Global Endocrinology: Global perspectives in endocrinology: Coverage of iodized salt programs and iodine status in 2020
Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 May 1:EJE-21-0171.R1. doi: 10.1530/EJE-21-0171. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIodine deficiency has multiple adverse effects on growth and development. Diets in many countries cannot provide adequate iodine without iodine fortification of salt. In 2020, 124 countries have legislation for mandatory salt iodization and 21 have legislation allowing voluntary iodization; as a result, 88% of the global population uses iodized salt. For population surveys, the urinary iodine concentration (UIC) should be measured and expressed as the median, in μg/L. The quality of available survey data is high: UIC surve...
Source: European Journal of Endocrinology - May 14, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Michael B Zimmermann Maria Andersson Source Type: research
Global Endocrinology: Global perspectives in endocrinology: Coverage of iodized salt programs and iodine status in 2020
Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 May 1:EJE-21-0171.R1. doi: 10.1530/EJE-21-0171. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIodine deficiency has multiple adverse effects on growth and development. Diets in many countries cannot provide adequate iodine without iodine fortification of salt. In 2020, 124 countries have legislation for mandatory salt iodization and 21 have legislation allowing voluntary iodization; as a result, 88% of the global population uses iodized salt. For population surveys, the urinary iodine concentration (UIC) should be measured and expressed as the median, in μg/L. The quality of available survey data is high: UIC surve...
Source: European Journal of Endocrinology - May 14, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Michael B Zimmermann Maria Andersson Source Type: research
Global Endocrinology: Global perspectives in endocrinology: Coverage of iodized salt programs and iodine status in 2020
Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 May 1:EJE-21-0171.R1. doi: 10.1530/EJE-21-0171. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIodine deficiency has multiple adverse effects on growth and development. Diets in many countries cannot provide adequate iodine without iodine fortification of salt. In 2020, 124 countries have legislation for mandatory salt iodization and 21 have legislation allowing voluntary iodization; as a result, 88% of the global population uses iodized salt. For population surveys, the urinary iodine concentration (UIC) should be measured and expressed as the median, in μg/L. The quality of available survey data is high: UIC surve...
Source: European Journal of Endocrinology - May 14, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Michael B Zimmermann Maria Andersson Source Type: research
Global Endocrinology: Global perspectives in endocrinology: Coverage of iodized salt programs and iodine status in 2020
Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 May 1:EJE-21-0171.R1. doi: 10.1530/EJE-21-0171. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIodine deficiency has multiple adverse effects on growth and development. Diets in many countries cannot provide adequate iodine without iodine fortification of salt. In 2020, 124 countries have legislation for mandatory salt iodization and 21 have legislation allowing voluntary iodization; as a result, 88% of the global population uses iodized salt. For population surveys, the urinary iodine concentration (UIC) should be measured and expressed as the median, in μg/L. The quality of available survey data is high: UIC surve...
Source: European Journal of Endocrinology - May 14, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Michael B Zimmermann Maria Andersson Source Type: research
Global Endocrinology: Global perspectives in endocrinology: Coverage of iodized salt programs and iodine status in 2020
Eur J Endocrinol. 2021 May 1:EJE-21-0171.R1. doi: 10.1530/EJE-21-0171. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIodine deficiency has multiple adverse effects on growth and development. Diets in many countries cannot provide adequate iodine without iodine fortification of salt. In 2020, 124 countries have legislation for mandatory salt iodization and 21 have legislation allowing voluntary iodization; as a result, 88% of the global population uses iodized salt. For population surveys, the urinary iodine concentration (UIC) should be measured and expressed as the median, in μg/L. The quality of available survey data is high: UIC surve...
Source: European Journal of Endocrinology - May 14, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Michael B Zimmermann Maria Andersson Source Type: research
Beyond knowledge acquisition: factors influencing family planning utilization among women in conservative communities in Rural Burundi
With a fertility rate of 5.4 children per woman, Burundi ranked as seventh country with the highest fertility rate in the world. Family planning is an effective way of achieving desirable family size, appropri... (Source: Reproductive Health)
Source: Reproductive Health - May 13, 2021 Category: OBGYN Authors: Sonia Hakizimana and Emmanuel Nene Odjidja Tags: Research Source Type: research
Evaluating a computerized maintenance management system in a low resource setting
This study documents the setup and roll-out of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) in Burundi ’s resource constrained health care system between 1/04/2017 and 31/03/2020. First, in 2017 a biomedical assets ontology was created, tailored to the local health system and progressively mapped on international GMDN (Global Medical Devices Nomenclature) and ICMD (International Classification and Nomenclature of Medical Devices) classifications. This ontology was the cornerstone of a web-based CMMS, deployed in the Kirundo and Muramvya provinces (6 health districts, 4 hospitals and 73 health centers).During the s...
Source: Health and Technology - April 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research
Viruses, Vol. 13, Pages 644: The Phylogeography of Potato Virus X Shows the Fingerprints of Its Human Vector
Roger A. C. Jones
Potato virus X (PVX) occurs worldwide and causes an important potato disease. Complete PVX genomes were obtained from 326 new isolates from Peru, which is within the potato crop′s main domestication center, 10 from historical PVX isolates from the Andes (Bolivia, Peru) or Europe (UK), and three from Africa (Burundi). Concatenated open reading frames (ORFs) from these genomes plus 49 published genomic sequences were analyzed. Only 18 of them were recombinants, 17 of them Peruvian. A phylogeny of the non-recombinant sequences found two major (I, II) and five minor (I-1, I-2, II-1, II-2, II-3) phylog...
Source: Viruses - April 9, 2021 Category: Virology Authors: Segundo Fuentes Adrian J. Gibbs Mohammad Hajizadeh Ana Perez Ian P. Adams Cesar E. Fribourg Jan Kreuze Adrian Fox Neil Boonham Roger A. C. Jones Tags: Article Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 18, Pages 3754: Child Marriage and Sexual Autonomy among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from 31 Demographic and Health Surveys
In this study, we examined the association between child marriage and sexual autonomy among women in sub-Saharan Africa. We utilised data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2010 and 2019. A total of 218,578 women aged 20–49 were included in this study. Multivariable binary logistic regression models were used to show the association between child marriage and sexual autonomy. Crude odds ratio (cOR) and adjusted odds ratio (aOR) were used in presenting the results. The prevalence of child marriage and sexual autonomy was 44.51% and 83.35%, respective...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 3, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Eugene Budu Bright Opoku Ahinkorah Abdul-Aziz Seidu John Elvis Hagan Wonder Agbemavi James Boadu Frimpong Collins Adu Kwamena Sekyi Dickson Sanni Yaya Tags: Article Source Type: research
Renal Failure among Women of Reproductive Age in Burundi: Estimating the Prevalence and Associated Factors Using Population-Based Data
CONCLUSION: Lack of formal education, having no health insurance coverage, and ever used anything or tried to delay or avoid getting pregnant were the modifiable risk factors of renal failure. The nonmodifiable risk factors were old age, rural residence, certain geographical regions, and having a history of pregnancy termination. Understanding the risk factors of renal failure will help to instigate early screening, detection, and prompt treatment initiation. In addition, early detection of the risk factors can help to reduce the adverse health impact including maternal death.PMID:33728065 | PMC:PMC7936884 | DOI:10.1155/20...
Source: International Journal of Nephrology - March 17, 2021 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Michael Ekholuenetale Temitope Oluwaseyi Adeyoju Herbert Onuoha Amadou Barrow Source Type: research
