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May 2022

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Russia's 'special military operation' in Ukraine, launched at the end of February 2022, has led to dramatic and shocking destruction and loss of life, and caused the movement of enormous numbers of refugees out of and within the country. The political, economic and security maps of Europe have been redrawn in a remarkably short period of time, with established relationships and certainties being disrupted and re-evaluated on an almost daily basis. In an Editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors discuss the threats to civilian lives and health in the Ukraine conflict, and call for stronger efforts in diplomacy and conflict prevention.

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Research Articles

Evaluation of multiple micronutrient supplementation and medium-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation in pregnancy on child development in rural Niger: A secondary analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial

Christopher R. Sudfeld, Lilia Bliznashka, Aichatou Salifou, Ousmane Guindo, Issaka Soumana, Irène Adehossi, Céline Langendorf, Rebecca F. Grais, Sheila Isanaka

Evaluation of a multicomponent intervention consisting of education and feedback to reduce benzodiazepine prescriptions by general practitioners: The BENZORED hybrid type 1 cluster randomized controlled trial

Caterina Vicens, Alfonso Leiva, Ferran Bejarano, Ermengol Sempere-Verdú, Raquel María Rodríguez-Rincón, Francisca Fiol, Marta Mengual, Asunción Ajenjo-Navarro, Fernando Do Pazo, Catalina Mateu, Silvia Folch, Santiago Alegret, Jose Maria Coll, María Martín-Rabadán, Isabel Socias

Effect of glutamate infusion on NT-proBNP after coronary artery bypass grafting in high-risk patients (GLUTAMICS II): A randomized controlled trial

Jonas Holm, Gabriele Ferrari, Anders Holmgren, Farkas Vanky, Örjan Friberg, Mårten Vidlund, Rolf Svedjeholm

COVID-19 epidemiology and changes in health service utilization in Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps in Jordan: A retrospective cohort study

Chiara Altare, Natalya Kostandova, Jennifer OKeeffe, Heba Hayek, Muhammad Fawad, Adam Musa Khalifa, Paul B. Spiegel

Incidence of chikungunya virus infections among Kenyan children with neurological disease, 2014–2018: A cohort study

Doris K. Nyamwaya, Mark Otiende, Lilian Mwango, Symon M. Kariuki, Berrick Otieno, Donwilliams O. Omuoyo, George Githinji, Barnes S. Kitsao, Henry K. Karanja, John N. Gitonga, Zaydah R. de Laurent, Alun Davies, Salim Mwarumba, Charles N. Agoti, Samuel M. Thumbi, Mainga M. Hamaluba, Charles R. Newton, Philip Bejon, George M. Warimwe

Prenatal fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation and birth outcomes in rural Burkina Faso: A randomized controlled efficacy trial

Brenda de Kok, Laeticia Celine Toe, Giles Hanley-Cook, Alemayehu Argaw, Moctar Ouédraogo, Anderson Compaoré, Katrien Vanslambrouck, Trenton Dailey-Chwalibóg, Rasmané Ganaba, Patrick Kolsteren, Lieven Huybregts, Carl Lachat

Antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2 variants induced by four different SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in health care workers in the Netherlands: A prospective cohort study

Marit J. van Gils, Ayesha Lavell, Karlijn van der Straten, Brent Appelman, Ilja Bontjer, Meliawati Poniman, Judith A. Burger, Melissa Oomen, Joey H. Bouhuijs, Lonneke A. van Vught, Marleen A. Slim, Michiel Schinkel, Elke Wynberg, Hugo D. G. van Willigen, Marloes Grobben, Khadija Tejjani, Jacqueline van Rijswijk, Jonne L. Snitselaar, Tom G. Caniels, Amsterdam UMC COVID-19 S3/HCW study group, Alexander P. J. Vlaar, Maria Prins, Menno D. de Jong, Godelieve J. de Bree, Jonne J. Sikkens, Marije K. Bomers, Rogier W. Sanders

Relationship between the Bolsa Família national cash transfer programme and suicide incidence in Brazil: A quasi-experimental study

Daiane Borges Machado, Elizabeth Williamson, Julia M. Pescarini, Flavia J. O. Alves, Luís F. S. Castro-de-Araujo, Maria Yury Ichihara, Laura C. Rodrigues, Ricardo Araya, Vikram Patel, Maurício L. Barreto

Integrating polygenic risk scores in the prediction of type 2 diabetes risk and subtypes in British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis: A population-based cohort study

Sam Hodgson, Qin Qin Huang, Neneh Sallah, Genes & Health Research Team, Chris J. Griffiths, William G. Newman, Richard C. Trembath, John Wright, R. Thomas Lumbers, Karoline Kuchenbaecker, David A. van Heel, Rohini Mathur, Hilary C. Martin, Sarah Finer

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Adeel M. Khan, Thita Chiasakul, Robert Redd, Rushad Patell, Ellen P. McCarthy, Donna Neuberg, Jeffrey I. Zwicker

Risk factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a multiethnic cohort of United Kingdom healthcare workers (UK-REACH): A cross-sectional analysis

Christopher A. Martin, Daniel Pan, Carl Melbourne, Lucy Teece, Avinash Aujayeb, Rebecca F. Baggaley, Luke Bryant, Sue Carr, Bindu Gregary, Amit Gupta, Anna L. Guyatt, Catherine John, I Chris McManus, Joshua Nazareth, Laura B. Nellums, Rubina Reza, Sandra Simpson, Martin D. Tobin, Katherine Woolf, Stephen Zingwe, Kamlesh Khunti, Keith R. Abrams, Laura J. Gray, Manish Pareek, UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group

Accuracy of rapid point-of-care antigen-based diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis with meta-regression analyzing influencing factors

Lukas E. Brümmer, Stephan Katzenschlager, Sean McGrath, Stephani Schmitz, Mary Gaeddert, Christian Erdmann, Marc Bota, Maurizio Grilli, Jan Larmann, Markus A. Weigand, Nira R. Pollock, Aurélien Macé, Berra Erkosar, Sergio Carmona, Jilian A. Sacks, Stefano Ongarello, Claudia M. Denkinger

Occurrence and transmission potential of asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: Update of a living systematic review and meta-analysis

Diana Buitrago-Garcia, Aziz Mert Ipekci, Leonie Heron, Hira Imeri, Lucia Araujo-Chaveron, Ingrid Arevalo-Rodriguez, Agustín Ciapponi, Muge Cevik, Anthony Hauser, Muhammad Irfanul Alam, Kaspar Meili, Eric A. Meyerowitz, Nirmala Prajapati, Xueting Qiu, Aaron Richterman, William Gildardo Robles-Rodriguez, Shabnam Thapa, Ivan Zhelyazkov, Georgia Salanti, Nicola Low

Safety and immunogenicity of heterologous boost immunization with an adenovirus type-5-vectored and protein-subunit-based COVID-19 vaccine (Convidecia/ZF2001): A randomized, observer-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

Pengfei Jin, Xiling Guo, Wei Chen, Shihua Ma, Hongxing Pan, Lianpan Dai, Pan Du, Lili Wang, Lairun Jin, Yin Chen, Fengjuan Shi, Jingxian Liu, Xiaoyu Xu, Yanan Zhang, George F. Gao, Cancan Chen, Jialu Feng, Jingxin Li, Fengcai Zhu

Association of pneumococcal carriage in infants with the risk of carriage among their contacts in Nha Trang, Vietnam: A nested cross-sectional survey

George Qian, Michiko Toizumi, Sam Clifford, Lien Thuy Le, Tasos Papastylianou, Catherine Satzke, Billy Quilty, Chihiro Iwasaki, Noriko Kitamura, Mizuki Takegata, Minh Xuan Bui, Hien Anh Thi Nguyen, Duc Anh Dang, Albert Jan van Hoek, Lay Myint Yoshida, Stefan Flasche

High-dose versus standard-dose vitamin D supplementation in older adults with COVID-19 (COVIT-TRIAL): A multicenter, open-label, randomized controlled superiority trial

Cédric Annweiler, Mélinda Beaudenon, Jennifer Gautier, Justine Gonsard, Sophie Boucher, Guillaume Chapelet, Astrid Darsonval, Bertrand Fougère, Olivier Guérin, Marjorie Houvet, Pierre Ménager, Claire Roubaud-Baudron, Achille Tchalla, Jean-Claude Souberbielle, Jérémie Riou, Elsa Parot-Schinkel, Thomas Célarier, on behalf of the COVIT-TRIAL study group

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Correction: COVID-19 vaccination in Sindh Province, Pakistan: A modelling study of health impact and cost-effectiveness

Carl A. B Pearson, Fiammetta Bozzani, Simon R. Procter, Nicholas G. Davies, Maryam Huda, Henning Tarp Jensen, Marcus Keogh-Brown, Muhammad Khalid, Sedona Sweeney, Sergio Torres-Rueda, CHiL COVID-19 Working Group, CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Rosalind M. Eggo, Anna Vassall, Mark Jit

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