight SNPs (low MAF=0.09 for all) with BMI >35 kg/m2 and LDL >164 mg/dl.
Conclusions
First, selective disruption of menRNA formation in human monocyte-macrophages provides evidence that this novel type of noncoding RNA has immunoregulatory functions. Second, the phenotype associations of SNPs within the NEAT1-MALAT1 gene cluster warrant further in-depth investigation of the molecular basis of these associations, and of their allele frequencies in cardiovascular disease patient cohorts.
The first three and the last authors contributed equally to this work.
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Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: Other. Main funding source(s): “Transcriptome analysis of circulating immune cells to improve the assessment of prognosis and the response to novel anti-inflammatory treatments after myocardial infarction”; DZHK Shared Expertise project B19-006_SE FKZ 81X2100257
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- C Poller
- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- University Heart Center Hamburg, Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany
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- University Heart Center Hamburg, Cardiology, Hamburg, Germany
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- University Hospital of Greifswald, Cardiology, Greifswald, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Interfakultäres Institut für Genetik und Funktionelle Genomforschung, Greifswald, Germany
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Institute for Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Institute for Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Institute for Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
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- Charite - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Institute for Pharmacology, Greifswald, Germany
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Garnier S, Harakalova M, Weiss S, Mokry M, Van Setten J, Proust C, Duboscq-Bidot L, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Dorr M, Asselbergs FW, Cambien F, Villard E, Tregouet DA, Charron P. Genome wide association analysis in dilated cardiomyopathy revealed two new susceptibility loci for systolic heart failure. Eur Heart J 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/ehaa946.0921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We conducted the largest Genome Wide Association Study performed so far in Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM), a leading cause of systolic heart failure and cardiovascular death. Using a discovery phase of 2,719 cases and 4,440 controls and a replication phase of 584 independent cases and 966 controls, we identified and replicated two new DCM-associated loci, one on chromosome 3p (meta-analysis OR = 1.36 [1.25 - 1.48], p=5.3 10–13) and the second on chromosome 22q (meta-analysis OR = 1.33 [1.22 - 1.46], p=5.0 10–10), while confirming the two previously identified DCM loci on chromosome 10 and 1, BAG3 and HSPB7. We estimated the global heritability to 31% ± 8%. The genetic risk score constructed from the number of lead risk-alleles at these 4 loci revealed a 27% risk increased in individuals with 8 risk-alleles compared to the 5 risk alleles reference group (OR = 1.27 [1.14–1.42]).
The two association signals were then fine-mapped by combining in silico and functional genomics investigations (as 4C-sequencing on iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes). While a few genes remain candidates at the second locus and deserve further investigations, our work clearly identified one gene as responsible for the association at the first locus whose role in the pathophysiology of DCM is supported by recent observations in human and mice. As the biological pathway in which this gene is involved is a potential target for pharmacological agents, our finding opens novel therapeutic perspectives for treating or preventing heart failure.
We are convinced that these results provide new findings that add both on the understanding of the genetic architecture of heart failure and on potential new players involved in the pathophysiology of this devastating disease.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding source: Public grant(s) – National budget only. Main funding source(s): GENMED Laboratory of Excellence on Medical Genomics, DETECTIN-HF project (ERA-CVD framework), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Délégation à la recherche clinique, the “Fondation LEDUCQ”, the PROMEX charitable foundation, the Société Française de Cardiologie/Fédération Française de Cardiologie, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, The Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, The German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, NWO VENI grant (no. 016.176.136)
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- S Garnier
- Sorbonne University, INSERM, UMR-S1166, research unit on cardiovascular disorders, metabolism and nutrition, Paris, France
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- University Medical Center Utrecht, Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, Utrecht, Netherlands (The)
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany
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- University Medical Center Utrecht, Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, Utrecht, Netherlands (The)
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany
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- University of Bordeaux, INSERM UMR_S 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Bordeaux, France
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- Sorbonne University, INSERM, UMR-S1166, research unit on cardiovascular disorders, metabolism and nutrition, Paris, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, Evry, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, Evry, France
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- Universitaetsmedizin Greifswald, Department of Internal Medicine B, Greifswald, Germany
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- University Medical Center Utrecht, Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, Utrecht, Netherlands (The)
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- University of Bordeaux, INSERM UMR_S 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Bordeaux, France
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- Sorbonne University, INSERM, UMR-S1166, research unit on cardiovascular disorders, metabolism and nutrition, Paris, France
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- University of Bordeaux, INSERM UMR_S 1219, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, Bordeaux, France
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- Sorbonne University, INSERM, UMR-S1166, research unit on cardiovascular disorders, metabolism and nutrition, Paris, France
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Weiss S, Szari S. M260 A NOVEL MUTATION CAUSING MENDELIAN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASE (MSMD). Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2020.08.288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Weiss S, Hansen C. PO-0856: Analysis of inter-observer variation from meningioma eContouring session. Radiother Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(21)00873-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Schwartz SP, Thompson P, Smith M, Lercher DM, Rimland CA, Bartelt L, Park YA, Weiss S, Markmann AJ, Raut R, Premkumar L, Kuruc J, Willis Z. Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Four Critically Ill Pediatric Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Case Series. Crit Care Explor 2020; 2:e0237. [PMID: 33063037 PMCID: PMC7531759 DOI: 10.1097/cce.0000000000000237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Coronavirus disease 2019 is a pandemic with no specific therapeutic agents or vaccination. Small published case series on critically ill adults suggest improvements in clinical status with minimal adverse events when patients receive coronavirus disease 2019 convalescent plasma, but data on critically ill pediatric patients are lacking. We report a series of four critically ill pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure who received coronavirus disease 2019 convalescent plasma as a treatment strategy for severe disease. CASE SUMMARY Patients ranged in age from 5 to 16 years old. All patients received coronavirus disease 2019 convalescent plasma within the first 26 hours of hospitalization. Additional disease modifying agents were also used. All patients made a full recovery and were discharged home off of oxygen support. No adverse events occurred from the coronavirus disease 2019 convalescent plasma transfusions. CONCLUSION Coronavirus disease 2019 convalescent plasma is a feasible therapy for critically ill pediatric patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Well-designed clinical trials are necessary to determine overall safety and efficacy of coronavirus disease 2019 convalescent plasma and additional treatment modalities in pediatric patients.
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- Stephanie P Schwartz
- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Scientist Training Program, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Jensen CE, Wilson S, Thombare A, Weiss S, Ma A. Cold agglutinin syndrome as a complication of Covid-19 in two cases. Clin Infect Pract 2020; 7:100041. [PMID: 32924007 PMCID: PMC7480768 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinpr.2020.100041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background Cold agglutinins are autoantibodies against RBC antigens, leading to hemolysis at less-than-physiological temperatures through complement fixation. Production can be triggered by infections, resulting in secondary cold agglutinin syndrome (CAS). This syndrome has been classically described in the setting of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, as well as with several viral pathogens. Cases Here, we present two cases of cold agglutinins identified in the context of Covid-19 in critically ill patients treated at our institution. Each case was characterized by little in-vivo hemolysis, but these antibodies complicated laboratory assessment and renal replacement therapy. Management included anticoagulation and warming of dialysis circuit. Conclusions Despite minimal in-vivo hemolysis, these antibodies are of clinical significance given their implications for laboratory assessment and renal replacement therapy, particularly with the frequency of multi-organ system dysfunction associated with severe Covid-19. Cold agglutinins are autoantibodies to RBCs that drive hemolysis at sub-physiologic temperatures via complement fixation. Cold agglutinin syndrome (CAS) has been recently reported in the setting of Covid-19. We present two cases of cold agglutinins identified in the context of Covid-19. Presence correlated with dialysis circuit failure, which was managed with anticoagulation and warming of circuit.
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- Christopher E Jensen
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Papp K, Menter A, Leonardi C, Soung J, Weiss S, Pillai R, Jacobson A. Long-term efficacy and safety of brodalumab in psoriasis through 120 weeks and after withdrawal and retreatment: subgroup analysis of a randomized phase III trial (AMAGINE-1). Br J Dermatol 2020; 183:1037-1048. [PMID: 32286683 PMCID: PMC7754427 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.19132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Brodalumab is efficacious for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis through 52 weeks. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy and safety of brodalumab through 120 weeks, including following withdrawal and retreatment. METHODS At baseline, patients were randomized to brodalumab (n = 222) or placebo (n = 220). At week 12, patients achieving a static Physician's Global Assessment (sPGA) score of 0 or 1 (sPGA 0/1) with brodalumab were rerandomized to brodalumab (n = 83) or placebo (n = 84; later re-treated with brodalumab if sPGA ≥ 3 occurred), and patients receiving placebo switched to brodalumab (n = 208). Safety was assessed by exposure-adjusted rates of treatment-emergent adverse events. RESULTS Among those who achieved sPGA 0/1 at week 12 and were rerandomized to brodalumab, 96% and 80% using observed data, respectively, and 74% and 61% using nonresponder imputation, respectively, achieved 75% improvement in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI 75) and PASI 100 at week 120. Following withdrawal from brodalumab, return of disease occurred after a mean ± SD duration of 74·7 ± 50·5 days. Among those who switched from brodalumab to placebo at week 12, PASI 75 rates using observed data and nonresponder imputation were 55% and 51% at week 20, respectively and 94% and 75% at week 120, respectively; PASI 100 rates at week 120 were 75% and 60%, respectively. Efficacy was maintained through week 120 in those receiving brodalumab after placebo. No new safety signals were observed. CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that brodalumab is efficacious and safe for continuous long-term treatment of psoriasis, and support the potential for response after discontinuation and retreatment.
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- K Papp
- Probity Medical Research and K Papp Clinical Research, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Baylor Scott & White, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Southern California Dermatology, Santa Ana, CA, USA
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- Direct Dermatology, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Bausch Health US, LLC, Petaluma, CA, USA
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- Ortho Dermatologics (a division of Bausch Health US, LLC), Bridgewater, NJ, USA
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Whitley A, Stewart B, Passwater M, Joyner K, Weiss S. Q-Tip: Reducing Blood Wastage in a Large Level I Trauma Center. Am J Med Qual 2020; 35:356. [DOI: 10.1177/1062860620929642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
- Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC
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Premkumar L, Segovia-Chumbez B, Jadi R, Martinez DR, Raut R, Markmann A, Cornaby C, Bartelt L, Weiss S, Park Y, Edwards CE, Weimer E, Scherer EM, Rouphael N, Edupuganti S, Weiskopf D, Tse LV, Hou YJ, Margolis D, Sette A, Collins MH, Schmitz J, Baric RS, de Silva AM. The receptor binding domain of the viral spike protein is an immunodominant and highly specific target of antibodies in SARS-CoV-2 patients. Sci Immunol 2020; 5:5/48/eabc8413. [PMID: 32527802 PMCID: PMC7292505 DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.abc8413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 631] [Impact Index Per Article: 157.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that first emerged in late 2019 is responsible for a pandemic of severe respiratory illness. People infected with this highly contagious virus can present with clinically inapparent, mild, or severe disease. Currently, the virus infection in individuals and at the population level is being monitored by PCR testing of symptomatic patients for the presence of viral RNA. There is an urgent need for SARS-CoV-2 serologic tests to identify all infected individuals, irrespective of clinical symptoms, to conduct surveillance and implement strategies to contain spread. As the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein is poorly conserved between SARS-CoVs and other pathogenic human coronaviruses, the RBD represents a promising antigen for detecting CoV-specific antibodies in people. Here we use a large panel of human sera (63 SARS-CoV-2 patients and 71 control subjects) and hyperimmune sera from animals exposed to zoonotic CoVs to evaluate RBD's performance as an antigen for reliable detection of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies. By day 9 after the onset of symptoms, the recombinant SARS-CoV-2 RBD antigen was highly sensitive (98%) and specific (100%) for antibodies induced by SARS-CoVs. We observed a strong correlation between levels of RBD binding antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in patients. Our results, which reveal the early kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses, support using the RBD antigen in serological diagnostic assays and RBD-specific antibody levels as a correlate of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in people.
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- Lakshmanane Premkumar
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Immunology/Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratories, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Decatur, Georgia, USA
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- Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Decatur, Georgia, USA
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- Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Decatur, Georgia, USA
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.,Departments of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.,Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Emory University, Decatur, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, UNC Chapel Hill School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC 27599, USA
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Premkumar L, Segovia-Chumbez B, Jadi R, Martinez DR, Raut R, Markmann A, Cornaby C, Bartelt L, Weiss S, Park Y, Edwards CE, Weimer E, Scherer EM, Roupael N, Edupuganti S, Weiskopf D, Tse LV, Hou YJ, Margolis D, Sette A, Collins MH, Schmitz J, Baric RS, de Silva AM. The RBD Of The Spike Protein Of SARS-Group Coronaviruses Is A Highly Specific Target Of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies But Not Other Pathogenic Human and Animal Coronavirus Antibodies. medRxiv 2020. [PMID: 32511572 DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.06.20093377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus variant (SARS-CoV-2) that first emerged in late 2019 is responsible for a pandemic of severe respiratory illness. People infected with this highly contagious virus present with clinically inapparent, mild or severe disease. Currently, the presence of the virus in individual patients and at the population level is being monitored by testing symptomatic cases by PCR for the presence of viral RNA. There is an urgent need for SARS-CoV-2 serologic tests to identify all infected individuals, irrespective of clinical symptoms, to conduct surveillance and implement strategies to contain spread. As the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the viral spike (S) protein is poorly conserved between SARS-CoVs and other pathogenic human coronaviruses, the RBD represents a promising antigen for detecting CoV specific antibodies in people. Here we use a large panel of human sera (70 SARS-CoV-2 patients and 71 control subjects) and hyperimmune sera from animals exposed to zoonotic CoVs to evaluate the performance of the RBD as an antigen for accurate detection of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies. By day 9 after the onset of symptoms, the recombinant SARS-CoV-2 RBD antigen was highly sensitive (98%) and specific (100%) to antibodies induced by SARS-CoVs. We observed a robust correlation between levels of RBD binding antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies in patients. Our results, which reveal the early kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses, strongly support the use of RBD-based antibody assays for population-level surveillance and as a correlate of neutralizing antibody levels in people who have recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infections.
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Magnus T, Weiss S, Müller H. P81 Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over Broca’s area enhances phonological verb retrieval in healthy individuals. Clin Neurophysiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.12.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Alkaid Albqoor M, Chen JL, Weiss S, Waters C, Choi J. Self-rated health of Middle Eastern immigrants in the US: a national study. Public Health 2019; 180:64-73. [PMID: 31855621 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [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: 05/30/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to examine self-rated health (SRH) of Middle Eastern immigrants in the US compared with US-born non-Hispanic whites and to examine factors associated with fair/poor SRH among Middle Eastern immigrants in the US. STUDY DESIGN We used a cross-sectional design to analyze the National Health Interview Survey from 2001 to 2015. METHODS Secondary survey analysis procedures were conducted using the SAS program, with a total of 3,966 Middle Eastern and 731,285 US-born non-Hispanic whites. Descriptive statistics and regression analyses were used. RESULTS Middle Eastern immigrants had significantly higher rates of fair/poor SRH than US-born whites across the three survey waves. Reporting symptoms of serious psychological distress, older age (60+ years), current alcohol-drinking status, and having a family member with disability were the factors associated significantly with higher odds of reporting fair/poor SRH in Middle Eastern immigrants, whereas education was a protecting factor of fair/poor SRH. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates that Middle Eastern immigrants are one of the US immigrant populations that report poor health status, which reveals the need for health policy attention to reduce health disparities.
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- University of California San Francisco, Family Health Care Nursing, USA.
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- University of California San Francisco, Community Health Systems, USA.
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- University of California San Francisco, Community Health Systems, USA.
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- University of California San Francisco, Institute for Health Aging, USA.
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Weiss S, Schatz U, Zschoke J, Wenninger S, Schoser B, Rudnik-Schoeneborn S, Muss W, Schossig A, Schmidt W, Bittner R, Bernert G, Baumann M. P.159Disease spectrum in nemaline myopathy due to LMOD3 mild founder mutation in Austria and southern Germany. Neuromuscul Disord 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.06.214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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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Stettner G, Knirsch U, Berger W, Graf U, Hendriks B, Seidl R, Bernert G, Behunova J, Laccone F, Weiss S. EP.113Infantile-onset CMT2Z is caused by two MORC2 gene mutations and is associated with a distinct phenotype. Neuromuscul Disord 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.06.571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Weiss S, Birsak T, Ille A, Kellersmann A, Gosk-Tomek M, Bittner R, Schmidt W, Bernert G. P.157L-tyrosine in nemaline myopathy – what do we know? Neuromuscul Disord 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.06.212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Birsak T, Ille A, Weiss S, Kellersmann A, Gosk-Tomek M, van Egmond-Froehlich A, Lechner Y, Maier I, Schmidt W, Bittner R, Bernert G. P.366Nusinersen improves motor function in ambulatory SMA III patients. Neuromuscul Disord 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.06.528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Balduin-Philipps L, Weiss S, Müller H. FV 28 tDCS and semantic memory: speeding up word recognition in older adults. Clin Neurophysiol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.04.637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Shih AW, Cohn CS, Delaney M, Fontaine MJ, Martin I, Dunbar NM, Dagger J, Fadeyi EA, Flanagan P, Gathof B, Godbey EA, Harach M, Huggins YM, Ipe TS, Jackson B, Jacquot C, Jin Z, Jones MR, Kamel H, Karp JK, Lewin A, Mo Y, Murphy M, O'Brien J, Ommer K, Pagano MB, Passwater M, Pelletier JPR, Robillard P, Schwartz J, Sham L, Shunkwiler SM, Simmons JS, Staves J, Takanaski M, Vasallo R, Weiss S, Williams SM, Yamada C, Young PP, Ziman A. The BEST criteria improve sensitivity for detecting positive cultures in residual blood components cultured in suspected septic transfusion reactions. Transfusion 2019; 59:2292-2300. [DOI: 10.1111/trf.15317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Andrew W. Shih
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineUniversity of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia Canada
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Vancouver British Columbia Canada
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and PathologyUniversity of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineChildren's National Health System Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineDartmouth‐Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon New Hampshire
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineDartmouth‐Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon New Hampshire
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Kuhn K, Weiss S, Hanf J. Member heterogenicity and its impacts in wine cooperatives. BIO Web Conf 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/bioconf/20191203013] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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In 2016, 43000 members of 159 wine cooperatives were growing wine on about 30% of the total German viticultural area. Those members have different origin, belong to different age groups, their business dispose over different sizes and business models, and all members have individual desires and interests. Thus, the task of the cooperative management and boards is to align the resulting heterogeneous individual aims and interests with the overall aims and interests of the cooperative. Hence the aim of the paper is to answer the question: How the heterogenous member interests can be aligned within the cooperative? In order to answer this question four in-depth expert interviews have been conducted.
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Zacher S, van Egmond-Fröhlich A, Weiss S, Guenther B. REGISTRIES AND CARE OF NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS. Neuromuscul Disord 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2018.06.335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Ille A, van Egmond-Fröhlich A, Weiss S, Gosk-Tomek M, Foedinger M, Peithner S, Bernert G. SMA THERAPIES II AND BIOMARKERS. Neuromuscul Disord 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2018.06.313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Weiss S, Churilla T, Chowdhury I, Handorf E, Collette L, Collette S, Alexander B, Kocher M, Soffietti R, Claus E. P05.89 Comparison of local control of brain metastases with stereotactic radiosurgery versus surgical resection: A secondary analysis of EORTC 22952–26001. Neuro Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noy139.415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- S Weiss
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- The Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- University of Turin and City of Health and Science Hospital, Torino, Italy
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- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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Dreesman J, Schlinkmann KM, Mayer-Scholl A, Jacob J, Freise J, Runge M, Weiss S, Pfeffer M, Dressel K, Jurke A, Ulrich RG. Verbesserung der Öffentlichen Gesundheit durch ein besseres Verständnis der Epidemiologie Nagetier-übertragener Krankheiten. Das Gesundheitswesen 2018. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1639298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- J Dreesman
- Niedersächsisches Landesgesundheitsamt, Infektionsschutz, Hannover, Germany
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- Niedersächsisches Landesgesundheitsamt, Infektionsschutz, Hannover, Germany
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- Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, Nationales Referenzlabor für Trichinella, Berlin, Germany
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- Julius Kühn-Institut, Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Gartenbau und Forst, Münster, Germany
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- Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit, Task-Force Veterinärwesen, Fachbereich Schädlingsbekämpfung, Wardenburg, Germany
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- Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit Lebensmittel- und Veterinärinstitut, Braunschweig/Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health Institut für Virologie, Berlin, Germany
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- Universität Leipzig, Institut für Tierhygiene und Öffentliches Veterinärwesen, Leipzig, Germany
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- Sine-Institut gGmbH, Geschäftsführung, München; Germany
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- Landeszentrum Gesundheit Nordrhein-Westfalen, Fachgruppe Infektiologie und Hygiene, Münster, Germany
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- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Institut für neue und neuartige Tierseuchenerreger, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
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- Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Rockville, Maryland
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- New Approach PAC, ACLU Drug Law Reform Project, Washington, DC
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- BING Center for Health Economics, Drug Policy Research Center, Pardee RAND Graduate School, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
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