ReviewNature medicine2022
Syndemics and clinical science.
Review in Nature medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Co-circulating pathogens of humans: a systematic review of mechanistic transmission models.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Integrating mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence to combat emerging viral syndemics: A systematic review.New microbes and new infections · 2026Review
- Sexually transmitted and blood-borne infection syndemics in Ontario: A population-based retrospective study of iPHIS data (2013-2023).Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
- The intersection of health inequalities and COVID-19: Evidence from National Health Insurance Big Data in South Korea.American journal of community psychology · 2026Article
- The exposome of brain aging across 34 countries.Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Syndemics of complex risk factors in adolescents: findings from the youth risk behavior survey, 2021.Npj mental health research · 2026Article
- Syndemic analysis of stroke in Indonesia.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Article
- The Population Neuroscience-Dementia Syndemics Framework to better understand global sex and gender-based risk in low- and middle-income countries.Nature aging · 2026Review
- Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on tuberculosis mortality in Brazil: a time series analysis.Revista de saude publica · 2026Article
- Exploring syndemic vulnerability among adolescents living in urban cities in the Netherlands: a latent class analysis.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Computational whole-body-exposome models for global precision brain health.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Obstetric Complications and Pregnancy Outcomes in Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancers · 2025Review
- Clinical and Symptom Profiles of Long-COVID Patients in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Syndemics of Antimicrobial Resistance: Non-communicable Diseases, Social Deprivation, and the Rise of Multidrug-Resistant Infections.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2025Article
- Sustainable development goals: a call for future internal medicine.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Patterns of Congenital Syphilis in a Large Public Hospital: Maternal Risk Factors and Infant Outcomes.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Adipokine Status and Leptin Receptor Gene Polymorphism in Patients with Severe Asthma.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pulmonary Immunocompromise in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease.Clinics in chest medicine · 2025Review
- Serious Bacterial Infections and Hepatitis C Virus Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Syndemic or Intertwined Epidemics?Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
The theory of syndemics has received increasing attention in clinical medicine since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the synergistic interactions of the disease with pre-existing political, structural, social and health conditions. In simple terms, syndemics are synergistically interacting epidemics that occur in a particular context with shared drivers. When policymakers ask why some communities have higher death rates from COVID-19 compared with other communities, those working from a syndemics framework argue that multiple factors synergistically work in tandem, and populations with the highest morbidity and mortality experience the greatest impact of these interactions. In this Perspective, we use specific case examples to illustrate these concepts. We discuss the emergence of syndemics, how epidemics interact, and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this information.
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