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April 2022

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has not only exerted an enormous human toll in terms of ill health and mortality, but has brought inequities in vaccine provision and other areas of health into sharp focus. What lessons can be learned for health research and for anticipated future health challenges, including the growing burden of non-communicable diseases and impacts of climate change in low- and middle-income countries? In a Perspective, PLOS Medicine editors Beryne Odeny and Callam Davidson report from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference 2022, under the theme of "Healthy People, Healthy Planet Social Justice".

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Research Articles

Simplified hypertension screening methods across 60 countries: An observational study

Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Wilmer Cristobal Guzman-Vilca, Dinesh Neupane

Symptom burden and health-related quality of life in chronic kidney disease: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

Benjamin R. Fletcher, Sarah Damery, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Nicola Anderson, Melanie Calvert, Paul Cockwell, James Ferguson, Mike Horton, Muirne C. S. Paap, Chris Sidey-Gibbons, Anita Slade, Neil Turner, Derek Kyte

Patient-level interventions to reduce alcohol-related harms in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-summary

Catherine A. Staton, João Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Deena El-Gabri, Konyinsope Adewumi, Tessa Concepcion, Shannon A. Elliott, Daniel R. Evans, Sophie W. Galson, Charles T. Pate, Lindy M. Reynolds, Nadine A. Sanchez, Alexandra E. Sutton, Charlotte Yuan, Alena Pauley, Luciano Andrade, Megan Von Isenberg, Jinny J. Ye, Charles J. Gerardo

Vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy and lactation for women living with HIV in Tanzania: A randomized controlled trial

Christopher R. Sudfeld, Karim P. Manji, Alfa Muhihi, Christopher P. Duggan, Said Aboud, Fadhlun M. Alwy Al-Beity, Molin Wang, Ning Zhang, Nzovu Ulenga, Wafaie W. Fawzi

Evaluation of an adapted version of the Diabetes Prevention Program for low- and middle-income countries: A cluster randomized trial to evaluate “Lifestyle Africa” in South Africa

Delwyn Catley, Thandi Puoane, Lungiswa Tsolekile, Ken Resnicow, Kandace K. Fleming, Emily A. Hurley, Joshua M. Smyth, Frank T. Materia, Estelle V. Lambert, Mara Z. Vitolins, Naomi S. Levitt, Kathy Goggin

Evaluation of an online intervention for improving stroke survivors’ health-related quality of life: A randomised controlled trial

Ashleigh Guillaumier, Neil J. Spratt, Michael Pollack, Amanda Baker, Parker Magin, Alyna Turner, Christopher Oldmeadow, Clare Collins, Robin Callister, Chris Levi, Andrew Searles, Simon Deeming, Brigid Clancy, Billie Bonevski

Temporal trends in associations between severe mental illness and risk of cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Amanda M Lambert, Helen M Parretti, Emma Pearce, Malcolm J Price, Mark Riley, Ronan Ryan, Natalie Tyldesley-Marshall, Tuba Saygın Avşar, Gemma Matthewman, Alexandra Lee, Khaled Ahmed, Maria Lisa Odland, Christoph U. Correll, Marco Solmi, Tom Marshall

Use of an extended KDIGO definition to diagnose acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19: A multinational study using the ISARIC–WHO clinical characterisation protocol

Marina Wainstein, Samual MacDonald, Daniel Fryer, Kyle Young, Valeria Balan, Husna Begum, Aidan Burrell, Barbara Wanjiru Citarella, J. Perren Cobb, Sadie Kelly, Kalynn Kennon, James Lee, Laura Merson, Srinivas Murthy, Alistair Nichol, Malcolm G. Semple, Samantha Strudwick, Steven A. Webb, Patrick Rossignol, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Sally Shrapnel, the ISARIC Clinical Characterisation Group

Evaluation of the Mexican warning label nutrient profile on food products marketed in Mexico in 2016 and 2017: A cross-sectional analysis

Alejandra Contreras-Manzano, Carlos Cruz-Casarrubias, Ana Munguía, Alejandra Jáuregui, Jorge Vargas-Meza, Claudia Nieto, Lizbeth Tolentino-Mayo, Simón Barquera

Genetic associations of adult height with risk of cardioembolic and other subtypes of ischemic stroke: A mendelian randomization study in multiple ancestries

Andrew B. Linden, Robert Clarke, Imen Hammami, Jemma C. Hopewell, Yu Guo, William N. Whiteley, Kuang Lin, Iain Turnbull, Yiping Chen, Canqing Yu, Jun Lv, Alison Offer, Derrick Bennett, Robin G. Walters, Liming Li, Zhengming Chen, Sarah Parish, for the China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group

Brain-based measures of nociception during general anesthesia with remifentanil: A randomized controlled trial

Keerthana Deepti Karunakaran, Barry D. Kussman, Ke Peng, Lino Becerra, Robert Labadie, Rachel Bernier, Delany Berry, Stephen Green, David Zurakowski, Mark E. Alexander, David Borsook

School performance in Danish children exposed to maternal type 1 diabetes in utero: A nationwide retrospective cohort study

Anne Lærke Spangmose, Niels Skipper, Sine Knorr, Tina Wullum Gundersen, Rikke Beck Jensen, Peter Damm, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Anja Pinborg, Jannet Svensson, Tine Clausen

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