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Managing the risk of iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

BACKGROUND: With the emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in the UK, there is concern about iatrogenic transmission, and the approach to managing this risk is unique.
Brookes, D, CJD Incidents Panel, Connor, N, Gill, ON, Hall, V, Nacul, L   +5 more
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Anthropometric discriminators of type 2 diabetes among White and Black American adults [PDF]

BACKGROUND: The aim of the present study was to determine the best anthropometric discriminators of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among White and Black males and females in a large US sample.
Gachupin, Francine C, Garvin, Jane T, Hardy, Dale S, Racette, Susan B, Stallings, Devita T, Xu, Hongyan   +5 more
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Relationship between perceived physical literacy and obesity-related outcomes in adolescents: the EHDLA study

Frontiers in Public Health
PurposeThe aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between perceived physical literacy and obesity-related outcomes among adolescents from Spain.MethodsThis is a secondary cross-sectional analysis including a total sample of 845 Spanish ...
Gabriel Domínguez-Martín, Pedro J. Tárraga-López, José Francisco López-Gil   +2 more
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Gender Differential in the Association of Body Mass Index and Abdominal Obesity with Prehypertension and Hypertension in Iranian Adults [PDF]

*Objective:* The aim of this study was to determine the gender differential in the relationship of body mass index (BMI) and abdominal obesity with blood pressure (BP) and prevalence of hypertension (HTN) and prehypertension (Pre-HTN) among the adult ...
Alireza Delavari, Alireza Mahdavi, Masoud Amini, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, Mohsen Janghorbani, Siamak Alikhani   +5 more
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Waist-to-height ratio is independently related to whole and central body fat, regardless of the waist circumference measurement protocol, in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients [PDF]

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pimenta N.M., Cortez-Pinto H., Melo X., Silva-Nunes J., Sardinha L.B. & Santa-Clara H. (2017) Waist-to-height ratio is independently related to whole and central body fat, regardless of the ...
Cortez-Pinto, Helena, Melo, Xavier, Pimenta, Nuno, Santa-Clara, Helena, Sardinha, Luís, Silva-Nunes, José   +5 more
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Burden and Correlates of Multiple Chronic Infections and Their Associations With Cancer Incidence in Chinese Adults: A Large Case‐Cohort Study

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
While several oncogenic pathogens cause site‐specific cancers, uncertainties remain about many other chronic infections and combined pathogen effects, especially in non‐Western populations. Using a large case–cohort study nested within the China Kadoorie Biobank, the authors found that co‐infection was common, with a mean of 10 pathogens per individual.
Ling Yang, Jonathan Clarke, Lea Kröller, Christiana Kartsonaki, Hannah Fry, Rima Jeske, Andrew Gordon, Sarah Clark, Michael Hill, Daniel Avery, Yiping Chen, Huaidong Du, Jun Lv, Dianjianyi Sun, Canqing Yu, Liming Li, Iona Y. Millwood, Tim Waterboer, Zhengming Chen, on behalf of the China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, Junshi Chen, Zhengming Chen, Robert Clarke, Rory Collins, Liming Li, Jun Lv, Richard Peto, Robin Walters, Liming Li, Jun Lv, Canqing Yu, Dianjianyi Sun, Yuanjie Pang, Yuting Han, Can Hou, Qingmei Xia, Chao Liu, Pei Pei, Lang Pan, Xiao Han, Honglu Bian, Xinxin Chen, Daniel Avery, Maxim Barnard, Derrick Bennett, Ruth Boxall, Yiping Chen, Zhengming Chen, Jonathan Clarke, Robert Clarke, Huaidong Du, Ahmed Edris Mohamed, Hannah Fry, Prapthi Harish, Pek Kei Im, Andri Iona, Christiana Kartsonaki, Kshitij Kolhe, Hubert Lam, Kuang Lin, James Liu, Iona Millwood, Sam Morris, Qunhua Nie, Alfred Pozarickij, Maryam Rahmati, Paul Ryder, Maruf Sarder, Dan Schmidt, Becky Stevens, Iain Turnbull, Robin Walters, Baihan Wang, Lin Wang, Neil Wright, Ling Yang, Xiaoming Yang, Pang Yao, Zengchang Pang, Ruqin Gao, Kunzheng Lv, Shanpeng Li, Haiping Duan, Shaojie Wang, Yongmei Liu, Ranran Du, Liang Cheng, Xiaocao Tian, Hua Zhang, Dan Hu, Xiaoyan Zheng, Yujie Wang, Wei Sun, Shichun Yan, Chi Wang, Zhenyuan Wu, Lishun Zhai, Zhaoxi Pang, Shiwen Dong, Li Liu, Dapeng Yin, Bin He, Ying Liu, Xingren Wang, Tingting Ou, Xiangyang Zheng, Dewei Zheng, Shuai Yang, Lihui Li, Xingjiao Chen, Yan Xu, Jinyi Zhou, Ran Tao, Jian Su, Xikang Fan, Xuejia Chen, Yuxiao Huang, Yan Lu, Yujie Hua, Li Xing, Shuxian Wang, Jianrong Jin, Juping Ma, Jinchao Liu, Kaifei Zhu, Hongfu Ren, Xingfeng Shen, Ge Zhong, Wei Mao, Zhenzhen Lu, Yanxu Zhong, Lifang Zhou, Rong Pan, Jian Lan, Xiaoping Tan, Jinxue Tan, Yishan Xie, Liuping Wei, Liyuan Zhou, Sisi Wang, Xianping Wu, Ningmei Zhang, Xiaofang Chen, Xiaoyu Chang, Zhuo Wang, Yujin He, Mingqiang Yuan, Ling Wang, Xiaofang Chen, Zhaodong Wang, Qiang Sun, Yang Lin, Faqing Chen, Xiaolan Ren, Lijun Chang, Feiming Zhong, Jianjun Feng, Weijie Hu, Xiaofang Zhang, Yalin Chen, Honghong Wang, Jun Wang, Linqi Diao, Zhiwei Han, Dengjun Zhu, Kai Kang, Shixian Feng, Wenjie Yang, Huizi Tian, Yali Yan, Bing Han, Li Gao, Shaofang Li, Tianfang Xing, Wei Tang, Xiaolin Li, Huarong Sun, Xiaocong Zhao, Ying Li, Chen Hu, Pan He, Xukui Zhang, Yuanyuan Jin, Lan Luo, Min Yu, Ruying Hu, Hao Wang, Weiwei Gong, Jieming Zhong, Meng Wang, Chunxiao Xu, Keqing Gong, Hao Xu, Yuan Cao, Kaixu Xie, Lingli Chen, Xiaomei Tu, Junlong Pan, Xiaojun Li, Li Yin, Huilin Liu, Yuan Liu, Lei Yin, Xian Xie, Jing Wang, Bo Xiao, Zongwei Deng, Yuan Peng, Libo Zhang, Chan Qu, li Deng, Qili Jiang, Yanling Chen   +212 more
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The association between anthropometric indices with non-alcoholic fatty liver in the Azar cohort population

Scientific Reports
Based on the findings of previous studies, inconsistencies persist in the literature regarding the most reliable anthropometric indices for screening non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Elham Karimi, Reyhane Mokhtari Hemami, Mohammd hossein Somi, Neda Gilani, Alireza Ostadrahimi, Masoud Shirmohamadi, Aarefeh Jafarzadeh kohneloo, Shahrzad Tavakkoli, Elnaz Faramarzi, Mahdieh Safaei   +9 more
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Are changes in depressive symptoms, general health and residential area socio-economic status associated with trajectories of waist circumference and body mass index?

PLoS ONE, 2020
OBJECTIVE:This study sought to assess whether changes in depressive symptoms, general health, and area-level socio-economic status (SES) were associated to changes over time in waist circumference and body mass index (BMI). METHODS:A total of 2871 adults
Theo Niyonsenga, Suzanne J Carroll, Neil T Coffee, Anne W Taylor, Mark Daniel   +4 more
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Assessment of trabecular bone score (TBS) in overweight/obese men: effect of metabolic and anthropometric factors [PDF]

The "trabecular bone score" (TBS) indirectly explores bone quality, independently of bone mineral density (BMD). We investigated the effects of anthropometric and metabolic parameters on TBS in 87 overweight/obese men. We assessed BMD and TBS by DXA, and
Carnevale, Vincenzo, COSTANTINI, DANIELA, GNESSI, Lucio, LENZI, Andrea, LUBRANO, Carla, Migliaccio, Silvia, MORANO, Susanna, Nieddu, Luciano, Romagnoli, Elisabetta   +8 more
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Rising Incidence and Mortality of Colorectal Cancer Among Younger Adults: A Population‐Based Study in Taiwan, 1994–2018

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality have increased in the Asia‐Pacific region over the past three decades. This population‐based study in Taiwan suggests a shift of the colorectal cancer burden towards the younger generations. An age–period–cohort model revealed higher annual increases in incidence (3.58%) and mortality (1.0%) rates among ...
Yun‐Chen Tsai, Chih‐Yi Wu, Tsung‐I Hung, Hung‐Yi Chiou   +3 more
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