JerMa88/BMC_Womens_Health_Peer_Reviews huggingface dataset:
Title: A Comparison of Continuous, Interval, and Accumulated Workouts with Equalized
Exercise Volume: Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption in Women
Version: 2 Date: 05 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Mayank Agarwal
Reviewer's report:
1. Page 4 line 80-81: Kindly check: IE may be INAPPROPRIATE OR appropriate for
individuals with low fitness level?
2. Since accumulated exercise was done for 10 minutes after every 2 hours, then how energy
intake was standarised during the 2 hour washout period? For IE and CE fasting was 12 hours,
what about AE as AE bout was longer than IE or CE?
Title: A Comparison of Continuous, Interval, and Accumulated Workouts with Equalized
Exercise Volume: Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption in Women
Version: 2 Date: 06 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Ratko Peric
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
Thank you for submitting your paper. I have enjoyed reading it. In the lines that follow, please
find my comments and suggestions.
INTRODUCTION
Lack of flow, and connectivity within the chapter. A lot of sentences are just a modified repetition
of previously made statements. The introduction is too large and it could easily be reduced by
1/3. English quality requires improvement. Improving these would provide a better background
and justification.
METHODOLOGY
Justify why these intensities for exercise were chosen. I can't conclude from the methodology,
how long the post-exercise gas assessment was performed, for how long the post-exercise
oxygen consumption was followed. Any connection between the EPOC and the O2 deficit
should be explained here and not first time mentioned in the Results
DISCUSSION
This chapter is too big and needs to be reduced and more interconnected. Discuss your findings,
don't try to provide a physiological background for everything.
After reading the entire paper, I still have time to understand what an accumulated exercise is.
Line 42: Incorrect grammar, please correct. Consider moving the sentence in line 42 after line 45.
Lines 45-47: compared to whom?
Lines 45-47: This sentence is redundant since the very same thing is being said in the sentence
that followed.
Lines 60-62: Redundant, already said in the lines before.
Lines 63-64: Please rephrase the sentence.
Line 67: Not sure that I follow the logic of this statement since the rate of PA in women is higher
than in men.
Lines 67-71: Bariers for whom? Men or women?
Line 74: Irrelevant sentence since we are constantly talking about PA.
Line 78: Improve sentence grammar
Lines 91-94: redundant, already said.
Line 99: What studies?
Line 107: What studies?
Lines 109-111: redundant statement
Lines 159-163: Why these intensities?
Line 184: "We confirmed VO2peak with GXT. " What does that mean?
Line 194: Not measured but assessed
Line 197:  "During EPOC? EPOC is a condition so you are not doing an assessment during
EPOC but assessing EPOC rates during post-exercise
Line 210: This is the first time the authors are introducing the O2 deficit. Why is it important,
please elaborate.
Lines 215-228: Please state in what manner were the data presented
Lines 321-322: Redundant statement, already said several times.
Lines 322-323: If not mistaken, EPOC occurs to compensate for the O2 debt
Title: A Comparison of Continuous, Interval, and Accumulated Workouts with Equalized
Exercise Volume: Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption in Women
Version: 3 Date: 02 Aug 2024
Reviewer:  Mayank Agarwal
Reviewer's report:
I am satisfied with the reply of authors, though the reply by authors "Although the AE treatment
took longer due to a total of 4 hours of washout, the measurements were designed to be completed
before lunchtime. This was to prevent additional food intake that could interfere with the
measurements." should be included in the manuscript.
Title: Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Potential High-Risk and High-Risk Human
Papillomavirus among Women attending Selected Reproductive Health Clinics in Lake Victoria
Basin-Kenya: A Cross-sectional Study
Version: 2 Date: 28 May 2024
Reviewer:  Miriam Nakalembe
Reviewer's report:
The authors are addressing an important topic of HPV prevalence and genotype distribution.
The overall write up is good.
The authors pointed out the gap that needed to be addressed by their work.
The authors need to comment on the high prevalence of HR-HPV in this population as compared
to the national prevalence and regional prevalence in their discussion.
Further, the authors need to comment on the prevalence of HIV in this community and why in
their study it may not have been a risk factor for HPV infection contrary to most findings.
The authors may wish organize their tables especially table 1 and 3 in a clearer way for the
readers.
Title: Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Potential High-Risk and High-Risk Human
Papillomavirus among Women attending Selected Reproductive Health Clinics in Lake Victoria
Basin-Kenya: A Cross-sectional Study
Version: 2 Date: 03 Jun 2024
Reviewer:  Muhumuza Joy
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity offered!
The study can be published in the journal after attending to the minor changes
The study is Novel,informative and applicable in clinical practice
Title: Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Potential High-Risk and High-Risk Human
Papillomavirus among Women attending Selected Reproductive Health Clinics in Lake Victoria
Basin-Kenya: A Cross-sectional Study
Version: 6 Date: 26 Jun 2024
Reviewer:  Muhumuza Joy
Reviewer's report:
Thank you once again BMC Women's Health for an opportunity given re-review the paper
titled "Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Potential High-Risk and High-Risk Human
Papillomavirus among Women attending Selected Reproductive Health Clinics in Lake Victoria
Basin-Kenya: A Cross-sectional Study.
The comments and changes previously given have been incorporated into paper.
Its now an improved and better version.
Thus  I recommend it to be published by this Journal
Title: Examining Rurality and Social Determinants of Health Among Women with GDM: A
15-year Comprehensive Population Analysis
Version: 1 Date: 11 Jun 2024
Reviewer's report:
The authors have conducted a population-level study on gestational diabetes (GDM) that will
appeal to researchers as supporting data for work on GDM or obesity. These data should also be
useful to health policy planners. The methods and outcomes are mainly clear; however, some
revision work will be needed before the manuscript is ready for publication.  There are 4 pages
of comments and suggested revisions and corrections in the attached pdf file. I hope the authors
are able to strengthen the description of their research with these comments.
Title: Examining Rurality and Social Determinants of Health Among Women with GDM: A
15-year Comprehensive Population Analysis
Version: 2 Date: 17 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Emily F. Liu
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for your responses and revisions to the manuscript.
In order to prepare a revision ready for acceptance, I recommend that the authors provide
more explanation in the study limitations section regarding clustering/multiple pregnancies
per mother. They should either (1) provide evidence supporting why their population is not a
population "where multiple births to the same individual are common" to justify not using robust
standard errors to account for clustering or (2) indicate that they may have underestimated the
standard errors which could lead to Type 1 error. While this may not affect study results, it is
an important methodological consideration for pregnancy studies examining a population over
a long period of time.
Once that has been addressed, I would recommend this article for acceptance.
Title: “Killing two birds with one stone” – A qualitative study on women’s perspectives on the
Dual Prevention Pill in Johannesburg, South Africa
Version: 1 Date: 22 Mar 2024
Reviewer's report:
I am satisfied that the authors have addressed my previous review comments.
I have a few minor points for the authors' attention, listed below. But otherwise believe the paper
can be accepted.
Lines 177-178: data saturation is not a question – rephrase e.g. “review any questions and discuss
data saturation”
Line 637: is “interpenetrating” the best term? Interlinked / intersecting?
Line 639: “rumour that youth report”
Title: “Killing two birds with one stone” – A qualitative study on women’s perspectives on the
Dual Prevention Pill in Johannesburg, South Africa
Version: 1 Date: 28 Mar 2024
Reviewer:  Elzette Rousseau
Reviewer's report:
A clearly written and interesting manuscript gauging women’s interest in using DPP – a needed
manuscript to highlight recommendations for service delivery as well to these products which
will be released imminently.
A few minor comments:
1. Participant recruitment: Could the authors clarify the eligibility criteria of participants beyond
age?
2. Check manuscript throughout for grammatical and punctuation errors (especially the
discussion section).
Title: Factors associated with postnatal care utilization in Afghanistan
Version: 1 Date: 05 Jun 2024
Reviewer:  Amany H. Refaat
Reviewer's report:
Dear author(s),
Thank you for selecting this important problem for women's health. I have the following
comments:
1- In your introduction, please cite the recent original WHO recommendations instead of citing
another older reference
2- I appreciate citing studies that used DHS data in different countries; however, they all used
old DHS data.  I recommend directly getting the more recent data from the DHS reports for
different countries.
3- In your methodology, it is recommended to provide the operational definition of different
variables,  and how they were measured in your study.  For example, women's autonomy.
4- When you report OR, it is better to report them as rounded numbers with associated 95%CI.
For example, married women or mothers who gave birth at the health facilities were 16.9". You
could write it as 17 times those who delivered at home(OR, 95%CI).
5- According to the new WHO recommendations,  antenatal care contacts are measured from
8 instead of 4 visits. Please review this.
Best of luck
Title: The value of endocervical curettage during large loop excision of the transformation zone
in combination with endocervical surgical margin in predicting persistent/recurrent dysplasia of
the uterine cervix: a retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 12 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal and offers
a high-quality overview of the topic.
The abstract satisfactorily summarizes the contents of the manuscript. The methodology is
accurate and clear. The details provided allow the replication of the experiments conducted and
the statistical power is adequate.
Although the manuscript can be considered already of high quality, I would suggest taking into
account the following minor recommendations:
- I suggest another language revision round to correct typos and improve readability.
- The introduction could be studied in depth. Some aspects should be highlighted, in particular,
the importance of adjuvant vaccination should be discussed in deep (I suggest these articles to
get deeper in the topic PMID: 37978580).
-What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? It is
important to report the results obtained by the authors in the context of clinical practice and to
adequately highlight what contribution this study adds to the existing literature on the topic and
future study perspectives.
- Discussions can be expanded by citing relevant articles about long-term risk factors for the
recurrence of HVP-related lesions (see PMID: 33271963 )
- The authors have not adequately highlighted the strengths and limitations of their study. It
would be better to explain these points.
Title: The value of endocervical curettage during large loop excision of the transformation zone
in combination with endocervical surgical margin in predicting persistent/recurrent dysplasia of
the uterine cervix: a retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 16 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Volkan Karatasli
Reviewer's report:
Definitions of the resection margins should be explained in the material and methods section.
Academic language editing is needed.
Reference style should be corrected.
Title: The value of endocervical curettage during large loop excision of the transformation zone
in combination with endocervical surgical margin in predicting persistent/recurrent dysplasia of
the uterine cervix: a retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 18 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Andrej Cokan
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors, I read your article with great interest. Here are some of my comments/observations/
questions:
- could you state clearly in the methodology how patient selection was done? Did you perform
LLETZ with ECC at the time of procedure? Do you always perform ECC at the time of LLETZ?
Please explain so that is clear.
- line 157: i would use that in the discussion and in the results section I would advise you only
to present results.
- line 176: only 32 patients had dysplasia, yet 58 were reoperated. Could you explain that?
- line 195: could you use bethesda system?
I have some additional questions that could be addressed in the discussion:
- there is no mentioning of cervical cone depth
- when did you perform resurgery? before 6 months of after 6 moths? Since you do diagnostic
check after 6 months in Germany and if you performed sugery after 6 months, what is the
rationale for ECC during LLETZ?
- no mentioning of thermal effects and damages to the margins of the conus which can impact
the pathological assessment and follow up strategies.
- you did not state any limitations of the study.
- you included 404 patients in 7 years. This is a very small number. Were all the patients
included?
- there are no final results from resurgery. In how many cases did you have residual HSIL in
specimens after resurgery (after reLLETZ or hysterectomy).
- No mentioning of age of the patients. Were the results comparable in all age groups?
- No mentioning of how you define HSIL? With use of p16?
- No mentioning of HPV status before or especially after primary surgery, which can impact
patient selection for resurgery.
Title: The value of endocervical curettage during large loop excision of the transformation zone
in combination with endocervical surgical margin in predicting persistent/recurrent dysplasia of
the uterine cervix: a retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 21 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Basilio Pecorino
Reviewer's report:
Dear Author, thanks for the opportunity to review this manuscript.
The value of endocervical curettage as prognostic factor in pre-invasive lesions of cervix uteri
is investigated in your study.
My suggestions are:
- In Background this statement is controversial: "If cervical dysplasia is suspected, a colposcopy
possibly with a biopsy or endocervical curettage (ECC) is carried out.". What is the guideline
recommending ECC during colposcopy in abnormal paps?
- What are the surgical methods and instruments used for LLETZ and ECC? Please, specify this
on Methods.
- Are there differences about ECC considering SCC or AC? Please, specify this in Discussion.
Suggested reference:
What is the quality of life in young  patients affected by cervical cancers after a long history
of HSIL?
La Spina S, et al. Life Experience of Survivors of Gynecologic Cancers: A Survey Conducted
in Italy. Oncology (Williston Park). 2024 Jan 9;38(1):15-19. doi: 10.46883/2024.25921012.
Title: The value of endocervical curettage during large loop excision of the transformation zone
in combination with endocervical surgical margin in predicting persistent/recurrent dysplasia of
the uterine cervix: a retrospective study
Version: 3 Date: 30 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Andrej Cokan
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors, thank you very much for your responses. I apologize for the comment under the
number 3, It was a typo from a voice recognizer. You have sufficiently answered all of the
comments, I do not have any additional comments. I Congratulate you on your research and I
wish you all the best with your future research.
Title: The value of endocervical curettage during large loop excision of the transformation zone
in combination with endocervical surgical margin in predicting persistent/recurrent dysplasia of
the uterine cervix: a retrospective study
Version: 3 Date: 30 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the manuscript, which falls within the aim of this Journal and offers
a high-quality overview of the topic.
The abstract satisfactorily summarizes the contents of the manuscript. The methodology is
accurate and clear. The details provided allow the replication of the experiments conducted and
the statistical power is adequate.
Title: Preoperative diagnosis of cervical cystic lesions using magnetic resonance imaging: a
retrospective study
Version: 0 Date: 04 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Muhammed Ashraful Alam
Reviewer's report:
Topic is interesting and will be helpful for selecting diagnostic tool.
Only MRI based diagnosis is too difficult to confirm the case. Findings from secondary data
have more limitations to confirm the outcome. Should justify the issues with better explanation.
"However, no comparisons of the characteristics of MRI findings of LEGH and Nabothian cysts
have been reported so far." How did you confirm this? This line can be changed in a softer way
Limitations are too many; retrospective and small sample size, different MRI machine with
different person behind the diagnosis etc.
Title: Preoperative diagnosis of cervical cystic lesions using magnetic resonance imaging: a
retrospective study
Version: 0 Date: 04 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
I read with great interest the present Manuscript which falls within the aim of the Journal. In my
honest opinion, the topic is interesting enough to attract the readers’ attention. Methodology is
accurate and conclusions are supported by the data analysis. Nevertheless, authors should clarify
some points and improve the discussion citing relevant and novel key articles about the topic.
For all those reasons, I suggested performing the following revisions.
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria should be clarified in Methods, e.g., define the concurrent
illnesses;
- In Table 2, please replace CIN with L-SIL or H-SIL;
- In Discussion, Authors may compare the advantages of the MRI to the benefits of transvaginal
ultrasound in diagnosing cervical lesions;
- Please clarify the use of MRI to detect cervical cysts in clinical-gynecological practice;
- Authors have not adequately highlighted the strength of the study. I suggest better specifying
that point.
Title: Preoperative diagnosis of cervical cystic lesions using magnetic resonance imaging: a
retrospective study
Version: 1 Date: 18 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Muhammed Ashraful Alam
Reviewer's report:
"To our knowledge, this is the first study to compare the characteristics of MRI findings of
LEGH and Nabothian cysts." How could you confirm it? It's not that important to be the first or
second rather it's important to emphasize the issue.
Study design (Survey or any other type) and data collection technique ( like record review or
secondary data) were not clearly mentioned neither in the abstract nor in the methods part.
Title: Preoperative diagnosis of cervical cystic lesions using magnetic resonance imaging: a
retrospective study
Version: 2 Date: 31 Jul 2024
Reviewer:  Muhammed Ashraful Alam
Reviewer's report:
The study does not match with the retrospective cohort. (You can't define the exposed and
nonexposed group and what's your exposure?)
It's better to mention it as a survey using record review.
Title: Mothers' efforts to overcome difficult twists and turns in living with children with cancer:
a phenomenological study
Version: 1 Date: 19 Jun 2024
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to read your important work in the study of childhood cancer and
the family. I offer these comments as suggestions to improve the paper. I did not understand
your use of the term "gestational" mothers/parents. Do you mean you were only interested in
parents who were the biological parents of the child and had cared for them through gestation?
If so, then what about adoptive parents? If you use the term with another meaning behind it,
then you should explain the use of the term. I also feel you need to explain the use of words
such as "constitutive pattern."
Did you review any other research approaches using Heideggerian philosophy to drive research
in hermeneutics and phenomenology? There are other ones besides Diekelmann et al., which I
feel might be more grounded in the philosophy. Also regarding this, other than in the discussion
where you brought in Heidegger a little, I did not see how this study was grounded in a
rich understanding of the philosophy of Heidegger. And how is hermeneutic research using
Heidegger different from using Gadamer? What makes it distinct?
Can you say more about how you approached analysis of the data?
A lot has been written about the effect of childhood cancer on the family. I found your literature
cited very limited and not comprehensive at all.
Finally, the "constitutive pattern" you arrived at was "Navigating life's difficult twists and turns"
- how is this not just a general statement about life, and not unique to  a family experiencing
childhood cancer?
Your manuscript requires some hard editing for grammar, spelling mistakes, and other editing
issues.
Overall, qualitative study in this area is important work and I applaud your attention to it. I
wonder how you might see this work adding to the already fulsome body of understanding in
this area?
Title: Exploring the Lived Experience of Mothers of Children with Leukemia: A Qualitative
Study from Iran
Version: 0 Date: 04 May 2024
Reviewer:  Wulandewi Marhaeni
Reviewer's report:
Title: researchers convey about leukemia but do not specifically mention which type of
leukemia. acute or chronic? myelocytic or lymphocytic, of course, each has a different therapy,
length of therapy, and prognosis, so the impact on life experience will also be different.
Background:
Researchers are not specific about which type of leukemia they are so they don't focus on what
the research will be like
Methods
What is the definition of life experience? Has the questionnaire used to find out this been
validated? The sample size of only 10 is the minimum sample required? What about the inclusion
criteria for this research sample, are they aimed at parents and children when the diagnosis is
made, during the induction, and maintenance phase, or after completion of therapy? because
different phases will receive different treatments and different financing.
What about the insurance system, has it also been taken into account in calculating costs and the
impact on life experience? Do economic conditions, the severity of the disease, standard risk,
intermediate or high risk, influence the results? what if complications occur?  Did all existing
patients complete therapy? has anyone died? How does religion influence this experience?
Result:
How to connect all the patient's parents' statements to a conclusion?
Discussion:
Researchers discuss economic issues, but in this study, there is no information on the sample's
economic level and its impact on burden, and as a comparison, cancer in general, not leukemia
or a specific type of leukemia.
Conclusion: The researcher concluded about the support system, but in his research he did not
examine the relationship or influence on life experience