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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Huijing He, Pei Guo, Jiangshan He, Jingbo Zhang, Yujie Niu, Shuo Chen, Fenghua Guo, Feng Liu, Rong Zhang, Qiang Li, Shitao Ma, Binbin Zhang, Li Pan, Guangliang Shan, Minying Zhang
Summary: The prevalence of hyperuricemia is high in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China, with significant differences between men and women. Overweight/obesity, alcohol consumption, smoking, and sedentary behavior are important modifiable risk factors for hyperuricemia.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Haydeh Payami, Gwendolyn Cohen, Charles F. Murchison, Timothy R. Sampson, David G. Standaert, Zachary D. Wallen
Summary: Parkinson's disease is a rapidly growing neurological disorder with no known prevention methods. While intrinsic risk factors like age, sex, and genetics cannot be avoided, environmental factors can. This study suggests that repeated blows to the head in sports/combat may be a potential new risk factor. Approximately 23% of Parkinson's disease cases in females and 30% in males could be attributed to pesticide/herbicide exposure, military-related chemical exposures, and repeated blows to the head, highlighting the potential for prevention.
NPJ PARKINSONS DISEASE
(2023)
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Oncology
Harriet Rumgay, Kevin Shield, Hadrien Charvat, Pietro Ferrari, Bundit Sornpaisarn, Isidore Obot, Farhad Islami, Valery E. P. P. Lemmens, Jurgen Rehm, Isabelle Soerjomataram
Summary: Alcohol use is causally linked to multiple cancers globally, with 741,300 new cancer cases attributable to alcohol consumption in 2020. Male accounted for the majority of alcohol-attributable cancer cases, with heavy drinking and risky drinking contributing most to the burden. Regional variations exist in the burden of alcohol-attributable cancers.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
H. S. Teh, Y. L. Woon
Summary: This study systematically assessed the burden of cancers in Malaysia in 2018 and found that 22.2% of cancer cases were attributable to modifiable risk factors like excess weight, alcohol intake, physical inactivity, and tobacco smoking. Smoking and excess weight were identified as the predominant factors, prompting recommendations for nationwide public health prevention campaigns targeted at these risk factors.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Carolin Kilian, Sinja Klinger, Juergen Rehm, Jakob Manthey
Summary: High-risk alcohol use is a modifiable risk factor for dementia, and there are sex differences in the association between alcohol use and dementia risk. Moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a lower risk of dementia in both men and women, while high-risk alcohol use and alcohol use disorders increase the risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia, especially early-onset dementia.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Si Chen, Junrui Zhao, Soo-Beom Lee, Seong Wook Kim
Summary: This study aims to investigate the economic burden of high temperature on the health of residents in Wuhan between 2013 and 2019. The results indicate that high temperature leads to an increase in premature deaths and imposes an economic burden on the healthcare system and population in Wuhan.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Maja von Cube, Martin Schumacher, Jean Francois Timsit, Johan Decruyenaere, Johan Steen
Summary: This article introduces a method for defining and estimating PAF in time-to-event settings, and demonstrates how to reduce bias by using multi-state methodology and inverse probability weighting. The method is exemplarily applied to a real data set, showing its effectiveness.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Hiroshi Yatsuya, Kazumasa Yamagishi, Yuanying Li, Isao Saito, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Isao Muraki, Manami Inoue, Shoichiro Tsugane, Hiroyasu Iso, Norie Sawada
Summary: This study examined the associations of major risk factors for stroke with different types of stroke and subtypes of ischemic stroke. The results showed that hypertension is the most crucial risk factor for stroke prevention in Japan.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Elena Dragioti, Joaquim Radua, Marco Solmi, Celso Arango, Dominic Oliver, Samuele Cortese, Peter B. Jones, Jae Il Shin, Christoph U. Correll, Paolo Fusar-Poli
Summary: This study quantifies the Population Attributable Fraction (PAF) of potentially modifiable risk factors for mental disorders and finds that addressing several risk factors, particularly childhood adversities, can reduce the global population-level incidence of mental disorders.
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Yukiko Nishihama, Shoji F. Nakayama, Takahiro Tabuchi
Summary: Multiple factors were found to be significantly associated with LBW, with factors such as parity, history of adenomyosis, hypertension disorder of pregnancy, maternal age at birth, prepregnancy body mass index, gestational weight gain, maternal smoking, and lead exposure being identified as major risk factors. The study suggests that reducing lead exposure to the lowest quartile and eliminating maternal smoking could lead to a significant reduction in the number of LBW births.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
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Substance Abuse
Kevin D. Shield, Jurgen Rehm
Summary: The study revealed an interaction between Human Development Index and alcohol consumption in their associations with alcohol-attributable harms; in less developed countries, alcohol has a stronger harmful impact per litre of alcohol consumed.
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Oncology
Sooyoung Cho, Aesun Shin
Summary: The study estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) of established risk factors for colorectal cancer in the Korean population. It found that changes in modifiable risk factors could prevent half of the colorectal cancer cases, highlighting the importance of cancer prevention policies.
CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
(2021)
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Oncology
Jingru Yu, Xiaorong Yang, Wei He, Weimin Ye
Summary: Projected data from the Global Burden of Disease Study indicates a substantial increase in the incidence, mortality, and DALYs lost of pancreatic cancer in the EU-28 over the next two decades, highlighting the need for future health policies and interventions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
(2021)
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Kali Zhou, Tiffany Lim, Jennifer L. L. Dodge, Norah A. A. Terrault, Lynne R. R. Wilkens, V. Wendy Setiawan
Summary: Lifestyle factors are closely associated with the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Modifying adverse lifestyle behaviors, particularly coffee intake, can have a substantial impact on the burden of HCC in diverse populations.
ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
(2023)
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Kevin Pacheco-Barrios, Stefano Giannoni-Luza, Alba Navarro-Flores, Ingrid Rebello-Sanchez, Joao Parente, Ana Balbuena, Paulo S. de Melo, Ricardo Otiniano-Sifuentes, Oscar Rivera-Torrejon, Carlos Abanto, Carlos Alva-Diaz, Patricia L. Musolino, Felipe Fregni
Summary: The burden of stroke in Latin America and the Caribbean is high, but it is a highly preventable disease in the region. Targeting modifiable factors such as blood pressure and body mass index could reduce the burden by up to 90%. Further research, implementation of prevention measures, and integrated stroke care programs are needed in the region.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
(2022)