Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence – Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance? [PDF]
BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2005 Background The global pattern of varying prevalence of diseases of affluence, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, suggests that some environmental factor specific to agrarian societies could initiate these diseases.
Jönsson Tommy +5 more
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PLoS Medicine, 2005 BackgroundCardiovascular diseases and their nutritional risk factors--including overweight and obesity, elevated blood pressure, and cholesterol--are among the leading causes of global mortality and morbidity, and have been predicted to rise with ...
Majid Ezzati +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 The wealth-health relationship is not unambiguous and constant. Greater wealth affects individual and population health in opposite ways. Increased risk factors especially raise the probability of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) impacting a population ...
Alicja Olejnik, Agata Żółtaszek
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Healthcare Development, Relaxed Natural Selection, and COVID‐19 Infection Rates: An Evolutionary Population‐Level Analysis [PDF]
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aim Evolutionary principles offer critical insights into pandemic dynamics but have been largely overlooked in contemporary responses to COVID‐19.
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Socioeconomic disparities in long-term mortality after infective endocarditis in Denmark: a nationwide cohort studyResearch in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. EuropeSummary: Background: Socioeconomic position (SEP) influences several determinants of infective endocarditis (IE) progression. Whether IE mortality differs by SEP remains unclear. We examined 5-year mortality after IE by individual-level SEP.
Søren K. Martiny +5 more
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Incidence rate of infective endocarditis by socioeconomic position: a Danish nationwide cohort study (2000–2022)Research in context [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. EuropeSummary: Background: People with lower socioeconomic positions have a higher risk of cardiac and infectious diseases than those with higher socioeconomic positions.
Søren K. Martiny +5 more
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Why we need to rethink the diseases of affluence. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2005 Thomas E Novotny
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Emergence of Diseases of Affluence in Oman : Where do they Feature in the Health Research Agenda? [PDF]
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2006 THE HEALTH STATUS AND LIVING conditions in emerging economies, sometimes called developing countries, have changed considerably because of the rapid growth of the biomedical healthcare infrastructure and acculturation and globalization. Despite this, the
Samir Al-Adawi
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Microbiome, 2023 Background During the course of history, various important lifestyle changes have caused profound transitions of the gut microbiome. These include the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry, a shift from a nomadic to a more sedentary lifestyle,
Eduard W. J. van der Vossen +8 more
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The Epistemic Usefulness of Race in Approximating Diseases in Medical Genetics
Revista Opinião Filosófica, 2022 This paper critically investigates whether there is a racial scheme that is epistemically useful in approximating disease in biomedicine. Quayshawn Spencer, Risch et al. and Burchard et al. argue that racial schemes are classified based on the different
Edmund Terem Ugar
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