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The association of dupA and Helicobacter pylori-related gastroduodenal diseases

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Helicobacter pylori is associated with the development of ulceration and gastric cancer. Recently, a novel virulence factor, duodenal ulcer promoting gene A (dupA), has been identified and found to associate with disease in some populations but not others. We investigated the relationship of dupA genotypes and H. pylori-related clinical outcomes by meta-analysis using previous reports of 2,358 patients from around the world. dupA-positive genotypes was found in 48% and was associated with duodenal ulcer (p = 0.001, odds ratio [OR] = 1.4, confidence interval [CI] = 1.1-1.7). The prevalence of dupA-positivity and its association with disease differed among the various regions around the world. In South America, the highest prevalence was recorded (Colombia and Brazil) and a significant relationship was found between dupA-negative strains and both gastric ulcer (GU) and gastric cancer (GC) (for GU, p = 0.001, OR = 0.2, CI = 0.1-0.4 and for GC, p = 0.001, OR = 0.3, CI = 0.2-0.6). In China, a significant correlation between dupA-positive strains and GU (p = 0.001, OR = 5.5, CI = 2.4-12.4) and GC (p = 0.009, OR = 2, Cl = 1.1-3.1) was found. To conclude, dupA promotes duodenal ulceration in some populations and GU and GC in others. This is typical of other virulence factors, such as cagA. Hence, it was concluded that the H. pylori virulence factor, dupA, is a true virulence factor.

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Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Feroze Kaliyadan, Yogeshwar Kalkonde, Ashwin Kamath, Nawzad Kameran Al-Salihi, Himal Kandel, Neeti Kapoor, Andre Karch, Ayele Semachew Kasa, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Joonas H. Kauppila, Taras Kavetskyy, Sewnet Adem Kebede, Pedram Keshavarz, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Rovshan Khalilov, Gulfaraz Khan, Maseer Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Moien A. B. Khan, Young-Ho Khang, Amir M. Khater, Maryam Khayamzadeh, Gyu Ri Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Adnan Kisa, Sezer Kisa, Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Jacek A. Kopec, Rajasekaran Koteeswaran, Parvaiz A. Koul, Sindhura Lakshmi Koulmane Laxminarayana, Ai Koyanagi, Burcu Kucuk Bicer, Nuworza Kugbey, G. Anil Kumar, Narinder Kumar, Nithin Kumar, Om P. Kurmi, Tezer Kutluk, Carlo La Vecchia, Faris Hasan Lami, Ivan Landires, Paolo Lauriola, Sang-Woong Lee, Shaun Wen Huey Lee, Wei-Chen Lee, Yo Han Lee, James Leigh, Elvynna Leong, Jiarui Li, Ming-Chieh Li, Xuefeng Liu, Joana A. Loureiro, Raimundas Lunevicius, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Alaa Makki, Shilpa Male, Ahmad Azam Malik, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Santi Martini, Seyedeh Zahra Masoumi, Prashant Mathur, Martin McKee, Ravi Mehrotra, Walter Mendoza, Ritesh G. Menezes, Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, Tomislav Mestrovic, Junmei Miao Jonasson, Bartosz Miazgowski, Tomasz Miazgowski, Irmina Maria Michalek, Ted R. Miller, Hamed Mirzaei, Hamid Reza Mirzaei, Sanjeev Misra, Prasanna Mithra, Masoud Moghadaszadeh, Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, Yousef Mohammad, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Seyyede Momeneh Mohammadi, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Shafiu Mohammed, Nagabhishek Moka, Ali H. Mokdad, Mariam Molokhia, Lorenzo Monasta, Mohammad Ali Moni, Mohammad Amin Moosavi, Yousef Moradi, Paula Moraga, Joana Morgado-da-Costa, Shane Douglas Morrison, Abbas Mosapour, Sumaira Mubarik, Lillian Mwanri, Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan, Shankar Prasad Nagaraju, Chie Nagata, Mukhammad David Naimzada, Vinay Nangia, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Sreenivas Narasimha Swamy, Rawlance Ndejjo, Sabina O. Nduaguba, Ionut Negoi, Serban Mircea Negru, Sandhya Neupane Kandel, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Robina Khan Niazi, Chukwudi A. Nnaji, Nurulamin M. Noor, Virginia Nunez-Samudio, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Bogdan Oancea, Chimedsuren Ochir, Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, Andrew T. Olagunju, Babayemi Oluwaseun Olakunde, Emad Omar, Ahmed Omar Bali, Abidemi E. Emmanuel Omonisi, Sokking Ong, Obinna E. Onwujekwe, Hans Orru, Doris Ortega-Altamirano, Nikita Otstavnov, Stanislav S. Otstavnov, Mayowa O. Owolabi, P. A. Mahesh, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Keyvan Pakshir, Adrian Pana, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas, Shahina Pardhan, Eun-Cheol Park, Eun-Kee Park, Fatemeh Pashazadeh Kan, Harsh K. Patel, Jenil R. Patel, Siddhartha Pati, Sanjay M. Pattanshetty, Uttam Paudel, David M. Pereira, Renato B. Pereira, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Julian David Pillay, Saeed Pirouzpanah, Farhad Pishgar, Indrashis Podder, Maarten J. Postma, Hadi Pourjafar, Akila Prashant, Liliana Preotescu, Mohammad Rabiee, Navid Rabiee, Amir Radfar, Raghu Anekal Radhakrishnan, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Ata Rafiee, Fakher Rahim, Shadi Rahimzadeh, Mosiur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Nazanin Rajai, Aashish Rajesh, Ivo Rakovac, Pradhum Ram, Kiana Ramezanzadeh, Kamal Ranabhat, Priyanga Ranasinghe, Chythra R. Rao, Sowmya J. Rao, Reza Rawassizadeh, Mohammad Sadegh Razeghinia, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Negar Rezaei, Nima Rezaei, Aziz Rezapour, Thomas J. Roberts, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Peter Rohloff, Michele Romoli, Luca Ronfani, Gholamreza Roshandel, Godfrey M. Rwegerera, S. Manjula, Siamak Sabour, Basema Saddik, Umar Saeed, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Harihar Sahoo, Sana Salehi, Marwa Rashad Salem, Hamideh Salimzadeh, Mehrnoosh Samaei, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Sanabria, Senthilkumar Sankararaman, Milena M. Santric-Milicevic, Yaeesh Sardiwalla, Arash Sarveazad, Brijesh Sathian, Monika Sawhney, Mete Saylan, Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider, Mario Sekerija, Allen Seylani, Omid Shafaat, Zahra Shaghaghi, Masood Ali Shaikh, Erfan Shamsoddin, Mohammed Shannawaz, Rajesh Sharma, Aziz Sheikh, Sara Sheikhbahaei, Adithi Shetty, Jeevan K. Shetty, Pavanchand H. Shetty, Kenji Shibuya, Reza Shirkoohi, K. M. Shivakumar, Velizar Shivarov, Soraya Siabani, Sudeep K. Siddappa Malleshappa, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jasvinder A. Singh, Yitagesu Sintayehu, Valentin Yurievich Skryabin, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Matthew J. Soeberg, Ahmad Sofi-Mahmudi, Houman Sotoudeh, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Kurt Straif, Ranjeeta Subedi, Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Iyad Sultan, Saima Sultana, Daniel Sur, Viktoria Szerencses, Miklos Szocska, Rafael Tabares-Seisdedos, Takahiro Tabuchi, Hooman Tadbiri, Amir Taherkhani, Ken Takahashi, Iman M. Talaat, Ker-Kan Tan, Vivian Y. Tat, Bemnet Amare A. Tedla, Yonas Getaye Tefera, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Fisaha Haile Tesfay, Gizachew Assefa Tessema, Rekha Thapar, Aravind Thavamani, Viveksandeep Thoguluva Chandrasekar, Nihal Thomas, Hamid Reza Tohidinik, Mathilde Touvier, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Eugenio Traini, Bach Xuan Tran, Khanh Bao Tran, Mai Thi Ngoc Tran, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Biruk Shalmeno Tusa, Irfan Ullah, Saif Ullah, Krishna Kishore Umapathi, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Era Upadhyay, Marco Vacante, Maryam Vaezi, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Diana Zuleika Velazquez, Massimiliano Veroux, Francesco S. Violante, Vasily Vlassov, Bay Vo, Victor Volovici, Giang Thu Vu, Yasir Waheed, Richard G. Wamai, Paul Ward, Yi Feng Wen, Ronny Westerman, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, Lalit Yadav, Seyed Hossein Yahyazadeh Jabbari, Lin Yang, Sanni Yaya, Taklo Simeneh Yazie Yazie, Yigizie Yeshaw, Naohiro Yonemoto, Mustafa Z. Younis, Zabihollah Yousefi, Chuanhua Yu, Deniz Yuce, Ismaeel Yunusa, Vesna Zadnik, Fariba Zare, Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin, Anasthasia Zastrozhina, Jianrong Zhang, Chenwen Zhong, Linghui Zhou, Cong Zhu, Arash Ziapour, Ivan R. Zimmermann, Christina Fitzmaurice, Christopher J. L. Murray, Lisa M. Force

Summary: The global burden of cancer is substantial and growing, with differences in burden based on Sociodemographic Index (SDI). The largest percentage increase in the numbers of cases and deaths occurred in the low and low-middle SDI quintiles from 2010 to 2019.

JAMA ONCOLOGY (2022)

Letter Hematology

The Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases: A New Milestone and a Hope for Researchers in Third World Countries

Nawfal R. Hussein

MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2022)

Article Infectious Diseases

Age-sex differences in the global burden of lower respiratory infections and risk factors, 1990-2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Avina Vongpradith, Sarah Brooke Sirota, Amanda Novotney, Christopher E. Troeger, Matthew C. Doxey, Rose G. Bender, Jorge R. Ledesma, Molly H. Biehl, Samuel B. Albertson, Joseph Jon Frostad, Katrin Burkart, Fiona B. Bennitt, Jeff T. Zhao, William M. Gardner, Hailey Hagins, Dana Bryazka, Regina-Mae Villanueva Dominguez, Semagn Mekonnen Abate, Michael Abdelmasseh, Amir Abdoli, Gholamreza Abdoli, Aidin Abedi, Vida Abedi, Tadesse M. Abegaz, Hassan Abidi, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Hassan Abolhassani, Yonas Derso Abtew, Hiwa Abubaker Ali, Eman Abu-Gharbieh, Ahmed Abu-Zaid, Kidist Adamu, Isaac Yeboah Addo, Oyelola A. Adegboye, Mohammad Adnan, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Saira Afzal, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Aqeel Ahmad, Araz Ramazan Ahmad, Sajjad Ahmad, Ali Ahmadi, Sepideh Ahmadi, Haroon Ahmed, Jivan Qasim Ahmed, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Mostafa Akbarzadeh-Khiavi, Hanadi Al Hamad, Luciana Albano, Mamoon A. Aldeyab, Bezatu Mengistie Alemu, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Abdelazeem M. Algammal, Fadwa Alhalaiqa Naji Alhalaiqa, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Beriwan Abdulqadir Ali, Liaqat Ali, Musa Mohammed Ali, Syed Shujait Ali, Yousef Alimohamadi, Vahid Alipour, Adel Al-Jumaily, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Sami Almustanyir, Rajaa M. Al-Raddadi, Rami H. Hani Al-Rifai, Saif Aldeen S. AlRyalat, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Nelson J. Alvis-Zakzuk, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Javad Javad Aminian Dehkordi, John H. Amuasi, Dickson A. Amugsi, Etsay Woldu Anbesu, Adnan Ansar, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, Jalal Arabloo, Demelash Areda, Ayele Mamo Argaw, Zeleke Gebru Argaw, Judie Arulappan, Raphael Taiwo Aruleba, Mulusew A. Asemahagn, Seyyed Shamsadin Athari, Daniel Atlaw, Engi F. Attia, Sameh Attia, Avinash Aujayeb, Tewachew Awoke, Tegegn Mulatu Ayana, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Sina Azadnajafabad, Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy, Samad Azari, Amirhossein Azari Jafari, Muhammad Badar, Ashish D. Badiye, Nayereh Baghcheghi, Sara Bagherieh, Atif Amin Baig, Maciej Banach, Indrajit Banerjee, Mainak Bardhan, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Hiba Jawdat Barqawi, Amadou Barrow, Azadeh Bashiri, Quique Bassat, Abdul-Monim Mohammad Batiha, Abate Bekele Belachew, Melaku Ashagrie Belete, Uzma Iqbal Belgaumi, Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula, Nikha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Parth Bhatt, Vijayalakshmi S. Bhojaraja, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Soumitra S. Bhuyan, Ali Bijani, Saeid Bitaraf, Belay Boda Abule Bodicha, Nikolay Ivanovich Briko, Danilo Buonsenso, Muhammad Hammad Butt, Jiao Cai, Paulo Camargos, Luis Alberto Camera, Promit Ananyo Chakraborty, Muluken Genetu Chanie, Jaykaran Charan, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Patrick R. Ching, Sungchul Choi, Yuen Yu Chong, Sonali Gajanan Choudhari, Enayet Karim Chowdhury, Devasahayam J. Christopher, Dinh-Toi Chu, Natalie L. Cobb, Aaron J. Cohen, Natalia Cruz-Martins, Omid Dadras, Fentaw Teshome Dagnaw, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, An Thi Minh Dao, Sisay Abebe Debela, Biniyam Demisse, Fitsum Wolde Demisse, Solomon Demissie, Diriba Dereje, Hardik Dineshbhai Desai, Abebaw Alemayehu Desta, Belay Desye, Sameer Dhingra, Nancy Diao, Daniel Diaz, Lankamo Ena Digesa, Linh Phuong Doan, Milad Dodangeh, Deepa Dongarwar, Fariba Dorostkar, Wendel Mombaque dos Santos, Haneil Larson Dsouza, Eleonora Dubljanin, Oyewole Christopher Durojaiye, Hisham Atan Edinur, Elham Ehsani-Chimeh, Ebrahim Eini, Michael Ekholuenetale, Temitope Cyrus Ekundayo, Eman D. El Desouky, Iman El Sayed, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Muhammed Elhadi, Ahmed Mahmoud Rabie Elkhapery, Amir Emami, Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Ryenchindorj Erkhembayar, Farshid Etaee, Mohamad Ezati Asar, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Shahab Falahi, Aida Fallahzadeh, Anwar Faraj, Emerito Jose A. Faraon, Ali Fatehizadeh, Pietro Ferrara, Allegra Allegra Ferrari, Getahun Fetensa, Florian Fischer, Joanne Flavel, Masoud Foroutan, Peter Andras Gaal, Abhay Motiramji Gaidhane, Santosh Gaihre, Nasrin Galehdar, Alberto L. Garcia-Basteiro, Tushar Garg, Mesfin Damtew Gebrehiwot, Mathewos Alemu Gebremichael, Yibeltal Yismaw Gela, Belete Negese Belete Gemeda, Bradford D. Gessner, Melaku Getachew, Asmare Getie, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Mohammad Ghasemi Nour, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Ali Gholamrezanezhad, Abdolmajid Gholizadeh, Rakesh Ghosh, Sherief Ghozy, Pouya Goleij, Mohamad Golitaleb, Giuseppe Gorini, Alessandra C. Goulart, Girma Garedew Goyomsa, Habtamu Alganeh Guadie, Zewdie Gudisa, Rashid Abdi Guled, Sapna Gupta, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Alemu Guta, Parham Habibzadeh, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Rabih Halwani, Samer Hamidi, Md Abdul Hannan, Mehdi Harorani, Ahmed Hasaballah, Hamidreza Hasani, Abbas M. Hassan, Shokoufeh Hassani, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hadi Hassankhani, Khezar Hayat, Behzad Heibati, Mohammad Heidari, Demisu Zenbaba Heyi, Kamal Hezam, Ramesh Holla, Sung Hwi Hong, Nobuyuki Horita, Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mihaela Hostiuc, Mowafa Househ, Soodabeh Hoveidamanesh, Junjie Huang, Nawfal R. Hussein, Ivo Iavicoli, Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye, Kevin S. Ikuta, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Irena M. Ilic, Milena D. Ilic, Mustapha Immurana, Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail, Masao Iwagami, Jalil Jaafari, Elham Jamshidi, Sung-In Jang, Amirreza Javadi Mamaghani, Tahereh Javaheri, Fatemeh Javanmardi, Javad Javidnia, Sathish Kumar Jayapal, Umesh Jayarajah, Shubha Jayaram, Alelign Tasew Jema, Wonjeong Jeong, Jost B. Jonas, Nitin Joseph, Farahnaz Joukar, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, K. Vaishali, Zubair Kabir, Salah Eddine Oussama Kacimi, Vidya Kadashetti, Laleh R. Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Ashwin Kamath, Bhushan Dattatray Kamble, Himal Kandel, Tesfaye K. Kanko, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Andre Karch, Samad Karkhah, Bekalu Getnet Kassa, Patrick D. M. C. Katoto, Harkiran Kaur, Rimple Jeet Kaur, Leila Keikavoosi-Arani, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Himanshu Khajuria, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Gulfaraz Khan, Imteyaz A. Khan, Maseer Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Moien A. B. Khan, Yusra H. Khan, Moawiah Mohammad Khatatbeh, Mina Khosravifar, Jagdish Khubchandani, Min Seo Kim, Ruth W. Kimokoti, Adnan Kisa, Sezer Kisa, Niranjan Kissoon, Luke D. Knibbs, Sonali Kochhar, Farzad Kompani, Hamid Reza Koohestani, Vladimir Andreevich Korshunov, Soewarta Kosen, Parvaiz A. Koul, Ai Koyanagi, Kewal Krishan, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, G. Anil Kumar, Om P. Kurmi, Ambily Kuttikkattu, Dharmesh Kumar Lal, Judit Lam, Ivan Landires, Caterina Ledda, Sang-woong Lee, Miriam Levi, Sonia Lewycka, Gang Liu, Wei Liu, Rakesh Lodha, Laszlo Lorenzovici, Mojgan Lotfi, Joana A. Loureiro, Farzan Madadizadeh, Ata Mahmoodpoor, Razzagh Mahmoudi, Marzieh Mahmoudimanesh, Jamal Majidpoor, Alaa Makki, Elaheh Malakan Rad, Ahmad Azam Malik, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Yosef Manla, Clara N. Matei, Alexander G. Mathioudakis, Richard James Maude, Entezar Mehrabi Nasab, Addisu Melese, Ziad A. Memish, Oliver Mendoza-Cano, Alexios-Fotios A. Mentis, Tuomo J. Meretoja, Mehari Woldemariam Merid, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ana Carolina Micheletti Gomide Nogueira de Sa, Gelana Fekadu Worku Mijena, Le Huu Nhat Minh, Shabir Ahmad Mir, Reza Mirfakhraie, Seyyedmohammadsadeq Mirmoeeni, Agha Zeeshan Mirza, Moonis Mirza, Mohammad Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Abay Sisay Misganaw, Awoke Temesgen Misganaw, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Arif Mohammed, Shafiu Mohammed, Syam Mohan, Mohammad Mohseni, Nagabhishek Moka, Ali H. Mokdad, Sara Momtazmanesh, Lorenzo Monasta, Md Moniruzzaman, Fateme Montazeri, Catrin E. Moore, Abdolvahab Moradi, Lidia Morawska, Jonathan F. Mosser, Ebrahim Mostafavi, Majid Motaghinejad, Haleh Mousavi Isfahani, Seyed Ali Mousavi-Aghdas, Sumaira Mubarik, Efren Murillo-Zamora, Ghulam Mustafa, Sanjeev Nair, Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Houshang Najafi, Atta Abbas Naqvi, Sreenivas Narasimha Swamy, Zuhair S. Natto, Biswa Prakash Nayak, Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi, Huy Van Nguyen Nguyen, Robina Khan Niazi, Antonio Tolentino Nogueira de Sa, Hasti Nouraei, Ali Nowroozi, Virginia Nunez-Samudio, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Ogochukwu Janet Nzoputam, Bogdan Oancea, Chimedsuren Ochir, Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya, Hassan Okati-Aliabad, Akinkunmi Paul Okekunle, Osaretin Christabel Okonji, Andrew T. Olagunju, Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa, Ahmed Omar Bali, Emad Omer, Eyal Oren, Erika Ota, Nikita Otstavnov, Abderrahim Oulhaj, P. A. Mahesh, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Keyvan Pakshir, Reza Pakzad, Tamas Palicz, Anamika Pandey, Suman Pant, Shahina Pardhan, Eun-Cheol Park, Eun-Kee Park, Fatemeh Pashazadeh Kan, Rajan Paudel, Shrikant Pawar, Minjin Peng, Gavin Pereira, Simone Perna, Navaraj Perumalsamy, Ionela-Roxana Petcu, David M. Pigott, Zahra Zahid Piracha, Vivek Podder, Roman Polibin, Maarten J. Postma, Hamid Pourasghari, Naeimeh Pourtaheri, Mirza Muhammad Fahd Qadir, Mathieu Raad, Mohammad Rabiee, Navid Rabiee, Saber Raeghi, Alireza Rafiei, Fakher Rahim, Mehran Rahimi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Azizur Rahman, Md Obaidur Rahman, Mosiur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Vahid Rahmanian, Pradhum Ram, Kiana Ramezanzadeh, Juwel Rana, Priyanga Ranasinghe, Usha Rani, Sowmya J. Rao, Sina Rashedi, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, Azad Rasul, Zubair Ahmed Ratan, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Reza Rawassizadeh, Mohammad Sadegh Razeghinia, Elrashdy Moustafa Mohamed Redwan, Marissa B. Reitsma, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Mohsen Rezaeian, Abanoub Riad, Reza Rikhtegar, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Emma L. B. Rogowski, Luca Ronfani, Kristina E. Rudd, Basema Saddik, Erfan Sadeghi, Umar Saeed, Azam Safary, Sher Zaman Safi, Maryam Sahebazzamani, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Sateesh Sakhamuri, Sana Salehi, Muhammad Salman, Hossein Samadi Kafil, Abdallah M. Samy, Milena M. Santric-Milicevic, Bruno Piassi Sao Jose, Maryam Sarkhosh, Brijesh Sathian, Monika Sawhney, Ganesh Kumar Saya, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Allen Seylani, Amira A. Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Elaheh Shaker, Hina Shamshad, Mequannent Melaku Sharew, Asaad Sharhani, Azam Sharifi, Purva Sharma, Ali Sheidaei, Suchitra M. Shenoy, Jeevan K. Shetty, Damtew Solomon Shiferaw, Mika Shigematsu, Jae Il Shin, Hesamaddin Shirzad-Aski, K. M. Shivakumar, Siddharudha Shivalli, Parnian Shobeiri, Wudneh Simegn, Colin R. Simpson, Harpreet Singh, Jasvinder A. Singh, Paramdeep Singh, Samarjeet Singh Siwal, Valentin Yurievich Skryabin, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Mohammad Sadegh Soltani-Zangbar, Suhang Song, Yimeng Song, Prashant Sood, Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, Paschalis Steiropoulos, Muhammad Suleman, Seyed-Amir Tabatabaeizadeh, Alireza Tahamtan, Majid Taheri, Moslem Taheri Soodejani, Elahe Taki, Iman M. Talaat, Mircea Tampa, Sarmila Tandukar, Nathan Y. Tat, Vivian Y. Tat, Yibekal Manaye Tefera, Gebremaryam Temesgen, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Azene Tesfaye, Degefa Gomora Tesfaye, Belay Tessema, Rekha Thapar, Jansje Henny Vera Ticoalu, Amir Tiyuri, Imad I. Tleyjeh, Munkhsaikhan Togtmol, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Derara Girma Tufa, Irfan Ullah, Era Upadhyay, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Pascual R. Valdez, Rohollah Valizadeh, Constantine Vardavas, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Bay Vo, Linh Gia Vu, Birhanu Wagaye, Yasir Waheed, Yu Wang, Abdul Waris, T. Eoin West, Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe, Xiaoyue Xu, Sajad Yaghoubi, Gahin Abdulraheem Tayib Yahya, Seyed Hossein Yahyazadeh Jabbari, Dong Keon Yon, Naohiro Yonemoto, Burhan Abdullah Zaman, Alireza Zandifar, Moein Zangiabadian, Heather J. Zar, Iman Zare, Zahra Zareshahrabadi, Armin Zarrintan, Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin, Wu Zeng, Mengxi Zhang, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Chenwen Zhong, Mohammad Zoladl, Alimuddin Zumla, Stephen S. Lim, Theo Vos, Mohsen Naghavi, Michael Brauer, Simon Hay, Christopher J. L. Murray

Summary: This study examined the global burden of lower respiratory infections (LRIs) and related risk factors in children older than 5 years and adults. The study found variations in the incidence and mortality rates of LRIs across different age groups and genders. Targeted interventions have been successful in reducing the burden of LRIs in children, and similar interventions for other age groups could contribute to the achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals.

LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2022)

Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

A study of HBV infection and its risk factors in pregnant women in Zakho city, Iraq

Fatima K. Khalid, Narin A. Rasheed, Nawfal R. Hussein, Ibrahim A. Naqid

Summary: Despite the availability of vaccine and antiviral treatment, hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to spread among pregnant women in Iraq. A study found that the prevalence of HBV infection was higher among Syrian refugees compared to indigenous participants. Risk factors associated with HBV positivity included nationality, tattoos, and polygamy.

PLOS ONE (2022)

Article Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Global, regional, and national burden of hepatitis B, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Brittney S. Sheena, Lindsey Hiebert, Hannah Han, Helen Ippolito, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Zeinab Abbasi-Kangevari, Hedayat Abbastabar, Amir Abdoli, Hiwa Abubaker Ali, Mesafint Molla Adane, Oyelola A. Adegboye, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Shailesh M. Advani, Muhammad Sohail Afzal, Saira Afzal, Mohamad Aghaie Meybodi, Bahman Ahadinezhad, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Sajjad Ahmad, Tauseef Ahmad, Sepideh Ahmadi, Haroon Ahmed, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Gizachew Taddesse Akalu, Addis Aklilu, Tayyaba Akram, Hanadi Al Hamad, Fares Alahdab, Adugnaw Zeleke Alem, Dejene Tsegaye Alem, Fadwa Alhalaiqa Naji Alhalaiqa, Robert Kaba Alhassan, Liaqat Ali, Muhammad Ashar Ali, Yousef Alimohamadi, Vahid Alipour, Motasem Alkhayyat, Sami Almustanyir, Rajaa M. Al-Raddadi, Haya Altawalah, Saeed Amini, Hubert Amu, Robert Ancuceanu, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Tudorel Andrei, Amir Anoushiravani, Adnan Ansar, Anayochukwu Edward Anyasodor, Jalal Arabloo, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Ayele Mamo Argaw, Zeleke Gebru Argaw, Muhammad Arshad, Anton A. Artamonov, Tahira Ashraf, Daniel Atlaw, Floriane Ausloos, Marcel Ausloos, Sina Azadnajafabad, Mohammadreza Azangou-Khyavy, Amirhossein Azari Jafari, Ghasem Azarian, Sayna Bagheri, Saeed Bahadory, Atif Amin Baig, Maciej Banach, Nastaran Barati, Amadou Barrow, Abdul-Monim Mohammad Batiha, Diana Fernanda Bejarano Ramirez, Uzma Iqbal Belgaumi, Alemshet Yirga Berhie, Devidas S. Bhagat, Nikha Bhardwaj, Pankaj Bhardwaj, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Vijayalakshmi S. Bhojaraja, Ali Bijani, Antonio Biondi, Belay Boda Abule Bodicha, Hunduma Amensisa Bojia, Archith Boloor, Cristina Bosetti, Dejana Braithwaite, Nikolay Ivanovich Briko, Zahid A. Butt, Luis Alberto Camera, Raja Chandra Chakinala, Promit Ananyo Chakraborty, Jaykaran Charan, Shu Chen, Jee-Young Jasmine Choi, Sonali Gajanan Choudhari, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Dinh-Toi Chu, Sheng-Chia Chung, Paolo Angelo Cortesi, Benjamin C. Cowie, Garland T. Culbreth, Omid Dadras, Xiaochen Dai, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Fernando Pio De la Hoz, Sisay Abebe Debela, Mohammed Gebre Dedefo, Feleke Mekonnen Demeke, Takele Gezahegn G. Demie, Getu Debalkie Demissie, Meseret Derbew Molla, Abebaw Alemayehu Desta, Deepak Dhamnetiya, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, Meghnath Dhimal, Mojtaba Didehdar, Linh Phuong Doan, Fariba Dorostkar, Thomas M. Drake, Fatemeh Eghbalian, Michael Ekholuenetale, Iman El Sayed, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Muhammed Elhadi, Mohamed A. Elmonem, Aisha Elsharkawy, Shymaa Enany, Daniel Berhanie Enyew, Ryenchindorj Erkhembayar, Sharareh Eskandarieh, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Sayeh Ezzikouri, Hossein Farrokhpour, Getahun Fetensa, Florian Fischer, Masoud Foroutan, Mohamed M. Gad, Abhay Motiramji Gaidhane, Shilpa Gaidhane, Natalie C. Galles, Silvano Gallus, Teferi Gebru Gebremeskel, Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes, Keyghobad Ghadiri, Kazem Ghaffari, Mansour Ghafourifard, Seyyed-Hadi Ghamari, Ahmad Ghashghaee, Ali Gholami, Abdolmajid Gholizadeh, Aima Gilani, Amit Goel, Mahaveer Golechha, Pouya Goleij, Davide Golinelli, Giuseppe Gorini, Yitayal Ayalew Goshu, Max G. Griswold, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Bhawna Gupta, Sapna Gupta, Veer Bala Gupta, Vivek Kumar Gupta, Rasool Haddadi, Rabih Halwani, Saeed S. Hamid, Samer Hamidi, Asif Hanif, Shafiul Haque, Harapan Harapan, Arief Hargono, Sanam Hariri, Ahmed Hasaballah, S. M. Mahmudul Hasan, Soheil Hassanipour, Hadi Hassankhani, Simon Hay, Khezar Hayat, Golnaz Heidari, Claudiu Herteliu, Demisu Zenbaba Heyi, Kamal Hezam, Ramesh Holla, Mohammad-Salar Hosseini, Mostafa Hosseini, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mihaela Hostiuc, Mowafa Househ, Junjie Huang, Nawfal R. Hussein, Ivo Iavicoli, Segun Emmanuel Ibitoye, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Irena M. Ilic, Milena D. Ilic, Lalu Muhammad Irham, Jessica Y. Islam, Nahlah Elkudssiah Ismail, Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Farhad Jadidi-Niaragh, Amirreza Javadi Mamaghani, Shubha Jayaram, Ranil Jayawardena, Rime Jebai, Ravi Prakash Jha, Nitin Joseph, Farahnaz Joukar, Billingsley Kaambwa, Ali Kabir, Zubair Kabir, Rohollah Kalhor, Himal Kandel, Tesfaye K. Tesfaye Kanko, Rami S. Kantar, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Bekalu Getnet Kassa, Phillip M. Kemp Bohan, Mohammad Keykhaei, Yousef Saleh Khader, Himanshu Khajuria, Gulfaraz Khan, Imteyaz A. Khan, Junaid Khan, Moien Ab Khan, Javad Khanali, Amir M. Khater, Mahalaqua Nazli Khatib, Mahmoud Khodadost, Abdullah T. Khoja, Omid Khosravizadeh, Jagdish Khubchandani, Gyu Ri Kim, Hanna Kim, Min Seo Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Jonathan M. Kocarnik, Ali-Asghar Kolahi, Rajasekaran Koteeswaran, G. Anil Kumar, Carlo La Vecchia, Dharmesh Kumar Lal, Ivan Landires, Savita Lasrado, Jeffrey Lazarus, Caterina Ledda, Doo Woong Lee, Sang-woong Lee, Yeong Yeh Lee, Miriam Levi, Jiarui Li, Stephen S. Lim, Stany W. Lobo, Platon D. Lopukhov, Joana A. Loureiro, Jennifer H. MacLachlan, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Alaa Makki, Mohammad-Reza Malekpour, Reza Malekzadeh, Ahmad Azam Malik, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Francisco Rogerlandio Martins-Melo, Philippa C. Matthews, Walter Mendoza, Ritesh G. Menezes, Tuomo J. Meretoja, Amanual Getnet Mersha, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ted R. Miller, Le Huu Nhat Minh, Andreea Mirica, Seyyedmohammadsadeq Mirmoeeni, Erkin M. Mirrakhimov, Sanjeev Misra, Prasanna Mithra, Babak Moazen, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Mokhtar Mohammadi, Shafiu Mohammed, Nagabhishek Moka, Ali H. Mokdad, Jalal Moludi, Sara Momtazmanesh, Lorenzo Monasta, Ghobad Moradi, Maliheh Moradzadeh, Rahmatollah Moradzadeh, Paula Moraga, Ebrahim Mostafavi, Sumaira Mubarik, Malaisamy Muniyandi, Christopher J. L. Murray, Mohsen Naghavi, Mukhammad David Naimzada, Sreenivas Narasimha Swamy, Zuhair S. Natto, Biswa Prakash Nayak, Javad Nazari, Ionut Negoi, Serban Mircea Negru, Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi, Sandhya Neupane Kandel, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Che Henry Ngwa, Robina Khan Niazi, Chukwudi A. Nnaji, Jean Jacques Noubiap, Ali Nowroozi, Virginia Nunez-Samudio, Bogdan Oancea, Chimedsuren Ochir, Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya, In-Hwan Oh, Andrew T. Olagunju, Babayemi Oluwaseun Olakunde, Ahmed Omar Bali, Emad Omer, Stanislav S. Otstavnov, Bilcha Oumer, Jagadish Rao Padubidri, Adrian Pana, Anamika Pandey, Eun-Cheol Park, Fatemeh Pashazadeh Kan, Urvish K. Patel, Uttam Paudel, Ionela-Roxana Petcu, Zahra Zahid Piracha, Richard Charles G. Pollok, Maarten J. Postma, Akram Pourshams, Hossein Poustchi, Mohammad Rabiee, Navid Rabiee, Alireza Rafiei, Sima Rafiei, Pavan Manibettu Raghuram, Mosiur Rahman, Amir Masoud Rahmani, Setyaningrum Rahmawaty, Aashish Rajesh, Priyanga Ranasinghe, Chythra R. Rao, Sowmya J. Rao, Mahsa Rashidi, Mohammad-Mahdi Rashidi, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Reza Rawassizadeh, Negar Rezaei, Aziz Rezapour, Sahba Rezazadeh-Khadem, Jefferson Antonio Buendia Rodriguez, Godfrey M. Rwegerera, Siamak Sabour, Basema Saddik, Mohammad Reza Saeb, Umar Saeed, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Km Saif-Ur-Rahman, Sarvenaz Salahi, Hamideh Salimzadeh, Chethan Sampath, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Sanabria, Francesco Sanmarchi, Milena M. Santric-Milicevic, Arash Sarveazad, Brijesh Sathian, Monika Sawhney, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Allen Seylani, Saeed Shahabi, Masood Ali Shaikh, Elaheh Shaker, Murad Ziyaudinovich Shakhmardanov, Mohammed Shannawaz, Suchitra M. Shenoy, Jeevan K. Shetty, Pavanchand H. Shetty, Kenji Shibuya, Jae Il Shin, Parnian Shobeiri, Migbar Mekonnen Sibhat, Achintya Dinesh Singh, Jasvinder A. Singh, Surjit Singh, Valentin Yurievich Skryabin, Anna Aleksandrovna Skryabina, Amir Ali Sohrabpour, Suhang Song, Seidamir Pasha Tabaeian, Eyayou Girma Tadesse, Majid Taheri, Mircea Tampa, Ker-Kan Tan, Ahmad Tavakoli, Abdelghani Tbakhi, Belay Negash Tefera, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Habtamu Molla Tesfaw, Rekha Thapar, Aravind Thavamani, Seyed Abolfazl Tohidast, Daniel Nigusse Tollosa, Maria Elena Tosti, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Eugenio Traini, Mai Thi Ngoc Tran, Indang Trihandini, Biruk Shalmeno Tusa, Irfan Ullah, Marco Vacante, Sahel Valadan Tahbaz, Pascual R. Valdez, Shoban Babu Varthya, Bay Vo, Yasir Waheed, Adisu Birhanu Weldesenbet, Melat Woldemariam, Suowen Xu, Seyed Hossein Yahyazadeh Jabbari, Mehdi Yaseri, Yigizie Yeshaw, Vahit Yigit, Birhanu Wubale Yirdaw, Naohiro Yonemoto, Chuanhua Yu, Ismaeel Yunusa, Mazyar Zahir, Leila Zaki, Mohammad Zamani, Maryam Zamanian, Mikhail Sergeevich Zastrozhin, Theo Vos, John W. Ward, M. Ashworth Dirac

Summary: This study estimated the global, regional, and national prevalence of HBV, as well as mortality and DALYs due to HBV in 2019. It found a decline in HBV infection rates in different age groups, but an increase in HBV-related deaths. Many countries have reached the target for HBV infection rates in children, but targets for reducing deaths and cases have not been met, and progress needs to be accelerated to achieve the 2030 goals.

LANCET GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY (2022)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Impact of Three Outbreaks on Mpox Prevention Program in Iraq: Lessons and Recommendations

Ahmed A. Mosa, Nawfal R. Hussein

Summary: The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the already fragile healthcare system in Iraq, leading to the emergence of other infectious diseases and exerting additional strain. Preventing the spread of diseases like Mpox requires increased public awareness, training for healthcare workers, and effective surveillance and diagnostic measures.

JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY (2022)

Letter Infectious Diseases

Shortage of Coronavirus RT-PCR Kits May Increase the Spread of Infection in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Nawfal Hussein, Ibrahim Naqid

ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES (2022)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Twitter-Based Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of Social Media Posts using Natural Language Processing, to Understand People's Perspectives Regarding COVID-19 Omicron Subvariants XBB.1.5 and BF.7

S. V. Praveen, Rosemol Boby, Roshan Shaji, Deepak Chandran, Nawfal R. Hussein, Sirwan Khalid Ahmed, Shopnil Akash, Kuldeep Dhama

Summary: Concerns about the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 and previously reported BF.7 have been raised due to the continuous rise in COVID-19 cases. This study analyzed the perceptions of Indian citizens regarding these variants using natural language processing techniques. The sentiment analysis revealed that a significant number of tweets had neutral sentiments, followed by positive and negative sentiments. The study highlights the importance of addressing concerns about the future and vaccine immunity to tackle the ongoing pandemic.

JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY (2023)

Article Infectious Diseases

A study of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody positivity in Duhok City, Iraq

Nawfal R. Hussein, Guleer H. Shahab, Narin A. Rasheed, Alind N. Ahmed, Reving S. Salih, Ahmed S. Mahdi, Sabeeha A. Mansour, Shaveen Mahdi, Ibrahim A. Naqid, Nawshan Ibrahim, Dildar H. Musa, Zana S. M. Saleem

Summary: The study aimed to investigate the positivity rate of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and associated factors. Data and blood samples were collected, and 62.58% of the participants were positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Females had a higher positivity rate, participants with a history of COVID-19 had a significantly higher prevalence of antibodies, and reported symptoms were associated with a higher likelihood of developing antibodies. Age was also found to be significantly associated with antibody production.

JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (2023)

Article Infectious Diseases

A study of long COVID-19 in Duhok, Kurdistan region, Iraq

Salmas S. Ahmed, Pawan Adil, Narin A. Rasheed, Nawfal R. Hussein, Kuldeep Dhama

Summary: This study aims to assess the prevalence of long COVID-19 in Duhok city, Iraq and its correlation with epidemiological and clinical variables. Data was collected from a questionnaire administered to 1039 participants aged 18 and older, revealing that long COVID-19 manifestations included fatigue, hair loss, and loss/change in the sense of smell or taste. There were significant correlations between long COVID-19 and gender, comorbidities, age, and duration of infection.

JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (2023)

Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

A Cross-sectional Study of Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes among Adults with Laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection with Omicron Variant

Nawfal R. Hussein, Majeed T. Ahmed, Brisik H. Rashad, Majeed H. Mustafa, Narin A. Rasheed, Ibrahim A. Naqid, Zana Sidiq M. Saleem, Nashwan M. R. Ibrahim, Dildar H. Musa

Summary: This study investigated the profile and outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infection through a prospective cohort study conducted in a city in Iraq. The findings revealed a relatively high reinfection rate with the Omicron variant, higher IgG antibody levels in patients vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech, a negative correlation between IgG levels and disease severity, and a positive correlation between D-dimer levels and disease severity. Further research is needed to explore the long-term effects of Omicron infection.

JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY (2023)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

The Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Medical Students: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards E-Learning: An Online Cross-Sectional Study in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Ahmed A. Mosa, Shah Vahel Ibrahim, Ibrahim A. Naqid, Dawan Jamal Hawezy, Sirwan M. A. Al-Jaf, Nawfal R. Hussein

Summary: This study examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical education and the attitudes of medical students towards E-learning in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The results showed that while most students found the Internet quality to be good, they had mixed opinions regarding the suitability of E-learning as a substitute for traditional learning. The study concluded that E-learning was a necessary adjustment in the educational system during the pandemic.

GALICIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL (2023)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

False Beliefs About Diabetes Mellitus in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A Population-Based Study

Brisik H. Rashad, Basheer A. Abdi, Ibrahim A. Naqid, Nawfal R. Hussein, Ahmed A. Mosa, Laween Hashim Dawoud, Ramis Imad Elyas, Halima Adill Abdulrahman

Summary: This study aimed to assess the knowledge and prevalence of misconceptions about diabetes mellitus (DM) among the general population and identify factors influencing these misconceptions. The study found that males, individuals with diabetes, and those with lower education levels were more likely to have misconceptions. Healthcare workers had better knowledge about diabetes, but some misconceptions still persisted.

GALICIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL (2023)

Article Medicine, General & Internal

The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010-19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

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