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Frontiers in Public HealthAcross West Virginia, tobacco use continues to be a significant public health challenge. Specifically, tobacco use is linked to high poverty across the state and disproportionately affects African Americans.
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Smoking cessation pharmacotherapy [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease, 2009 Cigarette smoking remains an important risk factor for premature cardiovascular disease and its many complications. There are clear benefits from treating tobacco dependence on the rate of clinical outcomes. In addition to behavioral therapies, various pharmacologic strategies have been developed to help achieve this goal. First-line therapies include
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the cost‐effectiveness of low‐dose colchicine prophylaxis for preventing gout flares when starting allopurinol using the “start‐low go‐slow” approach. Methods Participants with gout, fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology recommendations for starting urate‐lowering therapy and with serum urate
Yana Pryymachenko +4 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthThis article highlights strategies for implementing successful rural public health campaigns by sharing insights from the Spit It Out – West Virginia Project.
Donald Reed +5 more
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Viruses, 2020 Over 257 million individuals worldwide are chronically infected with the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV). Nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) are the first-line treatment option for most patients. Entecavir (ETV) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) are both potent,
Samuel Hall +3 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We aimed to compare clinical outcomes between patients in the Allegheny Health Network rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care pathway and patients receiving usual care. Methods The care pathway initiative implements guideline‐based best practice alongside multidisciplinary team‐based care.
Tarun Sharma +7 more
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Insights into the pathogenesis of nicotine addiction. Could a salivary biosensor be useful in Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)? [PDF]
, 2019 Nicotine has gained the attention of the medical community due to its insidious addictive mechanisms which lead to chronic consumption. The multitude of compounds derived from tobacco smoke have local and systemic negative impacts, resulting in a large ...
Alexescu, Teodora G +13 more
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Book Review: Shared Obligations in International Law by Natasa Nedeski [PDF]
Iranian Journal of International and Comparative LawNatasa Nedeski’s Shared Obligations in International Law is a careful, conceptually ambitious monograph that fills an important gap in contemporary international-law scholarship by moving the debate about “shared responsibility” onto the terrain of ...
saeed mokhtari
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Transfer of Energy and Momentum Between Magnetoactive Surface Microstructure and a Solid Object
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.We demonstrate that magnetoactive multilamellar arrays subjected to a rotating magnetic field can function as platforms for controlled transport of physical objects. Through systematic experimental investigation, we elucidate the underlying physical mechanisms determining the upper limit of the achievable transportation speed in such magnetic “conveyor‐
Arne Geldof +9 more
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Understanding death as the cessation of intentional action: A cross-cultural developmental study [PDF]
, 2001 Determining whether or not an entity is capable of acting intentionally is a fundamental cognitive skill that emerges in the first year of infancy, and the inability to act is a key aspect distinguishing dead from living things.
Barrett, H. Clark, Behne, Tanya
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