The incidence and/or prevalence of health problems associated with
endocrine-disruption have increased. Many chemicals have endocrine-disrupting
properties, including bisphenol A, some organochlorines, polybrominated flame
retardants, perfluorinated substances, alkylphenols, phthalates, pesticides,
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, alkylphenols, solvents, and some household
products including some... hiện toàn bộ
Flooding can potentially increase the spread of infectious diseases. To enhance
good understanding of the health consequences of flooding and facilitate
planning for mitigation strategies, deeper consideration of the relationship
between flooding and out-break of infectious diseases is required. This paper
examines the relationship between occurrence of floods in Kenya and outbreak of
infectious d... hiện toàn bộ
Alicia K. Matthews, Chien‐Ching Li, Lisa M. Kuhns, Timothy B. Tasker, John A. Cesario
Introduction. Little is known about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) people’s response to smoking cessation interventions. This descriptive
study examined the benefits of a community-based, culturally tailored smoking
cessation treatment program for LGBT smokers.Methods. A total ofN=198LGBT
individuals recruited from clinical practice and community outreach participated
in group-base... hiện toàn bộ
Godfred Darko, Jonah Addai Tabi, Michael Adjaloo, Lawrence Sheringham Borquaye
Concentrations of pesticides residues in honey sampled from the major honey
producing forest belts in Ghana were determined. Samples were purposively
collected and extracted using the QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective,
Rugged, and Safe) method and analysed for synthetic pyrethroids, organochlorine,
and organophosphate pesticide residues. Aldrin, γ-HCH, β-HCH, ∑endosulfan,
cyfluthrin, cyperme... hiện toàn bộ
G. K. Bakyayita, Ann‐Catrine Norrström, Robinah Kulabako
The levels, speciation of elements, and toxicity of selected trace metals as
well as other parameters in selected surface water, shallow groundwater sources,
landfill leachate, and associated surface runoff in the Lake Victoria basin,
Uganda, were studied. The WHO guidelines, Ugandan standards, Canadian guidelines
and Swedish EPA were used for assessment. The shallow groundwater was acidic
with pH... hiện toàn bộ
Background. Heavy metals are well known to be associated with cancer outcomes,
but its association with obesity and cardiometabolic risk outcomes requires
further study. Methods. Adult data from the National Health and Examination
Survey (NHANES Continuous 1999–2016, n = 12,636 to 32,012) with data for blood
or urinary metals concentrations and body mass index were used. The study aim
was twofold:... hiện toàn bộ
Raymond F. Palmer, Lynne Heilbrun, David Camann, Alice Yau, Stanley G. Schultz, Viola Elisco, Beatriz Tapia, Noe Garza, Claudia S. Miller
Biological samples are an important part of investigating toxic exposures and
disease outcomes. However, blood, urine, saliva, or hair can only reflect
relatively recent exposures. Alternatively, deciduous teeth have served as a
biomarker of early developmental exposure to heavy metals, but little has been
done to assess organic toxic exposures such as pesticides, plastics, or
medications. The pur... hiện toàn bộ
Following rapid growth, China’s economy is entering a period of high‐quality
economic growth. High‐quality economic development has a profound impact on
China’s current economic development. It can be said that the improvement of
economic quality is an inevitable choice for China’s new stage of economic
development. From this point of view, promoting high‐quality economic
development has become an... hiện toàn bộ
Sylvia van der Pal, N.M.C. van Kesteren, J.P. van Wouwe, Paula van Dommelen, Symone Detmar
Objective. To explore factors that influence intention to participate in
hemoglobinopathy (HbP) carrier screening under Dutch subjects at risk, since HbP
became more common in The Netherlands.Method. Structured interviews with 301
subjects from Turkish, Moroccan, or Surinamese ethnicity.Results. Half of the
participants were familiar with HbP, 27% with carrier screening. Only 55%
correctly answere... hiện toàn bộ
Aiming at the problems of poor emotional tendency prediction effect and low
utilization of syntactic information, this study proposes a big data sentiment
analysis method based on neural network. First, the BERT model is used to
vectorize the input data to reduce the semantic loss when the data is
vectorized; then the word vector is input into the bidirectional LSTM encoder to
obtain data features... hiện toàn bộ