Ιατρική Σχολή / Medical School: Recent submissions
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People with high HIV viral load within risk networks: who are these people and who refers them best?
(2019)Introduction: Viral load is one of the most important determinants for HIV transmission. Identification of people with high viral load (PHVL) can be effective in limiting onward HIV transmission. In order to improve the ...
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Hypermethylation-associated downregulation of microRNA-4456 in hypersexual disorder with putative influence on oxytocin signalling: A DNA methylation analysis of miRNA genes
(2020)Hypersexual disorder (HD) was proposed as a diagnosis in the DSM-5 and the classification ‘Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder’ is now presented as an impulse-control disorder in ICD-11. HD incorporates several pathophysiological ...
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Comparative assessment of budesonide-MMX and mesalamine in active, mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
(2019)Aims The comparative efficacy, safety and tolerability of budesonide-MMX and oral mesalamine in active, mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis (UC) are unclear. We conducted a network meta-analysis to fill this evidence gap. ...
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Identifying, linking, and treating people who inject drugs and were recently infected with HIV in the context of a network-based intervention
(2019)Identifying and linking people to care soon after HIV infection could limit viral transmission and protect their health. This work aims at describing the continuum of care among recently HIV-infected people who inject drugs ...
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Letter to the editor: influenza-associated mortality and oseltamivir: beware of misstepping into stepwise procedures
(2019)eurosurveillance.org is the online home of Eurosurveillance, Europe's journal on infectious disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control.
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Environmental Risk Factors for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses
(2019)BACKGROUND & AIMS: Multiple environmental factors have been associated with the development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). We performed an umbrella review of meta-analyses to summarize available epidemiologic ...
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New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals: Tools to Study Links Between Structural Interventions or Large-Scale Social Change and HIV Risk Behaviors, Service Use, and Infection
(2020)Large-scale structural interventions and "Big Events" like revolutions, wars and major disasters can affect HIV transmission by changing the sizes of at-risk populations, making high-risk behaviors more or less likely, or ...
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Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness and Use Within High HIV Transmission Networks
(2019)Improved implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) should be a valuable tool within communities experiencing high HIV incidence, such as black men who have sex with men (MSM). Using baseline data from the Chicago ...
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Availability of epinephrine auto-injectors and knowledge of community pharmacists about their use
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Potential adjustment methodology for missing data and reporting delay in the HIV Surveillance System, European Union/European Economic Area, 2015
(2018)Accurate case-based surveillance data remain the key data source for estimating HIV burden and monitoring prevention efforts in Europe. We carried out a literature review and exploratory analysis of surveillance data ...
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Interleukin gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to HIV-1 infection: a meta-analysis
(2018)Some subjects are repeatedly exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), yet they remain uninfected. This suggests the existence of host-resistance mechanisms. The current study synthesizes the evidence regarding the ...
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Editorial: tofacitinib and biologics for moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis—what is best in class? Authors’ reply
(2018)Linked Content This article is linked to Bonovas et al and Tsai papers. To view these articles visit https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14449 and https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.14480.
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Are European HIV cohort data within EuroCoord representative of the diagnosed HIV population?
(2019)OBJECTIVE: HIV cohorts are an important source of clinical data for informing public health policies and programmes. However, the generalizability of cohort findings to the wider population of people diagnosed with HIV in ...
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Near Full-length Genomic Sequencing and Molecular Analysis of HIV-Infected Individuals in a Network-based Intervention (TRIP) in Athens, Greece: Evidence that Transmissions Occur More Frequently from those with High HIV-RNA
(2018)BACKGROUND: TRIP (Transmission Reduction Intervention Project) was a network-based, contact tracing approach to locate and link to care, mostly people who inject drugs (PWID) with recent HIV infection. OBJECTIVE: We ...
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Risk network approaches to locating undiagnosed HIV cases in Odessa, Ukraine
(2018)Introduction Providing HIV healthcare and Treatment as Prevention both depend on diagnosing HIV cases, preferably soon after initial infection. We hypothesized that tracing risk networks recruits higher proportions of ...
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Molecular Analysis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1)–Infected Individuals in a Network-Based Intervention (Transmission Reduction Intervention Project): Phylogenetics Identify HIV-1–Infected Individuals With Social Links
(2018)We analyzed associations between HIV-1 transmission links, as estimated by phylogenetic analyses, and social networks. We found that 43.8% of people who inject
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A Network Intervention to Locate Newly HIV Infected Persons Within MSM Networks in Chicago
(2019)Individuals with recent/acute HIV-infection have an increased likelihood of disease transmission. To evaluate effectiveness of identifying recent infections, we compared networks of recently and long-term HIV-infected ...
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Comparison between Nageotte and flow cytometric counting of residual leucocytes in freshly prepared leucocyte-reduced red blood cell components
(2018)Background Flow cytometry (FC) and Nageotte hemocytometry represent the most widely accepted methods for counting residual white blood cells (rWBCs) in leucocyte-reduced (LR) blood components. Our aim was to study the ...