Medicine: Recent submissions

  • Lakshani, U.; Liyanage, P.; Liyanage, B.; Sewwandi, B.; Weerasooriya, T. (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021)
    Background - Food wastage has become one of the most concerning global issues. While one-third of the food produced for human consumption is wasted, one-ninth of the world population does not have enough to eat. Hence, the ...
  • Jayaratne, J.P.D.S.; Indrapala, P.B.; Ishara, C.I.; Jayarathne, W.G.M.P.; Jayarathne, H.K.S.P. (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021)
    Background - “Chilly Academic Climate” is the “subtle ways that communicate to women that they are not quite first-class citizens in the academic community”1. The existence of a Chilly Climate within medical schools and ...
  • Chandrathilake, M. (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021)
  • Siriwardana, R.C. (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021)
  • Thadchanamoorthy, V.; Ganeshrajah, A.; Dayasiri, K.; Jayasekara, N.P. (BioMed Central, 2022)
    Background: Dengue fever is one of the most common tropical diseases, with high prevalence in many tropical countries including Sri Lanka. Dengue infection can present from subclinical infection to dengue shock syndrome. ...
  • Baminiwatta, A.; Dayabandara, M.; de Silva, J.; Gadambanathan, T.; Ginige, P.; Premarathne, I.; Rajapaksha, H.; Wickramasinghe, A.; Sivayokan, S.; Wijesinghe, C. (American Psychiatric Press, 2022)
    Objective: This study aimed to assess the perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate psychiatry training in Sri Lanka and to explore several potentially associated factors. Methods: An online survey was ...
  • Shoib, S.; Patel, V.; Khan, S.; Armiya'u, A.Y.; Saeed, F.; Swed, S.; Das, S.; Chandradasa, M. (John Wiley and Sons, 2022)
    Background and aims: Minor physical ailments are treated with over-the-counter (OTC) medications. The availability of OTC drugs helps reduce waiting times and ease the suffering of many. Suicidal behavior includes suicidal ...
  • Pathiraja, P.D.M.; Srikanthi, W.S.; Jayamanne, B.D.W.; de Silva, H.S. (Professional Medical Publications, Pakistan, 2022)
    The main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of stress, anxiety and depression, among nurses working in a tertiary hospital dedicated to the COVID-19 patients in Sri Lanka. A cross-sectional study was ...
  • Mahajan, A.; Spracklen, C.N.; Zhang, W.; Ng, M.C.Y.; Petty, L.E.; Kitajima, H.; Yu, G.Z.; Rüeger, S.; Speidel, L.; Kim, Y.J.; Horikoshi, M.; Mercader, J.M .; Taliun, D.; Moon, S.; Kwak, S.H.; Robertson, N.R.; Rayner, N.W.; Loh, M.; Kim, B.; Chiou, J.; Miguel-Escalada, I.; Parolo, P.D.B.; Lin, K.; Bragg, F.; Preuss, M.H.; Takeuchi, F.; Nano, J.; Guo, X.; Lamri, A.; Nakatoch, M.; Scott, R.A.; Lee, J.J.; Huerta-Chagoya, A.; Graff, M.; Chai, J.F.; Parra, E. J.; Yao, J.; Bielak, L.F.; Tabara, Y.; Hai, Y.; Steinthorsdottir, V.; Cook, J.P.; Kals, M.; Grarup, N.; Schmidt, E.M.; Pan, I.; Sofer, T.; Wuttke, M.; Sarnowski, C.; Gieger, C.; Nousome, D.; Trompet, S.; Long, J.; Sun, M.; Tong, L.; Chen, W.M.; Ahmad, M.; Noordam, R.; Lim, V.J.Y.; Tam, C.H.T.; Joo, Y.Y.; Chen, C.H.; Raffield, L.M.; Lecoeur, C.; Prins, B.P.; Nicolas, A.; Yanek, L.R.; Chen, G.; Jensen, R.A.; Tajuddin, S.; Kabagambe, E.K.; An, P.; Xiang, A.H.; Choi, H.S.; Cade, B.E.; Tan, J.; Flanagan, J.; Abaitua, F.; Adair, L.S.; Adeyemo, A.; Aguilar-Salinas, C.A.; Akiyama, M.; Anand, S.S.; Bertoni, A.; Bian, Z.; Bork-Jensen, J.; Brandslund, I.; Brody, J.A.; Brummett, C.M.; Buchanan, T.A.; Canouil, M.; Chan, J.C.N.; Chang, L.C.; Chee, M.L.; Chen, J.; Chen, S.H.; Chen, Y.T.; Chen, Z.; Chuang, L.M.; Cushman, M.; Das, S.K.; de Silva, H.J.; Dedoussis, G.; Dimitrov, L.; Doumatey, A.P.; Du, S.; Duan, Q.; Eckardt, K.U.; Emery, L.S.; Evans, D.S.; Evans, M.K.; Fischer, K.; Floyd, J.S.; Ford, I.; Fornage, M.; Franco, O.H.; Frayling, T.M.; Freedman, B.I.; Fuchsberger, C.; Genter, P.; Gerstein, H.C.; Giedraitis, V.; Villalpando, C.G.; Villalpando, M.E.G.; Goodarzi, M.O.; Larsen, P.G.; Gorkin, D.; Gross, M.; Guo, Y.; Hackinger, S.; Han, S.; Hattersley, A.T.; Herder, C.; Howard, A.G.; Hsueh, W.; Huang, M.; Huang, W.; Hung, Y.; Hwang, M.Y.; Hwu, C.; Ichihara, S.; Ikram, M.A.; Ingelsson, M.; Islam, M.T.; Isono, M.; Jang, H.M.; Jasmine, F.; Jiang, G.; Jonas, J.B.; Jørgensen, M.E.; Jørgensen, T.; Kamatani, Y.; Kandeel, F.R.; Kasturiratne, A.; Katsuya, T.; Kaur, V.; Kawaguchi, T.; Keaton, J.M.; Kho, A.N.; Khor, C.C.; Kibriya, M.G.; Kim, D.H.; Kohara, K.; Kriebel, J.; Kronenberg, F.; Kuusisto, J.; Läll, K.; Lange, L.A.; Lee, M.; Lee, N.R.; Leong, A.; Li, L.; Li, Y.; Li-Gao, R.; Ligthart, S.; Lindgren, C.M.; Linneberg, A.; Liu, C.; Liu, J.; Locke, A.E.; Louie, T.; Luan, J.; Luk, A.O.; Luo, X.; Lv, J.; Lyssenko, V.; Mamakou, V.; Mani, K.R.; Meitinger, T.; Metspalu, A.; Morris, A.D.; Nadkarni, G.N.; Nadler, J.L.; Nalls, M.A.; Nayak, U.; Nongmaithem, S.S.; Ntalla, I.; Okada, Y.; Orozco, L.; Patel, S.R.; Pereira, M.A.; Peters, A.; Pirie, F.J.; Porneala, B.; Prasad, G.; Preissl, S.; Rasmussen-Torvik, L.J.; Reiner, A.P.; Roden, M.; Rohde, R.; Roll, K.; Sabanayagam, C.; Sander, M.; Sandow, K.; Sattar, N.; Schönherr, S.; Schurmann, C.; Shahriar, M.; Shi, J.; Shin, D.M.; Shriner, D.; Smith, J.A.; So, W.Y.; Stančáková, A.; Stilp, A.M.; Strauch, K.; Suzuki, K.; Takahashi, A.; Taylor, K.D.; Thorand, B.; Thorleifsson, G.; Thorsteinsdottir, U.; Tomlinson, B.; Torres, J.M.; Tsai, F.; Tuomilehto, J.; Tusie-Luna, T.; Udler, M.S.; Salgado, A.V.; Dam, R.M.; Klinken, J.B.; Varma, R.; Vujkovic, M.; Wacher-Rodarte, N.; Wheeler, E.; Whitsel, E.A.; Wickremasinghe, A.R.; Dijk, K.W.; Witte, D.R.; Yajnik, C.S; Yamamoto, K.; Yamauchi, T.; Yengo, L.; Yoon, K.; Yu, C.; Yuan, J.M.; Yusuf, S.; Zhang, L.; Zheng, W.; FinnGen; eMERGE Consortium; Leslie J Raffel; Igase, M.; Ipp, E.; Redline, S.; Cho, Y.S.; Lind, L.; Province, M.A.; Hanis, C.L.; Peyser, P.A.; Ingelsson, E.; Zonderman, A.B.; Psaty, B.M.; Wang, Y.; Rotimi, C.N.; Becker, D.M.; Matsuda, F.; Liu, Y.; Zeggini, E.; Yokota, M.; Rich, S.S.; Kooperberg, C.; Pankow, J.S.; Engert, J.C.; Chen, Y.I.; Froguel, P.; Wilson, J.G.; Sheu, W.H.H.; Kardia, S.L.R.; Wu, J.Y.; Hayes, M.G.; Ma, R.C.W.; Wong, T.Y.; Groop, L.; Mook-Kanamori, D.O.; Chandak, G.R.; Collins, F.S.; Bharadwaj, D.; Paré, G.; Sale, M.M.; Ahsan, H.; Motala, A.A.; Shu, X.O.; Park, K.S.; Jukema, J.W.; Cruz, M.; Cowdin, R.M.; Grallert, H.; Cheng, C.Y.; Bottinger, E.P.; Dehghan, A.; Tai, E.S.; Dupuis, J.; Kato, N.; Laakso, M.; Köttgen, A.; Koh, W.P.; Palmer, C.N.A.; Liu, S.; Abecasis, G.; Kooner, J.S.; Loos, R.J.F.; North, K.E.; Haiman, C.A.; Florez, J.C.; Saleheen, D.; Hansen, T.; Pedersen, O.; Mägi, R.; Langenberg, C.; Wareham, N.J.; Maeda, S.; Kadowaki, T.; Lee, J.; Millwood, I.Y.; Walters, R.G.; Stefansson, K.; Myers, S.R.; Ferrer, J.; Gaulton, K.J.; Meigs, J.B.; Mohlke, K.L.; Gloyn, A.L.; Bowden, D.W.; Below, J.E.; Chambers, J.C.; Sim, X.; Boehnke, M.; Rotter, J.I.; McCarthy, M.I.; Morris, A.P. (Nature Publishing Company, New York, 2022)
    We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9% non-European descent) through the Diabetes ...
  • Manilgama, S.R.; Hettiarachchi, N.M.; Jayasinghe, I.K.; de Silva, S.T.; Jayalath, T.; Wanigaratne, T.; Bandusiri, R.P.; Suganthan, N.; Sudarshan, P.; Pathirage, M.; Rajaratnam, N.; Senaratne, G.; Rajapaksha, V.; Wickramasinghe, A.; Ranaweera, S.P.A.L.; Thilakarathna, H.M.A.; Kulaweera, M.T.D. (Sri Lanka College of Internal Medicine, 2022)
    Introduction: A community vaccination programme is the best approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Post-vaccine surveillance is important to identify adverse events (AE) following COVID-19 vaccination in the population. ...
  • Ntani, G.; Coggon, D.; Felli, V.E.; Harari, F.; Barrero, L.H.; Felknor, S.A.; Rojas, M.; Serra, C.; Bonzini, M.; Merisalu, E.; Habib, R.R.; Sadeghian, F.; Wickremasinghe, A.R.; Matsudaira, K.; Nyantumbu-Mkhize, B.; Kelsall, H.L.; Harcombe, H.; Walker-Bone, K. (Philadelphia : Saunders, London, 2022)
    Background: Multisite musculoskeletal pain is common and disabling. This study aimed to prospectively investigate distribution of musculoskeletal pain anatomically, and explore risk factors for increases/reductions in the ...
  • Rathnayake, S.; Chandrasena, N.; Wijerathna, T.; Mallawarachchi, H.; Gunathilaka, N. (Springer International, 2022)
    Subperiodic brugian filariasis and dirofilariasis show a rising trend in Sri Lanka posing a threat to public health. As information was limited on canine filaria species in Sri Lanka, we studied the filaria parasites among ...
  • Gunaratna, G.P.S.; Mohammad, S.S.; Blyth, C.C.; Clark, J.; Crawford, N.; Marshall, H.; Dale, R.C.; Jones, C.A.; Britton, P.N.; PAEDS Network (Littleton, 2022)
    Introduction: Postinfectious acute cerebellar syndromes show a wide spectrum of acute severity and can occur with acute febrile illness or vaccine receipt. Varicella has historically been the most common cause, associated ...
  • Martín, G.; Erinjery, J.J.; Ediriweera, D.; de Silva, H.J.; Lalloo, D.G.; Iwamura, T.; Murray, K.A. (Public Library of Science,San Francisco, 2022)
    Snakebite is the only WHO-listed, not infectious neglected tropical disease (NTD), although its eco-epidemiology is similar to that of zoonotic infections: envenoming occurs after a vertebrate host contacts a human. ...
  • Dalpadado, R.; Amarasinghe, D.; Gunathilaka, N.; Ariyarathna, N. (BioMed Central, London, 2022)
    Background: The lack of information on behavioural patterns of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus has become a significant limitation in vector control and disease management programmes. Therefore, the current study was ...
  • Shoib, S.; Baiou, A.; Saleem, S.M.; Chandradasa, M.; Gaffaz, R. (Elsevier, 2022)
    The Libyan mental health system has long been seen as inefficient and insufficient for the demands of the country. Thousands of Libyans require mental health therapy now more than ever before. Libya's Ministry of Health ...
  • Abeysuriya, V.; Seneviratne, S.L.; de Silva, A.P.; Mowjood, R.; Mowjood, S.; de Silva, T.; de Mel, P.; de Mel, C.; Wijesinha, R.S.; Fernando, A.; de Mel, S.; Chandrasena, L. (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2022)
    Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may cause clinical manifestations that last for weeks or months after hospital discharge. The manifestations are heterogeneous and vary in their frequency. Their multisystem ...
  • Muthugala, R.; Dheerasekara, K.; Manamperi, A.; Gunasena, S.; Galagoda, G. (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 2022)
    Hantavirus; Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an emerging zoonotic disease in Euro-Asia which is clinically indistinguishable from leptospirosis. A total number of 1032 patients were included in the analysis ...
  • Perera, K.C.; Mapitigama, K.N.; Abeysena, T.C. (BioMed Central, London, 2022)
    Background: Two major drawbacks of the present cervical cancer screening programme in Sri Lanka are, the suboptimal sensitivity of the pap smear and the low coverage. The sensitivity of the HPV/DNA screening test is high. ...
  • Kusuma, D.; Atanasova, P.; Pineda, E.; Anjana, R.M.; de Silva, L.; Hanif, A.A.; Hasan, M.; Hossain, M.M.; Indrawansa, S.; Jayamanne, D.; Jha, S.; Kasturiratne, A.; Katulanda, P.; Khawaja, K.I.; Kumarendran, B.; Mridha, M.K.; Rajakaruna, V.; Chambers, J.C.; Frost, G.; Sassi, F.; Miraldo, M. (Public Library of Science,San Francisco, 2022)
    Background: The global epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) renders its prevention a major public health priority. A key risk factor of diabetes is obesity and poor diets. Food environments have been found to influence ...

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