Hayhoe, Richard Rechel, Boika Clark, Allan B Gummerson, Claire Smith, S J Louise Welch, Ailsa A
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Background Poor mental well-being is a major issue for young people and is likely to have long-term negative consequences. The contribution of nutrition is underexplored. We, therefore, investigated the association between dietary choices and mental well-being among schoolchildren. Methods Data from 7570 secondary school and 1253 primary school chi...
Nausheen, Sidrah Habib, Atif Bhura, Maria Rizvi, Arjumand Shaheen, Fariha Begum, Kehkashan Iqbal, Junaid Ariff, Shabina Shaikh, Lumaan Raza, Syed Shamim
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Background Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy is a public health problem in Pakistan and is prevalent among most women of reproductive age in the country. Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy is suggested to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes and vitamin D deficiency in both the mother and her newborn. Methods We conducted a double-blinded...
Atwoli, Lukoye H Baqui, Abdullah Benfield, Thomas Bosurgi, Raffaella Godlee, Fiona Hancocks, Stephen Horton, Richard Laybourn-Langton, Laurie Monteiro, Carlos Augusto Norman, Ian
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Eden, Timothy McAuliffe, Shane Crocombe, Dominic Neville, Jonathan Ray, Sumantra
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COVID-19 is an inflammatory syndrome caused by novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Symptoms range from mild infection to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring ventilation and intensive care. At the time of data collection, UK cases were around 300 000 with a fatality rate of 13% necessitating over 10 000 critical care admissions; no...
Buckner, Luke Carter, Harrison Crocombe, Dominic Kargbo, Sento Korre, Maria Bhar, Somnath Bhat, Shivani Chakraborty, Debashis Douglas, Pauline Gupta, Mitali
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Background Malnutrition is a global emergency, creating an overlapping burden on individual, public and economic health. The double burden of malnutrition affects approximately 2.3 billion adults worldwide. Following 3 years of capacity building work in Kolkata, with assistance of local volunteers and organisations, we established an empowering nut...
Livingston, Anne Scott Cudhea, Frederick Wang, Lu Steele, Euridice Martinez Du, Mengxi Wang, Y Claire Pomeranz, Jennifer Mozaffarian, Dariush Zhang, Fang Fang
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Background Children and adolescents in the USA consume large amounts of daily calories from ultraprocessed foods (UPFs). Recent evidence links UPF consumption to increased body fat in youth. We aimed to estimate the potential impact of reducing UPF consumption on childhood obesity rate in the USA. Methods We developed a microsimulation model to pro...
Lunkenheimer, Hannah G Burger, Oskar Akhauri, Santosh Chaudhuri, Indrajit Dibbell, Lisa Hashmi, Faiz A Johnson, Tracy Little, Emily E Mondal, Sudipta Mor, Nachiket
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Background Maternal malnutrition is a major source of regional health inequity and contributes to maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. Bihar, a state in eastern India adjacent to Jharkhand and West Bengal, has relatively high neonatal mortality rates because a large portion of infants are born to young mothers. Bihar has the second-highest ...
Fiorini, Gianfrancesco Franchi, Matteo Corrao, Giovanni Tritto, Roberta Fadelli, Sara Rigamonti, Antonello Emilio Sartorio, Alessandro Cella, Silvano Gabriele
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Background All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic, not unlikely other epidemics, has hit harder people in low socioeconomic conditions. In Western countries, undocumented migrants are a growing component of this disadvantaged segment of the population. Their health conditions are frequently burdened by a number of chronic conditions, and they ex...
Halvorsen, Rine Elise Elvestad, Mathilde Molin, Marianne Aune, Dagfinn
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Background The association between intake of fruit and vegetables and their subtypes, and the risk of type 2 diabetes has been investigated in several studies, but the results have been inconsistent. Objective We conducted an updated systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of prospective studies on intakes of fruit and vegetables and frui...
Erben, Vanessa Poschet, Gernot Schrotz-King, Petra Brenner, Hermann
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Background Metabolomics analysis of human stool samples is of great interest for a broad range of applications in biomedical research including early detection of colorectal neoplasms. However, due to the complexity of metabolites there is no consensus on how to process samples for stool metabolomics measurements to obtain a broad coverage of hydro...
