Background: The risk of heart failure among diabetic individuals is high, even under tight glycemic control. The correlates and mediators of heart failure risk in individuals with diabetes need more elucidation in large population-based cohorts with long follow-up times and a wide panel of biologically relevant biomarkers. Methods: In a population-...
Published in Environmental research
Exposure to nitrate, nitrite, and fluoride through drinking water consumption, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, has been considered by many researchers. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the status of nitrate, nitrite, fluoride, and total coliforms in water supply sources of Kazerun located in Fars province, Iran, determine...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
The accurate modeling of landslide risk is essential pre-requisite for the development of reliable landslide control and mitigation strategies. However, landslide risk depends on the poorly known environmental and socio-economic factors for regional patterns of landslide occurrence probability and vulnerability, which constitute still a matter of r...
Published in Natural Hazards (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
The peri-urban interface (PUI) exhibits characteristic qualities of both urban and rural regions, and this complexity has meant that risk assessments and long-term planning for PUI are lagging, despite these areas representing new developing settlement frontiers. This study aims to address this knowledge gap by modifying an existing approach to qua...
Published in Bulletin of Volcanology
We find that volcanic hazards vary across the historically active Los Tuxtlas volcanic field (LTVF), with large scoria cones, and likely larger magnitude and intensity eruptions, concentrated in a NW–SE trending band and maars distributed at lower elevations. As eruptive processes vary in systematic ways across the LTVF that reflect the structure a...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Rapid urbanization is accompanied with intense construction activities, which fundamentally changes the national landform, aggravates the destruction of geological environment, and catalyzes various landslides. Located in mountainous regions of western Hubei, China, Gaoleshan Town, Xianfeng County faces an immense threat from landslides. Taking thi...
Published in Bulletin of Volcanology
The load a tephra fall deposit applies to an underlying surface is a key factor controlling its potential to damage a wide range of assets including buildings, trees, crops and powerlines. Though it has long been recognised that loading can increase when deposits absorb rainfall, few efforts have been made to quantify likely load increases. This st...
Published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
Disinfectants and sanitizers are essential preventive agents against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, the pandemic crisis was marred by undue hype, which led to the indiscriminate use of disinfectants and sanitizers. Despite demonstrating a beneficial role in the control and prevention of COVID-19, there are crucial concer...
Published in Natural Hazards (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Decision and policy makers in disaster management are compelled to look at alternative measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. They require integrated measures to both reduce the spread of COVID-19 and response to disasters. The measures to mitigate damage of disaster amid COVID-19 can become expensive and inefficient compared to single disaster res...
Published in Ethiopian journal of health sciences
Injuries are a focus of public health practice because they pose a serious health threat and are preventable. Currently, injury accounts for 14% of all Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) losses for the world's entire population. In India, unintentional injuries within the home environment have not so far been recognized to the same extent as tr...
