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  • No uniform post-pandemic pattern in youth mental health
    No uniform post-pandemic pattern in youth mental health The mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents have not uniformly returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new preprint using data from the DREAMS COVID consortium. The study includes data from DREAMS and the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR).
  • What is sepsis? When the body's defence turns against itself
    What is sepsis? When the body's defence turns against itself In the run-up to World Sepsis Day on 13 September, we are publishing a series of three articles on sepsis. In this first article, PhD candidates Aryna Kolodyazhna, Floris de Vries and Susanne Doeleman explain what sepsis is, why it can become life-threatening within hours, and how their research at Amsterdam UMC and the Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (AI&I) helps us better understand the body's response to infection.
  • AI may help identify cardiac amyloidosis on routine ECGs
    AI may help identify cardiac amyloidosis on routine ECGs AI applied to routine ECG images can help identify patients who may warrant further testing for ATTR-CM, a treatable form of heart failure. That is the conclusion of an international study led by Philip Croon of Amsterdam UMC, conducted at Yale School of Medicine.