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Shanti Prasad Khanal, Chitra Bahadur Budhathoki, Bhimsen Devkota, Shyam Krishna Maharjan + 1 more
Background: Evidence indicates a lack of school-based interventions targeting adolescents' health literacy. To date, no structured, theory-driven, Delphi-guided health literacy intervention has been designed for Nepalese adolescents. Objective: This study aims to report the systematic development of a context-specific…
Alejandro Hortal, Jack M C Kwong
The term ‘deaths of despair’ refers to suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related mortality in the context of concern about rising mortality rates. This paper employs a philosophical distinction between despair and hopelessness, and their positive counterparts, hope and hopefulness, to examine how behavioral public…
Jiangwen Duan, Qitao Jin
This study investigated the application effects of information-based health management combined with the knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) health education model in hypertensive patients. Two hundred hypertensive patients were randomized into a control group or an intervention group. Patients in the control group…
Johan S. van der Molen, Kwena Tlhaku, Lara Lewis, Yukteshwar Sookrajh + 7 more
In April 2020, South Africa adopted the World Health Organization revised eligibility for differentiated service delivery, which changed from requiring virologically suppressed clients to be on antiretroviral therapy (ART) for 12 months to 6 months. To evaluate the uptake of early community-based ART (ec-ART) and…
David A. Alvarado, Lydia Okyere, Amber O’Connor, Maura Walsh + 3 more
Fiber supplements are the first line of treatment for all patients with benign anorectal disease. In addition, fiber has been found to support gut microbiota and reduce inflammation; however, their integrated effect on the colonic mucosal environment is incompletely defined. We evaluated how mixed-fiber formulations…
Melissa A. Boldridge, Lei Xu, Xiaoyin Wang, Michael Stirm + 33 more
Aging is the primary risk factor for most chronic diseases and is characterized in striated muscle by progressive functional decline, mitochondrial dysfunction, and chronic inflammation. The miR-128-1 locus resides within a positively selected haplotype on chromosome 2q21.3 associated with variation in grip strength…
Leandro Lofeu, Ehsan Pashay Ahi
High-throughput sequencing has transformed biomonitoring by enabling scalable molecular inventories, but most programs still emphasize taxa lists. In this Perspective, Biomonitoring 3.0 is proposed as a framework that builds on molecular inventories to monitor ecological dynamics, interactions, and biological responses…
Alice Bradford, Stefan Bidula, Laszlo Fabian, Derek Warren
Cardiovascular disease involves coordinated remodelling across multiple biological processes. Gene-level signatures vary substantially between studies because different combinations of genes can support similar biological processes. Pathway-level analyses can provide more stable representations of these processes but…
Yarelix Estrada, Jeffery Sauer, Leonardo Dominguez, Mia Borrelli + 2 more
4## Discussion Drug checking is a harm reduction practice that has continued to gain traction in the United States. When this study was executed, there were limited resources providing guidance drug checking technician training. Now, there are a growing number of materials offered by credible groups established in the…