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Obesity a Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 Infection: Multiple Potential Mechanisms.

Circulation, 2020
Circulation. 2020;142:4–6. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.047659 4 Naveed Sattar , MD Iain B. McInnes, MD John J.V. McMurray, MD T he coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to worldwide research efforts to identify people at greatest risk ...
N. Sattar, I. McInnes, J. McMurray
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Effect of Plant Protein on Blood Lipids: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017
BackgroundThere is a heightened interest in plant‐based diets for cardiovascular disease prevention. Although plant protein is thought to mediate such prevention through modifying blood lipids, the effect of plant protein in specific substitution for ...
Siying S. Li, Sonia Blanco Mejia, Lyubov Lytvyn, Sarah E. Stewart, Effie Viguiliouk, Vanessa Ha, Russell J. de Souza, Lawrence A. Leiter, Cyril W. C. Kendall, David J. A. Jenkins, John L. Sievenpiper   +10 more
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Smoking as a Risk Factor of Periodontal Disease [PDF]

, 2016
Background. Smoking is a cause of disease in humans is indeed a disease which can be prevented. Nicotine in cigarettes can damage the immune response system and causes constriction of blood vessels, including the blood vessels in the tissues surrounding ...
Notohartojo, I. T. (Indirawati), Suratri, M. A. (Made)   +1 more
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Important Food Sources of Fructose‐Containing Sugars and Incident Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Dose‐Response Meta‐Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background Sugar‐sweetened beverages are associated with hypertension. We assessed the relation of important food sources of fructose‐containing sugars with incident hypertension using a systematic review and meta‐analysis of prospective cohort studies ...
Qi Liu, Sabrina Ayoub‐Charette, Tauseef Ahmad Khan, Fei Au‐Yeung, Sonia Blanco Mejia, Russell J. de Souza, Thomas M.S. Wolever, Lawrence A. Leiter, Cyril W.C. Kendall, John L. Sievenpiper   +9 more
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Population assessment of future trajectories in coronary heart disease mortality. [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates have been decreasing in Iceland since the 1980s, largely reflecting improvements in cardiovascular risk factors. The purpose of this study was to predict future CHD mortality in Iceland based on
A Aspelund, B Thorsson, B Unal, B Unal, ES Ford, ES Ford, G Danaei, J Emberson, J Hughes, J Stamler, JA Critchley, JA Critchley, JA Critchley, Julia Critchley, K Bennett, Karl Andersen, L Bjorck, M O'Flaherty, ML Daviglus, MM Finucane, P Bandosz, Rosa Björk Thorolfsdottir, S Allender, S Capewell, S Capewell, S Capewell, S Yusuf, S Yusuf, Simon Capewell, SJ Olshansky, T Aspelund, T Laatikainen, T Leth, Thor Aspelund, Vilmundur Gudnason, VL Roger, Yiru Guo   +36 more
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Association of maternal thyroid dysfunction and autoimmunity with adverse birth outcomes

Endocrine Connections, 2022
This study aimed to explore the relationship between thyroid function and autoimmunity and adverse birth outcomes. Serum levels of thyroid function were detected by electrochemiluminescence assay.
Xin He, Qin Yan, Chazhen Liu, Zhengyuan Wang, Ping Liao, Tong Liu, Zehuan Shi, Qi Song, Xueying Cui, Wenjing Wang, Jiajie Zang   +10 more
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Immunodepression as A Risk Factor of Infection in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Immunodepression is an absence or deficient supply of the components of either humoral or cellular immunity, or both. Previous studies show that the central nervous system and the immune system interact in complex ways.
Wirastuti, K. (Ken )
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Risk-sensitive investment in a finite-factor model [PDF]

, 2016
A new jump diffusion regime-switching model is introduced, which allows for linking jumps in asset prices with regime changes. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution to the risk-sensitive asset management criterion maximisation problem in ...
Andruszkiewicz, Grzegorz, Davis, Mark H. A., Lleo, Sébastien   +2 more
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Exploring resource scarcity and contextual influences on wellbeing among young refugees in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda: findings from a qualitative study

Conflict and Health, 2021
Background Contextual factors including poverty and inequitable gender norms harm refugee adolescent and youths’ wellbeing. Our study focused on Bidi Bidi refugee settlement that hosts more than 230,000 of Uganda’s 1.4 million refugees.
Carmen H. Logie, Moses Okumu, Maya Latif, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Simon Odong Lukone, Simon Mwima, Peter Kyambadde   +6 more
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Different responses of abundant and rare bacterial composition to groundwater depth and reduced nitrogen application in summer maize field

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionIt is well known that reduced nitrogen application and groundwater depth can change soil microbial communities, but the associated difference in the response of abundant and rare bacterial composition to these local environmental changes ...
Fangfang Bai, Wei Guo, Wei Guo, Ping Li, Ping Li, Dongmei Qiao, Zhenjie Du, Zhenjie Du, Xuebin Qi, Xuebin Qi   +9 more
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