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Volume 16, issue 12, 2019

Personalized public health: An implementation research agenda for the HIV response and beyond pp. 1-5

Elvin H Geng, Charles B Holmes, Mosa Moshabela, Izukanji Sikazwe and Maya L Petersen

Pubertal timing and adult fracture risk in men: A population-based cohort study pp. 1-14

Liesbeth Vandenput, Jenny M Kindblom, Maria Bygdell, Maria Nethander and Claes Ohlsson

Acute kidney injury and adverse renal events in patients receiving SGLT2-inhibitors: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-13

Jan Menne, Eva Dumann, Hermann Haller and Bernhard M W Schmidt

Polygenic risk-tailored screening for prostate cancer: A benefit–harm and cost-effectiveness modelling study pp. 1-13

Tom Callender, Mark Emberton, Steve Morris, Ros Eeles, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Paul D P Pharoah and Nora Pashayan

Social determinants of health in relation to firearm-related homicides in the United States: A nationwide multilevel cross-sectional study pp. 1-26

Daniel Kim

Nitroglycerin for treatment of retained placenta: A randomised, placebo-controlled, multicentre, double-blind trial in the UK pp. 1-16

Fiona C Denison, Kathryn F Carruthers, Jemma Hudson, Gladys McPherson, Gin Nie Chua, Mathilde Peace, Jane Brewin, Nina Hallowell, Graham Scotland, Julia Lawton, John Norrie, Jane E Norman and Investigator Team Got-It

Cardiometabolic disease costs associated with suboptimal diet in the United States: A cost analysis based on a microsimulation model pp. 1-15

Thiago Veiga Jardim, Dariush Mozaffarian, Shafika Abrahams-Gessel, Stephen Sy, Yujin Lee, Junxiu Liu, Yue Huang, Colin Rehm, Parke Wilde, Renata Micha and Thomas A Gaziano

Performance of the Access Bio/CareStart rapid diagnostic test for the detection of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Benedikt Ley, Ari Winasti Satyagraha, Hisni Rahmat, Michael E von Fricken, Nicholas M Douglas, Daniel A Pfeffer, Fe Espino, Lorenz von Seidlein, Gisela Henriques, Nwe Nwe Oo, Didier Menard, Sunil Parikh, Germana Bancone, Amalia Karahalios and Ric N Price

Opioid-related treatment, interventions, and outcomes among incarcerated persons: A systematic review pp. 1-34

Monica Malta, Thepikaa Varatharajan, Cayley Russell, Michelle Pang, Sarah Bonato and Benedikt Fischer

Chemotherapy effectiveness in trial-underrepresented groups with early breast cancer: A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-12

Ewan Gray, Joachim Marti, Jeremy C Wyatt, David H Brewster, Peter S Hall and Advisory Group Saturne

Variability in the use of pulse oximeters with children in Kenyan hospitals: A mixed-methods analysis pp. 1-20

Abigail J Enoch, Mike English, the Clinical Information Network, Gerald McGivern and Sasha Shepperd

The projected impact of geographic targeting of oral cholera vaccination in sub-Saharan Africa: A modeling study pp. 1-17

Elizabeth C Lee, Andrew S Azman, Joshua Kaminsky, Sean M Moore, Heather S McKay and Justin Lessler

Volume 16, issue 11, 2019

The Kidney Failure Risk Equation for prediction of end stage renal disease in UK primary care: An external validation and clinical impact projection cohort study pp. 1-16

Rupert W Major, David Shepherd, James F Medcalf, Gang Xu, Laura J Gray and Nigel J Brunskill

Prescription of benzodiazepines, z-drugs, and gabapentinoids and mortality risk in people receiving opioid agonist treatment: Observational study based on the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink and Office for National Statistics death records pp. 1-16

John Macleod, Colin Steer, Kate Tilling, Rosie Cornish, John Marsden, Tim Millar, John Strang and Matthew Hickman

Noncompletion and nonpublication of trials studying rare diseases: A cross-sectional analysis pp. 1-16

Chris A Rees, Natalie Pica, Michael C Monuteaux and Florence T Bourgeois

Comparisons of exacerbations and mortality among regular inhaled therapies for patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Systematic review and Bayesian network meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Hyun Woo Lee, Jimyung Park, Junwoo Jo, Eun Jin Jang and Chang-Hoon Lee

Current situation and progress toward the 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals in China: A systematic analysis pp. 1-33

Shu Chen, Lei Guo, Zhan Wang, Wenhui Mao, Yanfeng Ge, Xiaohua Ying, Jing Fang, Qian Long, Qin Liu, Hao Xiang, Chenkai Wu, Chaowei Fu, Di Dong, Jiahui Zhang, Ju Sun, Lichun Tian, Limin Wang, Maigeng Zhou, Mei Zhang, Mengcen Qian, Wei Liu, Weixi Jiang, Wenmeng Feng, Xinying Zeng, Xiyu Ding, Xun Lei, Rachel Tolhurst, Ling Xu, Haidong Wang, Faye Ziegeweid, Scott Glenn, John S Ji, Mary Story, Gavin Yamey and Shenglan Tang

Testosterone replacement in young male cancer survivors: A 6-month double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial pp. 1-18

Jennifer S Walsh, Helen Marshall, Isabelle L Smith, Diana M Greenfield, Jayne Swain, Emma Best, James Ashton, Julia M Brown, Robert Huddart, Robert E Coleman, John A Snowden and Richard J Ross

Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response pp. 1-18

Alexander C Tsai, Mathew V Kiang, Michael L Barnett, Leo Beletsky, Katherine M Keyes, Emma E McGinty, Laramie R Smith, Steffanie A Strathdee, Sarah E Wakeman and Atheendar S Venkataramani

Joint statement on EPA proposed rule and public availability of data (2019) pp. 1-2

H Holden Thorp, Magdalena Skipper, Veronique Kiermer, May Berenbaum, Deborah Sweet and Richard Horton

Correction: Mother’s dietary quality during pregnancy and offspring’s dietary quality in adolescence: Follow-up from a national birth cohort study of 19,582 mother–offspring pairs pp. 1-1

Anne Ahrendt Bjerregaard, Thorhallur Ingi Halldorsson, Inge Tetens and Sjurdur Frodi Olsen

Trends in prescription opioid use and dose trajectories before opioid use disorder or overdose in US adults from 2006 to 2016: A cross-sectional study pp. 1-15

Yu-Jung Jenny Wei, Cheng Chen, Roger Fillingim, Siegfried O Schmidt and Almut G Winterstein

Suspected heroin-related overdoses incidents in Cincinnati, Ohio: A spatiotemporal analysis pp. 1-15

Zehang Richard Li, Evaline Xie, Forrest W Crawford, Joshua L Warren, Kathryn McConnell, J Tyler Copple, Tyler Johnson and Gregg S Gonsalves

The overweight and obesity transition from the wealthy to the poor in low- and middle-income countries: A survey of household data from 103 countries pp. 1-15

Tara Templin, Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Blake Thomson, Joseph Dieleman and Eran Bendavid

Volume 16, issue 10, 2019

Correction: Preeclampsia and risk of end stage kidney disease: A Swedish nationwide cohort study pp. 1-1

Ali S Khashan, Marie Evans, Marius Kublickas, Fergus P McCarthy, Louise C Kenny, Peter Stenvinkel, Tony Fitzgerald and Karolina Kublickiene

The efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and artemether-lumefantrine with and without primaquine on Plasmodium vivax recurrence: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis pp. 1-21

Robert J Commons, Julie A Simpson, Kamala Thriemer, Tesfay Abreha, Ishag Adam, Nicholas M Anstey, Ashenafi Assefa, Ghulam R Awab, J Kevin Baird, Bridget E Barber, Cindy S Chu, Prabin Dahal, André Daher, Timothy M E Davis, Arjen M Dondorp, Matthew J Grigg, Georgina S Humphreys, Jimee Hwang, Harin Karunajeewa, Moses Laman, Kartini Lidia, Brioni R Moore, Ivo Mueller, Francois Nosten, Ayodhia P Pasaribu, Dhelio B Pereira, Aung P Phyo, Jeanne R Poespoprodjo, Carol H Sibley, Kasia Stepniewska, Inge Sutanto, Guy Thwaites, Tran T Hien, Nicholas J White, Timothy William, Charles J Woodrow, Philippe J Guerin and Ric N Price

mHealth intervention “ImTeCHO” to improve delivery of maternal, neonatal, and child care services—A cluster-randomized trial in tribal areas of Gujarat, India pp. 1-24

Dhiren Modi, Nishith Dholakia, Ravi Gopalan, Sethuraman Venkatraman, Kapilkumar Dave, Shobha Shah, Gayatri Desai, Shamim A Qazi, Anju Sinha, Ravindra Mohan Pandey, Ankit Anand, Shrey Desai and Pankaj Shah

Desmopressin and the risk of hyponatremia: A population-based cohort study pp. 1-11

Michael Fralick, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Christopher J D Wallis, Emily H Jung and Aaron S Kesselheim

Maternal exposure to intimate partner violence and breastfeeding practices in 51 low-income and middle-income countries: A population-based cross-sectional study pp. 1-15

Rishi Caleyachetty, Olalekan A Uthman, Hana Nekatebeb Bekele, Rocio Martín-Cañavate, Debbie Marais, Jennifer Coles, Briony Steele, Ricardo Uauy and Peggy Koniz-Booher

Preconception diabetes mellitus and adverse pregnancy outcomes in over 6.4 million women: A population-based cohort study in China pp. 1-15

Yumei Wei, Qin Xu, Huixia Yang, Ying Yang, Long Wang, Huan Chen, Craig Anderson, Xinyue Liu, Geng Song, Qian Li, Qiaomei Wang, Haiping Shen, Yiping Zhang, Donghai Yan, Zuoqi Peng, Yuan He, Yuanyuan Wang, Ya Zhang, Hongguang Zhang and Xu Ma

Gender differences in grant and personnel award funding rates at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research based on research content area: A retrospective analysis pp. 1-15

Karen E A Burns, Sharon E Straus, Kuan Liu, Leena Rizvi and Gordon Guyatt

Use of personalised risk-based screening schedules to optimise workload and sojourn time in screening programmes for diabetic retinopathy: A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-15

Andreas Ochs, Stuart McGurnaghan, Mike W Black, Graham P Leese, Sam Philip, Naveed Sattar, Caroline Styles, Sarah H Wild, Paul M McKeigue, Helen M Colhoun and on behalf of the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group and the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Collaborative

Longitudinal engagement trajectories and risk of death among new ART starters in Zambia: A group-based multi-trajectory analysis pp. 1-25

Aaloke Mody, Ingrid Eshun-Wilson, Kombatende Sikombe, Sheree R Schwartz, Laura K Beres, Sandra Simbeza, Njekwa Mukamba, Paul Somwe, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Nancy Padian, Charles B Holmes, Izukanji Sikazwe and Elvin H Geng

High quality health systems in the SDG era: Country-specific priorities for improving quality of care pp. 1-4

Gagan Thapa, Manoj Jhalani, Sebastián García-Saisó, Address Malata, Sanam Roder-DeWan and Hannah H Leslie

Disparities in glycaemic control, monitoring, and treatment of type 2 diabetes in England: A retrospective cohort analysis pp. 1-18

Martin B Whyte, William Hinton, Andrew McGovern, Jeremy van Vlymen, Filipa Ferreira, Silvio Calderara, Julie Mount, Neil Munro and Simon de Lusignan

Health and medical research for all: The challenge remains open pp. 1-3

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Wirelessly observed therapy compared to directly observed therapy to confirm and support tuberculosis treatment adherence: A randomized controlled trial pp. 1-19

Sara H Browne, Anya Umlauf, Amanda J Tucker, Julie Low, Kathleen Moser, Jonathan Gonzalez Garcia, Charles A Peloquin, Terrence Blaschke, Florin Vaida and Constance A Benson

Psychiatric morbidity and suicidal behaviour in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-29

Duleeka Knipe, A Jess Williams, Stephanie Hannam-Swain, Stephanie Upton, Katherine Brown, Piumee Bandara, Shu-Sen Chang and Nav Kapur

Implementation of the SunSmart program and population sun protection behaviour in Melbourne, Australia: Results from cross-sectional summer surveys from 1987 to 2017 pp. 1-17

Tamara Tabbakh, Angela Volkov, Melanie Wakefield and Suzanne Dobbinson

Prediction of recurrent venous thrombosis in all patients with a first venous thrombotic event: The Leiden Thrombosis Recurrence Risk Prediction model (L-TRRiP) pp. 1-22

Jasmijn F Timp, Sigrid K Braekkan, Willem M Lijfering, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, John-Bjarne Hansen, Frits R Rosendaal, Saskia le Cessie and Suzanne C Cannegieter

Volume 16, issue 9, 2019

Evaluation of approaches to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics systems: A systematic review and synthesis of policies in 25 countries pp. 1-21

Amitabh Bipin Suthar, Aleya Khalifa, Sherry Yin, Kristen Wenz, Doris Ma Fat, Samuel Lantei Mills, Erin Nichols, Carla AbouZahr and Srdjan Mrkic

Vitamin D status and risk of incident tuberculosis disease: A nested case-control study, systematic review, and individual-participant data meta-analysis pp. 1-26

Omowunmi Aibana, Chuan-Chin Huang, Said Aboud, Alberto Arnedo-Pena, Mercedes C Becerra, Juan Bautista Bellido-Blasco, Ramesh Bhosale, Roger Calderon, Silvia Chiang, Carmen Contreras, Ganmaa Davaasambuu, Wafaie W Fawzi, Molly F Franke, Jerome T Galea, Daniel Garcia-Ferrer, Maria Gil-Fortuño, Barbará Gomila-Sard, Amita Gupta, Nikhil Gupte, Rabia Hussain, Jesus Iborra-Millet, Najeeha T Iqbal, Jose Vicente Juan-Cerdán, Aarti Kinikar, Leonid Lecca, Vidya Mave, Noemi Meseguer-Ferrer, Grace Montepiedra, Ferdinand M Mugusi, Olumuyiwa A Owolabi, Julie Parsonnet, Freddy Roach-Poblete, Maria Angeles Romeu-García, Stephen A Spector, Christopher R Sudfeld, Mark W Tenforde, Toyin O Togun, Rosa Yataco, Zibiao Zhang and Megan B Murray

The Fear Reduction Exercised Early (FREE) approach to management of low back pain in general practice: A pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial pp. 1-20

Ben Darlow, James Stanley, Sarah Dean, J Haxby Abbott, Sue Garrett, Ross Wilson, Fiona Mathieson and Anthony Dowell

Simplified clinical algorithm for identifying patients eligible for same-day HIV treatment initiation (SLATE): Results from an individually randomized trial in South Africa and Kenya pp. 1-20

Sydney Rosen, Mhairi Maskew, Bruce A Larson, Alana T Brennan, Isaac Tsikhutsu, Matthew P Fox, Lungisile Vezi, Margaret Bii and Willem D F Venter

Estimated stroke risk, yield, and number needed to screen for atrial fibrillation detected through single time screening: a multicountry patient-level meta-analysis of 141,220 screened individuals pp. 1-19

Nicole Lowres, Jake Olivier, Tze-Fan Chao, Shih-Ann Chen, Yi Chen, Axel Diederichsen, David A Fitzmaurice, Juan Jose Gomez-Doblas, Joseph Harbison, Jeff S Healey, F D Richard Hobbs, Femke Kaasenbrood, William Keen, Vivian W Lee, Jes S Lindholt, Gregory Y H Lip, Georges H Mairesse, Jonathan Mant, Julie W Martin, Enrique Martín-Rioboó, David D McManus, Javier Muñiz, Thomas Münzel, Juliet Nakamya, Lis Neubeck, Jessica J Orchard, Luis Ángel Pérula de Torres, Marco Proietti, F Russell Quinn, Andrea K Roalfe, Roopinder K Sandhu, Renate B Schnabel, Breda Smyth, Apurv Soni, Robert Tieleman, Jiguang Wang, Philipp S Wild, Bryan P Yan and Ben Freedman

Psychosocial working conditions, trajectories of disability, and the mediating role of cognitive decline and chronic diseases: A population-based cohort study pp. 1-16

Kuan-Yu Pan, Weili Xu, Francesca Mangialasche, Rui Wang, Serhiy Dekhtyar, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Laura Fratiglioni and Hui-Xin Wang

Psychological, social, and welfare interventions for torture survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials pp. 1-16

Aseel Hamid, Nimisha Patel and Amanda C de C Williams

Mother’s dietary quality during pregnancy and offspring’s dietary quality in adolescence: Follow-up from a national birth cohort study of 19,582 mother–offspring pairs pp. 1-17

Anne Ahrendt Bjerregaard, Thorhallur Ingi Halldorsson, Inge Tetens and Sjurdur Frodi Olsen

Social network interventions for health behaviours and outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-25

Ruth F Hunter, Kayla de la Haye, Jennifer M Murray, Jennifer Badham, Thomas W Valente, Mike Clarke and Frank Kee

Volume 16, issue 8, 2019

Neonatal, infant, and childhood growth following metformin versus insulin treatment for gestational diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

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

Pregnancy after bariatric surgery and adverse perinatal outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Zainab Akhter, Judith Rankin, Dries Ceulemans, Lem Ngongalah, Roger Ackroyd, Roland Devlieger, Rute Vieira and Nicola Heslehurst

Early occupational intervention for people with low back pain in physically demanding jobs: A randomized clinical trial pp. 1-16

Bjarke Brandt Hansen, Lilli Kirkeskov, Luise Moelenberg Begtrup, Mikael Boesen, Henning Bliddal, Robin Christensen, Ditte Lundsgaard Andreasen, Lars Erik Kristensen, Esben Meulengracht Flachs and Ann Isabel Kryger

Expectations of healthcare quality: A cross-sectional study of internet users in 12 low- and middle-income countries pp. 1-17

Sanam Roder-DeWan, Anna D Gage, Lisa R Hirschhorn, Nana A Y Twum-Danso, Jerker Liljestrand, Kwanele Asante-Shongwe, Viviana Rodríguez, Talhiya Yahya and Margaret E Kruk

Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating a preventive nutrition package into facility-based screening for acute malnutrition during well-baby consultation: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso pp. 1-31

Elodie Becquey, Lieven Huybregts, Amanda Zongrone, Agnes Le Port, Jef Leroy, Rahul Rawat, Mariama Touré and Marie Ruel

Impact on child acute malnutrition of integrating small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements into community-level screening for acute malnutrition: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Mali pp. 1-31

Lieven Huybregts, Agnes Le Port, Elodie Becquey, Amanda Zongrone, Francisco Barba, Rahul Rawat, Jef Leroy and Marie Ruel

Association of social contact with dementia and cognition: 28-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study pp. 1-18

Andrew Sommerlad, Séverine Sabia, Archana Singh-Manoux, Glyn Lewis and Gill Livingston

Correction: Retention and viral suppression in a cohort of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Regionally representative estimates using a multistage-sampling-based approach pp. 1-1

Izukanji Sikazwe, Ingrid Eshun-Wilson, Kombatende Sikombe, Nancy Czaicki, Paul Somwe, Aaloke Mody, Sandra Simbeza, David V Glidden, Elizabeth Chizema, Lloyd B Mulenga, Nancy Padian, Chris J Duncombe, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Laura K Beres, Charles B Holmes and Elvin Geng

Volume 16, issue 7, 2019

Correction: Socioeconomic position and use of healthcare in the last year of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-1

Joanna M Davies, Katherine E Sleeman, Javiera Leniz, Rebecca Wilson, Irene J Higginson, Julia Verne, Matthew Maddocks and Fliss E M Murtagh

Correction: Discovery and validation of a prognostic proteomic signature for tuberculosis progression: A prospective cohort study pp. 1-1

Adam Penn-Nicholson, Thomas Hraha, Ethan G Thompson, David Sterling, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Kirsten M Wall, Michelle Fisher, Sara Suliman, Smitha Shankar, Willem A Hanekom, Nebojsa Janjic, Mark Hatherill, Stefan H E Kaufmann, Jayne Sutherland, Gerhard Walzl, Mary Ann De Groote, Urs Ochsner, Daniel E Zak, Thomas J Scriba and ACS and GC6–74 cohort study groups

Validation of the prognostic value of NF-κB p65 in prostate cancer: A retrospective study using a large multi-institutional cohort of the Canadian Prostate Cancer Biomarker Network pp. 1-15

Andrée-Anne Grosset, Véronique Ouellet, Christine Caron, Gabriela Fragoso, Véronique Barrès, Nathalie Delvoye, Mathieu Latour, Armen Aprikian, Alain Bergeron, Simone Chevalier, Ladan Fazli, Neil Fleshner, Martin Gleave, Pierre Karakiewicz, Louis Lacombe, Jean-Baptiste Lattouf, Theodorus van der Kwast, Dominique Trudel, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, Fred Saad and for the Canadian Prostate Cancer Biomarker Network

Intranasal sufentanil versus intravenous morphine for acute severe trauma pain: A double-blind randomized non-inferiority study pp. 1-15

Marc Blancher, Maxime Maignan, Cyrielle Clapé, Jean-Louis Quesada, Roselyne Collomb-Muret, François Albasini, François-Xavier Ageron, Stephanie Fey, Audrey Wuyts, Jean-Jacques Banihachemi, Barthelemy Bertrand, Audrey Lehmann, Claire Bollart, Guillaume Debaty, Raphaël Briot and Damien Viglino

A simple real-time model for predicting acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients in the US: A descriptive modeling study pp. 1-15

Michael Simonov, Ugochukwu Ugwuowo, Erica Moreira, Yu Yamamoto, Aditya Biswas, Melissa Martin, Jeffrey Testani and F Perry Wilson

Migrants and refugees: Improving health and well-being in a world on the move pp. 1-3

Richard Turner and on behalf of the PLOS Medicine Editors

Particulate matter air pollution and national and county life expectancy loss in the USA: A spatiotemporal analysis pp. 1-18

James E Bennett, Helen Tamura-Wicks, Robbie M Parks, Richard T Burnett, C. Pope, Matthew J Bechle, Julian D Marshall, Goodarz Danaei and Majid Ezzati

Risks of stillbirth and neonatal death with advancing gestation at term: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of 15 million pregnancies pp. 1-16

Javaid Muglu, Henna Rather, David Arroyo-Manzano, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Imelda Balchin, Asma Khalil, Basky Thilaganathan, Khalid S Khan, Javier Zamora and Shakila Thangaratinam

Adherence clubs and decentralized medication delivery to support patient retention and sustained viral suppression in care: Results from a cluster-randomized evaluation of differentiated ART delivery models in South Africa pp. 1-21

Matthew P Fox, Sophie Pascoe, Amy N Huber, Joshua Murphy, Mokgadi Phokojoe, Marelize Gorgens, Sydney Rosen, David Wilson, Yogan Pillay and Nicole Fraser-Hurt

Designing noninferiority tuberculosis treatment trials: Identifying practical advantages for drug regimens with acceptable effectiveness pp. 1-14

Piero L Olliaro and Michel Vaillant

Competition and price among brand-name drugs in the same class: A systematic review of the evidence pp. 1-14

Ameet Sarpatwari, Jonathan DiBello, Marie Zakarian, Mehdi Najafzadeh and Aaron S Kesselheim

Volume 16, issue 6, 2019

College affirmative action bans and smoking and alcohol use among underrepresented minority adolescents in the United States: A difference-in-differences study pp. 1-16

Atheendar S Venkataramani, Erin Cook, Rourke L O’Brien, Ichiro Kawachi, Anupam B Jena and Alexander C Tsai

Association of maternal circulating 25(OH)D and calcium with birth weight: A mendelian randomisation analysis pp. 1-24

William D Thompson, Jessica Tyrrell, Maria-Carolina Borges, Robin N Beaumont, Bridget A Knight, Andrew R Wood, Susan M Ring, Andrew T Hattersley, Rachel M Freathy and Debbie A Lawlor

Treatment of latent infection to achieve tuberculosis elimination in low-incidence countries pp. 1-9

Jonathon R Campbell, David Dowdy and Kevin Schwartzman

Correction: Whole-genome and targeted sequencing of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis on the iSeq100 and MiSeq: A performance, ease-of-use, and cost evaluation pp. 1-1

The PLOS Medicine Staff

Middle-income countries graduating from health aid: Transforming daunting challenges into smooth transitions pp. 1-5

Gavin Yamey, Osondu Ogbuoji and Justice Nonvignon

The association between maternal body mass index and child obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-20

Nicola Heslehurst, Rute Vieira, Zainab Akhter, Hayley Bailey, Emma Slack, Lem Ngongalah, Augustina Pemu and Judith Rankin

The safety of double- and triple-drug community mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis: A multicenter, open-label, cluster-randomized study pp. 1-20

Gary J Weil, Joshua Bogus, Michael Christian, Christine Dubray, Yenny Djuardi, Peter U Fischer, Charles W Goss, Myra Hardy, Purushothaman Jambulingam, Christopher L King, Vijesh Sridhar Kuttiat, Kaliannagounder Krishnamoorthy, Moses Laman, Jean Frantz Lemoine, Katiuscia K O’Brian, Leanne J Robinson, Josaia Samuela, Kenneth B Schechtman, Anita Sircar, Adinarayanan Srividya, Andrew C Steer, Taniawati Supali, Swaminathan Subramanian and the DOLF IDA Safety Study Group

Changes in resistance among coliform bacteraemia associated with a primary care antimicrobial stewardship intervention: A population-based interrupted time series study pp. 1-19

Virginia Hernandez-Santiago, Peter G Davey, Dilip Nathwani, Charis A Marwick and Bruce Guthrie

Educational attainment and cardiovascular disease in the United States: A quasi-experimental instrumental variables analysis pp. 1-19

Rita Hamad, Thu T Nguyen, Jay Bhattacharya, M Maria Glymour and David H Rehkopf

Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map pp. 1-17

Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Miriam Nkangu, Ranjana Nagi, Marc Mendelson, Monica Taljaard and Steven J Hoffman

Associations of genetics, behaviors, and life course circumstances with a novel aging and healthspan measure: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study pp. 1-22

Zuyun Liu, Xi Chen, Thomas M Gill, Chao Ma, Eileen M Crimmins and Morgan E Levine

Mediating roles of preterm birth and restricted fetal growth in the relationship between maternal education and infant mortality: A Danish population-based cohort study pp. 1-18

Yongfu Yu, Zeyan Liew, Aolin Wang, Onyebuchi A Arah, Jialiang Li, Jørn Olsen, Sven Cnattingius, Guoyou Qin, Carsten Obel, Bo Fu and Jiong Li

Biannual mass azithromycin distributions and malaria parasitemia in pre-school children in Niger: A cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled trial pp. 1-15

Ahmed M Arzika, Ramatou Maliki, Nameywa Boubacar, Salissou Kane, Sun Y Cotter, Elodie Lebas, Catherine Cook, Robin L Bailey, Sheila K West, Philip J Rosenthal, Travis C Porco, Thomas M Lietman, Jeremy D Keenan and for the MORDOR Study Group

Volume 16, issue 5, 2019

Correction: Evaluation of a social protection policy on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A prospective cohort study pp. 1-1

Karen Klein, Maria Paula Bernachea, Sarah Iribarren, Luz Gibbons, Cristina Chirico and Fernando Rubinstein

Women’s and girls’ experiences of menstruation in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis pp. 1-40

Julie Hennegan, Alexandra K Shannon, Jennifer Rubli, Kellogg J Schwab and G J Melendez-Torres

Plasmodium vivax morbidity after radical cure: A cohort study in Central Vietnam pp. 1-23

Thanh Vinh Pham, Hong Van Nguyen, Angel Rosas Aguirre, Nguyen Van Van, Mario A. Cleves, Xa Xuan Nguyen, Thao Thanh Nguyen, Duong Thanh Tran, Hung Xuan Le, Niel Hens, Anna Rosanas-Urgell, Umberto D’Alessandro, Niko Speybroeck and Annette Erhart

The missed potential of CD4 and viral load testing to improve clinical outcomes for people living with HIV in lower-resource settings pp. 1-8

Peter D Ehrenkranz, Solange L Baptiste, Helen Bygrave, Tom Ellman, Naoko Doi, Anna Grimsrud, Andreas Jahn, Thokozani Kalua, Rose Kolola Nyirenda, Michael O Odo, Pascale Ondoa, Lara Vojnov and Charles B Holmes

Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial) pp. 1-18

Falko F Sniehotta, Elizabeth H Evans, Kirby Sainsbury, Ashley Adamson, Alan Batterham, Frauke Becker, Heather Brown, Stephan U Dombrowski, Dan Jackson, Denise Howell, Karim Ladha, Elaine McColl, Patrick Olivier, Alexander J Rothman, Alison Steel, Luke Vale, Rute Vieira, Martin White, Peter Wright and Vera Araújo-Soares

Effects of a clinical medication review focused on personal goals, quality of life, and health problems in older persons with polypharmacy: A randomised controlled trial (DREAMeR-study) pp. 1-18

Sanne Verdoorn, Henk-Frans Kwint, Jeanet W Blom, Jacobijn Gussekloo and Marcel L Bouvy

Hypertension screening, awareness, treatment, and control in India: A nationally representative cross-sectional study among individuals aged 15 to 49 years pp. 1-18

Jonas Prenissl, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Lindsay M Jaacks, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Ashish Awasthi, Anne Christine Bischops, Rifat Atun, Till Bärnighausen, Justine I Davies, Sebastian Vollmer and Pascal Geldsetzer

Predicting seizures in pregnant women with epilepsy: Development and external validation of a prognostic model pp. 1-18

John Allotey, Borja M Fernandez-Felix, Javier Zamora, Ngawai Moss, Manny Bagary, Andrew Kelso, Rehan Khan, Joris A M van der Post, Ben W Mol, Alexander M Pirie, Dougall McCorry, Khalid S Khan and Shakila Thangaratinam

Volume 16, issue 4, 2019

Risk score for predicting mortality including urine lipoarabinomannan detection in hospital inpatients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: Derivation and external validation cohort study pp. 1-20

Ankur Gupta-Wright, Elizabeth L Corbett, Douglas Wilson, Joep J van Oosterhout, Keertan Dheda, Helena Huerga, Jonny Peter, Maryline Bonnet, Melanie Alufandika-Moyo, Daniel Grint, Stephen D Lawn and Katherine Fielding

Pharmacokinetics, optimal dosing, and safety of linezolid in children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Combined data from two prospective observational studies pp. 1-20

Anthony J Garcia-Prats, H Simon Schaaf, Heather R Draper, Maria Garcia-Cremades, Jana Winckler, Lubbe Wiesner, Anneke C Hesseling and Rada M Savic

Screening for breech presentation using universal late-pregnancy ultrasonography: A prospective cohort study and cost effectiveness analysis pp. 1-16

David Wastlund, Alexandros A Moraitis, Alison Dacey, Ulla Sovio, Edward C F Wilson and Gordon C S Smith

Evaluation of a social protection policy on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A prospective cohort study pp. 1-16

Karen Klein, Maria Paula Bernachea, Sarah Irribarren, Luz Gibbons, Cristina Chirico and Fernando Rubinstein

Socioeconomic position and use of healthcare in the last year of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis pp. 1-23

Joanna M Davies, Katherine E Sleeman, Javiera Leniz, Rebecca Wilson, Irene J Higginson, Julia Verne, Matthew Maddocks and Fliss E M Murtagh

Discovery and validation of a prognostic proteomic signature for tuberculosis progression: A prospective cohort study pp. 1-21

Adam Penn-Nicholson, Thomas Hraha, Ethan G Thompson, David Sterling, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Kirsten M Wall, Michelle Fisher, Sara Suliman, Smitha Shankar, Willem A Hanekom, Nebojsa Janjic, Mark Hatherill, Stefan H E Kaufmann, Jayne Sutherland, Gerhard Walzl, Mary Ann De Groote, Urs Ochsner, Daniel E Zak, Thomas J Scriba and ACS and GC6–74 cohort study groups

Extended prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism after hospitalization for medical illness: A trial sequential and cumulative meta-analysis pp. 1-15

Navkaranbir S Bajaj, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Arman Qamar, Kartik Gupta, Ankur Gupta, Harsh Golwala, Javed Butler, Samuel Z Goldhaber and Mandeep R Mehra

Volume 16, issue 3, 2019

Advances in clinical trial design for development of new TB treatments: A call for innovation pp. 1-5

Christian Lienhardt and Payam Nahid

Correction: Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil pp. 1-1

Tarub S Mabud, Maria de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Albert I Ko, Sanjay Basu, Katharine S Walter, Ted Cohen, Barun Mathema, Caroline Colijn, Everton Lemos, Julio Croda and Jason R Andrews

The Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana and the path to universal health coverage in India: Overcoming the challenges of stewardship and governance pp. 1-6

Blake J Angell, Shankar Prinja, Anadi Gupt, Vivekanand Jha and Stephen Jan

Health system performance for people with diabetes in 28 low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative surveys pp. 1-21

Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Pascal Geldsetzer, Kokou Agoudavi, Glennis Andall-Brereton, Krishna K Aryal, Brice Wilfried Bicaba, Pascal Bovet, Garry Brian, Maria Dorobantu, Gladwell Gathecha, Mongal Singh Gurung, David Guwatudde, Mohamed Msaidie, Corine Houehanou, Dismand Houinato, Jutta Mari Adelin Jorgensen, Gibson B Kagaruki, Khem B Karki, Demetre Labadarios, Joao S Martins, Mary T Mayige, Roy Wong McClure, Omar Mwalim, Joseph Kibachio Mwangi, Bolormaa Norov, Sarah Quesnel-Crooks, Bahendeka K Silver, Lela Sturua, Lindiwe Tsabedze, Chea Stanford Wesseh, Andrew Stokes, Maja Marcus, Cara Ebert, Justine I Davies, Sebastian Vollmer, Rifat Atun, Till W Bärnighausen and Lindsay M Jaacks

Age distribution, trends, and forecasts of under-5 mortality in 31 sub-Saharan African countries: A modeling study pp. 1-21

Iván Mejía-Guevara, Wenyun Zuo, Eran Bendavid, Nan Li and Shripad Tuljapurkar

Community health workers to improve uptake of maternal healthcare services: A cluster-randomized pragmatic trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania pp. 1-27

Pascal Geldsetzer, Eric Mboggo, Elysia Larson, Irene Andrew Lema, Lucy Magesa, Lameck Machumi, Nzovu Ulenga, David Sando, Mary Mwanyika-Sando, Donna Spiegelman, Ester Mungure, Nan Li, Hellen Siril, Phares Mujinja, Helga Naburi, Guerino Chalamilla, Charles Kilewo, Anna Mia Ekström, Dawn Foster, Wafaie Fawzi and Till Bärnighausen

Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation study pp. 1-20

Yujin Lee, Dariush Mozaffarian, Stephen Sy, Yue Huang, Junxiu Liu, Parke E Wilde, Shafika Abrahams-Gessel, Thiago de Souza Veiga Jardim, Thomas A Gaziano and Renata Micha

Comparative effectiveness of generic and brand-name medication use: A database study of US health insurance claims pp. 1-20

Rishi J Desai, Ameet Sarpatwari, Sara Dejene, Nazleen F Khan, Joyce Lii, James R Rogers, Sarah K Dutcher, Saeid Raofi, Justin Bohn, John G Connolly, Michael A Fischer, Aaron S Kesselheim and Joshua J Gagne

Volume 16, issue 2, 2019

Correction: A new aging measure captures morbidity and mortality risk across diverse subpopulations from NHANES IV: A cohort study pp. 1-1

Zuyun Liu, Pei-Lun Kuo, Steve Horvath, Eileen Crimmins, Luigi Ferrucci and Morgan Levine

The effect of a programme to improve men’s sedentary time and physical activity: The European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) randomised controlled trial pp. 1-25

Sally Wyke, Christopher Bunn, Eivind Andersen, Marlene N Silva, Femke van Nassau, Paula McSkimming, Spyros Kolovos, Jason M R Gill, Cindy M Gray, Kate Hunt, Annie S Anderson, Judith Bosmans, Judith G M Jelsma, Sharon Kean, Nicolas Lemyre, David W Loudon, Lisa Macaulay, Douglas J Maxwell, Alex McConnachie, Nanette Mutrie, Maria Nijhuis- van der Sanden, Hugo V Pereira, Matthew Philpott, Glyn C Roberts, John Rooksby, Øystein B Røynesdal, Naveed Sattar, Marit Sørensen, Pedro J Teixeira, Shaun Treweek, Theo van Achterberg, Irene van de Glind, Willem van Mechelen and Hidde P van der Ploeg

The US Affordable Care Act: Reflections and directions at the close of a decade pp. 1-3

Adrianna McIntyre and Zirui Song

Long-term outcomes of an educational intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for childhood upper respiratory tract infections in rural China: Follow-up of a cluster-randomised controlled trial pp. 1-20

Xiaolin Wei, Zhitong Zhang, Joseph P Hicks, John D Walley, Rebecca King, James N Newell, Jia Yin, Jun Zeng, Yan Guo, Mei Lin, Ross E G Upshur and Qiang Sun

Community-, facility-, and individual-level outcomes of a district mental healthcare plan in a low-resource setting in Nepal: A population-based evaluation pp. 1-20

Mark J D Jordans, Nagendra P Luitel, Brandon A Kohrt, Sujit D Rathod, Emily C Garman, Mary De Silva, Ivan H Komproe, Vikram Patel and Crick Lund

The association between heatwaves and risk of hospitalization in Brazil: A nationwide time series study between 2000 and 2015 pp. 1-16

Qi Zhao, Shanshan Li, Micheline S Z S Coelho, Paulo H N Saldiva, Kejia Hu, Rachel R Huxley, Michael J Abramson and Yuming Guo

COSMOS-E: Guidance on conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies of etiology pp. 1-24

Olaf M Dekkers, Jan P Vandenbroucke, Myriam Cevallos, Andrew G Renehan, Douglas G Altman and Matthias Egger

Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis pp. 1-22

Ellis Voerman, Susana Santos, Bernadeta Patro Golab, Pilar Amiano, Ferran Ballester, Henrique Barros, Anna Bergström, Marie-Aline Charles, Leda Chatzi, Cécile Chevrier, George P Chrousos, Eva Corpeleijn, Nathalie Costet, Sarah Crozier, Graham Devereux, Merete Eggesbø, Sandra Ekström, Maria Pia Fantini, Sara Farchi, Francesco Forastiere, Vagelis Georgiu, Keith M Godfrey, Davide Gori, Veit Grote, Wojciech Hanke, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Barbara Heude, Daniel Hryhorczuk, Rae-Chi Huang, Hazel Inskip, Nina Iszatt, Anne M Karvonen, Louise C Kenny, Berthold Koletzko, Leanne K Küpers, Hanna Lagström, Irina Lehmann, Per Magnus, Renata Majewska, Johanna Mäkelä, Yannis Manios, Fionnuala M McAuliffe, Sheila W McDonald, John Mehegan, Monique Mommers, Camilla S Morgen, Trevor A Mori, George Moschonis, Deirdre Murray, Carol Ní Chaoimh, Ellen A Nohr, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Emily Oken, Adriëtte J J M Oostvogels, Agnieszka Pac, Eleni Papadopoulou, Juha Pekkanen, Costanza Pizzi, Kinga Polanska, Daniela Porta, Lorenzo Richiardi, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Luca Ronfani, Ana C Santos, Marie Standl, Camilla Stoltenberg, Elisabeth Thiering, Carel Thijs, Maties Torrent, Suzanne C Tough, Tomas Trnovec, Steve Turner, Lenie van Rossem, Andrea von Berg, Martine Vrijheid, Tanja G M Vrijkotte, Jane West, Alet Wijga, John Wright, Oleksandr Zvinchuk, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Debbie A Lawlor, Romy Gaillard and Vincent W V Jaddoe

Volume 16, issue 1, 2019

No causal effects of serum urate levels on the risk of chronic kidney disease: A Mendelian randomization study pp. 1-15

Daniel M Jordan, Hyon K Choi, Marie Verbanck, Ruth Topless, Hong-Hee Won, Girish Nadkarni, Tony R Merriman and Ron Do

Correction: Expected changes in obesity after reformulation to reduce added sugars in beverages: A modeling study pp. 1-2

Ana Basto-Abreu, Ariela Braverman-Bronstein, Dalia Camacho-García-Formentí, Rodrigo Zepeda-Tello, Barry M Popkin, Juan Rivera-Dommarco, Mauricio Hernández-Ávila and Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez

The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda pp. 1-18

Zachary Wagner, John Bosco Asiimwe, William Dow and David Levine

Evidence of a causal relationship between body mass index and psoriasis: A mendelian randomization study pp. 1-18

Ashley Budu-Aggrey, Ben Brumpton, Jess Tyrrell, Sarah Watkins, Ellen H Modalsli, Carlos Celis-Morales, Lyn D Ferguson, Gunnhild Åberge Vie, Tom Palmer, Lars G Fritsche, Mari Løset, Jonas Bille Nielsen, Wei Zhou, Lam C Tsoi, Andrew R Wood, Samuel E Jones, Robin Beaumont, Marit Saunes, Pål Richard Romundstad, Stefan Siebert, Iain B McInnes, James T Elder, George Davey Smith, Timothy M Frayling, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Sara J Brown, Naveed Sattar and Lavinia Paternoster

Human trafficking and labor exploitation: Toward identifying, implementing, and evaluating effective responses pp. 1-4

Ligia Kiss and Cathy Zimmerman

Health system costs for individual and comorbid noncommunicable diseases: An analysis of publicly funded health events from New Zealand pp. 1-21

Tony Blakely, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, June Atkinson, Joseph Dieleman and Philip Clarke

HIV self-testing alone or with additional interventions, including financial incentives, and linkage to care or prevention among male partners of antenatal care clinic attendees in Malawi: An adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage cluster randomised trial pp. 1-16

Augustine T Choko, Elizabeth L Corbett, Nigel Stallard, Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Aurélia Lépine, Cheryl C Johnson, Doreen Sakala, Thokozani Kalua, Moses Kumwenda, Richard Hayes and Katherine Fielding

The influence of obesity-related factors in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma—A mendelian randomization study pp. 1-16

Mattias Johansson, Robert Carreras-Torres, Ghislaine Scelo, Mark P Purdue, Daniela Mariosa, David C Muller, Nicolas J Timpson, Philip C Haycock, Kevin M Brown, Zhaoming Wang, Yuanqing Ye, Jonathan N Hofmann, Matthieu Foll, Valerie Gaborieau, Mitchell J Machiela, Leandro M Colli, Peng Li, Jean-Guillaume Garnier, Helene Blanche, Anne Boland, Laurie Burdette, Egor Prokhortchouk, Konstantin G Skryabin, Meredith Yeager, Sanja Radojevic-Skodric, Simona Ognjanovic, Lenka Foretova, Ivana Holcatova, Vladimir Janout, Dana Mates, Anush Mukeriya, Stefan Rascu, David Zaridze, Vladimir Bencko, Cezary Cybulski, Eleonora Fabianova, Viorel Jinga, Jolanta Lissowska, Jan Lubinski, Marie Navratilova, Peter Rudnai, Simone Benhamou, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Olivier Cussenot, Elisabete Weiderpass, Börje Ljungberg, Raviprakash Tumkur Sitaram, Christel Häggström, Fiona Bruinsma, Susan J Jordan, Gianluca Severi, Ingrid Winship, Kristian Hveem, Lars J Vatten, Tony Fletcher, Susanna C Larsson, Alicja Wolk, Rosamonde E Banks, Peter J Selby, Douglas F Easton, Gabriella Andreotti, Laura E Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Satu Männistö, Stephanie Weinstein, Peter E Clark, Todd L Edwards, Loren Lipworth, Susan M Gapstur, Victoria L Stevens, Hallie Carol, Matthew L Freedman, Mark M Pomerantz, Eunyoung Cho, Kathryn M Wilson, J Michael Gaziano, Howard D Sesso, Neal D Freedman, Alexander S Parker, Jeanette E Eckel-Passow, Wen-Yi Huang, Richard J Kahnoski, Brian R Lane, Sabrina L Noyes, David Petillo, Bin Tean Teh, Ulrike Peters, Emily White, Garnet L Anderson, Lisa Johnson, Juhua Luo, Julie Buring, I-Min Lee, Wong-Ho Chow, Lee E Moore, Timothy Eisen, Marc Henrion, James Larkin, Poulami Barman, Bradley C Leibovich, Toni K Choueiri, G Mark Lathrop, Jean-Francois Deleuze, Marc Gunter, James D McKay, Xifeng Wu, Richard S Houlston, Stephen J Chanock, Caroline Relton, J Brent Richards, Richard M Martin, George Davey Smith and Paul Brennan

Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil pp. 1-16

Tarub S Mabud, Maria de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Albert I Ko, Sanjay Basu, Katharine S Walter, Ted Cohen, Barun Mathema, Caroline Colijn, Everton Lemos, Julio Croda and Jason R Andrews