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A cross sectional study of maternal 'near-miss' cases in major public hospitals in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria

Bashour, Hyam Nicola; Saad, Ghada E.; DeJong, Jocelyn; Ramadan, Mohamed Cherine; Hassan, Sahar J.; Breebaart, Miral; Wick, Laura; Hassanein, Nevine; Kharouf, Mayada H. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)

Background: The maternal near-miss approach has been increasingly used as a tool to evaluate and improve the quality of care in maternal health. We report findings from the formative stage of a World Health Organization ...
A mixed methods analysis of factors affecting antenatal care content: A Syrian case study

Mourtada, Rima; Bottomley, Christian; Houben, Fiona R.; Bashour, Hyam Nicola; Campbell, Oona Maeve Renee (Public Library of Science, 2019)

Background Maternity care services provide critical interventions aimed at improving maternal and newborn health. In this study, we examined determinants of antenatal care (ANC) content in Syria, together with changes over ...
A multi-component intervention to support breastfeeding in Lebanon: A randomized clinical trial

Nabulsi, Mona M.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed; Shamsedine, Lama; Charafeddine, Lama; Yehya, Nadine A.; Kabakian-Khasholian, Tamar; Masri, Saadieh; Nasser, Fatima; Ayash, Soumaya; Ghanem, Diane (Public Library of Science, 2019)

Background Effective evidence-based breastfeeding support interventions can bolster breastfeeding practices. This study investigated the effect of a multi-component breastfeeding support intervention delivered in hospital ...
A novel Mediterranean diet index from Lebanon: comparison with Europe

Naja, Farah A.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Itani, Leila; Baalbaki, Shirine; Mehio-Sibai, Abla Mehio; Nasreddine, Lara M. (Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag GmbH and Co. KG, 2015)

Purpose: To propose an index for assessing adherence to a Middle Eastern version of the Mediterranean diet as represented by the Traditional Lebanese Mediterranean diet (LMD), to evaluate the association between the LMD ...
A test of the epidemiological paradox in a context of forced migration: Low birthweight among Syrian newborns in Lebanon

Abdulrahim, Sawsan; El Rafei, Rym C.; Beydoun, Zahraa; El Hayek, Ghinwa Y.; Nakad, Pascale E.; Yunis, Khalid A. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Background Studies on immigrants revealed an epidemiological paradox whereby low-socioeconomic status (SES) immigrant mothers exhibit favourable birth outcomes compared with native-born mothers. We tested the epidemiological ...
A Western dietary pattern is associated with overweight and obesity in a national sample of Lebanese adolescents (13-19 years): A cross-sectional study

Naja, Farah A.; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Itani, Leila; Karam, Sabine; Mehio-Sibai, Abla Mehio; Nasreddine, Lara M. (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Adolescent obesity is associated with both immediate and longer-term health implications. This study aims to identify dietary patterns among a nationally representative sample of Lebanese adolescents aged between 13 and ...
Adaptation of the Young Adults’ Cigarette Dependence (YACD) Scale for the development and validation of the Adolescent Cigarette Dependence Scale (ACDS)

Hallit, Souheil R.; Obeid, Sahar; Sacre, Hala; Akel, Marwan G.; Khoury, Alessandro El; Salameh, Pascale R. (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)

Vulnerable adolescents may lose control over cigarette use within a day or two after smoking their first cigarette, as nicotine dependence (ND) symptoms may appear before actual daily smoking and usually occur at low levels ...
Age could be driving variable SARS-CoV-2 epidemic trajectories worldwide

Ayoub, Houssein H.; Chemaitelly, H. S.; Seedat, Shaheen; Mumtaz, Ghina R.; Makhoul, Monia; Abu-Raddad, Laith J. (Public Library of Science, 2020)

Current geographic spread of documented severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections shows heterogeneity. This study explores the role of age in potentially driving differentials in infection ...
Anthropometric Cutoffs for Increased Cardiometabolic Risk among Lebanese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

Nasreddine, Lara M.; Bachir, Nivine; Kharroubi, Samer A.; Chamieh, Marie Claire; Mehio-Sibai, Abla Mehio; Hwalla, Nahla C.; Naja, Farah A. (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2019)

Background: Obesity is associated with increased risk for metabolic syndrome (MetS). Anthropometric cutoffs derived for Caucasians may not be applicable to identify obesity in Middle Eastern populations. This study aims ...
Assessing the referral of clients with respiratory symptoms to general physicians: a survey of community pharmacists in Beirut

El Mikati, Hala; Maroun, Christopher A.; Armache, Alexandre Khalil; Toutonji, Amer; El Najjar, Mayssam; El-Khatib, Farouk M.; Ghattas, Hala (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)

Objectives: The main objective of this study was to assess the ability of community pharmacists practicing in Beirut to identify red flag respiratory symptoms, and therefore to adequately refer clients to a general physician ...
Assessment of patients’ knowledge and practices regarding their medication use and risks in Lebanon

Ramia, Elsy; Zeenny, Rony M.; Hallit, Souheil R.; Salameh, Pascale R. (Springer Netherlands, 2017)

Background Patients’ knowledge of their medications play a pivotal role in their disease management. Objective Assess the knowledge and practices of Lebanese outpatients regarding their own medication use and risks. Setting ...
Associations between life conditions and multi-morbidity in marginalized populations: The case of Palestinian refugees

Habib, Rima R.; Hojeij, Safa; Elzein, Kareem; Chaaban, Jad M.; Seyfert, Karin (Oxford University Press, 2014)

Background: Evidence suggests that higher multi-morbidity rates among people with low socioeconomic status produces and maintains poverty. Our research explores the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and ...
Associations between poor living conditions and multi-morbidity among Syrian migrant agricultural workers in Lebanon

Habib, Rima R.; Mikati, Diana; Hojeij, Safa; El-Asmar, Khalil; Shaya, Monique; Zurayk, Rami A. (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Background: Syrian migrant farmworkers are among the most marginalized populations in Lebanon, living in poverty, lacking basic legal protections and frequent targets of discrimination. These realities produce living ...
Bias in contraceptive provision to young women among private health care providers in south west Nigeria

Sieverding, Maia; Schatzkin, Eric; Shen, Jennifer; Liu, Jenny X. (Guttmacher Institute, 2018)

CONTEXT: Health care providers’ biases regarding the provision of contraceptives to adolescent and young adult women may restrict women’s access to contraceptive methods. METHODS: Two mystery client visits were made to ...
Brucellosis outbreak in Chouf district of Lebanon in 2009: A case-control study

Al-Shaar, Laila; Shaya, Monique; Ghosn, Nada; Mahfoud, Ziyad R. (2014)

A study was conducted to determine risk factors associated with brucellosis infection in an outbreak in Chouf district of Lebanon during summer 2009. Cases of brucellosis reported to the Ministry of Public Health were ...
Campaigns for HIV testing, an effective strategy for universal access to prevention and treatment? The experience of Burkina Faso

Somé, Jean François; Desclaux, Alice; Ky-Zerbo, Odette; Lougué, Marcel; Kéré, S.; Makhlouf-Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf; Simaga, Fodé (John Libbey Eurotext, 2014)

Objectives: Increasing the rate of people who know their HIV status is imperative, particularly in sub Saharan Africa, and this requires an assessment of strategies for increasing the utilization of testing services. This ...
Cerebellar Ataxia With Anti-DNER Antibodies: Outcomes and Immunologic Features

Peter, Elise; Do, Le Duy; Hannoun, S.; Muñiz-Castrillo, Sergio; Vogrig, Alberto; Wucher, Valentin; Pinto, Anne Laurie; Chounlamountri, Naura; Zakaria, Walaa; Rogemond, Véronique Dsign©ronique; Picard, Géraldine Dsign©raldine; Hédou, Julien Jacques; Ambati, Aditya S.; Alentorn, A.; Traverse-Gléhen, Alexandra; Manto, Mario Ubaldo; Psimaras, Dimitri; Mignot, Emmanuel Jean Marie; Cotton, François; Désestret, Virginie; Honnorat, Jérǒme; Bastien, Joubert (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022)

Background and Objective s There is no report on the long-term outcomes of ataxia with antibodies against Delta and Notch-like epidermal growth factor-related (DNER). We aimed to describe the clinical-immunologic features ...
Cervical cancer screening among Lebanese women

Bou-Orm, Ibrahim R.; Sakr, R. E.; Adib, Salim Maurice (Elsevier Masson SAS, 2018)

Background: Cervical cancer is a very common malignancy amongst women worldwide. Pap smear is an effective and inexpensive screening test in asymptomatic women. The aim of this paper was to assess the prevalence of Pap ...
Changes in the Sensory Weighting Strategies in Balance Control throughout Maturation in Children

Sinno, Solara; Dumas, Georges; Mallinson, Arthur Ian; Najem, Fadi Jamil; Abouchacra, Kim Smith; Nashner, Lewis M.; Perrin, Philippe P. (Georg Thieme Verlag, 2021)

Background The central nervous system integrates information from different sensory inputs (vestibular, visual, and somatosensory) to maintain balance. However, strategies for weighing sensory information change as maturation ...
Characteristics of lupus and lupus nephritis at a tertiary care center in Lebanon

Koubar, Sahar Hassan; Kort, Jeries; Kawtharani, Sarah; Shaya, Monique; Makki, Maha H.; Uthman, Imad W. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019)

Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus affects 4.8–78.5 people per 100,000 worldwide, 90% of whom are females. Geography and ethnicity have been shown to significantly affect the prevalence and natural history of the ...

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