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Renzaho, Luis Felipe Reyes, Nima Rezaei, Nazila Rezaei, Mohsen Rezaeian, Hossein Rezazadeh, Seyed Mohammad Riahi, Yohanes Andy Rias, Muhammad Riaz, Daniela Ribeiro, Monica Rodrigues, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Leonardo Roever, Peter Rohloff, Gholamreza Roshandel, Abazar Roustazadeh, Godfrey M. Rwegerera, Aly M. A. Saad, Maha Mohamed Saber-Ayad, Siamak Sabour, Leila Sabzmakan, Basema Saddik, Erfan Sadeghi, Umar Saeed, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Sare Safi, Sher Zaman Safi, Amene Saghazadeh, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Soumya Swaroop Sahoo, Harihar Sahoo, K. M. Saif-Ur-Rahman, Mirza Rizwan Sajid, Sarvenaz Salahi, Saina Salahi, Mohamed A. Saleh, Mohammad Amin Salehi, Joshua A. Salomon, Juan Sanabria, Rama Krishna Sanjeev, Francesco Sanmarchi, Milena M. Santric-Milicevic, Made Ary Sarasmita, Saman Sargazi, Brijesh Sathian, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Monika Sawhney, Markus P. Schlaich, Maria Ines Schmidt, Art Schuermans, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Yashendra Sethi, Allen Seylani, Maryam Shabany, Tahereh Shafaghat, Melika Shafeghat, Mahan Shafie, Nilay S. Shah, Samiah Shahid, Masood Ali Shaikh, Mohd Shanawaz, Mohammed Shannawaz, Sadaf Sharfaei, Bereket Beyene Shashamo, Rahman Shiri, Aminu Shittu, K. M. Shivakumar, Siddharudha Shivalli, Parnian Shobeiri, Fereshteh Shokri, Kerem Shuval, Migbar Mekonnen Sibhat, Luis Manuel Lopes Rodrigues Silva, Colin R. Simpson, Jasvinder A. Singh, Paramdeep Singh, Surjit Singh, Md Shahjahan Siraj, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Abdullah Al Mamun Sohag, Hamidreza Soleimani, Solikhah Solikhah, Mohammad Sadegh Soltani-Zangbar, Ranjani Somayaji, Reed J. D. Sorensen, Antonina V. Starodubova, Sujata Sujata, Muhammad Suleman, Jing Sun, Johan Sundstrom, Rafael Tabares-Seisdedos, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Seyed-Amir Tabatabaeizadeh, Mohammad Tabish, Majid Taheri, Ensiyeh Taheri, Elahe Taki, Jacques J. L. Lukenze Tamuzi, Ker-Kan Tan, Nathan Y. Tat, Birhan Tsegaw Taye, Worku Animaw Temesgen, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Riki Tesler, Pugazhenthan Thangaraju, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan, Rajshree Thapa, Samar Tharwat, Nihal Thomas, Jansje Henny Vera Ticoalu, Amir Tiyuri, Marcello Tonelli, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Domenico Trico, Indang Trihandini, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Samuel Joseph Tromans, Guesh Mebrahtom Tsegay, Abdul Rohim Tualeka, Derara Girma Tufa, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Sana Ullah, Era Upadhyay, Seyed Mohammad Vahabi, Asokan Govindaraj Vaithinathan, Rohollah Valizadeh, Kim Robin van Daalen, Priya Vart, Shoban Babu Varthya, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Siavash Vaziri, Madhur Verma Verma, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Danh Cao Vo, Birhanu Wagaye, Yasir Waheed, Ziyue Wang, Yanqing Wang, Cong Wang, Fang Wang, Gizachew Tadesse Wassie, Melissa Y. Wei Wei, Abrha Hailay Weldemariam, Ronny Westerman, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Yifan Wu, Ratna D. W. I. Wulandari, Juan Xia, Hong Xiao, Suowen Xu, Xiaoyue Xu, Dereje Y. Yada, Lin Yang, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Metin Yesiltepe, Siyan Yi, Hunachew Kibret Yohannis, Naohiro Yonemoto, Yuyi You, Sojib Bin Zaman, Nelson Zamora, Iman Zare, Kourosh Zarea, Armin Zarrintan, Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin, Naod Gebrekrstos Zeru, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Chenwen Zhong, Jingjing Zhou, Magdalena Zielinska, Yossef Teshome Zikarg, Sanjay Zodpey, Mohammad Zoladl, Zhiyong Zou, Alimuddin Zumla, Yves Miel H. Zuniga, Dianna J. Magliano, Christopher J. L. Murray, Simon I. Hay, Theo Vos

Summary: Diabetes is a major global cause of death and disability, with the total prevalence expected to continue to rise globally by 2050. Type 2 diabetes accounts for the majority of diabetes cases, largely due to obesity caused by multiple factors.

LANCET (2023)

Review Multidisciplinary Sciences

Methods of forensic facial reconstruction and human identification: historical background, significance, and limitations

Ankita Guleria, Kewal Krishan, Vishal Sharma, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Facial reconstruction is a complex and time-consuming technique widely used in forensic examinations for human identification. It is particularly helpful in cases where other identification methods are not applicable, such as in terrorist attacks and mass disasters. This article provides a brief history and discusses various methods of forensic facial reconstruction, their limitations, and future recommendations for research in the field.

SCIENCE OF NATURE (2023)

Correction Multidisciplinary Sciences

Unusual fingerprint patterns in humans: implications for forensic casework and fingerprint research(vol 110, 5, 2023)

Neha Baryah, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

SCIENCE OF NATURE (2023)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

An evaluation of the three-component pubic symphyseal human age estimation method: a CT-based exploration in an Indian population

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Age estimation is crucial in identifying individuals in various contexts. This study aimed to evaluate the applicability of the McKern-Stewart pubic symphyseal age estimation method in an Indian population. The method showed limited accuracy in males, but Bayesian analysis improved age estimation accuracy and showed limitations in females. Weighted summary age models provided inaccuracy values for multivariate age estimation in both sexes. Overall, the McKern-Stewart method had limited applicability and additional factors should be considered for accurate age estimation.

SCIENCE OF NATURE (2023)

Article Anthropology

An evaluation of the Gilbert-McKern pubic symphyseal age estimation method using Bayesian statistics and principal component analysis: A computed tomographic exploration in an Indian population

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Age estimation is crucial for human identification, and the pubic symphysis is commonly used for this purpose. However, limited research has been conducted on an Indian population. In this study, CT scans of 380 individuals were analyzed, and the accuracy of the Gilbert-McKern method was found to be low in females. Principal component analysis revealed the contribution of different components, with the symphyseal rim providing the most accurate age estimates. Overall, the applicability of the Gilbert-McKern method in aging males and females of an Indian population is limited.

ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER (2023)

Article Law

Applicability of the Suchey-Brooks method for age estimation in an Indian population: A computed tomography-based exploration using Bayesian analysis and machine learning

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Age estimation is an important process in identification, and the pubic symphysis is commonly used as a skeletal marker. This study evaluated the applicability of the Suchey-Brooks method for age estimation in an Indian population. Results showed that machine learning models provided lower error computations, and the method demonstrated greater applicability for females. However, additional markers should be used for accurate age estimates.

MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW (2023)

Article Law

Applicability of the six-phase method for auricular age estimation in an Indian population: A CT-based study

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Age estimation is important for human identification, but limited research has been done on the applicability of the Osborne method in an Indian population. This study evaluated the accuracy of the Osborne method using CT scans and found that it has limitations and difficulties in accurately estimating age in this population.

MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW (2023)

Article Law

Machine learning and regression analysis for age estimation from the iliac crest based on computed tomographic explorations in an Indian population

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Age estimation is crucial in identification, especially in children, sub-adults, and young adults, where it has significant implications in civil, criminal, and immigration law. This study examines the application of the modified Risser method for age estimation in the Indian population through computed tomographic examination of the iliac crest, and demonstrates the accuracy and precision of the method using regression and machine learning models. The results show that machine learning, specifically decision tree regression, outperforms traditional regression analysis and supports the use of the modified Risser method for reliable age estimation in forensic proceedings.

MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW (2023)

Editorial Material Law

ChatGPT: Forensic, legal, and ethical issues

Ankita Guleria, Kewal Krishan, Vishal Sharma, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a group of technologies that enable various activities including data observation, comprehension, analysis, and translation. The recently launched chatbot named ChatGPT has gained immense popularity on the internet, with one million users within a week of its launch. However, this study suggests that ChatGPT has limited relevance in forensic science and the law, and human critical thinking, expertise, and practical experience are still essential in these disciplines.

MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW (2023)

Article Anthropology

Computed tomographic age estimation from the iliac crest and ischial tuberosity in an Indian population using supervised machine learning approaches

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: This study aimed to establish the applicability of the modified Kreitner-Kellinghaus method for age estimation of the iliac crest and ischial tuberosity using supervised machine learning approaches. The results showed that the iliac crest was a more accurate age marker compared to the ischial tuberosity, and the cumulative score-based approaches yielded similar results to the iliac crest.

ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER (2023)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Global, regional, and national incidence of six major immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study 2019

Dongze Wu, Yingzhao Jin, Yuhan Xing, Melsew Dagne Abate, Mohammadreza Abbasian, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab Abbasi-Kangevari, Foad Abd-Allah, Michael Abdelmasseh, Mohammad-Amin Abdollahifar, Deldar Morad Abdulah, Aidin Abedi, Vida Abedi, Hassan Abidi, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Hassan Abolhassani, Katrina Abuabara, Morteza Abyadeh, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Kayode Nelson Adeniji, Abiola Victor Adepoju, Miracle Ayomikun Adesina, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Mohsen Afarideh, Shahin Aghamiri, Antonella Agodi, Anurag Agrawal, Constanza Elizabeth Aguilera Arriagada, Aqeel Ahmad, Danish Ahmad, Sajjad Ahmad, Sohail Ahmad, Ali Ahmadi, Ali Ahmed, Ayman Ahmed, Janardhana P. Aithala, Abdullateef Abiodun Ajadi, Marjan Ajami, Mostafa Akbarzadeh-Khiavi, Fares Alahdab, Mohammad T. AlBataineh, Sharifullah Alemi, Adel Ali Saeed Al-Gheethi, Liaqat Ali, Sheikh Mohammad Alif, Joseph Uy Almazan, Sami Almustanyir, Jaber S. Alqahtani, Ibrahim Alqasmi, Ihsan Ullah Khan Altaf, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nelson J. Alvis-Zakzuk, Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi, Hany Aly, Reza Amani, Hubert Amu, Ganiyu Adeniyi Amusa, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Adnan Ansar, Hossein Ansariniya, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, Jalal Arabloo, Reza Arefnezhad, Judie Arulappan, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Tahira Ashraf, Jamila Abdulhamid Atata, Seyyed Shamsadin Athari, Daniel Atlaw, Maha Moh'd Wahbi Atout, Avinash Aujayeb, Asma Tahir Awan, Haleh Ayatollahi, Sina Azadnajafabad, Ahmed Y. Azzam, Alaa Badawi, Ashish D. Badiye, Sara Bagherieh, Atif Amin Baig, Berihun Bantie Bantie, Martina Barchitta, Mainak Bardhan, Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Kavita Batra, Nebiyou Simegnew Bayileyegn, Amir Hossein Behnoush, Uzma Iqbal Belgaumi, Maryam Bemanalizadeh, Isabela M. Bensenor, Kebede A. Beyene, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Sonu Bhaskar, Ajay Nagesh Bhat, Saeid Bitaraf, Veera R. Bitra, Archith Boloor, Kaustubh Bora, Joao Silva Botelho, Rachelle Buchbinder, Daniela Calina, Luis Alberto Camera, Andre F. Carvalho, Jeffrey Shi Kai Chan, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Endeshaw Chekol Abebe, Fatemeh Chichagi, Sungchul Choi, Tzu-Chieh Chou, Dinh-Toi Chu, Kaleb Coberly, Vera Marisa Costa, Rosa A. S. Couto, Natalia Cruz-Martins, Omid Dadras, Xiaochen Dai, Giovanni Damiani, Ana Maria Dascalu, Mohsen Dashti, Sisay Abebe Debela, Robert Paul Dellavalle, Andreas K. Demetriades, Alemayehu Anley Demlash, Xinlei Deng, Hardik Dineshbhai Desai, Rupak Desai, Syed Masudur Rahman Dewan, Sourav Dey, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Daniel Diaz, Mahmoud Dibas, Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, Mengistie Diress, Thanh Chi Do, Duy Khanh Doan, Masoud Dodangeh, Milad Dodangeh, Deepa Dongarwar, John Dube, Arkadiusz Marian Dziedzic, Abdelaziz Ed-Dra, Hisham Atan Edinur, Negin Eissazade, Michael Ekholuenetale, Temitope Cyrus Ekundayo, Noha Mousaad Elemam, Muhammed Elhadi, Ahmed O. Elmehrath, Omar Abdelsadek Abdou Elmeligy, Mehdi Emamverdi, Theophilus I. Emeto, Hawi Leul Esayas, Habitu Birhan Eshetu, Farshid Etaee, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Shahriar Faghani, Ildar Ravisovich Fakhradiyev, Ali Fatehizadeh, Mobina Fathi, Alireza Feizkhah, Ginenus Fekadu, Mohammad Fereidouni, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Joao C. Fernandes, Pietro Ferrara, Getahun Fetensa, Irina Filip, Florian Fischer, Behzad Foroutan, Masoud Foroutan, Takeshi Fukumoto, Balasankar Ganesan, Belete Negese Belete Gemeda, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, MohammadReza Ghasemi, Maryam Gholamalizadeh, Tiffany K. Gill, Richard F. Gillum, Mohamad Goldust, Mahaveer Golechha, Pouya Goleij, Davide Golinelli, Houman Goudarzi, Shi-Yang Guan, Yang Guo, Bhawna Gupta, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Rasool Haddadi, Najah R. Hadi, Rabih Halwani, Shafiul Haque, Ikramul Hasan, Reza Hashempour, Amr Hassan, Treska S. Hassan, Sara Hassanzadeh, Mohammed Bheser Hassen, Johannes Haubold, Khezar Hayat, Golnaz Heidari, Mohammad Heidari, Reza Heidari-Soureshjani, Claudiu Herteliu, Kamran Hessami, Kamal Hezam, Yuta Hiraike, Ramesh Holla, Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, Hong-Han Huynh, Bing-Fang Hwang, Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye, Irena M. Ilic, Milena D. Ilic, Arad Iranmehr, Farideh Iravanpour, Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail, Masao Iwagami, Chidozie C. D. Iwu, Louis Jacob, Morteza Jafarinia, Abdollah Jafarzadeh, Kasra Jahankhani, Haitham Jahrami, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Elham Jamshidi, Chinmay T. Jani, Manthan Dilipkumar Janodia, Sathish Kumar Jayapal, Shubha Jayaram, Jayakumar Jeganathan, Jost B. Jonas, Abel Joseph, Nitin Joseph, Charity Ehimwenma Joshua, K. Vaishali, Billingsley Kaambwa, Ali Kabir, Zubair Kabir, Vidya Kadashetti, Feroze Kaliyadan, Fatemeh Kalroozi, Vineet Kumar Kamal, Amit Kandel, Himal Kandel, Srikanta Kanungo, Jafar Karami, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Hanie Karimi, Hengameh Kasraei, Sina Kazemian, Sewnet Adem Kebede, Leila Keikavoosi-Arani, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Himanshu Khajuria, Faham Khamesipour, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Imteyaz A. Khan, Maseer Khan, Md Jobair Khan, Moien Ab Khan, Muhammad Arslan Khan, Haitham Khatatbeh, Moawiah Mohammad Khatatbeh, Sorour Khateri, Hamid Reza Khayat Kashani, Min Seo Kim, Adnan Kisa, Sezer Kisa, Hyun Yong Koh, Pavel Kolkhir, Oleksii Korzh, Ashwin Laxmikant Kotnis, Parvaiz A. Koul, Ai Koyanagi, Kewal Krishan, Mohammed Kuddus, Vishnutheertha Vishnutheertha Kulkarni, Narinder Kumar, Satyajit Kundu, Om P. Kurmi, Carlo La Vecchia, Chandrakant Lahariya, Tri Laksono, Judit Lam, Kamaluddin Latief, Paolo Lauriola, Basira Kankia Lawal, Thao Thi Thu Le, Trang Thi Bich Le, Munjae Lee, Seung Won Lee, Wei-Chen Lee, Yo Han Lee, Jacopo Lenzi, Miriam Levi, Wei Li, Virendra S. Ligade, Stephen S. Lim, Gang Liu, Xuefeng Liu, Erand Llanaj, Chun-Han Lo, Vanessa Sintra Machado, Azzam A. Maghazachi, Mansour Adam Mahmoud, Tuan A. Mai, Azeem Majeed, Pantea Majma Sanaye, Omar Mohamed Makram, Elaheh Malakan Rad, Kashish Malhotra, Ahmad Azam Malik, Iram Malik, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Lorenzo Giovanni Mantovani, Miquel Martorell, Sahar Masoudi, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Yasith Mathangasinghe, Elezebeth Mathews, Alexander G. Mathioudakis, Andrea Maugeri, Mahsa Mayeli, John Robert Carabeo Medina, Gebrekiros Gebremichael Meles, Jose Joao Mendes, Ritesh G. Menezes, Tomislav Mestrovic, Irmina Maria Michalek, Ana Carolina Micheletti Gomide Nogueira de Sa, Ephrem Tesfaye Mihretie, Le Huu Nhat Minh, Reza Mirfakhraie, Erkin M. Mirrakhimov, Awoke Misganaw, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Nouh Saad Mohamed, Faezeh Mohammadi, Soheil Mohammadi, Salahuddin Mohammed, Shafiu Mohammed, Syam Mohan, Anita Mohseni, Ali H. Mokdad, Sara Momtazmanesh, Lorenzo Monasta, Mohammad Ali Moni, Md Moniruzzaman, Yousef Moradi, Negar Morovatdar, Ebrahim Mostafavi, Parsa Mousavi, George Duke Mukoro, Admir Mulita, Getaneh Baye Mulu, Efren Murillo-Zamora, Fungai Musaigwa, Ghulam Mustafa, Sathish Muthu, Firzan Nainu, Vinay Nangia, Sreenivas Narasimha Swamy, Zuhair S. Natto, Perumalsamy Navaraj, Biswa Prakash Nayak, Athare Nazri-Panjaki, Hadush Negash, Mohammad Hadi Nematollahi, Dang H. Nguyen, Hau Thi Hien Nguyen, Hien Quang Nguyen, Phat Tuan Nguyen, Van Thanh Nguyen, Robina Khan Niazi, Taxiarchis Konstantinos Nikolouzakis, Lawrence Achilles Nnyanzi, Mamoona Noreen, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Ogochukwu Janet Nzoputam, Bogdan Oancea, In-Hwan Oh, Hassan Okati-Aliabad, Osaretin Christabel Okonji, Patrick Godwin Okwute, Andrew T. Olagunju, Matthew Idowu Olatubi, Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa, Michal Ordak, Nikita Otstavnov, Mayowa O. Owolabi, P. A. Mahesh, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Anton Pak, Reza Pakzad, Raffaele Palladino, Adrian Pana, Ioannis Pantazopoulos, Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Shahina Pardhan, Ashwaghosha Parthasarathi, Ava Pashaei, Jay Patel, Aslam Ramjan Pathan, Shankargouda Patil, Uttam Paudel, Shrikant Pawar, Paolo Pedersini, Umberto Pensato, David M. Pereira, Jeevan Pereira, Maria Odete Pereira, Renato B. Pereira, Mario F. P. Peres, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Simone Perna, Ionela-Roxana Petcu, Parmida Sadat Pezeshki, Hoang Tran Pham, Anil K. Philip, Michael A. Piradov, Indrashis Podder, Vivek Podder, Dimitri Poddighe, Elton Junio Sady Prates, Ibrahim Qattea, Amir Radfar, Pourya Raee, Alireza Rafiei, Alberto Raggi, Fakher Rahim, Mehran Rahimi, Mahban Rahimifard, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Md Obaidur Rahman, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Mosiur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Mohamed Rahmani, Shayan Rahmani, Vahid Rahmanian, Premkumar Ramasubramani, Nemanja Rancic, Indu Ramachandra Rao, Sina Rashedi, Ahmed Mustafa Rashid, Nakul Ravikumar, Salman Rawaf, Elrashdy Moustafa Mohamed Redwan, Nazila Rezaei, Negar Rezaei, Nima Rezaei, Mohsen Rezaeian, Daniela Ribeiro, Monica Rodrigues, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Leonardo Roever, Esperanza Romero-Rodriguez, Aly M. A. Saad, Basema Saddik, Saeid Sadeghian, Umar Saeed, Azam Safary, Mahdi Safdarian, Sher Zaman Safi, Amene Saghazadeh, Dominic Sagoe, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Harihar Sahoo, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Mirza Rizwan Sajid, Sateesh Sakhamuri, Joseph W. Sakshaug, Mohamed A. Saleh, Leili Salehi, Sana Salehi, Amir Salek Farrokhi, Sara Samadzadeh, Saad Samargandy, Noosha Samieefar, Abdallah M. Samy, Nima Sanadgol, Rama Krishna Sanjeev, Monika Sawhney, Ganesh Kumar Saya, Art Schuermans, Subramanian Senthilkumaran, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Yashendra Sethi, Mahan Shafie, Humaira Shah, Izza Shahid, Samiah Shahid, Masood Ali Shaikh, Sadaf Sharfaei, Manoj Sharma, Maryam Shayan, Hatem Samir Shehata, Aziz Sheikh, Jeevan K. Shetty, Jae Il Shin, Reza Shirkoohi, Nebiyu Aniley Shitaye, K. M. Shivakumar, Velizar Shivarov, Parnian Shobeiri, Soraya Siabani, Migbar Mekonnen Sibhat, Emmanuel Edwar Siddig, Colin R. Simpson, Ehsan Sinaei, Harpreet Singh, Inderbir Singh, Jasvinder A. Singh, Paramdeep Singh, Surjit Singh, Md Shahjahan Siraj, Abdullah Al Mamun Sohag, Ranjan Solanki, Solikhah Solikhah, Yonatan Solomon, Mohammad Sadegh Soltani-Zangbar, Jing Sun, Mindy D. Szeto, Rafael Tabares-Seisdedos, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Mohammad Tabish, Ensiyeh Taheri, Azin Tahvildari, Iman M. Talaat, Jacques J. L. Lukenze Tamuzi, Ker-Kan Tan, Nathan Y. Tat, Razieh Tavakoli Oliaee, Arian Tavasol, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Pugazhenthan Thangaraju, Samar Tharwat, Nigusie Selomon Tibebu, Jansje Henny Vera Ticoalu, Tala Tillawi, Tenaw Yimer Tiruye, Amir Tiyuri, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Manjari Tripathi, Guesh Mebrahtom Tsegay, Abdul Rohim Tualeka, Sree Sudha Ty, Chukwudi S. Ubah, Saif Ullah, Sana Ullah, Muhammad Umair, Srikanth Umakanthan, Era Upadhyay, Seyed Mohammad Vahabi, Asokan Govindaraj Vaithinathan, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Rohollah Valizadeh, Shoban Babu Varthya, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Jorge Hugo Villafane, Vasily Vlassov, Danh Cao Vo, Yasir Waheed, Abdul Waris, Brhane Gebrehiwot Welegebrial, Ronny Westerman, Dakshitha Praneeth Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Barbara Willekens, Beshada Zerfu Woldegeorgis, Melat Woldemariam, Hong Xiao, Dereje Y. Yada, Galal Yahya, Lin Yang, Fereshteh Yazdanpanah, Dong Keon Yon, Naohiro Yonemoto, Yuyi You, Mazyar Zahir, Syed Saoud Zaidi, Moein Zangiabadian, Iman Zare, Mohammad A. Zeineddine, Dawit T. Zemedikun, Naod Gebrekrstos Zeru, Chen Zhang, Hanqing Zhao, Chenwen Zhong, Magdalena Zielinska, Mohammad Zoladl, Alimuddin Zumla, Cui Guo, Lai-shan Tam

Summary: This study investigated the pattern and trend of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) from 1990 to 2019. It found significant regional and global variation in the incidence of IMIDs, with some diseases increasing while others decreasing. Innovative prevention and management strategies are needed to address the increasing incidence of rheumatoid arthritis and other IMIDs.

ECLINICALMEDICINE (2023)

Article Medicine, Legal

Age estimation from iliac auricular surface using Bayesian inference and principal component analysis: a CT-based study in an Indian population

Varsha Warrier, Rutwik Shedge, Pawan Kumar Garg, Shilpi Gupta Dixit, Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan

Summary: Age estimation in older adults can be accurately done through CT-based examination of the auricular surface using the Buckberry-Chamberlain method. Three out of five morphological features described in the method were observed in CT scans of an Indian population. Bayesian analysis of individual features yielded high accuracy percentages and error rates, and summary age models derived from these features provided more accurate estimates of age.

FORENSIC SCIENCE MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY (2023)

Review Multidisciplinary Sciences

Development, detection and decipherment of obfuscated fingerprints in humans: Implications for forensic casework

Tej Kaur, Nandini Chitara, Ankita Guleria, Rakesh Meena, Damini Siwan, Deepika Rani, Kawaljit Kaur, Vishal Sharma, Tanuj Kanchan, Kewal Krishan

Summary: This article discusses the issue of fingerprint obfuscation, highlighting its significance for security and investigative organizations, as well as emphasizing the importance of identifying and interpreting these altered fingerprints.

SCIENCE OF NATURE (2023)

Article Rheumatology

Global, regional, and national burden of rheumatoid arthritis, 1990-2020, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Rachel J. Black, Marita Cross, Lydia M. Haile, Garland Culbreth, Jaimie Steinmetz, Hailey Hagins, Jacek A. Kopec, Peter M. Brooks, Anthony Woolf, Kanyin Liane Ong, Deborah R. Kopansky-Giles, Karsten E. Dreinhoefer, Neil Betteridge, Amirali Aali, Mitra Abbasifard, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Ame Mehadi Abdurehman, Aidin Abedi, Hassan Abidi, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Hassan Abolhassani, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Ahmed Abu-Zaid, Kidist Adamu, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Miracle Ayomikun Adesina, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Ayman Ahmed, Janardhana P. Aithala, Meisam Akhlaghdoust, Astawus Alemayehu, Saba Alvand, Nelson J. Alvis-Zakzuk, Hubert Amu, Benny Antony, Jalal Arabloo, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Judie Arulappan, Tahira Ashraf, Seyyed Shamsadin Athari, Sina Azadnajafabad, Alaa Badawi, Nayereh Baghcheghi, Atif Amin Baig, Asaminew Birhanu Balta, Maciej Banach, Palash Chandra Banik, Amadou Barrow, Azadeh Bashiri, Lindsay M. Bearne, Alehegn Bekele, Isabela M. Bensenor, Alemshet Yirga Berhie, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Ajay Nagesh Bhat, Vijayalakshmi S. Bhojaraja, Saeid Bitaraf, Belay Boda Abule Bodicha, Joao Silva Botelho, Andrew M. Briggs, Rachelle Buchbinder, Carlos A. Castaneda-Orjuela, Periklis Charalampous, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Kaleb Coberly, Natalia Cruz-Martins, Omid Dadras, Xiaochen Dai, Katie de Luca, Fikadu Nugusu Dessalegn, Gashaw Dessie, Meghnath Dhimal, Lankamo Ena Digesa, Mengistie Diress, Paul Narh Doku, Hisham Atan Edinur, Michael Ekholuenetale, Muhammed Elhadi, Yasser Mohamed El-Sherbiny, Farshid Etaee, Rana Ezzeddini, Shahriar Faghani, Irina Filip, Florian Fischer, Takeshi Fukumoto, Balasankar Ganesan, Mathewos Alemu Gebremichael, Urge Gerema, Motuma Erena Getachew, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Tiffany K. Gill, Bhawna Gupta, Sapna Gupta, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Rabih Halwani, Md Abdul Hannan, Shafiul Haque, Netanja Harlianto, Mehdi Harorani, Ahmed Hasaballah, Mohammed Bheser Hassen, Simon Hay, Khezar Hayat, Golnaz Heidari, Kamal Hezam, Catherine L. Hill, Yuta Hiraike, Nobuyuki Horita, Amir Human Hoveidaei, Alexander Kevin Hsiao, Evelyn Hsieh, Salman Hussain, Ivo Iavicoli, Irena M. Ilic, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail, Masao Iwagami, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Chinmay Jani, Jayakumar Jeganathan, Nitin Joseph, Vidya Kadashetti, Himal Kandel, Tesfaye K. Kanko, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Himanshu Khajuria, Md Jobair Khan, A. Moien Khan, Javad Khanali, Moawiah Mohammad Khatatbeh, Jagdish Khubchandani, Yun Jin Kim, Adnan Kisa, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Farzad Kompani, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Ai Koyanagi, Kewal Krishan, Mohammed Kuddus, Narinder Kumar, Ambily Kuttikkattu, Bagher Larijani, Stephen S. Lim, Justin Lo, Vanessa Sintra Machado, Preetam Bhalchandra Mahajan, Azeem Majeed, Elaheh Malakan Rad, Ahmad Azam Malik, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Elezebeth Mathews, Jose Joao Mendes, Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis, Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, Tomislav Mestrovic, Seyed Peyman Mirghaderi, Erkin M. Mirrakhimov, Awoke Misganaw, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Shafiu Mohammed, Ali H. Mokdad, Md Moniruzzaman, Ahmed Al Montasir, Getaneh Baye Mulu, Efren Murillo-Zamora, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ghulam Mustafa, Mohsen Naghavi, Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Zuhair S. Natto, Biswa Prakash Nayak, Subas Neupane, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Robina Khan Niazi, Ogochukwu Janet Nzoputam, In-Hwan Oh, Hassan Okati-Aliabad, Osaretin Christabel Okonji, Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa, Mayowa Owolabi, Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Jay Patel, Aslam Ramjan Pathan, Shrikant Pawar, Paolo Pedersini, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Ionela-Roxana Petcu, Ibrahim Qattea, Amir Radfar, Alireza Rafiei, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Vahid Rahmanian, Vahid Rashedi, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Zubair Ahmed Ratan, Salman Rawaf, Mohammad Sadegh Razeghinia, Elrashdy Moustafa Mohamed Redwan, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Nazila Rezaei, Nima Rezaei, Abanoub Riad, Aly M. A. Saad, Basema Saddik, Umar Saeed, Azam Safary, Maryam Sahebazzamani, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Harihar Sahoo, Amir Salek Farrokhi, Muhammad Arif Nadeem Saqib, Allen Seylani, Saeed Shahabi, Masood Ali Shaikh, Bereket Beyene Shashamo, Adithi Shetty, Jeevan K. Shetty, Mika Shigematsu, Velizar Shivarov, Parnian Shobeiri, Migbar Mekonnen Sibhat, Ehsan Sinaei, Ambrish Singh, Jasvinder A. Singh, Paramdeep Singh, Surjit Singh, Md Shahjahan Siraj, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Helen Slater, Amanda E. Smith, Yonatan Solomon, Mohammad Sadegh Soltani-Zangbar, Mohammad Tabish, Ker-Kan Tan, Nathan Y. Tat, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Samar Tharwat, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Biruk Shalmeno Tusa, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Pascual R. Valdez, Rohollah Valizadeh, Siavash Vaziri, Stein Emil Vollset, Ai-Min Wu, Dereje Y. Yada, Sisay Shewasinad Yehualashet, Naohiro Yonemoto, Yuyi You, Ismaeel Yunusa, Moein Zangiabadian, Iman Zare, Armin Zarrintan, Zhi-iang Zhang, Chenwen Zhong, Mohammad Zoladl, Theo Vos, Lyn M. March.

Summary: Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease associated with disability and premature death. The prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis has increased since 1990, while the mortality rate has decreased. It is projected that the number of individuals with rheumatoid arthritis will continue to increase by 2050.

LANCET RHEUMATOLOGY (2023)

Article Medicine, Research & Experimental

Alleviating morphine-induced itching while sustaining its analgesic efficacy: Esketamine as a potential co-administrating choice

Tong Cheng, Zhusheng Chen, Yibin Qin, Xiang Zhu, Hongsheng Chen, Zhongling Xu, Xiaqing Ma

Summary: Morphine is commonly used and effective for pain relief, but its side effect of itching limits its clinical use. This paper discusses the potential of using esketamine to treat morphine-induced itching.

MEDICAL HYPOTHESES (2024)

Article Medicine, Research & Experimental

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a possible therapeutic candidate for sepsis-associated encephalopathy: A novel hypothesis

Sung Eun Lee, Eunjung Park, Ji-yun Kim, HyukHoon Kim

Summary: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a potential therapeutic modality that has been recognized for its favorable mechanisms in various diseases, including sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE). HBOT has neuroprotective effects through its anti-inflammatory and antiapoptotic effects as well as increased tissue oxygenation capacity. However, there are caveats and limitations in applying HBOT in sepsis.

MEDICAL HYPOTHESES (2024)