background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is a disease with serious consequences. many portable devices have been developed to overwhelm some of limitations in the accessibility of the gold standard test for osa, polysomnography (psg). this study aimed to determine diagnostic accuracy of a portable sleep apnea screener against psg in patients of a sleep clinic. materials and metho...

Objective: The aim of the work is to develop approaches improving information and analytical support for monitoring epidemiological studies infectious diseases in activities public health institutions. Materials methods: were carried out on basis a retrospective review long-term observations morbidity indicators microbiological chemical pollution environmental factors, performed by state instit...

A respiratory emergency room admissions monitoring system (RERAMS) was set up in Barcelona between 1985-1989, in order to investigate asthma epidemics in the city. Information on emergency room admissions for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was recorded daily from the four main hospitals of the city. The present study aims at assessing the reliability and coverage of thi...

BACKGROUND Despite indications that infection-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa may be decreasing and the burden of non-communicable diseases increasing, the overwhelming reality is that health information systems across most of sub-Saharan Africa remain too weak to track epidemiological transition in a meaningful and effective way. PROPOSALS We propose a minimum dataset as the basis of...

Introduction Epidemiological studies are a key element in determining the evolution and spread of HIV infection among the world population. Knowledge of the epidemiological dynamics improves strategies for prevention and monitoring. Methods We examined 2,272 subjects who voluntarily underwent HIV testing from January 1992 to December 2015. For each subject, an anonymous form was completed to ...

background the prevalence of newly-diagnosed cases of chronic hepatitis is decisive for the overall incidence rate of hepatitis b observed in poland. objectives we aimed to determine the chronic hepatitis b incidence trends in poland, taking into consideration the ages, genders, and environments of the patients. methods the study is based on aggregated data from polish descriptive epidemiologic...

Managing cardiopulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COVID-19 remains a global challenge due to the facets of this virus. The technologies used post-COVID-19 fail keep pace epidemiological developments. purpose article is review medical and innovations that have allowed us adapt care for our patients. pandemic highlighted need seismic changes diagnostic paradigms. We discuss advances teleme...

home uterine activity monitoring (huam) has demonstrated to be of great value for preventing preterm labor in recent years. in this research, a low cost monitoring device for non-invasive monitoring of the uterine activity in pregnant women is presented. the new device has been designed based on an inductive colpitz oscillator and vertical displacement of a ferrite core in a coil. the resulting...

The article presents an overview of current trends in the epidemiology respiratory syncytial viral (RSV) infection, including its seasonality, under impact COVID-19 pandemic, both according to world literature and taking into account monitoring epidemiological studies conducted Russian Federation. A detailed description dynamics RSV detection period 2020-2021 beginning 2022 Russia results all-R...