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Impact of incarceration on cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review and meta-regression on weight and BMI change

BMJ Open, 2020
Objective Cardiovascular disease is an underappreciated issue in prison medicine. Recent studies have revealed a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors (CVDRFs) among individuals in prison, but the impact of incarceration on CVDRFs over
Patrick Bodenmann, Constantin Bondolfi, Patrick Taffe, Aurélie Augsburger, Cécile Jaques, Mary Malebranche, Carole Clair   +6 more
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San Francisco Disaster Food System Report [PDF]

, 2014
This analysis includes recommendations to advance food resiliency for low-income and vulnerable populations in the event of disaster. The report highlights the fragility of the disaster food pipeline in San Francisco, focuses on lessons learned from ...
Cissie Bonini, Stephanie Rapp
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Privacy and Power: Acknowledging the Importance of Privacy Research and Design for Vulnerable Populations

CHI Extended Abstracts, 2020
Privacy researchers and designers must take into consideration the unique needs and challenges of vulnerable populations. Normative and privileged lenses can impair conceptualizations of identities and privacy needs, as well as reinforce or exacerbate ...
Nora Mcdonald, Karla A. Badillo-Urquiola, Morgan G. Ames, Nicola Dell, Elizabeth Keneski, Manya Sleeper, P. Wisniewski   +6 more
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Metastasis on pause: How dormant tumor cells stay hidden within the tumor microenvironment and evade immune surveillance

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dormant cancer cells can hide in distant organs for years, evading treatment and the immune system. This review highlights how signals from the surrounding tissue and immune environment keep these cells inactive or trigger their reawakening. Understanding these mechanisms may help develop therapies to eliminate or control dormant cells and prevent ...
Kanishka Tiwary, Jose Javier Bravo‐Cordero   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rapid assessment of drug use and sexual HIV risk patterns among vulnerable drugusing populations in Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria, South Africa

SAHARA-J, 2008
This exploratory study examines the links between drug use and high-risk sexual practices and HIV in vulnerable drug-using populations in South Africa, including commercial sex workers (CSWs), men who have sex with men (MSM), injecting drug users (IDUs ...
Charles Parry, Petal Petersen, Tara Carney, Sarah Dewing, Richard Needle   +4 more
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Risks of new pests and diseases [PDF]

, 2019
Climate change will affect the social and environmental determinants of the health of human, animal and plant populations around the world. It will challenge the social and biological capacities of food systems to regulate the emergence of pests and ...
Binot, Aurélie, Cilas, Christian
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COVID-19: Qualitative Research With Vulnerable Populations

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2020
With COVID-19 affecting all types of research, the authors of this article contribute to the discussions on how COVID-19 affects the world of qualitative nursing research in irrefutable ways.
Kashica J. Webber-Ritchey, Shannon D. Simonovich, Roxanne S. Spurlark   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clinical performance of the urine‐based TERT promoter AbsoluteQ Digital PCR for non‐invasive detection of bladder cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
A urine‐based digital PCR assay targeting two hotspot TERT promoter variants detected bladder cancer with high sensitivity and no false positives in this case–control cohort. The streamlined AbsoluteQ workflow outperformed Sanger sequencing and supports non‐invasive molecular testing for bladder cancer detection.
Anna Nykel, Izabela Kubiak, Lena Rutkowska, Żaneta Kasprzyk, Łukasz Kępczyński, Michał Bednarek, Dariusz Sobieraj, Jacek Wilkosz, Piotr Kania, Adam Jędrzejczyk, Bogdan Kałużewski, Agnieszka Gach, Tadeusz Kałużewski   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complementary medicine among individuals experiencing homelessness in Switzerland: a quantitative and qualitative descriptive study

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
Background People experiencing homelessness (PEH) are disproportionately affected by health issues yet remain underserved by the health care system. Emerging findings suggest that complementary medicine (CM) approaches might help address the low access ...
Véronique S. Grazioli, Evelyne Hangartner, Patrick Bodenmann, Luana Schaad, Léa Grosjean, Justin Nikles, David J. T. Campbell, Laurent Hyvert, Tshahé Anongba Varela, Susan E. Collins, Caroline Leblanc, Christine Loignon, Chantal Berna   +12 more
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Vulnerable Populations

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 2009
Human grief is a universal experience that scholars and practitioners have been interesting in for years. Despite the numerous studies about the phenomena of grief, there are many aspects of grief that remain vague. Much of the reviewed literature on the phenomena of grief and bereavement is in the psychosocial sciences.
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