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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021 Background With the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic, pregnancy and childbirth for women are taking place in unusual circumstances. We explored the lived experiences of pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand their experience of ...
Forough Mortazavi, Fatemeh Ghardashi
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“Big” Food, Tobacco, and Alcohol: Reducing Industry Influence on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention Laws and Policies [PDF]
, 2019 The food, tobacco and alcohol industries have penetrated markets in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with a significant impact on these countries’ burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Gostin, Lawrence O., Reeve, Belinda
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Addressing food and nutrition security in South Africa: A review of policy responses since 2002 [PDF]
, 2018 Since 2002, a range of South African policies have attempted to address the disproportionate burden of food and nutrition insecurity on the population. Yet malnutrition among the poor has worsened.
Boatemaa, S., Drimie, S., Pereira, L.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study demonstrates that Mn2⁺–tumor DNA complexes encapsulated in dendritic cell (DC)– derived immunogenic extracellular vesicles (EVDC@Mn‐DNA) act as a DC‐specific cGAS– STING activator. EVDC@Mn‐DNA treatment enhances intratumoral DC activation, improves tumor vascular function, promotes CD8⁺ T cell activity, and suppresses pancreatic tumor growth,
Xue Jiang +13 more
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Advancing the Right to Health: The Vital Role of Law [PDF]
, 2017 Effective laws and an enabling legal environment are essential to a healthy society. Most public health challenges – from infectious and non-communicable diseases to injuries, from mental illness to universal health coverage – have a legal component.
Cabrera, Oscar A. +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive condition with high morbidity and mortality, largely owing to right ventricular (RV) failure resulting from maladaptive remodeling. Our study provides strong evidence in support of a critical, detrimental role for AXL as a previously unrecognized determinant driving RV fibrotic pathology in PH.
Li‐Wei Wu +17 more
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Monitoring of noncommunicable diseases [PDF]
Journal of Social Health and Diabetes, 2016 AbstractNoncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent a major fraction of the global health burden in terms of morbidity and mortality, and its prevalence is on the rise across the world. As more and more people are living with various NCD, primary and secondary prevention becomes an important tool to contain this impending epidemic.
Sandeep Kumar +2 more
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Processed foods and the nutrition transition: evidence from Asia [PDF]
, 2014 This paper elucidates the role of processed foods and beverages in the ‘nutrition transition’ underway in Asia. Processed foods tend to be high in nutrients associated with obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases: refined sugar, salt ...
Baker, Phillip, Friel, Sharon
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study finds that CD8⁺ TSCM cells exhibit superior self‐renewal, differentiation, and antiviral activity. Transcriptome and epigenome analyses highlight MAPK cascade regulation in TSCM cells. In vivo, virus‐specific TSCM cells show enhanced persistence and tumor protection.
Xun‐Hong Cao +13 more
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Independent associations between sedentary time, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and cardio-metabolic health : a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2016 We aimed to study the independent associations of sedentary time (ST), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and objectively measured cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with clustered cardio-metabolic risk and its individual components (waist ...
Bourgois, Jan +5 more
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