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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Asthma and atopy – the price of affluence?
Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2004 L. V. Hertzen, T. Haahtela
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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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Changes in and the mediating role of physical activity in relation to active school transport, fitness and adiposity among Spanish youth: the UP&DOWN longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2020 Background Longitudinal changes in child and adolescent active school transport (AST), and the mediating role of different intensities of daily physical activity (PA) levels in relation to AST and physical fitness and adiposity indicators is unclear ...
Abbott, Gavin +9 more
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Spatial Econometric Approach to Modelling of Selected Western Diseases
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2017 For years now, developed countries face an epidemic of high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, risk factors related to heart and circulatory disease, and a suite of psychological disorders ranging from depression, anxiety, to compulsive ...
Alicja Anna Olejnik, Agata Żółtaszek
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, 2023 Previously, NCDs were associated with affluence and late stages of demographic transition. Currently, NCDs are disproportionately and increasingly affecting lowand middle-income countries, with policies, legislation, services and infrastructure often ...
N. Banatvala, P. Bovet
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Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation, 2020 Pellagra has largely been forgotten. This is unfortunate as important lessons are to be learnt for the diseases and social consequences of poverty (and of affluence) that often involve dietary nicotinamide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD ...
Adrian, Williams
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Gut Microbiota in Nutrition and Health with a Special Focus on Specific Bacterial Clusters
Cells, 2022 Health is influenced by how the gut microbiome develops as a result of external and internal factors, such as nutrition, the environment, medication use, age, sex, and genetics.
Lucas R. F. Bresser +3 more
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Food intake of European adolescents in the light of different food-based dietary guidelines : results of the HELENA (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence) study [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: Since inadequate food consumption patterns during adolescence are not only linked with the occurrence of obesity in youth but also with the subsequent risk of developing diseases in adulthood, the establishment and maintenance of a healthy ...
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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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