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12. Nanotechnology-Based Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems.

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Asamoah, George Adu, Korsah, Maame, Jeyasundar, Parimala Gnana Soundari Arockiam, Ahmed, Meraj, Lau, Sie Yon, and Danquah, Michael K.

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Conventional energy storage systems, such as pumped hydroelectric storage, lead–acid batteries, and compressed air energy storage (CAES), have been widely used for energy storage. However, these systems face significant limitations, including geographic constraints, high construction costs, low energy efficiency, and environmental challenges. Among these, lead–acid batteries, despite their widespread use, suffer from issues such as heavy weight, sensitivity to temperature fluctuations, low energy density, and limited depth of discharge. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have emerged as a promising alternative, offering portability, fast charging, long cycle life, and higher energy density. However, LIBs still face challenges related to limited lifespan, safety concerns (such as overheating), and environmental impact due to resource extraction and emissions. This review explores the introduction of nanotechnology as a transformative approach to enhance efficiency and overcome the limitations of LIBs. We provide an in-depth overview of various nanotechnology-based solutions for LIBs, focusing on their impact on energy density, cycle life, safety, and environmental sustainability. Additionally, we discuss advanced thermal analysis techniques used to assess and improve the performance of nanotechnology-enhanced LIBs. Finally, we examine the role of nanoparticles in the environmental remediation of LIBs, offering insights into how they can mitigate the ecological footprint of battery disposal and recycling. This review aims to highlight the potential of nanotechnology to revolutionize energy storage systems and address the growing demand for efficient and sustainable energy solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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15. The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

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Graham, Sarah E., Clarke, Shoa L., Wu, Kuan-Han H., Kanoni, Stavroula, Zajac, Greg J. M., Ramdas, Shweta, Surakka, Ida, Ntalla, Ioanna, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W., Locke, Adam E., Marouli, Eirini, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Han, Sohee, Narita, Akira, Choudhury, Ananyo, Bentley, Amy R., Ekoru, Kenneth, Verma, Anurag, Trivedi, Bhavi, Martin, Hilary C., Hunt, Karen A., Hui, Qin, Klarin, Derek, Zhu, Xiang, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Helgadottir, Anna, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Olafsson, Isleifur, Akiyama, Masato, Sakaue, Saori, Terao, Chikashi, Kanai, Masahiro, Zhou, Wei, Brumpton, Ben M., Rasheed, Humaira, Ruotsalainen, Sanni E., Havulinna, Aki S., Veturi, Yogasudha, Feng, QiPing, Rosenthal, Elisabeth A., Lingren, Todd, Pacheco, Jennifer Allen, Pendergrass, Sarah A., Haessler, Jeffrey, Giulianini, Franco, Bradford, Yuki, Miller, Jason E., Campbell, Archie, Lin, Kuang, Millwood, Iona Y., Hindy, George, Rasheed, Asif, Faul, Jessica D., Zhao, Wei, Weir, David R., Turman, Constance, Huang, Hongyan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Mahajan, Anubha, Brown, Michael R., Zhang, Weihua, Yu, Ketian, Schmidt, Ellen M., Pandit, Anita, Gustafsson, Stefan, Yin, Xianyong, Luan, Jian’an, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Jang, Hye-Mi, Yoon, Kyungheon, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Pitsillides, Achilleas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wood, Andrew R., Ji, Yingji, Gao, Zishan, Haworth, Simon, Mitchell, Ruth E., Chai, Jin Fang, Aadahl, Mette, Yao, Jie, Manichaikul, Ani, Warren, Helen R., Ramirez, Julia, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Kårhus, Line L., Goel, Anuj, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Noordam, Raymond, Sidore, Carlo, Fiorillo, Edoardo, McDaid, Aaron F., Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Wielscher, Matthias, Trompet, Stella, Sattar, Naveed, Møllehave, Line T., Thuesen, Betina H., Munz, Matthias, Zeng, Lingyao, Huang, Jianfeng, Yang, Bin, Poveda, Alaitz, Kurbasic, Azra, Lamina, Claudia, Forer, Lukas, Scholz, Markus, Galesloot, Tessel E., Bradfield, Jonathan P., Daw, E. Warwick, Zmuda, Joseph M., Mitchell, Jonathan S., Fuchsberger, Christian, Christensen, Henry, Brody, Jennifer A., Feitosa, Mary F., Wojczynski, Mary K., Preuss, Michael, Mangino, Massimo, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Verweij, Niek, Benjamins, Jan W., Engmann, Jorgen, Kember, Rachel L., Slieker, Roderick C., Lo, Ken Sin, Zilhao, Nuno R., Le, Phuong, Kleber, Marcus E., Delgado, Graciela E., Huo, Shaofeng, Ikeda, Daisuke D., Iha, Hiroyuki, Yang, Jian, Liu, Jun, Leonard, Hampton L., Marten, Jonathan, Schmidt, Börge, Arendt, Marina, Smyth, Laura J., Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Wang, Chaolong, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Wong, Andrew, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Sim, Xueling, Xia, Rui, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Fernandez-Lopez, Juan Carlos, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Ahmed, Meraj, Jackson, Anne U., Yousri, Noha A., Irvin, Marguerite R., Oldmeadow, Christopher, Kim, Han-Na, Ryu, Seungho, Timmers, Paul R. H. J., Arbeeva, Liubov, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Lange, Leslie A., Chai, Xiaoran, Prasad, Gauri, Lorés-Motta, Laura, Pauper, Marc, Long, Jirong, Li, Xiaohui, Theusch, Elizabeth, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Loukola, Anu, Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Warner, Sophie C., Wang, Ya Xing, Wei, Wen B., Nutile, Teresa, Ruggiero, Daniela, Sung, Yun Ju, Hung, Yi-Jen, Chen, Shufeng, Liu, Fangchao, Yang, Jingyun, Kentistou, Katherine A., Gorski, Mathias, Brumat, Marco, Meidtner, Karina, Bielak, Lawrence F., Smith, Jennifer A., Hebbar, Prashantha, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Hofer, Edith, Lin, Maoxuan, Xue, Chao, Zhang, Jifeng, Concas, Maria Pina, Vaccargiu, Simona, van der Most, Peter J., Pitkänen, Niina, Cade, Brian E., Lee, Jiwon, van der Laan, Sander W., Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu, Weiss, Stefan, Zimmermann, Martina E., Lee, Jong Young, Choi, Hyeok Sun, Nethander, Maria, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Southam, Lorraine, Rayner, Nigel W., Wang, Carol A., Lin, Shih-Yi, Wang, Jun-Sing, Couture, Christian, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nikus, Kjell, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Vestergaard, Henrik, Hildalgo, Bertha, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Cai, Qiuyin, Obura, Morgan O., van Setten, Jessica, Li, Xiaoyin, Schwander, Karen, Terzikhan, Natalie, Shin, Jae Hun, Jackson, Rebecca D., Reiner, Alexander P., Martin, Lisa Warsinger, Chen, Zhengming, Li, Liming, Highland, Heather M., Young, Kristin L., Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Thiery, Joachim, Bis, Joshua C., Nadkarni, Girish N., Launer, Lenore J., Li, Huaixing, Nalls, Mike A., Raitakari, Olli T., Ichihara, Sahoko, Wild, Sarah H., Nelson, Christopher P., Campbell, Harry, Jäger, Susanne, Nabika, Toru, Al-Mulla, Fahd, Niinikoski, Harri, Braund, Peter S., Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Giardoglou, Tota, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Bhatti, Konain Fatima, de Kleijn, Dominique, de Borst, Gert J., Kim, Eung Kweon, Adams, Hieab H. H., Ikram, M. Arfan, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Asselbergs, Folkert W., Kraaijeveld, Adriaan O., Beulens, Joline W. J., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Rallidis, Loukianos S., Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Mitchell, Paul, Hewitt, Alex W., Kähönen, Mika, Pérusse, Louis, Bouchard, Claude, Tönjes, Anke, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Pennell, Craig E., Mori, Trevor A., Lieb, Wolfgang, Franke, Andre, Ohlsson, Claes, Mellström, Dan, Cho, Yoon Shin, Lee, Hyejin, Yuan, Jian-Min, Koh, Woon-Puay, Rhee, Sang Youl, Woo, Jeong-Taek, Heid, Iris M., Stark, Klaus J., Völzke, Henry, Homuth, Georg, Evans, Michele K., Zonderman, Alan B., Polasek, Ozren, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Hoefer, Imo E., Redline, Susan, Pahkala, Katja, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Snieder, Harold, Biino, Ginevra, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schmidt, Helena, Chen, Y. Eugene, Bandinelli, Stefania, Dedoussis, George, Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Kato, Norihiro, Schulze, Matthias B., Girotto, Giorgia, Jung, Bettina, Böger, Carsten A., Joshi, Peter K., Bennett, David A., De Jager, Philip L., Lu, Xiangfeng, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Brown, Morris, Caulfield, Mark J., Munroe, Patricia B., Guo, Xiuqing, Ciullo, Marina, Jonas, Jost B., Samani, Nilesh J., Kaprio, Jaakko, Pajukanta, Päivi, Adair, Linda S., Bechayda, Sonny Augustin, de Silva, H. Janaka, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Krauss, Ronald M., Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Zheng, Wei, den Hollander, Anneke I., Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Correa, Adolfo, Wilson, James G., Lind, Lars, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Nelson, Amanda E., Golightly, Yvonne M., Wilson, James F., Penninx, Brenda, Kim, Hyung-Lae, Attia, John, Scott, Rodney J., Rao, D. C., Arnett, Donna K., Hunt, Steven C., Walker, Mark, Koistinen, Heikki A., Chandak, Giriraj R., Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Mercader, Josep M., Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez, Orozco, Lorena, Fornage, Myriam, Tai, E. Shyong, van Dam, Rob M., Lehtimäki, Terho, Chaturvedi, Nish, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Liu, Jianjun, Reilly, Dermot F., McKnight, Amy Jayne, Kee, Frank, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, McCarthy, Mark I., Palmer, Colin N. A., Vitart, Veronique, Hayward, Caroline, Simonsick, Eleanor, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Lu, Fan, Qu, Jia, Hishigaki, Haretsugu, Lin, Xu, März, Winfried, Parra, Esteban J., Cruz, Miguel, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Lettre, Guillaume, ’t Hart, Leen M., Elders, Petra J. M., Damrauer, Scott M., Kumari, Meena, Kivimaki, Mika, van der Harst, Pim, Spector, Tim D., Loos, Ruth J. F., Province, Michael A., Psaty, Bruce M., Brandslund, Ivan, Pramstaller, Peter P., Christensen, Kaare, Ripatti, Samuli, Widén, Elisabeth, Hakonarson, Hakon, Grant, Struan F. A., Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M., de Graaf, Jacqueline, Loeffler, Markus, Kronenberg, Florian, Gu, Dongfeng, Erdmann, Jeanette, Schunkert, Heribert, Franks, Paul W., Linneberg, Allan, Jukema, J. Wouter, Khera, Amit V., Männikkö, Minna, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Kutalik, Zoltan, Cucca, Francesco, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., van Dijk, Ko Willems, Watkins, Hugh, Strachan, David P., Grarup, Niels, Sever, Peter, Poulter, Neil, Rotter, Jerome I., Dantoft, Thomas M., Karpe, Fredrik, Neville, Matt J., Timpson, Nicholas J., Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien-Yin, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Peters, Annette, Gieger, Christian, Hattersley, Andrew T., Pedersen, Nancy L., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Boomsma, Dorret I., de Geus, Eco J. C., Cupples, L. Adrienne, van Meurs, Joyce B. J., Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Huang, Wei, Kim, Young Jin, Tabara, Yasuharu, Wareham, Nicholas J., Langenberg, Claudia, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Ingelsson, Erik, Abecasis, Goncalo, Chambers, John C., Kooner, Jaspal S., de Vries, Paul S., Morrison, Alanna C., North, Kari E., Daviglus, Martha, Kraft, Peter, Martin, Nicholas G., Whitfield, John B., Abbas, Shahid, Saleheen, Danish, Walters, Robin G., Holmes, Michael V., Black, Corri, Smith, Blair H., Justice, Anne E., Baras, Aris, Buring, Julie E., Ridker, Paul M., Chasman, Daniel I., Kooperberg, Charles, Wei, Wei-Qi, Jarvik, Gail P., Namjou, Bahram, Hayes, M. Geoffrey, Ritchie, Marylyn D., Jousilahti, Pekka, Salomaa, Veikko, Hveem, Kristian, Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Kubo, Michiaki, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Okada, Yukinori, Murakami, Yoshinori, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Stefansson, Kari, Ho, Yuk-Lam, Lynch, Julie A., Rader, Daniel J., Tsao, Philip S., Chang, Kyong-Mi, Cho, Kelly, O’Donnell, Christopher J., Gaziano, John M., Wilson, Peter, Rotimi, Charles N., Hazelhurst, Scott, Ramsay, Michèle, Trembath, Richard C., van Heel, David A., Tamiya, Gen, Yamamoto, Masayuki, Kim, Bong-Jo, Mohlke, Karen L., Frayling, Timothy M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Kathiresan, Sekar, Boehnke, Michael, Natarajan, Pradeep, Peloso, Gina M., Brown, Christopher D., Morris, Andrew P., Assimes, Themistocles L., Deloukas, Panos, Sun, Yan V., and Willer, Cristen J.

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2021
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22. Author Correction : The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

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Graham, Sarah E., Clarke, Shoa L., Wu, Kuan-Han H., Kanoni, Stavroula, Zajac, Greg J. M., Ramdas, Shweta, Surakka, Ida, Ntalla, Ioanna, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W., Locke, Adam E., Marouli, Eirini, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Han, Sohee, Narita, Akira, Choudhury, Ananyo, Bentley, Amy R., Ekoru, Kenneth, Verma, Anurag, Trivedi, Bhavi, Martin, Hilary C., Hunt, Karen A., Hui, Qin, Klarin, Derek, Zhu, Xiang, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Helgadottir, Anna, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Olafsson, Isleifur, Akiyama, Masato, Sakaue, Saori, Terao, Chikashi, Kanai, Masahiro, Zhou, Wei, Brumpton, Ben M., Rasheed, Humaira, Ruotsalainen, Sanni E., Havulinna, Aki S., Veturi, Yogasudha, Feng, QiPing, Rosenthal, Elisabeth A., Lingren, Todd, Pacheco, Jennifer Allen, Pendergrass, Sarah A., Haessler, Jeffrey, Giulianini, Franco, Bradford, Yuki, Miller, Jason E., Campbell, Archie, Lin, Kuang, Millwood, Iona Y., Hindy, George, Rasheed, Asif, Faul, Jessica D., Zhao, Wei, Weir, David R., Turman, Constance, Huang, Hongyan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Mahajan, Anubha, Brown, Michael R., Zhang, Weihua, Yu, Ketian, Schmidt, Ellen M., Pandit, Anita, Gustafsson, Stefan, Yin, Xianyong, Luan, Jian’an, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Jang, Hye-Mi, Yoon, Kyungheon, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Pitsillides, Achilleas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wood, Andrew R., Ji, Yingji, Gao, Zishan, Haworth, Simon, Mitchell, Ruth E., Chai, Jin Fang, Aadahl, Mette, Yao, Jie, Manichaikul, Ani, Warren, Helen R., Ramirez, Julia, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Kårhus, Line L., Goel, Anuj, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Noordam, Raymond, Sidore, Carlo, Fiorillo, Edoardo, McDaid, Aaron F., Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Wielscher, Matthias, Trompet, Stella, Sattar, Naveed, Møllehave, Line T., Thuesen, Betina H., Munz, Matthias, Zeng, Lingyao, Huang, Jianfeng, Yang, Bin, Poveda, Alaitz, Kurbasic, Azra, Lamina, Claudia, Forer, Lukas, Scholz, Markus, Galesloot, Tessel E., Bradfield, Jonathan P., Daw, E. Warwick, Zmuda, Joseph M., Mitchell, Jonathan S., Fuchsberger, Christian, Christensen, Henry, Brody, Jennifer A., Feitosa, Mary F., Wojczynski, Mary K., Preuss, Michael, Mangino, Massimo, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Verweij, Niek, Benjamins, Jan W., Engmann, Jorgen, Kember, Rachel L., Slieker, Roderick C., Lo, Ken Sin, Zilhao, Nuno R., Le, Phuong, Kleber, Marcus E., Delgado, Graciela E., Huo, Shaofeng, Ikeda, Daisuke D., Iha, Hiroyuki, Yang, Jian, Liu, Jun, Leonard, Hampton L., Marten, Jonathan, Schmidt, Börge, Arendt, Marina, Smyth, Laura J., Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Wang, Chaolong, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Wong, Andrew, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Sim, Xueling, Xia, Rui, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Fernandez-Lopez, Juan Carlos, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Ahmed, Meraj, Jackson, Anne U., Yousri, Noha A., Irvin, Marguerite R., Oldmeadow, Christopher, Kim, Han-Na, Ryu, Seungho, Timmers, Paul R. H. J., Arbeeva, Liubov, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Lange, Leslie A., Chai, Xiaoran, Prasad, Gauri, Lorés-Motta, Laura, Pauper, Marc, Long, Jirong, Li, Xiaohui, Theusch, Elizabeth, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Loukola, Anu, Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Warner, Sophie C., Wang, Ya Xing, Wei, Wen B., Nutile, Teresa, Ruggiero, Daniela, Sung, Yun Ju, Hung, Yi-Jen, Chen, Shufeng, Liu, Fangchao, Yang, Jingyun, Kentistou, Katherine A., Gorski, Mathias, Brumat, Marco, Meidtner, Karina, Bielak, Lawrence F., Smith, Jennifer A., Hebbar, Prashantha, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Hofer, Edith, Lin, Maoxuan, Xue, Chao, Zhang, Jifeng, Concas, Maria Pina, Vaccargiu, Simona, van der Most, Peter J., Pitkänen, Niina, Cade, Brian E., Lee, Jiwon, van der Laan, Sander W., Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu, Weiss, Stefan, Zimmermann, Martina E., Lee, Jong Young, Choi, Hyeok Sun, Nethander, Maria, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Southam, Lorraine, Rayner, Nigel W., Wang, Carol A., Lin, Shih-Yi, Wang, Jun-Sing, Couture, Christian, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nikus, Kjell, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Vestergaard, Henrik, Hildalgo, Bertha, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Cai, Qiuyin, Obura, Morgan O., van Setten, Jessica, Li, Xiaoyin, Schwander, Karen, Terzikhan, Natalie, Shin, Jae Hun, Jackson, Rebecca D., Reiner, Alexander P., Martin, Lisa Warsinger, Chen, Zhengming, Li, Liming, Highland, Heather M., Young, Kristin L., Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Thiery, Joachim, Bis, Joshua C., Nadkarni, Girish N., Launer, Lenore J., Li, Huaixing, Nalls, Mike A., Raitakari, Olli T., Ichihara, Sahoko, Wild, Sarah H., Nelson, Christopher P., Campbell, Harry, Jäger, Susanne, Nabika, Toru, Al-Mulla, Fahd, Niinikoski, Harri, Braund, Peter S., Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Giardoglou, Tota, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Bhatti, Konain Fatima, de Kleijn, Dominique, de Borst, Gert J., Kim, Eung Kweon, Adams, Hieab H. H., Ikram, M. Arfan, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Asselbergs, Folkert W., Kraaijeveld, Adriaan O., Beulens, Joline W. J., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Rallidis, Loukianos S., Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Mitchell, Paul, Hewitt, Alex W., Kähönen, Mika, Pérusse, Louis, Bouchard, Claude, Tönjes, Anke, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Pennell, Craig E., Mori, Trevor A., Lieb, Wolfgang, Franke, Andre, Ohlsson, Claes, Mellström, Dan, Cho, Yoon Shin, Lee, Hyejin, Yuan, Jian-Min, Koh, Woon-Puay, Rhee, Sang Youl, Woo, Jeong-Taek, Heid, Iris M., Stark, Klaus J., Völzke, Henry, Homuth, Georg, Evans, Michele K., Zonderman, Alan B., Polasek, Ozren, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Hoefer, Imo E., Redline, Susan, Pahkala, Katja, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Snieder, Harold, Biino, Ginevra, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schmidt, Helena, Chen, Y. Eugene, Bandinelli, Stefania, Dedoussis, George, Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Kato, Norihiro, Schulze, Matthias B., Girotto, Giorgia, Jung, Bettina, Böger, Carsten A., Joshi, Peter K., Bennett, David A., De Jager, Philip L., Lu, Xiangfeng, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Brown, Morris, Caulfield, Mark J., Munroe, Patricia B., Guo, Xiuqing, Ciullo, Marina, Jonas, Jost B., Samani, Nilesh J., Kaprio, Jaakko, Pajukanta, Päivi, Adair, Linda S., Bechayda, Sonny Augustin, de Silva, H. Janaka, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Krauss, Ronald M., Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Zheng, Wei, den Hollander, Anneke I., Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Correa, Adolfo, Wilson, James G., Lind, Lars, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Nelson, Amanda E., Golightly, Yvonne M., Wilson, James F., Penninx, Brenda, Kim, Hyung-Lae, Attia, John, Scott, Rodney J., Rao, D.C., Arnett, Donna K., Hunt, Steven C., Walker, Mark, Koistinen, Heikki A., Chandak, Giriraj R., Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Mercader, Josep M., Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez, Orozco, Lorena, Fornage, Myriam, Tai, E. Shyong, van Dam, Rob M., Lehtimäki, Terho, Chaturvedi, Nish, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Liu, Jianjun, Reilly, Dermot F., McKnight, Amy Jayne, Kee, Frank, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, McCarthy, Mark I., Palmer, Colin N. A., Vitart, Veronique, Hayward, Caroline, Simonsick, Eleanor, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Lu, Fan, Qu, Jia, Hishigaki, Haretsugu, Lin, Xu, März, Winfried, Parra, Esteban J., Cruz, Miguel, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Lettre, Guillaume, ’t Hart, Leen M., Elders, Petra J. M., Damrauer, Scott M., Kumari, Meena, Kivimaki, Mika, van der Harst, Pim, Spector, Tim D., Loos, Ruth J. F., Province, Michael A., Psaty, Bruce M., Brandslund, Ivan, Pramstaller, Peter P., Christensen, Kaare, Ripatti, Samuli, Widén, Elisabeth, Hakonarson, Hakon, Grant, Struan F. A., Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M., de Graaf, Jacqueline, Loeffler, Markus, Kronenberg, Florian, Gu, Dongfeng, Erdmann, Jeanette, Schunkert, Heribert, Franks, Paul W., Linneberg, Allan, Jukema, J. Wouter, Khera, Amit V., Männikkö, Minna, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Kutalik, Zoltan, Cucca, Francesco, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., van Dijk, Ko Willems, Watkins, Hugh, Strachan, David P., Grarup, Niels, Sever, Peter, Poulter, Neil, Rotter, Jerome I., Dantoft, Thomas M., Karpe, Fredrik, Neville, Matt J., Timpson, Nicholas J., Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien-Yin, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Peters, Annette, Gieger, Christian, Hattersley, Andrew T., Pedersen, Nancy L., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Boomsma, Dorret I., de Geus, Eco J. C., Cupples, L. Adrienne, van Meurs, Joyce B. J., Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Huang, Wei, Kim, Young Jin, Tabara, Yasuharu, Wareham, Nicholas J., Langenberg, Claudia, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Ingelsson, Erik, Abecasis, Goncalo, Chambers, John C., Kooner, Jaspal S., de Vries, Paul S., Morrison, Alanna C., North, Kari E., Daviglus, Martha, Kraft, Peter, Martin, Nicholas G., Whitfield, John B., Abbas, Shahid, Saleheen, Danish, Walters, Robin G., Holmes, Michael V., Black, Corri, Smith, Blair H., Justice, Anne E., Baras, Aris, Buring, Julie E., Ridker, Paul M., Chasman, Daniel I., Kooperberg, Charles, Wei, Wei-Qi, Jarvik, Gail P., Namjou, Bahram, Hayes, M. Geoffrey, Ritchie, Marylyn D., Jousilahti, Pekka, Salomaa, Veikko, Hveem, Kristian, Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Kubo, Michiaki, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Okada, Yukinori, Murakami, Yoshinori, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Stefansson, Kari, Ho, Yuk-Lam, Lynch, Julie A., Rader, Daniel J., Tsao, Philip S., Chang, Kyong-Mi, Cho, Kelly, O’Donnell, Christopher J., Gaziano, John M., Wilson, Peter, Rotimi, Charles N., Hazelhurst, Scott, Ramsay, Michèle, Trembath, Richard C., van Heel, David A., Tamiya, Gen, Yamamoto, Masayuki, Kim, Bong-Jo, Mohlke, Karen L., Frayling, Timothy M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Kathiresan, Sekar, Boehnke, Michael, Natarajan, Pradeep, Peloso, Gina M., Brown, Christopher D., Morris, Andrew P., Assimes, Themistocles L., Deloukas, Panos, Sun, Yan V., and Willer, Cristen J.

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Correction to: Nature Published online 9 December 2021 In the version of this article initially published, Noha A. Yousri (Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar and Department of Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt) and Steven C. Hunt (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA and Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar) were not included in the author list. In addition, Hieab H. H. Adams (Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) was shown with an incorrect second affiliation in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. Finally, in the HTML version, Cristen J. Willer was mistakenly listed with an extra affiliation (Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia). The authors and affiliations have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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2023

24. Benign Retroperitoneal Schwannoma with Liver Metastasis: An Unusual Presentation.

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Ahmed, Meraj, Vageesh, B. G., Agarwal, Anil K., and Sharma, Manish

Subjects
THERAPEUTIC use of antineoplastic agents, RETROPERITONEUM, ADJUVANT chemotherapy, LIVER tumors, CANCER chemotherapy, SCHWANNOMAS, METASTASIS, TREATMENT effectiveness, POSITRON emission tomography, ABDOMINAL pain, COMPUTED tomography, NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1, COMBINED modality therapy, RARE diseases
Abstract

Retroperitoneal schwannomas (RPSs) are rare tumors with a reported incidence of 0.7%-2.7%. RPSs are usually benign and located in the paravertebral or presacral region. Malignant RPSs are extremely rare and are associated with neurofibromatosis type 1. To the best of our knowledge, benign RPS and metastasis have never been reported earlier. We report a 39-year-old female who was referred to us following a diagnosis of RPS with liver metastasis and had received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) for the same. After NACT, her liver lesion disappeared; we performed surgical excision of the primary tumor and discharged her in good health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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33. The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

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Graham, Sarah E. Clarke, Shoa L. Wu, Kuan-Han H. Kanoni, Stavroula Zajac, Greg J. M. Ramdas, Shweta Surakka, Ida and Ntalla, Ioanna Vedantam, Sailaja Winkler, Thomas W. Locke, Adam E. Marouli, Eirini Hwang, Mi Yeong Han, Sohee and Narita, Akira Choudhury, Ananyo Bentley, Amy R. Ekoru, Kenneth Verma, Anurag Trivedi, Bhavi Martin, Hilary C. and Hunt, Karen A. Hui, Qin Klarin, Derek Zhu, Xiang and Thorleifsson, Gudmar Helgadottir, Anna Gudbjartsson, Daniel F. and Holm, Hilma Olafsson, Isleifur Akiyama, Masato Sakaue, Saori Terao, Chikashi Kanai, Masahiro Zhou, Wei and Brumpton, Ben M. Rasheed, Humaira Ruotsalainen, Sanni E. and Havulinna, Aki S. Veturi, Yogasudha Feng, QiPing Rosenthal, Elisabeth A. Lingren, Todd Pacheco, Jennifer Allen and Pendergrass, Sarah A. Haessler, Jeffrey Giulianini, Franco and Bradford, Yuki Miller, Jason E. Campbell, Archie Lin, Kuang and Millwood, Iona Y. Hindy, George Rasheed, Asif Faul, Jessica D. Zhao, Wei Weir, David R. Turman, Constance and Huang, Hongyan Graff, Mariaelisa Mahajan, Anubha Brown, Michael R. Zhang, Weihua Yu, Ketian Schmidt, Ellen M. and Pandit, Anita Gustafsson, Stefan Yin, Xianyong Luan, Jian'an and Zhao, Jing-Hua Matsuda, Fumihiko Jang, Hye-Mi Yoon, Kyungheon Medina-Gomez, Carolina Pitsillides, Achilleas and Hottenga, Jouke Jan Willemsen, Gonneke Wood, Andrew R. Ji, Yingji Gao, Zishan Haworth, Simon Mitchell, Ruth E. and Chai, Jin Fang Aadahl, Mette Yao, Jie Manichaikul, Ani and Warren, Helen R. Ramirez, Julia Bork-Jensen, Jette Karhus, Line L. Goel, Anuj Sabater-Lleal, Maria Noordam, Raymond and Sidore, Carlo Fiorillo, Edoardo McDaid, Aaron F. and Marques-Vidal, Pedro Wielscher, Matthias Trompet, Stella and Sattar, Naveed Mollehave, Line T. Thuesen, Betina H. Munz, Matthias Zeng, Lingyao Huang, Jianfeng Yang, Bin Poveda, Alaitz Kurbasic, Azra Lamina, Claudia Forer, Lukas and Scholz, Markus Galesloot, Tessel E. Bradfield, Jonathan P. and Daw, E. Warwick Zmuda, Joseph M. Mitchell, Jonathan S. and Fuchsberger, Christian Christensen, Henry Brody, Jennifer A. and Feitosa, Mary F. Wojczynski, Mary K. Preuss, Michael and Mangino, Massimo Christofidou, Paraskevi Verweij, Niek and Benjamins, Jan W. Engmann, Jorgen Kember, Rachel L. Slieker, Roderick C. Lo, Ken Sin Zilhao, Nuno R. Phuong Le and Kleber, Marcus E. Delgado, Graciela E. Huo, Shaofeng Ikeda, Daisuke D. Iha, Hiroyuki Yang, Jian Liu, Jun Leonard, Hampton L. Marten, Jonathan Schmidt, Borge Arendt, Marina and Smyth, Laura J. Canadas-Garre, Marisa Wang, Chaolong and Nakatochi, Masahiro Wong, Andrew Hutri-Kahonen, Nina Sim, Xueling Xia, Rui Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia Fernandez-Lopez, Juan Carlos Lyssenko, Valeriya Ahmed, Meraj Jackson, Anne U. and Irvin, Marguerite R. Oldmeadow, Christopher Kim, Han-Na and Ryu, Seungho Timmers, Paul R. H. J. Arbeeva, Liubov Dorajoo, Rajkumar Lange, Leslie A. Chai, Xiaoran Prasad, Gauri and Lores-Motta, Laura Pauper, Marc Long, Jirong Li, Xiaohui and Theusch, Elizabeth Takeuchi, Fumihiko Spracklen, Cassandra N. and Loukola, Anu Bollepalli, Sailalitha Warner, Sophie C. and Wang, Ya Xing Wei, Wen B. Nutile, Teresa Ruggiero, Daniela and Sung, Yun Ju Hung, Yi-Jen Chen, Shufeng Liu, Fangchao and Yang, Jingyun Kentistou, Katherine A. Gorski, Mathias and Brumat, Marco Meidtner, Karina Bielak, Lawrence F. Smith, Jennifer A. Hebbar, Prashantha Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni Hofer, Edith Lin, Maoxuan Xue, Chao Zhang, Jifeng Concas, Maria Pina Vaccargiu, Simona van der Most, Peter J. Pitkanen, Niina Cade, Brian E. Lee, Jiwon van Der Laan, Sander W. and Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu Weiss, Stefan Zimmermann, Martina E. and Lee, Jong Young Choi, Hyeok Sun Nethander, Maria and Freitag-Wolf, Sandra Southam, Lorraine Rayner, Nigel W. and Wang, Carol A. Lin, Shih-Yi Wang, Jun-Sing Couture, Christian Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka Nikus, Kjell and Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel Vestergaard, Henrik Hildalgo, Bertha and Giannakopoulou, Olga Cai, Qiuyin Obura, Morgan O. van Setten, Jessica Li, Xiaoyin Schwander, Karen Terzikhan, Natalie Shin, Jae Hun Jackson, Rebecca D. Reiner, Alexander P. Martin, Lisa Warsinger Chen, Zhengming Li, Liming and Highland, Heather M. Young, Kristin L. Kawaguchi, Takahisa and Thiery, Joachim Bis, Joshua C. Nadkarni, Girish N. Launer, Lenore J. Li, Huaixing Nalls, Mike A. Raitakari, Olli T. and Ichihara, Sahoko Wild, Sarah H. Nelson, Christopher P. and Campbell, Harry Jager, Susanne Nabika, Toru Al-Mulla, Fahd and Niinikoski, Harri Braund, Peter S. Kolcic, Ivana Kovacs, Peter Giardoglou, Tota Katsuya, Tomohiro Bhatti, Fatima and de Kleijn, Dominique de Borst, Gert J. Kim, Eung Kweon and Adams, Hieab H. H. Ikram, M. Arfan Zhu, Xiaofeng Asselbergs, Folkert W. Kraaijeveld, Adriaan O. Beulens, Joline W. J. and Shu, Xiao-Ou Rallidis, Loukianos S. Pedersen, Oluf Hansen, Torben Mitchell, Paul Hewitt, Alex W. Kahonen, Mika and Perusse, Louis Bouchard, Claude Tonjes, Anke Chen, Yii-Der Ida Pennell, Craig E. Mori, Trevor A. Lieb, Wolfgang and Franke, Andre Ohlsson, Claes Mellstrom, Dan Cho, Yoon Shin and Lee, Hyejin Yuan, Jian-Min Koh, Woon-Puay Rhee, Sang Youl Woo, Jeong-Taek Heid, Iris M. Stark, Klaus J. and Volzke, Henry Homuth, Georg Evans, Michele K. Zonderman, Alan B. Polasek, Ozren Pasterkamp, Gerard Hoefer, Imo E. and Redline, Susan Pahkala, Katja Oldehinkel, Albertine J. and Snieder, Harold Biino, Ginevra Schmidt, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Chen, Y. Eugene Bandinelli, Stefania Dedoussis, George Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse Kardia, Sharon L. R. and Kato, Norihiro Schulze, Matthias B. Girotto, Giorgia Jung, Bettina Boger, Carsten A. Joshi, Peter K. Bennett, David A. and De Jager, Philip L. Lu, Xiangfeng Mamakou, Vasiliki and Brown, Morris Caulfield, Mark J. Munroe, Patricia B. Guo, Xiuqing Ciullo, Marina Jonas, Jost B. Samani, Nilesh J. and Kaprio, Jaakko Pajukanta, Paivi Adair, Linda S. Bechayda, Sonny Augustin de Silva, H. Janaka Wickremasinghe, Ananda R. and Krauss, Ronald M. Wu, Jer-Yuarn Zheng, Wei den Hollander, I, Anneke Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan Correa, Adolfo Wilson, James G. and Lind, Lars Heng, Chew-Kiat Nelson, Amanda E. Golightly, Yvonne M. Wilson, James F. Penninx, Brenda Kim, Hyung-Lae and Attia, John Scott, Rodney J. Rao, D. C. Arnett, Donna K. and Walker, Mark Koistinen, Heikki A. Chandak, Giriraj R. and Yajnik, Chittaranjan S. Mercader, Josep M. Tusie-Luna, Teresa and Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A. Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez and Orozco, Lorena Fornage, Myriam Tai, E. Shyong van Dam, Rob M. Lehtimaki, Terho Chaturvedi, Nish Yokota, Mitsuhiro and Liu, Jianjun Reilly, Dermot F. McKnight, Amy Jayne Kee, Frank Jockel, Karl-Heinz McCarthy, I, Mark Palmer, Colin N. A. Vitart, Veronique Hayward, Caroline Simonsick, Eleanor and van Duijn, Cornelia M. Lu, Fan Qu, Jia Hishigaki, Haretsugu Lin, Xu Marz, Winfried Parra, Esteban J. Cruz, Miguel Gudnason, Vilmundur Tardif, Jean-Claude Lettre, Guillaume `t Hart, Leen M. Elders, Petra J. M. Damrauer, Scott M. Kumari, Meena Kivimaki, Mika van der Harst, Pim and Spector, Tim D. Loos, Ruth J. F. Province, Michael A. Psaty, Bruce M. Brandslund, Ivan Pramstaller, Peter P. Christensen, Kaare Ripatti, Samuli Widen, Elisabeth Hakonarson, Hakon and Grant, Struan F. A. Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M. de Graaf, Jacqueline Loeffler, Markus Kronenberg, Florian Gu, Dongfeng and Erdmann, Jeanette Schunkert, Heribert Franks, Paul W. and Linneberg, Allan Jukema, J. Wouter Khera, V, Amit Mannikko, Minna Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta Kutalik, Zoltan Cucca, Francesco Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O. van Dijk, Ko Willems and Watkins, Hugh Strachan, David P. Grarup, Niels Sever, Peter and Poulter, Neil Rotter, I, Jerome Dantoft, Thomas M. and Karpe, Fredrik Neville, Matt J. Timpson, Nicholas J. Cheng, Ching-Yu Wong, Tien-Yin Khor, Chiea Chuen Sabanayagam, Charumathi Peters, Annette Gieger, Christian Hattersley, Andrew T. Pedersen, Nancy L. Magnusson, Patrik K. E. and Boomsma, I, Dorret de Geus, Eco J. C. Cupples, L. Adrienne and van Meurs, Joyce B. J. Ghanbari, Mohsen Rsen, Penny Gordon-La and Huang, Wei Kim, Young Jin Tabara, Yasuharu Wareham, Nicholas J. Langenberg, Claudia Zeggini, Eleftheria and Kuusisto, Johanna Laakso, Markku Ingelsson, Erik Abecasis, Goncalo Chambers, John C. Kooner, Jaspal S. de Vries, Paul S. Morrison, Alanna C. North, Kari E. Daviglus, Martha and Kraft, Peter Martin, Nicholas G. Whitfield, John B. Abbas, Shahid Saleheen, Danish Walters, Robin G. Holmes, V, Michael and Black, Corri Smith, Blair H. Justice, Anne E. Baras, Aris Buring, Julie E. Ridker, Paul M. Chasman, I, Daniel and Kooperberg, Charles Wei, Wei-Qi Jarvik, Gail P. Namjou, Bahram Hayes, M. Geoffrey Ritchie, Marylyn D. Jousilahti, Pekka Salomaa, Veikko Hveem, Kristian Asvold, Bjorn Olav and Kubo, Michiaki Kamatani, Yoichiro Okada, Yukinori Murakami, Yoshinori Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur Stefansson, Kari Ho, Yuk-Lam Lynch, Julie A. Rader, Daniel J. Tsao, Philip S. and Chang, Kyong-Mi Cho, Kelly O'Donnell, Christopher J. and Gaziano, John M. Wilson, Peter Rotimi, Charles N. and Hazelhurst, Scott Ramsay, Michele Trembath, Richard C. van Heel, David A. Tamiya, Gen Yamamoto, Masayuki Kim, Bong-Jo and Mohlke, Karen L. Frayling, Timothy M. Hirschhorn, Joel N. and Kathiresan, Sekar Boehnke, Michael Natarajan, Pradeep and Peloso, Gina M. Brown, Christopher D. Morris, Andrew P. and Assimes, Themistocles L. Deloukas, Panos Sun, V, Yan Willer, Cristen J.

Abstract

Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use(1). Despite advances in prevention and treatment, in particular through reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels(2), heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide(3). Genome-wideassociation studies (GWAS) of blood lipid levels have led to important biological and clinical insights, as well as new drug targets, for cardiovascular disease. However, most previous GWAS(4-23) have been conducted in European ancestry populations and may have missed genetic variants that contribute to lipid-level variation in other ancestry groups. These include differences in allele frequencies, effect sizes and linkage-disequilibrium patterns(24). Here we conduct a multi-ancestry, genome-wide genetic discovery meta-analysis of lipid levels in approximately 1.65 million individuals, including 350,000 of non-European ancestries. We quantify the gain in studying non-European ancestries and provide evidence to support the expansion of recruitment of additional ancestries, even with relatively small sample sizes. We find that increasing diversity rather than studying additional individuals of European ancestry results in substantial improvements in fine-mapping functional variants and portability of polygenic prediction (evaluated in approximately 295,000 individuals from 7 ancestry groupings). Modest gains in the number of discovered loci and ancestry-specific variants were also achieved. As GWAS expand emphasis beyond the identification of genes and fundamental biology towards the use of genetic variants for preventive and precision medicine(25), we anticipate that increased diversity of participants will lead to more accurate and equitable(26) application of polygenic scores in clinical practice.

Published
2021

40. Effect of coil design parameters on performance of electromagnetic forming process.

Author

Soni, Manoj, Ahmed, Meraj, Panthi, Sanjay Kumar, and Kumar, Surendra

Subjects
CABLES, ELECTRIC inductance, DESIGN
Abstract

Coil is an important part of an electromagnetic forming system. Its design depends on the shape of the workpiece and its application. In the present work, effect of various parameters of coil design like inner diameter (ID), outer diameter (OD), effective number of turns (η), and cable connection on performance of coil have been established. Its performance have been quantified in terms of change in inductance, resistance, and subsequently on the current pulse and deformation of tube. The variation of inductance and resistance of the coil with respect to change in ID, OD, η, and cable connection have been determined experimentally and analyzed. The performance of the coil is also correlated in terms of theoretically and experimentally determined current pulse and its effect on overall inductance of the system. Further, Q-factor of the coil have been determined and analyzed to establish the loss in the coil. Small change in diameter and effective number of turns can change the amplitude of current pulse by 30 kA approximately. Additional parallel discharge cable can improve current and frequency by approximately 26% and 23%, respectively. The established performance of the coils have been experimentally and numerically validated by deforming an aluminum AA 6061 tube. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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44. Prospective randomized comparative study of percutaneous catheter drainage and percutaneous needle aspiration in the treatment of liver abscess.

Author

Ahmed, Meraj, Alam, Junaid, Hussain, Sadiq, and Aslam, Mohammad

Subjects
*LIVER abscesses, *PYOGENIC liver abscess, *CATHETERS, *SURGICAL drainage, *COMPARATIVE studies, *MEDICAL schools, *ARTERIAL catheters
Abstract

Background: This study aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of percutaneous needle aspiration (PNA) and percutaneous catheter drainage (PCD) in the treatment of liver abscess. Methods: A prospective randomized study was conducted in the Department of Surgery, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India, between February 2018 and August 2019, after getting approval from the institutional ethics committee. A total of 543 patients with liver abscess were randomized into two groups using computer‐generated randomization method. Appropriate details regarding patients' clinico‐demographic profile and investigations were also collected. The effectiveness of either treatment was measured in terms of duration of intravenous antibiotic, clinical improvement, reduction in the size of cavity, treatment success rate, duration of hospital stay including long‐term outcomes such as sonographic resolution of cavity and recurrence rate at 6 months post‐treatment. Results: The PCD group had statistically significant rate of duration of antibiotics need, days for clinical improvement and time for 50% reduction in abscess cavity and treatment success rate with comparable long‐term outcomes. Conclusion: PCD is more efficient than PNA and can be used primarily in the treatment of both amoebic and pyogenic liver abscesses along with systemic antibiotics. However, PNA can serve as a safe alternative when PCD is not available. This study described percutaneous catheter drainage versus percutaneous needle aspiration in liver abscess. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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48. Prevalence and factors associated with unintended pregnancy among married women in an urban and rural community, Khartoum state, Sudan

Author

Majdi Mohammed Sabahelzain, Sawsan Mustafa Abdalla, Syed Ahmed Meraj, ElsadigYousif Mohamed, Mohamed Abdalla Almansour, Khaled Tohami Medani, and Fahmi Ezaldin Awad

Subjects
education, contraceptive, lcsh:R, Reproductive health, spacing, lcsh:Medicine
Abstract

Introduction: Unintended or unplanned pregnancy has been a distressing reality among females in the reproductive age group particularly in developing countries. The repercussions of such events range from illegal abortions to various health related problems associated with pregnancy in mothers. The current study aimed to determine the prevalence of unintended pregnancy among married women in an urban and rural community in Khartoum state, to determine the associated factors of unintended pregnancy and to verify the reasons behind unintended pregnancy as perceived by the married women in the area. Methodology: It was a community-based; cross sectional study conducted in Riyadh and Alshekh Elfadni areas in Khartoum state. The sample size was calculated as 341. The study population were married women of reproductive age (15--‐49 years), selected by multistage stratified sampling. Data was collected by a pre-tested questionnaire and analysed by SPSS software. Chi square test was used to test the association between the dependent and independent variables. Level of significance was determined at 95% (P value < 0.05 was considered as significant). Results: Prevalence of unintended pregnancy was high at 30.2% among the study sample. Significant association (95% CI, p

Published
2014

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