Wang, Shihan Scheider, Simon Sporrel, Karlijn Deutekom, Marije Timmer, Joris Kröse, Ben
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Running is a popular form of physical activity. Personal, social, and environmental determinants influence the engagement of the individual. To get insight in the relation between running behavior and external situations for different types of users, we carried out an extensive data mining study on large-scale datasets. We combined 4 years of histo...
Qiu, Ying Xie, Yao Jie Chen, Liping Wang, Shao Ling Yang, Hualu Huang, Zhenzhen Liu, Ping Mo, Beirong
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Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the television (TV) viewing and computer and mobile phone usage duration in a community sample of Chinese adults and examine their associations with BMI and obesity. Methods: We conducted a community-based health needs assessment study from February to December 2018 among 2,873 Chinese adults in Nanshan Distr...
Walsh, Daniel Alexander Benjamin Foster, Juliet Louise Hallam
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Using a knowledge-attitudes-behavior practice (KABP) paradigm, professionals have focused on educating the public in biomedical explanations of mental illness. Especially in high-income countries, it is now common for education-based campaigns to also include some form of social contact and to be tailored to key groups. However, and despite over 20...
Sauzet, Odile David, Matthias Naghavi, Baharan Borde, Theda Sehouli, Jalid Razum, Oliver
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Background: The role of emergency services (ES) is to provide round-the-clock acute care. In recent years, inadequate use of ES has been internationally thematised because of overcrowding and the associated cost. Evidence shows that migrant populations tend to use more ES than non-migrant but it remains to show if there is a differential in inadequ...
Alvarenga, María Olimpia Paz Miranda, Giza Hellen Nonato Ferreira, Railson Oliveira Saito, Miki Taketomi Fagundes, Nathália Carolina Fernandes Maia, Lucianne Cople Lima, Rafael Rodrigues
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Background: Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication in diabetic patients and is considered the main cause of visual loss worldwide. Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory condition, which compromises dental supporting tissues. The chronic bacterial challenge in periodontitis is a persistent source of inflammatory mediators that...
Dos Santos, José Luiz Gondim Stein Messetti, Paulo André Adami, Fernando Bezerra, Italla Maria Pinheiro Maia, Paula Christianne G G Souto Tristan-Cheever, Elisa de Abreu, Luiz Carlos
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Introduction: COVID-19 requires governmental measures to protect healthcare system access for people. In this process, the collision of fundamental rights emerges as a crucial challenge for decision-making. Policy Options and Implications: This policy review analyzes selected articles by the PubMed searcher about extreme measures taken in several c...
Leguizamo, Federico Olmedilla, Aurelio Núñez, Antonio Verdaguer, F Javier Ponseti Gómez-Espejo, Verónica Ruiz-Barquín, Roberto Garcia-Mas, Alexandre
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The COVID-19 outbreak has affected the sports field unprecedentedly. The emergency alert has deprived athletes of training in a suitable environment, as they are faced with cancellations of relevant events in their sports careers. This situation can cause stress levels and other emotional disorders similar to those experienced by athletes during pe...
Zhang, Feng Zhang, Jinmei Cao, Menglan Zhang, Yong Hui, Cang
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Due to its excessive capacity for human-to-human transmission, the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has now been declared a global public health emergency. Here we propose a simple model based on exponential infectious growth, but with a time-varying, largely damping, transmission rate. This model provides an excellent fit to the existing data f...
Sjögren Forss, Katarina Mangrio, Elisabeth Leijon, Matti Grahn, Mathias Zdravkovic, Slobodan
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Background: Little is known about physical activity among newly arrived refugees and what impact physical activity might have on their health, as measured by mental wellbeing, vitality, stress and sleep quality. Thus, this study sought to investigate the relationship between physical activity and wellbeing among refugees who were newly arrived in S...
Slemming, Wiedaad Drysdale, Roisin Richter, Linda M
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Introduction: The Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby study (HPHB) augments a routine service (pregnancy ultrasound) with information about fetal and infant development and the importance of parent wellbeing and infant care, to assess whether it will improve child development and growth, parent-infant attachment, parental wellbeing and routine clinic a...