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Volume 17, issue 12, 2020

Assessing the risk of ketoacidosis due to sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT)-2 inhibitors in patients with type 1 diabetes: A meta-analysis and meta-regression pp. 1-31

Giovanni Musso, Antonio Sircana, Francesca Saba, Maurizio Cassader and Roberto Gambino

Intake of dietary fats and fatty acids and the incidence of type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective observational studies pp. 1-17

Manuela Neuenschwander, Janett Barbaresko, Claudia R Pischke, Nadine Iser, Julia Beckhaus, Lukas Schwingshackl and Sabrina Schlesinger

Bariatric surgery for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus requiring insulin: Clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness analyses pp. 1-22

Emma Rose McGlone, Iain Carey, Vladica Veličković, Prem Chana, Kamal Mahawar, Rachel L Batterham, James Hopkins, Peter Walton, Robin Kinsman, James Byrne, Shaw Somers, David Kerrigan, Vinod Menon, Cynthia Borg, Ahmed Ahmed, Bruno Sgromo, Chandra Cheruvu, Gul Bano, Catherine Leonard, Howard Thom, Carel W le Roux, Marcus Reddy, Richard Welbourn, Peter Small and Omar A Khan

Association of macro-level determinants with adolescent overweight and suicidal ideation with planning: A cross-sectional study of 21 Latin American and Caribbean Countries pp. 1-19

Christelle Elia, Alexis Karamanos, Alexandru Dregan, Majella O’Keeffe, Ingrid Wolfe, Jane Sandall, Craig Morgan, J Kennedy Cruickshank, Reeta Gobin, Rainford Wilks and Seeromanie Harding

Comparative efficacy and safety of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of COVID-19: A systematic review and network meta-analysis pp. 1-28

Min Seo Kim, Min Ho An, Won Jun Kim and Tae-Ho Hwang

Induction of labour at 41 weeks or expectant management until 42 weeks: A systematic review and an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised trials pp. 1-25

Mårten Alkmark, Judit K J Keulen, Joep C Kortekaas, Christina Bergh, Jeroen van Dillen, Ruben G Duijnhoven, Henrik Hagberg, Ben Willem Mol, Mattias Molin, Joris A M van der Post, Sissel Saltvedt, Anna-Karin Wikström, Ulla-Britt Wennerholm and Esteriek de Miranda

Volume 17, issue 11, 2020

Genetic and pharmacological relationship between P-glycoprotein and increased cardiovascular risk associated with clarithromycin prescription: An epidemiological and genomic population-based cohort study in Scotland, UK pp. 1-16

Ify R Mordi, Benjamin K Chan, N David Yanez, Colin N A Palmer, Chim C Lang and James D Chalmers

Southeast Asian health system challenges and responses to the ‘Andaman Sea refugee crisis’: A qualitative study of health-sector perspectives from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand pp. 1-22

Helena Legido-Quigley, Fiona Leh Hoon Chuah and Natasha Howard

Efficacy and safety of dolutegravir plus emtricitabine versus standard ART for the maintenance of HIV-1 suppression: 48-week results of the factorial, randomized, non-inferiority SIMPL’HIV trial pp. 1-17

Delphine Sculier, Gilles Wandeler, Sabine Yerly, Annalisa Marinosci, Marcel Stoeckle, Enos Bernasconi, Dominique L Braun, Pietro Vernazza, Matthias Cavassini, Marta Buzzi, Karin J Metzner, Laurent A Decosterd, Huldrych F Günthard, Patrick Schmid, Andreas Limacher, Matthias Egger, Alexandra Calmy and and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS)

Risk factors during first 1,000 days of life for carotid intima-media thickness in infants, children, and adolescents: A systematic review with meta-analyses pp. 1-29

Adina Mihaela Epure, Magali Rios-Leyvraz, Daniela Anker, Stefano Di Bernardo, Bruno R da Costa, Arnaud Chiolero and Nicole Sekarski

Anticipatory changes in British household purchases of soft drinks associated with the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy: A controlled interrupted time series analysis pp. 1-20

David Pell, Tarra L Penney, Oliver Mytton, Adam Briggs, Steven Cummins, Mike Rayner, Harry Rutter, Peter Scarborough, Stephen J Sharp, Richard D Smith, Martin White and Jean Adams

Effects of health literacy, screening, and participant choice on action plans for reducing unhealthy snacking in Australia: A randomised controlled trial pp. 1-20

Julie Ayre, Erin Cvejic, Carissa Bonner, Robin M Turner, Stephen D Walter and Kirsten J McCaffery

Estimated health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Australia: A modelling study pp. 1-19

Matti Marklund, Miaobing Zheng, J Lennert Veerman and Jason H Y Wu

Predicting suicide attempt or suicide death following a visit to psychiatric specialty care: A machine learning study using Swedish national registry data pp. 1-19

Qi Chen, Yanli Zhang-James, Eric J Barnett, Paul Lichtenstein, Jussi Jokinen, Brian M D’Onofrio, Stephen V Faraone, Henrik Larsson and Seena Fazel

Health system interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-19

David Flood, Jessica Hane, Matthew Dunn, Sarah Jane Brown, Bradley H Wagenaar, Elizabeth A Rogers, Michele Heisler, Peter Rohloff and Vineet Chopra

Assessment of deep neural networks for the diagnosis of benign and malignant skin neoplasms in comparison with dermatologists: A retrospective validation study pp. 1-21

Seung Seog Han, Ik Jun Moon, Seong Hwan Kim, Jung-Im Na, Myoung Shin Kim, Gyeong Hun Park, Ilwoo Park, Keewon Kim, Woohyung Lim, Ju Hee Lee and Sung Eun Chang

Association between country preparedness indicators and quality clinical care for cardiovascular disease risk factors in 44 lower- and middle-income countries: A multicountry analysis of survey data pp. 1-25

Justine I Davies, Sumithra Krishnamurthy Reddiar, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Cara Ebert, Maja-Emilia Marcus, Jacqueline A Seiglie, Zhaxybay Zhumadilov, Adil Supiyev, Lela Sturua, Bahendeka K Silver, Abla M Sibai, Sarah Quesnel-Crooks, Bolormaa Norov, Joseph K Mwangi, Omar Mwalim Omar, Roy Wong-McClure, Mary T Mayige, Joao S Martins, Nuno Lunet, Demetre Labadarios, Khem B Karki, Gibson B Kagaruki, Jutta M A Jorgensen, Nahla C Hwalla, Dismand Houinato, Corine Houehanou, David Guwatudde, Mongal S Gurung, Pascal Bovet, Brice W Bicaba, Krishna K Aryal, Mohamed Msaidié, Glennis Andall-Brereton, Garry Brian, Andrew Stokes, Sebastian Vollmer, Till Bärnighausen, Rifat Atun, Pascal Geldsetzer, Jennifer Manne-Goehler and Lindsay M Jaacks

Qualitative process evaluation from a complex systems perspective: A systematic review and framework for public health evaluators pp. 1-27

Elizabeth McGill, Dalya Marks, Vanessa Er, Tarra Penney, Mark Petticrew and Matt Egan

The risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia after P. falciparum malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis from the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network pp. 1-26

Mohammad S Hossain, Robert J Commons, Nicholas M Douglas, Kamala Thriemer, Bereket H Alemayehu, Chanaki Amaratunga, Anupkumar R Anvikar, Elizabeth A Ashley, Puji B S Asih, Verena I Carrara, Chanthap Lon, Umberto D’Alessandro, Timothy M E Davis, Arjen M Dondorp, Michael D Edstein, Rick M Fairhurst, Marcelo U Ferreira, Jimee Hwang, Bart Janssens, Harin Karunajeewa, Jean R Kiechel, Simone Ladeia-Andrade, Moses Laman, Mayfong Mayxay, Rose McGready, Brioni R Moore, Ivo Mueller, Paul N Newton, Nguyen T Thuy-Nhien, Harald Noedl, Francois Nosten, Aung P Phyo, Jeanne R Poespoprodjo, David L Saunders, Frank Smithuis, Michele D Spring, Kasia Stepniewska, Seila Suon, Yupin Suputtamongkol, Din Syafruddin, Hien T Tran, Neena Valecha, Michel Van Herp, Michele Van Vugt, Nicholas J White, Philippe J Guerin, Julie A Simpson and Ric N Price

Volume 17, issue 10, 2020

The association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D metabolites and type 2 diabetes in European populations: A meta-analysis and Mendelian randomisation analysis pp. 1-21

Ju-Sheng Zheng, Jian’an Luan, Eleni Sofianopoulou, Stephen J Sharp, Felix R Day, Fumiaki Imamura, Thomas E Gundersen, Luca A Lotta, Ivonne Sluijs, Isobel D Stewart, Rupal L Shah, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Eleanor Wheeler, Eva Ardanaz, Heiner Boeing, Miren Dorronsoro, Christina C Dahm, Niki Dimou, Douae El-Fatouhi, Paul W Franks, Guy Fagherazzi, Sara Grioni, José María Huerta, Alicia K Heath, Louise Hansen, Mazda Jenab, Paula Jakszyn, Rudolf Kaaks, Tilman Kühn, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nasser Laouali, Giovanna Masala, Peter M Nilsson, Kim Overvad, Anja Olsen, Salvatore Panico, J Ramón Quirós, Olov Rolandsson, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Carlotta Sacerdote, Annemieke M W Spijkerman, Tammy Y N Tong, Rosario Tumino, Konstantinos K Tsilidis, John Danesh, Elio Riboli, Adam S Butterworth, Claudia Langenberg, Nita G Forouhi and Nicholas J Wareham

Defining remission of type 2 diabetes in research studies: A systematic scoping review pp. 1-16

Mireille Captieux, Regina Prigge, Sarah Wild and Bruce Guthrie

Evaluation of a pharmacist-led actionable audit and feedback intervention for improving medication safety in UK primary care: An interrupted time series analysis pp. 1-17

Niels Peek, Wouter T Gude, Richard N Keers, Richard Williams, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Mark Jeffries, Denham L Phipps, Benjamin Brown, Anthony J Avery and Darren M Ashcroft

Genetics of height and risk of atrial fibrillation: A Mendelian randomization study pp. 1-17

Michael G Levin, Renae Judy, Dipender Gill, Marijana Vujkovic, Shefali S Verma, Yuki Bradford, Regeneron Genetics Center, Marylyn D Ritchie, Matthew C Hyman, Saman Nazarian, Daniel J Rader, Benjamin F Voight and Scott M Damrauer

Quantifying Plasmodium falciparum infections clustering within households to inform household-based intervention strategies for malaria control programs: An observational study and meta-analysis from 41 malaria-endemic countries pp. 1-17

Gillian Stresman, Charlie Whittaker, Hannah C Slater, Teun Bousema and Jackie Cook

Developing and validating subjective and objective risk-assessment measures for predicting mortality after major surgery: An international prospective cohort study pp. 1-22

Danny J N Wong, Steve Harris, Arun Sahni, James R Bedford, Laura Cortes, Richard Shawyer, Andrew M Wilson, Helen A Lindsay, Doug Campbell, Scott Popham, Lisa M Barneto, Paul S Myles, EPICCS collaborators Snap-2: and S Ramani Moonesinghe

Medicalization of female genital cutting in Malaysia: A mixed methods study pp. 1-22

Abdul Rashid, Yufu Iguchi and Siti Nur Afiqah

Risk of disease and willingness to vaccinate in the United States: A population-based survey pp. 1-23

Bert Baumgaertner, Benjamin J Ridenhour, Florian Justwan, Juliet E Carlisle and Craig R Miller

Tuberculosis, human rights, and law reform: Addressing the lack of progress in the global tuberculosis response pp. 1-9

Matthew M Kavanagh, Lawrence O Gostin and John Stephens

Primary healthcare expansion and mortality in Brazil’s urban poor: A cohort analysis of 1.2 million adults pp. 1-20

Thomas Hone, Valeria Saraceni, Claudia Medina Coeli, Anete Trajman, Davide Rasella, Christopher Millett and Betina Durovni

Socioeconomic level and associations between heat exposure and all-cause and cause-specific hospitalization in 1,814 Brazilian cities: A nationwide case-crossover study pp. 1-18

Rongbin Xu, Qi Zhao, Micheline S Z S Coelho, Paulo H N Saldiva, Michael J Abramson, Shanshan Li and Yuming Guo

Association between prehospital time and outcome of trauma patients in 4 Asian countries: A cross-national, multicenter cohort study pp. 1-19

Chi-Hsin Chen, Sang Do Shin, Jen-Tang Sun, Sabariah Faizah Jamaluddin, Hideharu Tanaka, Kyoung Jun Song, Kentaro Kajino, Akio Kimura, Edward Pei-Chuan Huang, Ming-Ju Hsieh, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma and Wen-Chu Chiang

Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-14

Mary T Bassett, Jarvis T Chen and Nancy Krieger

Universal third-trimester ultrasonic screening using fetal macrosomia in the prediction of adverse perinatal outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy pp. 1-15

Alexandros A Moraitis, Norman Shreeve, Ulla Sovio, Peter Brocklehurst, Alexander E P Heazell, Jim G Thornton, Stephen C Robson, Aris Papageorghiou and Gordon C Smith

Volume 17, issue 9, 2020

The prevalence of mental illness in refugees and asylum seekers: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-24

Rebecca Blackmore, Jacqueline A Boyle, Mina Fazel, Sanjeeva Ranasinha, Kylie M Gray, Grace Fitzgerald, Marie Misso and Melanie Gibson-Helm

Age at diagnosis, glycemic trajectories, and responses to oral glucose-lowering drugs in type 2 diabetes in Hong Kong: A population-based observational study pp. 1-16

Calvin Ke, Thérèse A Stukel, Baiju R Shah, Eric Lau, Ronald C Ma, Wing-Yee So, Alice P Kong, Elaine Chow, Juliana C N Chan and Andrea Luk

Biannual azithromycin distribution and child mortality among malnourished children: A subgroup analysis of the MORDOR cluster-randomized trial in Niger pp. 1-17

Kieran S O’Brien, Ahmed M Arzika, Ramatou Maliki, Farouk Manzo, Alio K Mamkara, Elodie Lebas, Catherine Cook, Robin L Bailey, Sheila K West, Catherine E Oldenburg, Travis C Porco, Benjamin Arnold, Jeremy D Keenan, Thomas M Lietman and for the MORDOR Study Group

Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence pp. 1-17

Atheendar S Venkataramani, Rourke O’Brien, Gregory L Whitehorn and Alexander C Tsai

Efficacy and safety of vamorolone in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: An 18-month interim analysis of a non-randomized open-label extension study pp. 1-18

Edward C Smith, Laurie S Conklin, Eric P Hoffman, Paula R Clemens, Jean K Mah, Richard S Finkel, Michela Guglieri, Mar Tulinius, Yoram Nevo, Monique M Ryan, Richard Webster, Diana Castro, Nancy L Kuntz, Laurie Kerchner, Lauren P Morgenroth, Adrienne Arrieta, Maya Shimony, Mark Jaros, Phil Shale, Heather Gordish-Dressman, Laura Hagerty, Utkarsh J Dang, Jesse M Damsker, Benjamin D Schwartz, Laurel J Mengle-Gaw, Craig M McDonald and the CINRG VBP15 and DNHS Investigators

Comparative functional survival and equivalent annual cost of 3 long-lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) products in Tanzania: A randomised trial with 3-year follow up pp. 1-18

Lena M Lorenz, John Bradley, Joshua Yukich, Dennis J Massue, Zawadi Mageni Mboma, Olivier Pigeon, Jason Moore, Albert Kilian, Jo Lines, William Kisinza, Hans J Overgaard and Sarah J Moore

Impact of a pay-for-performance scheme for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) advice on contraceptive uptake and abortion in British primary care: An interrupted time series study pp. 1-18

Richard Ma, Elizabeth Cecil, Alex Bottle, Rebecca French and Sonia Saxena

Effectiveness of a video-based smoking cessation intervention focusing on maternal and child health in promoting quitting among expectant fathers in China: A randomized controlled trial pp. 1-18

Wei Xia, Ho Cheung William Li, Wenzhi Cai, Peige Song, Xiaoyu Zhou, Ka Wai Katherine Lam, Laurie Long Kwan Ho, Ankie Tan Cheung, Yuanhui Luo, Chunxian Zeng and Ka Yan Ho

Interventions for treatment of COVID-19: A living systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses (The LIVING Project) pp. 1-25

Sophie Juul, Emil Eik Nielsen, Joshua Feinberg, Faiza Siddiqui, Caroline Kamp Jørgensen, Emily Barot, Niklas Nielsen, Peter Bentzer, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Lehana Thabane, Fanlong Bu, Sarah Klingenberg, Christian Gluud and Janus Christian Jakobsen

How to make your research jump off the page: Co-creation to broaden public engagement in medical research pp. 1-8

Nina Finley, Talia H Swartz, Kevin Cao and Joseph D Tucker

TIDieR-Placebo: A guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls pp. 1-15

Jeremy Howick, Rebecca K Webster, Jonathan L Rees, Richard Turner, Helen Macdonald, Amy Price, Andrea W M Evers, Felicity Bishop, Gary S Collins, Klara Bokelmann, Sally Hopewell, André Knottnerus, Sarah Lamb, Claire Madigan, Vitaly Napadow, Andrew N Papanikitas and Tammy Hoffmann

Mental health problems among female sex workers in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-38

Tara S Beattie, Boryana Smilenova, Shari Krishnaratne and April Mazzuca

STrengthening the Reporting Of Pharmacogenetic Studies: Development of the STROPS guideline pp. 1-11

Marty Chaplin, Jamie J Kirkham, Kerry Dwan, Derek J Sloan, Geraint Davies and Andrea L Jorgensen

Mediterranean diet and endothelial function in patients with coronary heart disease: An analysis of the CORDIOPREV randomized controlled trial pp. 1-28

Elena M Yubero-Serrano, Carolina Fernandez-Gandara, Antonio Garcia-Rios, Oriol A Rangel-Zuñiga, Francisco M Gutierrez-Mariscal, Jose D Torres-Peña, Carmen Marin, Javier Lopez-Moreno, Justo P Castaño, Javier Delgado-Lista, Jose M Ordovas, Pablo Perez-Martinez and Jose Lopez-Miranda

Social capital, social cohesion, and health of Syrian refugee working children living in informal tented settlements in Lebanon: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-19

Rima R Habib, Amena El-Harakeh, Micheline Ziadee, Elio Abi Younes and Khalil El Asmar

Long-term survival of children born with congenital anomalies: A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies pp. 1-55

Svetlana V Glinianaia, Joan K Morris, Kate E Best, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Annarita Armaroli and Judith Rankin

State-level prescription drug monitoring program mandates and adolescent injection drug use in the United States, 1995–2017: A difference-in-differences analysis pp. 1-13

Joel J Earlywine, Scott E Hadland and Julia Raifman

Volume 17, issue 8, 2020

The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era pp. 1-3

Deirdre M Harrington and Michelle O’Reilly

Social distancing to slow the US COVID-19 epidemic: Longitudinal pretest–posttest comparison group study pp. 1-12

Mark J Siedner, Guy Harling, Zahra Reynolds, Rebecca F Gilbert, Sebastien Haneuse, Atheendar S Venkataramani and Alexander C Tsai

Temporal variations in the distribution of self-harm episodes and methods across the Australian asylum seeker population: An observational study pp. 1-19

Kyli Hedrick, Gregory Armstrong, Guy Coffey and Rohan Borschmann

Effectiveness of a culturally appropriate intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV transmission among men, women, and couples in rural Ethiopia: Findings from a cluster-randomized controlled trial pp. 1-28

Vandana Sharma, Jessica Leight, Fabio Verani, Samuel Tewolde and Negussie Deyessa

A clinical algorithm for same-day HIV treatment initiation in settings with high TB symptom prevalence in South Africa: The SLATE II individually randomized clinical trial pp. 1-20

Mhairi Maskew, Alana T Brennan, Matthew P Fox, Lungisile Vezi, Willem D F Venter, Peter Ehrenkranz and Sydney Rosen

Safety and parasite clearance of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infection: A pilot and a randomised volunteer infection study in Australia pp. 1-17

Rebecca E Watts, Anand Odedra, Louise Marquart, Lachlan Webb, Azrin N Abd-Rahman, Laura Cascales, Stephan Chalon, Maria Rebelo, Zuleima Pava, Katharine A Collins, Cielo Pasay, Nanhua Chen, Christopher L Peatey, Jörg J Möhrle and James S McCarthy

A multiphase program for malaria elimination in southern Mozambique (the Magude project): A before-after study pp. 1-23

Beatriz Galatas, Francisco Saúte, Helena Martí-Soler, Caterina Guinovart, Lidia Nhamussua, Wilson Simone, Humberto Munguambe, Camilo Hamido, Júlia Montañà, Olinda Muguande, Francois Maartens, Fabião Luis, Krijn Paaijmans, Alfredo Mayor, Quique Bassat, Clara Menéndez, Eusebio Macete, Regina Rabinovich, Pedro L Alonso, Baltazar Candrinho and Pedro Aide

Evaluation of a city-wide school-located influenza vaccination program in Oakland, California, with respect to vaccination coverage, school absences, and laboratory-confirmed influenza: A matched cohort study pp. 1-23

Jade Benjamin-Chung, Benjamin F Arnold, Chris J Kennedy, Kunal Mishra, Nolan Pokpongkiat, Anna Nguyen, Wendy Jilek, Kate Holbrook, Erica Pan, Pam D Kirley, Tanya Libby, Alan E Hubbard, Arthur Reingold and John M Colford

Incidence of and trends in hip fracture among adults in urban China: A nationwide retrospective cohort study pp. 1-16

Chenggui Zhang, Jingnan Feng, Shengfeng Wang, Pei Gao, Lu Xu, Junxiong Zhu, Jialin Jia, Lili Liu, Guozhen Liu, Jinxi Wang, Siyan Zhan and Chunli Song

A new approach to an old problem: Overview of the East African Community’s Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative pp. 1-5

Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda, Gugu Mahlangu, Margaret Agama-Anyetei and Emer Cooke

Evaluation of the effectiveness of topical repellent distributed by village health volunteer networks against Plasmodium spp. infection in Myanmar: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial pp. 1-21

Paul A Agius, Julia C Cutts, Win Han Oo, Aung Thi, Katherine O’Flaherty, Kyaw Zayar Aung, Htin Kyaw Thu, Poe Poe Aung, Myat Mon Thein, Nyi Nyi Zaw, Wai Yan Min Htay, Aung Paing Soe, Zahra Razook, Alyssa E Barry, Win Htike, Angela Devine, Julie A Simpson, Brendan S Crabb, James G Beeson, Naanki Pasricha and Freya J I Fowkes

Psychological and pharmacological interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid mental health problems following complex traumatic events: Systematic review and component network meta-analysis pp. 1-34

Peter A Coventry, Nick Meader, Hollie Melton, Melanie Temple, Holly Dale, Kath Wright, Marylène Cloitre, Thanos Karatzias, Jonathan Bisson, Neil P Roberts, Jennifer V E Brown, Corrado Barbui, Rachel Churchill, Karina Lovell, Dean McMillan and Simon Gilbody

Volume 17, issue 7, 2020

Participation in adherence clubs and on-time drug pickup among HIV-infected adults in Zambia: A matched-pair cluster randomized trial pp. 1-19

Monika Roy, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Izukanji Sikazwe, Mpande Mukumbwa-Mwenechanya, Emilie Efronson, Chanda Mwamba, Paul Somwe, Estella Kalunkumya, Mwansa Lumpa, Anjali Sharma, Jake Pry, Wilbroad Mutale, Peter Ehrenkranz, David V Glidden, Nancy Padian, Stephanie Topp, Elvin Geng and Charles B Holmes

Healthy behaviors at age 50 years and frailty at older ages in a 20-year follow-up of the UK Whitehall II cohort: A longitudinal study pp. 1-19

Andres Gil-Salcedo, Aline Dugravot, Aurore Fayosse, Julien Dumurgier, Kim Bouillon, Alexis Schnitzler, Mika Kivimäki, Archana Singh-Manoux and Séverine Sabia

Efficacy and safety of bempedoic acid for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-21

Arrigo F G Cicero, Federica Fogacci, Adrian V Hernandez, Maciej Banach and on behalf of the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-Analysis Collaboration (LBPMC) Group and the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP)

Opportunistic screening for atrial fibrillation by clinical pharmacists in UK general practice during the influenza vaccination season: A cross-sectional feasibility study pp. 1-21

Vilius Savickas, Adrian J Stewart, Melanie Rees-Roberts, Vanessa Short, Sukvinder K Bhamra, Sarah A Corlett, Alistair Mathie and Emma L Veale

Carrying out embedded implementation research in humanitarian settings: A qualitative study in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh pp. 1-13

A S M Shahabuddin, Alyssa B. Sharkey, Debra Jackson, Paul Rutter, Andreas Hasman and Malabika Sarker

Tracing and analysis of 288 early SARS-CoV-2 infections outside China: A modeling study pp. 1-13

Francesco Pinotti, Laura Di Domenico, Ernesto Ortega, Marco Mancastroppa, Giulia Pullano, Eugenio Valdano, Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Chiara Poletto and Vittoria Colizza

Can self-imposed prevention measures mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic? pp. 1-4

Lei Zhang, Yusha Tao, Mingwang Shen, Christopher K Fairley and Yuming Guo

A simplified, combined protocol versus standard treatment for acute malnutrition in children 6–59 months (ComPAS trial): A cluster-randomized controlled non-inferiority trial in Kenya and South Sudan pp. 1-22

Jeanette Bailey, Charles Opondo, Natasha Lelijveld, Bethany Marron, Pamela Onyo, Eunice N Musyoki, Susan W Adongo, Mark Manary, André Briend and Marko Kerac

Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study pp. 1-37

Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Barry Popkin, Rebecca Kanter, Stefanie Vandevijvere and Camila Corvalán

Addressing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity: Democratising access to resources for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight pp. 1-3

Jean Adams

Volume 17, issue 6, 2020

Will COVID-19 be evidence-based medicine’s nemesis? pp. 1-4

Trisha Greenhalgh

Fatty acids in the de novo lipogenesis pathway and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies pp. 1-17

Fumiaki Imamura, Amanda M Fretts, Matti Marklund, Andres V Ardisson Korat, Wei-Sin Yang, Maria Lankinen, Waqas Qureshi, Catherine Helmer, Tzu-An Chen, Jyrki K Virtanen, Kerry Wong, Julie K Bassett, Rachel Murphy, Nathan Tintle, Chaoyu Ian Yu, Ingeborg A Brouwer, Kuo-Liong Chien, Yun-yu Chen, Alexis C Wood, Liana C del Gobbo, Luc Djousse, Johanna M Geleijnse, Graham G Giles, Janette de Goede, Vilmundur Gudnason, William S Harris, Allison Hodge, Frank Hu, InterAct Consortium, Albert Koulman, Markku Laakso, Lars Lind, Hung-Ju Lin, Barbara McKnight, Kalina Rajaobelina, Ulf Riserus, Jennifer G Robinson, Cecilia Samieri, Mackenzie Senn, David S Siscovick, Sabita S Soedamah-Muthu, Nona Sotoodehnia, Qi Sun, Michael Y Tsai, Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen, Matti Uusitupa, Lynne E Wagenknecht, Nick J Wareham, Jason H Y Wu, Renata Micha, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Dariush Mozaffarian and Nita G Forouhi

Effect of tailoring anticoagulant treatment duration by applying a recurrence risk prediction model in patients with venous thromboembolism compared to usual care: A randomized controlled trial pp. 1-17

Geert-Jan Geersing, Janneke M T Hendriksen, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Kit C Roes, Ruud Oudega, Toshihiko Takada, Roger E G Schutgens and Karel G M Moons

Impact of physicians’ participation in non-interventional post-marketing studies on their prescription habits: A retrospective 2-armed cohort study in Germany pp. 1-16

Cora Koch, Jörn Schleeff, Franka Techen, Daniel Wollschläger, Gisela Schott, Ralf Kölbel and Klaus Lieb

Antibiotic prescription practices in primary care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Giorgia Sulis, Pierrick Adam, Vaidehi Nafade, Genevieve Gore, Benjamin Daniels, Amrita Daftary, Jishnu Das, Sumanth Gandra and Madhukar Pai

Social determinants of health, data science, and decision-making: Forging a transdisciplinary synthesis pp. 1-3

Sandro Galea, Salma M Abdalla and Jeffrey L Sturchio

The association between long-term exposure to low-level PM2.5 and mortality in the state of Queensland, Australia: A modelling study with the difference-in-differences approach pp. 1-19

Wenhua Yu, Yuming Guo, Liuhua Shi and Shanshan Li

Volume 17, issue 5, 2020

Sugary drink warnings: A meta-analysis of experimental studies pp. 1-21

Anna H Grummon and Marissa G Hall

National and regional prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-30

Lauren C Ng, Anne Stevenson, Sreeja S Kalapurakkel, Charlotte Hanlon, Soraya Seedat, Boniface Harerimana, Bonginkosi Chiliza and Karestan C Koenen

Impact of macronutrient supplements on later growth of children born preterm or small for gestational age: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and quasirandomised controlled trials pp. 1-25

Luling Lin, Emma Amissah, Gregory D Gamble, Caroline A Crowther and Jane E Harding

Medications for opioid use disorder among pregnant women referred by criminal justice agencies before and after Medicaid expansion: A retrospective study of admissions to treatment centers in the United States pp. 1-14

Tyler N A Winkelman, Becky R Ford, Rebecca J Shlafer, Anna McWilliams, Lindsay K Admon and Stephen W Patrick

HIV-related outcome disparities between transgender women living with HIV and cisgender people living with HIV served by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program: A retrospective study pp. 1-16

Pamela W Klein, Demetrios Psihopaidas, Jessica Xavier and Stacy M Cohen

Comparative impact of pharmacological treatments for gestational diabetes on neonatal anthropometry independent of maternal glycaemic control: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-23

Jane L Tarry-Adkins, Catherine E Aiken and Susan E Ozanne

Pandemic preparedness and responses: WHO to turn to in a crisis? pp. 1-3

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Predicting the impact of patient and private provider behavior on diagnostic delay for pulmonary tuberculosis patients in India: A simulation modeling study pp. 1-18

Sarang Deo, Simrita Singh, Neha Jha, Nimalan Arinaminpathy and Puneet Dewan

Volume 17, issue 4, 2020

Metabolic risk factors and incident advanced liver disease in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): A systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based observational studies pp. 1-20

Helen Jarvis, Dawn Craig, Robert Barker, Gemma Spiers, Daniel Stow, Quentin M Anstee and Barbara Hanratty

HIV testing and treatment coverage achieved after 4 years across 14 urban and peri-urban communities in Zambia and South Africa: An analysis of findings from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial pp. 1-30

Sian Floyd, Kwame Shanaube, Blia Yang, Ab Schaap, Sam Griffith, Mwelwa Phiri, David Macleod, Rosa Sloot, Kalpana Sabapathy, Virginia Bond, Peter Bock, Helen Ayles, Sarah Fidler, Richard Hayes and the HPTN 071 (PopART) study Team

CINeMA: An approach for assessing confidence in the results of a network meta-analysis pp. 1-19

Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Julian P T Higgins, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Anna Chaimani, Cinzia Del Giovane, Matthias Egger and Georgia Salanti

Febuxostat does not delay progression of carotid atherosclerosis in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia: A randomized, controlled trial pp. 1-19

Atsushi Tanaka, Isao Taguchi, Hiroki Teragawa, Nobukazu Ishizaka, Yumiko Kanzaki, Hirofumi Tomiyama, Masataka Sata, Akira Sezai, Kazuo Eguchi, Toru Kato, Shigeru Toyoda, Ryoichi Ishibashi, Kazuomi Kario, Tomoko Ishizu, Shinichiro Ueda, Koji Maemura, Yukihito Higashi, Hirotsugu Yamada, Mitsuru Ohishi, Kotaro Yokote, Toyoaki Murohara, Jun-ichi Oyama, Koichi Node and on behalf of the PRIZE study Investigators

Effectiveness of the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) in reducing intimate partner violence and hazardous alcohol use in Zambia (VATU): A randomized controlled trial pp. 1-22

Laura K Murray, Jeremy C Kane, Nancy Glass, Stephanie Skavenski van Wyk, Flor Melendez, Ravi Paul, Carla Kmett Danielson, Sarah M Murray, John Mayeya, Francis Simenda and Paul Bolton

Pre-exposure prophylaxis for preventing acquisition of HIV: A cross-sectional study of patients, prescribers, uptake, and spending in the United States, 2015–2016 pp. 1-17

Stephanie S Chan, Andre R Chappel, Karen E Joynt Maddox, Karen W Hoover, Ya-lin A Huang, Weiming Zhu, Stacy M Cohen, Pamela W Klein and Nancy De Lew

Volume 17, issue 3, 2020

Healthcare factors associated with the risk of antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth in migrants in Western Australia (2005-2013): A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-25

Maryam Mozooni, Craig E Pennell and David B Preen

Associations of adverse childhood experiences with educational attainment and adolescent health and the role of family and socioeconomic factors: A prospective cohort study in the UK pp. 1-21

Lotte C Houtepen, Jon Heron, Matthew J Suderman, Abigail Fraser, Catherine R Chittleborough and Laura D Howe

Factors affecting the electrocardiographic QT interval in malaria: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data pp. 1-20

Xin Hui S Chan, Yan Naung Win, Ilsa L Haeusler, Jireh Y Tan, Shanghavie Loganathan, Sompob Saralamba, Shu Kiat S Chan, Elizabeth A Ashley, Karen I Barnes, Rita Baiden, Peter U Bassi, Abdoulaye Djimde, Grant Dorsey, Stephan Duparc, Borimas Hanboonkunupakarn, Feiko O ter Kuile, Marcus V G Lacerda, Amit Nasa, François H Nosten, Cyprian O Onyeji, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, André M Siqueira, Joel Tarning, Walter R J Taylor, Giovanni Valentini, Michèle van Vugt, David Wesche, Nicholas P J Day, Christopher L-H Huang, Josep Brugada, Ric N Price and Nicholas J White

Evaluation of a very brief pedometer-based physical activity intervention delivered in NHS Health Checks in England: The VBI randomised controlled trial pp. 1-20

Wendy Hardeman, Joanna Mitchell, Sally Pears, Miranda Van Emmenis, Florence Theil, Vijay Gc, Joana C Vasconcelos, Kate Westgate, Søren Brage, Marc Suhrcke, Simon J Griffin, Ann Louise Kinmonth, Edward C F Wilson, A Toby Prevost, Stephen Sutton and on behalf of the VBI Research Team

Painful gynecologic and obstetric complications of female genital mutilation/cutting: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Jacob Michael Lurie, Alessandra Weidman, Samantha Huynh, Diana Delgado, Imaani Easthausen and Gunisha Kaur

Pre-migration socioeconomic status and post-migration health satisfaction among Syrian refugees in Germany: A cross-sectional analysis pp. 1-20

Jan Michael Bauer, Tilman Brand and Hajo Zeeb

Conscientious vaccination exemptions in kindergarten to eighth-grade children across Texas schools from 2012 to 2018: A regression analysis pp. 1-18

Maike Morrison, Lauren A Castro and Lauren Ancel Meyers

Nationally and regionally representative analysis of 1.65 million children aged under 5 years using a child-based human development index: A multi-country cross-sectional study pp. 1-18

Jan-Walter De Neve, Kenneth Harttgen and Stéphane Verguet

Addressing disparities in the health of persons with HIV attributable to unstable housing in the United States: The role of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program pp. 1-7

Amy Griffin, Antigone Dempsey, Wendy Cousino, Latham Avery, Harold Phillips, Emeka Egwim and Laura Cheever

Prescribing systemic steroids for acute respiratory tract infections in United States outpatient settings: A nationwide population-based cohort study pp. 1-16

Kueiyu Joshua Lin, Evan Dvorin and Aaron S Kesselheim

Malnutrition trends in Rohingya children aged 6–59 months residing in informal settlements in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh: An analysis of cross-sectional, population-representative surveys pp. 1-16

Eva Leidman, Md Lalan Miah, Alexa Humphreys, Leonie Toroitich- van Mil, Caroline Wilkinson, Mary Chelang'at Koech, Henry Sebuliba, Muhammad Abu Bakr Siddique and Oleg Bilukha

Projected impact of the Portuguese sugar-sweetened beverage tax on obesity incidence across different age groups: A modelling study pp. 1-17

Francisco Goiana-da-Silva, Milton Severo, David Cruz e Silva, Maria João Gregório, Luke N Allen, Magdalena Muc, Alexandre Morais Nunes, Duarte Torres, Marisa Miraldo, Hutan Ashrafian, Ana Rito, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, João Breda, Ara Darzi, Fernando Araújo and Carla Lopes

Drought and intimate partner violence towards women in 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa during 2011-2018: A population-based study pp. 1-17

Adrienne Epstein, Eran Bendavid, Denis Nash, Edwin D Charlebois and Sheri D Weiser

Dietary fibre and whole grains in diabetes management: Systematic review and meta-analyses pp. 1-22

Andrew N Reynolds, Ashley P Akerman and Jim Mann

Association of childhood obesity with risk of early all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A Swedish prospective cohort study pp. 1-14

Louise Lindberg, Pernilla Danielsson, Martina Persson, Claude Marcus and Emilia Hagman

Association of suicidal behavior with exposure to suicide and suicide attempt: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis pp. 1-27

Nicole T M Hill, Jo Robinson, Jane Pirkis, Karl Andriessen, Karolina Krysinska, Amber Payne, Alexandra Boland, Alison Clarke, Allison Milner, Katrina Witt, Stephan Krohn and Amit Lampit

Mapping and characterising areas with high levels of HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: A geospatial analysis of national survey data pp. 1-19

Caroline A Bulstra, Jan A C Hontelez, Federica Giardina, Richard Steen, Nico J D Nagelkerke, Till Bärnighausen and Sake J de Vlas

Exploring sources of insecurity for Ethiopian Oromo and Somali women who have given birth in Kakuma Refugee Camp: A Qualitative Study pp. 1-19

Amber Trujillo Lalla, Katherine Farrell Ginsbach, Naomi Penney, Arsity Shamsudin and Rahul Oka

Health and well-being of male international migrants and non-migrants in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional follow-up study pp. 1-19

Randall Kuhn, Tania Barham, Abdur Razzaque and Patrick Turner

Migrant and refugee health: Complex health associations among diverse contexts call for tailored and rights-based solutions pp. 1-3

Paul Spiegel, Kolitha Wickramage and Terry McGovern

Maternal and child gluten intake and association with type 1 diabetes: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study pp. 1-15

Nicolai A Lund-Blix, German Tapia, Karl Mårild, Anne Lise Brantsaeter, Pål R Njølstad, Geir Joner, Torild Skrivarhaug, Ketil Størdal and Lars C Stene

Paediatric emergency department utilisation rates and maternal migration status in the Born in Bradford cohort: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-15

Sarah H Credé, Suzanne Mason, Elizabeth Such and Richard M Jacques

Gaps in the HIV diagnosis and care cascade for migrants in Australia, 2013–2017: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-15

Tafireyi Marukutira, Richard T Gray, Caitlin Douglass, Carol El-Hayek, Clarissa Moreira, Jason Asselin, Basil Donovan, Tobias Vickers, Tim Spelman, Suzanne Crowe, Rebecca Guy, Mark Stoove and Margaret Hellard

Volume 17, issue 2, 2020

A multicomponent secondary school health promotion intervention and adolescent health: An extension of the SEHER cluster randomised controlled trial in Bihar, India pp. 1-17

Sachin Shinde, Helen A Weiss, Prachi Khandeparkar, Bernadette Pereira, Amit Sharma, Rajesh Gupta, David A Ross, George Patton and Vikram Patel

Association between non-malignant monoclonal gammopathy and adverse outcomes in chronic kidney disease: A cohort study pp. 1-17

Anthony Fenton, Rajkumar Chinnadurai, Latha Gullapudi, Petros Kampanis, Indranil Dasgupta, James Ritchie, Stephen Harding, Charles J Ferro, Philip A Kalra, Maarten W Taal and Paul Cockwell

An evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on sugar-sweetened beverage purchases from 2015 to 2017: A before-and-after study pp. 1-22

Lindsey Smith Taillie, Marcela Reyes, M Arantxa Colchero, Barry Popkin and Camila Corvalán

Virological suppression and clinical management in response to viremia in South African HIV treatment program: A multicenter cohort study pp. 1-18

Lucas E Hermans, Sergio Carmona, Monique Nijhuis, Hugo A Tempelman, Douglas D Richman, Michelle Moorhouse, Diederick E Grobbee, Willem D F Venter and Annemarie M J Wensing

An adaptable implementation package targeting evidence-based indicators in primary care: A pragmatic cluster-randomised evaluation pp. 1-20

Thomas A Willis, Michelle Collinson, Liz Glidewell, Amanda J Farrin, Michael Holland, David Meads, Claire Hulme, Duncan Petty, Sarah Alderson, Suzanne Hartley, Armando Vargas-Palacios, Paul Carder, Stella Johnson, Robbie Foy and on behalf of the ASPIRE programme Team

Improving air quality needs to be a policy priority for governments globally pp. 1-3

Aziz Sheikh

Impact of the announcement and implementation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on sugar content, price, product size and number of available soft drinks in the UK, 2015-19: A controlled interrupted time series analysis pp. 1-19

Peter Scarborough, Vyas Adhikari, Richard A Harrington, Ahmed Elhussein, Adam Briggs, Mike Rayner, Jean Adams, Steven Cummins, Tarra Penney and Martin White

Association of coincident self-reported mental health problems and alcohol intake with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality: A Norwegian pooled population analysis pp. 1-21

Eirik Degerud, Gudrun Høiseth, Jørg Mørland, Inger Ariansen, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Eivind Ystrom, Luisa Zuccolo and Øyvind Næss

Plans and prospects for the 2020s: Beyond peak health? pp. 1-2

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Volume 17, issue 1, 2020

Comparison of aggregate and individual participant data approaches to meta-analysis of randomised trials: An observational study pp. 1-22

Jayne F Tierney, David J Fisher, Sarah Burdett, Lesley A Stewart and Mahesh K B Parmar

Projected costs of single-payer healthcare financing in the United States: A systematic review of economic analyses pp. 1-18

Christopher Cai, Jackson Runte, Isabel Ostrer, Kacey Berry, Ninez Ponce, Michael Rodriguez, Stefano Bertozzi, Justin S White and James G Kahn

Association of puberty timing with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Tuck Seng Cheng, Felix R Day, Rajalakshmi Lakshman and Ken K Ong

Evaluation of a clinical decision rule to guide antibiotic prescription in children with suspected lower respiratory tract infection in The Netherlands: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial pp. 1-19

Josephine S van de Maat, Daphne Peeters, Daan Nieboer, Anne-Marie van Wermeskerken, Frank J Smit, Jeroen G Noordzij, Gerdien Tramper-Stranders, Gertjan J A Driessen, Charlie C Obihara, Jeanine Punt, Johan van der Lei, Suzanne Polinder, Henriette A Moll and Rianne Oostenbrink

Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis pp. 1-12

Freya M Shearer, Robert Moss, Jodie McVernon, Joshua V Ross and James M McCaw