The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults [PDF]
The increased prevalence of obesity in the US stresses the need for answers as to why this rapid rise has occurred. This paper employs micro-level data from the First, Second, and Third National Health and Nutrition xamination Surveys to determine the ...
Inas Rashad +2 more
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Editorial: Secondary analysis of national nutrition surveys: from science to policy. [PDF]
Front Nutr, 2023 Hess JM, Zhu Y.
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NON-PURCHASING HOUSEHOLDS IN FOOD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS: AN ANALYSIS FOR POTATOES IN SWEDEN [PDF]
A common problem in food expenditure surveys is that many households report not purchasing some products. Usually the reason for these zero expenditures is unknown. The issue may be treated as a potential sample selection bias problem.
Andersson, Mari, Senauer, Benjamin
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Effects of an mHealth intervention for community health workers on maternal and child nutrition and health service delivery in India: protocol for a quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluation. [PDF]
, 2019 INTRODUCTION:Millions of children in India still suffer from poor health and under-nutrition, despite substantial improvement over decades of public health programmes.
Avula, Rasmi +13 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Sphingoid base structures, the sphingolipid backbones, vary among species. We established yeast cells in which the native sphingoid base was replaced with plant‐type bases containing cis or trans double bonds. This is, to our knowledge, the first eukaryotic model mostly composed of sphingolipids containing cis‐unsaturated sphingoid base, providing a ...
Takashi Higuchi +5 more
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Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980
Bulletin of the World Health OrganizationNutritional status is the best global indicator of well-being in children. Although many surveys of children have been conducted since the 1970s, lack of comparability between them has made it difficult to monitor trends in child malnutrition.
Mercedes de Onis +2 more
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EXPLORING THE PARADOX OF RWANDAN AGRICULTURAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES IN 1990 AND 2000 [PDF]
Nationally representative surveys regarding sources of income among agricultural households in Rwanda, fielded in 1990 and 2000, provide insights into how families responded to changes in their environment in a turbulent decade.
Loveridge, Scott, McKay, Andrew
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Most autophagic cell death studies lack evidence of causality
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Of 104 studies claiming autophagic cell death (ACD), only 13 demonstrated both causality and exclusion of apoptosis to confirm true ACD. Most studies relied on correlation‐level data or measured autophagy in isolation, revealing pervasive methodological shortcomings.
Ali Burak Özkaya, Yasmin Ghaseminejad
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Microbial profile of the appendix niche in acute appendicitis: a novel sampling approach
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This study utilized a novel sampling method, ERAT (i.e. endoscopic retrograde appendicitis treatment)‐guided lumen aspiration, to obtain samples from the appendix, and shotgun metagenomic sequencing was performed for in situ characterization of the appendix microbiome in patients with acute appendicitis.
Huimin Ma +10 more
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Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia [PDF]
Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several droughts during this period, it also received enormous amounts of food aid, leading some to question the effectiveness of food aid in ...
Harold Alderman +2 more
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