Objective Certain leading medical organisations are considering alternatives to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a predictor of the risk for non-communicable chronic disease (NCD) or death. Our objective ...

Introduction Stroke is the second leading cause of death and disability creating a huge economic burden annually. Robot-assisted training (RT) is a promising therapy in stroke rehabilitation, but for ...

Introduction Mental illness typically onsets during the developmental stages from adolescence to emerging adulthood (ages 15–24 years), referred to as ‘youth’. A subset of youth with mental illness ...

Introduction Antenatal depression (AD), a maternal mental health condition, has been increasingly prevalent in recent years. It is often triggered by various stressors, including hormonal changes, ...

Objective To develop and compare algorithms for identifying gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) across European electronic ...

Introduction The suicide risk among discharged psychiatric patients is substantially higher than that among patients with physical diseases and the general population. In China, few cohort studies ...

Introduction The use of digitally enabled technology is considered a promising platform to prevent morbidity and enhance youth mental health as youth are growing up in the digital world and accessing ...

Objectives Shift work sleep disorder is a circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorder characterised by insomnia and/or excessive sleepiness associated with a shift work schedule that overlaps with habitual ...

Introduction Shared decision-making (SDM) requires that individuals are correctly and smoothly supported to make decisions. However, in Japan, development of decision aids (DAs) to support ...

Introduction Only symptomatic treatments are available for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common chronic neurodegenerative disease worldwide, and it is therefore imperative to ...

3 Department of Pharmacology, Regional Medicines Information & Pharmacovigilance Centre (RELIS), Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway Objective To assess whether corticosteroids are associated with ...

Objective To investigate the epidemiology of road traffic injury (RTI) in Nepal for the period 2001–2013. Methods 2 approaches, secondary data analysis and systematic literature review, were adopted.