Socio-demographic and maternal predictors of adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines in Singaporean children by Chen, Bozhi, Bernard, Jonathan Y., Padmapriya, Natarajan, Yao, Jiali, Goh, Claire, Tan, Kok Hian, Yap, Fabian, Chong, Yap-Seng, Shek, Lynette, Godfrey, Keith M., Chan, Shiao-Yng, Eriksson, Johan Gunnar, Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk

“…Purpose: Integrated 24-Hour Movement Guidelines provide specific recommendations on screen viewing (SV), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sleep to improve health of children and youth. …”
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The cross-sectional and prospective associations of parental practices and environmental factors with 24-hour movement behaviours among school-aged Asian children by Padmapriya, Natarajan, Fogel, Anna, Tan, Sarah Yi Xuan, Goh, Claire Marie Jie Lin, Tan, Shuen Lin, Chia, Airu, Chu, Anne Hin Yee, Chong, Yap Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Chan, Shiao-Yng, Yap, Fabian, Godfrey, Keith M., Lee, Yung Seng, Eriksson, Johan G., Tan, Chuen Seng, Bernard, Jonathan Y., Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk

“…We aimed to investigate the cross-sectional and prospective associations of parental practices and neighbourhood environmental factors with accelerometer-measured 24-hour movement behaviours (24 h-MBs) among school-aged children in Singapore. …”
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24-hour movement behaviour profiles and their transition in children aged 5.5 and 8 years - findings from a prospective cohort study by Padmapriya, Natarajan, Chen, Bozhi, Goh, Claire Marie Jie Lin, Shek, Lynette Pei Chi, Chong, Yap Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Chan, Shiao-Yng, Yap, Fabian, Godfrey, Keith M., Lee, Yung Seng, Eriksson, Johan G., Bernard, Jonathan Y., Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk

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Risk stratification of women with gestational diabetes mellitus using mutually exclusive categories based on the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups cr... by Dai, Fei, Mani, Hemaavathi, Syaza Razali Nurul, Tan, Kok Hian

“…Seven mutually exclusive categories (three one timepoint positive categories (fasting, 1 hour and 2 hours), three two timepoint positive categories (fasting+1 hour, fasting+2 hours and 1 hour+2 hours) and one three timepoint positive category (fasting+1 hour+2 hours)) were derived from the three timepoint antenatal OGTT according to the IADPSG criteria. …”
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Effects of choral singing versus health education on cognitive decline and aging : a randomized controlled trial by Feng, Lei, Romero-Garcia, Rafael, Suckling, John, Tan, Jasmine, Larbi, Anis, Cheah, Irwin, Wong, Glenn, Tsakok, Maurine, Lanskey, Bernard, Lim, Darius, Li, Jialiang, Yang, Joanna, Goh, Benjamin, Teck, Tristan Gwee Chen, Ho, Allan, Wang, Xiu, Yu, Jin-Tai, Zhang, Can, Tan, Crystal, Chua, Michelle, Li, Junhua, Totman, John J., Wong, Caroline, Loh, Marie, Foo, Roger, Tan, Chay Hoon, Goh, Lee Gan, Mahendran, Rathi, Kennedy, Brian K., Kua, Ee-Heok

“…Participants attended weekly one-hour choral singing or weekly one-hour health education for two years. …”
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Can a brief online interdisciplinary program enhance the understanding of musculoskeletal pain amongst primary care staff? A prospective study by Ng, Khim Siong, Goh, Bandy Qiuling, Tang, Woh Peng, Lee, Angela Wing Yan, Lee, Samantha, Koh, Kim Hwee, Shah, Mitesh

“…Participants in the intervention group attended the 1-hour online program compared to a control group. …”
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Maternal night-eating pattern and glucose tolerance during pregnancy : study protocol for a longitudinal study by Loy, See Ling, Cheung, Yin Bun, Chong, Mary, Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk, Lek, Ngee, Lee, Yung Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Chern, Bernard, Yap, Fabian, Chan, Jerry

“…Maternal dietary intake is collected using the 4-day food diary and food frequency questionnaire; while 24-hour physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep and light exposure are captured using the accelerometer at 18–24 weeks’ gestation. …”
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The effect of orally administered dronabinol on optic nerve head blood flow in healthy subjects - a randomized clinical trial by Hommer, Nikolaus, Kallab, Martin, Szegedi, Stephan, Puchner, Stefan, Stjepanek, Kristina, Bauer, Martin, Werkmeister, René M., Schmetterer, Leopold, Abensperg-Traun, Marihan, Garhöfer, Gerhard, Schmidl, Doreen

“…ONHBF was measured with laser Doppler flowmetry at rest and while the study participants performed isometric exercise for 6 minutes to increase mean arterial blood pressure (MAP). This was repeated 1 hour after drug intake. Ocular perfusion pressure (OPP) was calculated as 2/3MAP-IOP. …”
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Plasmodium falciparum rosetting protects schizonts against artemisinin by Lee, Wenn-Chyau, Russell, Bruce, Lee, Bernett, Chu, Cindy S., Phyo, Aung Pyae, Sriprawat, Kanlaya, Lau, Yee-Ling, Nosten, François, Rénia, Laurent

“…Methods: Rosetting rates of clinical isolates pre- and post- brief (one hour) exposure to artesunate (AS, an ART derivative) were evaluated. …”
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Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Model for the Effect of l-Arginine on Endothelial Function in Patients with Moderately Severe Falciparum Malaria by Brussee, Janneke M., Lampah, Daniel A., Anstey, Nicholas M., Duffull, Stephen B., Yeo, Tsin Wen

“…Three groups of 10 different patients received 3 g, 6 g, or 12 g of L-arginine as a half-hour infusion. The remaining 43 received saline placebo. …”
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Viable mpox virus in the environment of a patient room by Marimuthu, Kalisvar, Wong, Judith Chui Ching, Lim, Poh Lian, Octavia, Sophie, Huan, Xiaowei, Ng, Yi Kai, Yang, Jun Jing, Sutjipto, Stephanie, Linn, Kyaw Zaw, Setoh, Yin Xiang, Ong, Clara Chong Hui, Griffiths, Jane, Farhanah, Sharifah, Cheok, Thai Shawn, Nur Ashikin Binti Sulaiman, Congcong, Sipaco Barbara, Neves, Erica Sena, Loo, Liang Hui, Hakim, Luqman, Sim, Shuzhen, Lim, Merrill, Nazeem, Mohammad, Vasoo, Shawn, Tham, Kwok Wai, Ng, Oon Tek, Ng, Lee Ching

“…Environmental sampling was conducted in a negative pressure room with 12 unidirectional high efficiency particulate air filter (HEPA) air changes per hour and daily cleaning of the surfaces. A total of 179 environmental samples were collected on days 7, 8, 13, and 21 of illness. …”
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Impact of systemic vascular risk factors on the choriocapillaris using optical coherence tomography angiography in patients with systemic hypertension by Chua, Jacqueline, Chin, Calvin Woon Loong, Tan, Bingyao, Wong, Si Han, Devarajan, Kavya, Le, Thu-Thao, Ang, Marcus, Wong, Tien Yin, Schmetterer, Leopold

“…We investigated the characteristics of the choriocapillaris flow voids using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in 85 patients (164 eyes) with hypertension (mean ± SD age, 56 ± 11 years; 45% women; 20% poorly controlled BP; 16% diabetes) who are without ocular diseases and determined possible correlations with systemic vascular risk factors. Data on 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP), serum creatinine, and urine microalbumin/creatinine ratio (MCR) were collected. …”
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Performance of digital contact tracing tools for COVID-19 response in Singapore : cross-sectional study by Huang, Zhilian, Guo, Huiling, Lee, Yee-Mun, Ho, Eu Chin, Ang, Hou, Chow, Angela

“…We also validated both digital contact tracing tools by verifying the physician-patient contacts with the electronic medical records of 156 patients who attended the NCID screening center over a 24-hour time frame within the study period. Results: RTLS tags had a high sensitivity of 95.3% for detecting patient contacts identified either by the system or TraceTogether while TraceTogether had an overall sensitivity of 6.5% and performed significantly better on Android phones than iPhones (Android: 9.7%, iPhone: 2.7%; P<.001). …”
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The SINgapore GERiatric intervention study to reduce cognitive decline and physical frailty (SINGER): study design and protocol by Xu, X., Chew, K. A., Wong, Z. X., Phua, A. K. S., Chong, E. J. Y., Teo, C. K. L., Sathe, N., Chooi, Y. C., Chia, W. P. F., Henry, C. J., Chew, E., Wang, M., Maier, A. B., Kandiah, Nagaendran, Chen, C. L-H.

“…The SLI comprises diet training (6 group and 3 individual sessions over 12 months); exercise (supervised: 1-hour twice weekly for 6 months, unsupervised: 2–3/week for the rest of the study duration); cognitive sessions (15–30 minutes/session, 3/week for 6 months, together with 10 workshops in 24 months). …”
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Robotic-based ACTive somatoSENSory (Act.Sens) retraining on upper limb functions with chronic stroke survivors : study protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial by Sidarta, Ananda, Lim, Yu Chin, Kuah, Christopher Wee Keong, Loh, Yong Joo, Ang, Wei Tech

“…Over a 5-week period, the treatment group will receive 15 training sessions for about an hour per session. Robot-generated haptic guidance will be provided along the movement path as somatosensory cues while moving. …”
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Anthropometric measures and HbA1c to detect dysglycemia in young Asian women planning conception : the S-PRESTO cohort by Chu, Anne H. Y., Aris, Izzuddin M., Ng, Sharon, Loy, See Ling, Bernard, Jonathan Y., Tint, Mya Thway, Yuan, Wen Lun, Godfrey, Keith M., Chan, Jerry Kok Yen, Shek, Lynette Pei-Chi, Chong, Yap Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Ang, Seng Bin, Tan, Heng Hao, Chern, Bernard S. M., Yap, Fabian, Lee, Yung Seng, Lek, Ngee, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Khoo, Chin Meng, Chan, Shiao-Yng

“…Among 971 Singaporean women, multiple regression models and area under receiver-operating characteristic (AUROC) curves were used to analyze associations of anthropometric (weight, height, waist/hip circumferences, 4-site skinfold thicknesses) and HbA1c z-scores with dysglycemia (fasting glucose ≥6.1 mmol/L with 2-hour glucose ≥7.8 mmol/l). The prevalence of dysglycemia was 10.9%. …”
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Sex-specific longitudinal associations of screen viewing time in children at 2–3 years with adiposity at 3–5 years by Padmapriya, Natarajan, Aris, Izzuddin M., Tint, Mya Thway, Loy, See Ling, Cai, Shirong, Tan, Kok Hian, Shek, Lynette P., Chong, Yap Seng, Godfrey, Keith M., Gluckman, Peter D., Lee, Yung Seng, Saw, Seang Mei, Yap, Fabian, Kramer, Michael S., Bernard, Jonathan Y., Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk

“…The increases in mean (95% CI) BMI per hour increase in daily total, television and handheld-devices screen-viewing among boys were 0.12 (0.03, 0.21), 0.18 (0.06, 0.30) and 0.11 (−0.07, 0.29) kg/m2, respectively. …”
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Acetaminophen as a renoprotective adjunctive treatment in patients with severe and moderately severe falciparum malaria : a randomized, controlled, open-label trial by Charunwatthana, Prakaykaew, Silamut, Kamolrat, Yeo, Tsin Wen, Lee, Sue J., Mukaka, Mavuto, Maude, Richard J., Plewes, Katherine, Md. Mahtab Uddin Hassan, Selim Md. Jahangir, Anstey, Nicholas M., Md. Abul Faiz, Tarning, Joel, Oates, John A., Kingston, Hugh W. F., Ghose, Aniruddha, Wattanakul, Thanaporn, Md. Shafiul Haider, Dutta, Prodip K., Md. Akhterul Islam, Shamsul Alam, Zahed, A. S. M., Md. Abdus Sattar, Chowdhury, M. A. Hassan, Herdman, M. Trent, Leopold, Haruhiko, Piera, Kim A, White, Nicholas J., Md. Amir Hossain, Roberts II, L. Jackson, Dondorp, Arjen M., Turner, Gareth D. H., Day, Nicholas P. J.

“…Febrile patients (>12 years) with severe falciparum malaria were randomly assigned to receive acetaminophen (1 g 6–hourly for 72 hours) or no acetaminophen, in addition to intravenous artesunate. …”
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Artemether-lumefantrine versus chloroquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium knowlesi malaria : an open-label randomized controlled trial CAN KNOW by Grigg, Matthew J., William, Timothy, Barber, Bridget E., Rajahram, Giri S., Menon, Jayaram, Schimann, Emma, Wilkes, Christopher S., Patel, Kaajal, Chandna, Arjun, Price, Ric N., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Anstey, Nicholas M.

“…Overall parasite clearance was shorter after AL than after CQ (median, 18 vs 24 hours, respectively; P = .02), with all patients aparasitemic by 48 hours. …”
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Examining the utility and accuracy of the interRAI emergency department screener in identifying high-risk older emergency department patients: a Canadian multiprovince prospective... by Mowbray, Fabrice I., Heckman, George, Hirdes, John P., Costa, Andrew P., Beauchet, Olivier, Eagles, Debra, Perry, Jeffrey J., Sinha, Samir, Archambault, Patrick, Wang, Hanting, Jantzi, Michaela, Hebert, Paul

“…Our secondary objective was to determine the discriminative ability of the interRAI ED Screener for predicting the odds of discharge home and extended ED length of stay (>24 hours).…”
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