January 2024

Recent clinical trials have demonstrated that remission of type 2 diabetes can be achieved following sustained weight loss. However, the feasibility of achieving sustained diabetes remission through weight management in real-world settings and over prolonged time periods remains to be determined. In this issue, Hongjiang Wu and colleagues examine the association of weight change at 1-year after diabetes diagnosis with long-term incidence and sustainability of type 2 diabetes remission in >37,000 people living in Hong Kong.

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Perspective

Understudied and underaddressed: Femicide, an extreme form of violence against women and girls

Chen Reis, Sarah R. Meyer

PLOS Medicine: published January 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004336

Guidelines and Guidance

ACCORD (ACcurate COnsensus Reporting Document): A reporting guideline for consensus methods in biomedicine developed via a modified Delphi

William T. Gattrell, Patricia Logullo, Esther J. van Zuuren, Amy Price, Ellen L. Hughes, Paul Blazey, Christopher C. Winchester, David Tovey, Keith Goldman, Amrit Pali Hungin, Niall Harrison

PLOS Medicine: published January 23, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004326

Research Articles

Price negotiation and pricing of anticancer drugs in China: An observational study

Jing Zhou, Tianjiao Lan, Hao Lu, Jay Pan

PLOS Medicine: published January 2, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004332

Costs and cost-effectiveness of influenza illness and vaccination in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review from 2012 to 2022

Radhika Gharpure, Anna N. Chard, Maria Cabrera Escobar, Weigong Zhou, Molly M. Valleau, Tat S. Yau, Joseph S. Bresee, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Sarah W. Pallas, Kathryn E. Lafond

PLOS Medicine: published January 5, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004333

Tafenoquine following G6PD screening versus primaquine for the treatment of vivax malaria in Brazil: A cost-effectiveness analysis using a transmission model

David J. Price, Narimane Nekkab, Wuelton M. Monteiro, Daniel A. M. Villela, Julie A. Simpson, Marcus V. G. Lacerda, Michael T. White, Angela Devine

PLOS Medicine: published January 9, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004255

The forecasted prevalence of comorbidities and multimorbidity in people with HIV in the United States through the year 2030: A modeling study

Keri N. Althoff, Cameron Stewart, Elizabeth Humes, Lucas Gerace, Cynthia Boyd, Kelly Gebo, Amy C. Justice, Emily P. Hyle, Sally B. Coburn, Raynell Lang, Michael J. Silverberg, Michael A. Horberg, Viviane D. Lima, M. John Gill, Maile Karris, Peter F. Rebeiro, Jennifer Thorne, Ashleigh J. Rich, Heidi Crane, Mari Kitahata, Anna Rubtsova, Cherise Wong, Sean Leng, Vincent C. Marconi, Gypsyamber D’Souza, Hyang Nina Kim, Sonia Napravnik, Kathleen McGinnis, Gregory D. Kirk, Timothy R. Sterling, Richard D. Moore, Parastu Kasaie

PLOS Medicine: published January 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004325

Mapping clinical interactions in an Australian tertiary hospital emergency department for patients presenting with risk of suicide or self-harm: Network modeling from observational data

Michael H. McCullough, Michael Small, Binu Jayawardena, Sean Hood

PLOS Medicine: published January 12, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004241

Maternal intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and neurodevelopmental conditions in offspring: A population-based cohort study of 2 million Swedish children

Shuyun Chen, Viktor H. Ahlqvist, Hugo Sjöqvist, Olof Stephansson, Cecilia Magnusson, Christina Dalman, Håkan Karlsson, Brian K. Lee, Renee M. Gardner

PLOS Medicine: published January 16, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004331

Suicide attempt and death by suicide among parents of young individuals with cancer: A population-based study in Denmark and Sweden

Qianwei Liu, Krisztina D. László, Dang Wei, Fen Yang, Katja Fall, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, Maria Feychting, Jiong Li, Fang Fang

PLOS Medicine: published January 16, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004322

Femicide, intimate partner femicide, and non-intimate partner femicide in South Africa: An analysis of 3 national surveys, 1999–2017

Naeemah Abrahams, Shibe Mhlongo, Esnat Chirwa, Bianca Dekel, Asiphe Ketelo, Carl Lombard, Nwabisa Shai, Leane Ramsoomar, Shanaaz Mathews, Gérard Labuschagne, Richard Matzopoulos, Megan Prinsloo, Lorna J. Martin, Rachel Jewkes

PLOS Medicine: published January 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004330

Impact on wine sales of removing the largest serving size by the glass: An A-B-A reversal trial in 21 pubs, bars, and restaurants in England

Eleni Mantzari, Minna Ventsel, Emily Pechey, Ilse Lee, Mark A. Pilling, Gareth J. Hollands, Theresa M. Marteau

PLOS Medicine: published January 18, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004313

Health system assessment for access to care after injury in low- or middle-income countries: A mixed methods study from Northern Malawi

John Whitaker, Idara Edem, Ella Togun, Abena S. Amoah, Albert Dube, Lindani Chirwa, Boston Munthali, Giulia Brunelli, Thomas Van Boeckel, Rory Rickard, Andrew JM Leather, Justine Davies

PLOS Medicine: published January 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004344

Tropical cyclone-specific mortality risks and the periods of concern: A multicountry time-series study

Wenzhong Huang, Zhengyu Yang, Yiwen Zhang, Thomas Vogt, Ben Armstrong, Wenhua Yu, Rongbin Xu, Pei Yu, Yanming Liu, Antonio Gasparrini, Samuel Hundessa, Eric Lavigne, Tomas Molina, Tobias Geiger, Yue Leon Guo, Christian Otto, Simon Hales, Farnaz Pourzand, Shih-Chun Pan, Ke Ju, Elizabeth A. Ritchie, Shanshan Li, Yuming Guo, MCC Collaborators

PLOS Medicine: published January 22, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004341

Single-dose azithromycin for infant growth in Burkina Faso: Prespecified secondary anthropometric outcomes from a randomized controlled trial

Ali Sié, Mamadou Ouattara, Mamadou Bountogo, Clarisse Dah, Thierry Ouedraogo, Valentin Boudo, Elodie Lebas, Huiyu Hu, Benjamin F. Arnold, Kieran S. O’Brien, Thomas M. Lietman, Catherine E. Oldenburg

PLOS Medicine: published January 23, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004345

Association of a healthy beverage score with total mortality in the adult population of Spain: A nationwide cohort study

Montserrat Rodríguez-Ayala, Carolina Donat-Vargas, Belén Moreno-Franco, Diana María Mérida, José Ramón Banegas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, Pilar Guallar-Castillón

PLOS Medicine: published January 23, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004337

1-year weight change after diabetes diagnosis and long-term incidence and sustainability of remission of type 2 diabetes in real-world settings in Hong Kong: An observational cohort study

Hongjiang Wu, Aimin Yang, Eric S. H. Lau, Xinge Zhang, Baoqi Fan, Ronald C. W. Ma, Alice P. S. Kong, Elaine Chow, Wing-Yee So, Juliana C. N. Chan, Andrea O. Y. Luk

PLOS Medicine: published January 23, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004327

Mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal analysis of the CLoCk cohort study

Laura Panagi, Simon R. White, Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, Manjula D. Nugawela, Isobel Heyman, Kishan Sharma, Terence Stephenson, Trudie Chalder, Natalia K. Rojas, Emma Dalrymple, Kelsey McOwat, Ruth Simmons, Olivia Swann, CLoCk Consortium, Tamsin Ford, Roz Shafran

PLOS Medicine: published January 24, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004315

Use of isotretinoin among girls and women of childbearing age and occurrence of isotretinoin-exposed pregnancies in Germany: A population-based study

Jonas Reinold, Bianca Kollhorst, Nadine Wentzell, Katharina Platzbecker, Ulrike Haug

PLOS Medicine: published January 25, 2024 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004339

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