Nicotinamide’s Ups and Downs: Consequences for Fertility, Development, Longevity and Diseases of Poverty and Affluence [PDF]
International Journal of Tryptophan Research, 2018 Aims and Scope: To further explore the role of dietary nicotinamide in both brain development and diseases, particularly those of ageing. Articles cover neurodegenerative disease and cancer. Also discussed are the effects of nicotinamide, contained in meat and supplements and derived from symbionts, on the major
Williams, Adrian C, Hill, Lisa J
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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.
Wenpeng You +5 more
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Physical activity and lifestyle of older adults in the context of diseases of affluence
Фізичне виховання, спорт і культура здоров’я у сучасному суспільстві, 2019 Introduction. In this study, we focused on physical activity of older adults and their lifestyle in the context of diseases of affluence. We monitored the most common physical activity performed by older adults, weekly frequency of the chosen physical ...
Alena Buková +3 more
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Globalization and Health, 2011 Although chronic non-communicable diseases are traditionally depicted as diseases of affluence, growing evidence suggests they strike along the fault lines of social inequality.
De Maio Fernando G
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Multiple effects of grape seed polyphenolics to prevent metabolic diseases [PDF]
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2018 Obesity is increasing in developing countries. Population studies show a relationship between affluence and obesity. Changing food intake patterns with affluence such as preference for foods with less astringent polyphenolic compounds and dietary fibers ...
Torey ARVIK, Hyunsook KIM, James SEIBER, Wallace YOKOYAMA
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Socioeconomic inequalities in non-communicable diseases prevalence in India: disparities between self-reported diagnoses and standardized measures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundWhether non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are diseases of poverty or affluence in low-and-middle income countries has been vigorously debated.
Sukumar Vellakkal +6 more
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Non-alcoholic and alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease - two Diseases of Affluence associated with the Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: the FIN-D2D Survey [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2010 Background Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is known to be associated with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and abnormal glucose tolerance. Whether alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD) is associated with similar metabolic abnormalities has not been
Saltevo Juha +10 more
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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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Health promotion and prevention in occupational health systems in Europe
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2019 Objectives In the contemporary Western culture, working population health issues, stressed in various publications, have been perceived as a crucial part of public health.
Piotr Sakowski, Andrzej Marcinkiewicz
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