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Thyroid function and opium use disorder: a cross-sectional study on the Fasa adults cohort study (FACS), 2017

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2023
Background Addiction increases the risk of different lifelong disorders. However, there are limited studies evaluating the effects of opioid use disorder (OUD) on thyroid function.
Babak Pezeshki, Hossein Pourmontaseri, Reza Homayounfar, Maryam Talebi Moghaddam, Azizallah Dehghan   +4 more
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A Mitochondrial Perspective on Noncommunicable Diseases

Biomedicines, 2023
Mitochondria are the center of energy metabolism in eukaryotic cells and play a central role in the metabolism of living organisms. Mitochondrial diseases characterized by defects in oxidative phosphorylation are the most common congenital diseases. Meanwhile, mitochondrial dysfunction caused by secondary factors such as non-inherited genetic mutations
Yifan Zheng, Jing Zhang, Xiaohong Zhu, Yuanjuan Wei, Wuli Zhao, Shuyi Si, Yan Li   +6 more
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Anticancer traits of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)-Natural Killer (NK) cells as novel approaches for melanoma treatment

BMC Cancer, 2022
Owing to non-responsiveness of a high number of patients to the common melanoma therapies, seeking novel approaches seem as an unmet requirement. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells were initially employed against recurrent or refractory B cell ...
Maryam Bahmanyar, Mohammad Kazem Vakil, Ghaidaa Raheem Lateef Al-Awsi, Seyed Amin Kouhpayeh, Yaser Mansoori, Behnam Mansoori, Ali Moravej, Abdulbaset Mazarzaei, Abdolmajid Ghasemian   +8 more
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Nutrition, Microbiota and Noncommunicable Diseases [PDF]

Nutrients, 2020
The advent of new sequencing technologies has inspired the foundation of novel research to ascertain the connections between the microbial communities that reside in our gut and some physiological and pathological conditions [...]
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Chronic noncommunicable diseases among college students: Simultaneity of risk behaviors

, 2023
OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence and simultaneity of risk factors for Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) among university students in the Federal District.
Lorena Ribeiro Soares dos Santos, Vitória Barbosa da Costa, Andréia Guedes Oliva Fernandes, Cristiane Feitosa Salviano   +3 more
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Noncommunicable disease risk factors among the trainee doctors of a tertiary level diabetes hospital in Bangladesh

Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
Background Doctors, despite being the public health leaders, are predisposed to the early development of chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This study was done to determine the prevalence of risk factors of NCDs among doctors.
Tonima Sultana, Mithila Faruque, Palash Chandra Banik, Sharmin Sultana, Feroz Amin, Mohammad Mostafa Zaman   +5 more
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Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards face mask use among residents of Greater Chennai Corporation, India, March 2021

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundWearing a mask is one of the simplest ways to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Studies reported poor mask compliance in Greater Chennai Corporation, India. Hence, we described the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding mask use among adults (
Ramya Nagarajan, Polani Rubeshkumar, Murugesan Jagadeesan, Mohankumar Raju, Manikandanesan Sakthivel, Sharan Murali, Muthappan Sendhilkumar, Kumaravel Ilangovan, Dineshkumar Harikrishnan, Vettrichelvan Venkatasamy, Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Prabhdeep Kaur   +11 more
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What is the NCD service capacity and disruptions due to COVID-19? Results from the WHO non-communicable disease country capacity survey in the Americas region

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective This article presents the Americas regional results of the WHO non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Country Capacity Survey from 2019 to 2021, on NCD service capacity and disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic.Setting Information on public sector ...
Anselm Hennis, Silvana Luciani, Roberta Caixeta, Carolina Chavez, Dolores Ondarsuhu   +4 more
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Healthy lifestyles and noncommunicable diseases: Nutrition, the life‐course, and health promotion

Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, targeted by Sustainable Development Goal 3.4, afflict millions of people and account for the highest global morbidity and mortality.
Marlon E. Cerf
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Prevalence and determinants of non-communicable diseases risk factors among reproductive-aged women: Findings from a nationwide survey in Bangladesh.

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionKnowing the risk factors like smoking status, overweight/obesity, and hypertension among women of reproductive age could allow the development of an effective strategy for reducing the burden of non-noncommunicable diseases.
Saifur Rahman Chowdhury, Md Nazrul Islam, Tasbeen Akhtar Sheekha, Shirmin Bintay Kader, Ahmed Hossain   +4 more
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