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Childhood Health Status And Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity In Rural China: Are They Related?, Qing Wang, Jay Shen
Childhood Health Status And Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity In Rural China: Are They Related?, Qing Wang, Jay Shen
Public Health Faculty Publications
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are among the top health problems of the Chinese population. Although mounting evidence suggests that early childhood health status has an enduring effect on late life chronic morbidity, no study so far has analyzed the issue in China. Using nationally representative data from the 2013 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), a Probit model and Two-Stage Residual Inclusion estimation estimator were applied to analyze the relationship between childhood health status and adulthood cardiovascular disease in rural China. Good childhood health was associated with reduced risk of adult CVDs. Given the long-term effects of childhood health on …
Unemployment Rate, Smoking In China: Are They Related?, Qing Wang, Jay Shen, Christopher R. Cochran
Unemployment Rate, Smoking In China: Are They Related?, Qing Wang, Jay Shen, Christopher R. Cochran
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Background: Studies on the relationship between unemployment rate and smoking have yielded mixed results. The issue in China has not been studied. This study aims to examine the influence of unemployment rate on smoking in China. Methods: Logit model and two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimation were used to estimate the effects. Estimations were done for 4585 individual over 45 using data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study conducted in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces in 2008 and 2012. Results: A percent increase in the unemployment rate resulted in the increase in the likelihood of smoking by a combined 9.1 percent …
An Analysis Of Global Youth Tobacco Survey For Developing A Comprehensive National Smoking Policy In Timor-Leste, Decio Ribeiro Sarmento, Degninou Yehadji
An Analysis Of Global Youth Tobacco Survey For Developing A Comprehensive National Smoking Policy In Timor-Leste, Decio Ribeiro Sarmento, Degninou Yehadji
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Background: Smoking is a global public health concern. Timor-Leste is facing a rapidly growing epidemic of tobacco use. The trend of smoking in Timor-Leste seems to be increasing and the magnitude of the problem affects people who smoke before reaching adulthood. One of the factors implicated in the continuously rising trend of smoking among young people in Timor-Leste is clearly due to unavailability of restrictive laws and regulations. Therefore, our study sought to analyze available dataset from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) for developing a comprehensive national smoking policy in order to lower smoking risks among young people in …
Blood Transcriptomics And Metabolomics For Mersonalized Medicine, Shuzhao Li, Andrei Todor, Ruiyan Luo
Blood Transcriptomics And Metabolomics For Mersonalized Medicine, Shuzhao Li, Andrei Todor, Ruiyan Luo
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Molecular analysis of blood samples is pivotal to clinical diagnosis and has been intensively investigated since the rise of systems biology. Recent developments have opened new opportunities to utilize transcriptomics and metabolomics for personalized and precision medicine. Efforts from human immunology have infused into this area exquisite characterizations of subpopulations of blood cells. It is now possible to infer from blood transcriptomics, with fine accuracy, the contribution of immune activation and of cell subpopulations. In parallel, high-resolution mass spectrometry has brought revolutionary analytical capability, detecting N10,000 metabolites, together with environmental exposure, dietary intake, microbial activity, and pharmaceutical drugs. Thus, the …
Associations Between Self-Reported Gastrointestinal Illness And Water System Characteristics In Community Water Supplies In Rural Alabama: A Cross-Sectional Study, Christine E. Stauber, Jessica C. Wedgworth, Pauline Johnson, Julie B. Olson, Tracy Ayers, Mark Elliot, Joe Brown
Associations Between Self-Reported Gastrointestinal Illness And Water System Characteristics In Community Water Supplies In Rural Alabama: A Cross-Sectional Study, Christine E. Stauber, Jessica C. Wedgworth, Pauline Johnson, Julie B. Olson, Tracy Ayers, Mark Elliot, Joe Brown
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Background: Community water supplies in underserved areas of the United States may be associated with increased microbiological contamination and risk of gastrointestinal disease. Microbial and health risks affecting such systems have not been systematically characterized outside outbreak investigations. The objective of the study was to evaluate associations between self-reported gastrointestinal illnesses (GII) and household-level water supply characteristics.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of water quality, water supply characteristics, and GII in 906 households served by 14 small and medium-sized community water supplies in Alabama’s underserved Black Belt region.
Results: We identified associations between respondent-reported water supply interruption and any …
A Novel Method For Quantifying The Inhaled Dose Of Air Pollutants Based On Heart Rate, Breathing Rate And Forced Vital Capacity, Roby Greenwald, Matthew Hayat, Jerusha Barton, Anastasia Lopukhin
A Novel Method For Quantifying The Inhaled Dose Of Air Pollutants Based On Heart Rate, Breathing Rate And Forced Vital Capacity, Roby Greenwald, Matthew Hayat, Jerusha Barton, Anastasia Lopukhin
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To better understand the interaction of physical activity and air pollution exposure, it is important to quantify the change in ventilation rate incurred by activity. In this paper, we describe a method for estimating ventilation using easily-measured variables such as heart rate (HR), breathing rate (fB), and forced vital capacity (FVC). We recruited healthy adolescents to use a treadmill while we continuously measured HR, fB, and the tidal volume (VT) of each breath. Participants began at rest then walked and ran at increasing speed until HR was 160–180 beats per minute followed by a cool down period. The novel feature …
Principles Of Tobacco Control: Extinguishing The Habit, Michael Eriksen, Carrie F. Whitney, Ellie Faustino
Principles Of Tobacco Control: Extinguishing The Habit, Michael Eriksen, Carrie F. Whitney, Ellie Faustino
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Principles of Tobacco Control: Extinguishing the Habit, explores the history of tobacco as well as today’s issues—from the rise of novel tobacco products such as e-cigarettes to regulations surrounding tobacco’s use, marketing and other aspects of industry behavior. This digital publication also examines the harm caused by tobacco use and offers solutions for successful tobacco control. Dr. Michael Eriksen, an international expert on tobacco research and policy and Dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University, is the lead author of this resource, which contains interactive features, including video, graphics and links to additional articles and …