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 infe...... 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-based treatment. Sessions were based on the American Lung Association’s “Freedom from Smoking Program” (ALA-FFS) and were tailored to LGBT smokers’ needs. Seven-day smoking point prevalence abstinence served as the primary outcome.Results. Participants ( 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, ... 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...... 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 ...... 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....... 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 b...... 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 pa...... 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 ...... hiện toàn bộ
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 includ...... hiện toàn bộ