Association of hypertension and long-term blood pressure changes with new-onset diabetes in the elderly: A 10-year cohort study.

Aim: To explore the correlation between new-onset diabetes (NOD), hypertension and blood pressure management among elderly individuals in China.

Materials And Methods: A cohort analysis involved 1380 participants aged 60 years or older, initially free of diabetes in 2008, from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. Follow-up assessments occurred every 2-3 years.

Exposure to greenspaces sourced soils improves mice gut microbiota.

Greenspaces are important components of our living environment and have been linked to various human health. However, the mechanisms underlying the linkages remain unclear. Enriching microbiota has emerged as a novel mechanism, but the corresponding evidence is still limited.

Credibility of the evidence on green space and human health: an overview of meta-analyses using evidence grading approaches.

Background: Green space is an important part of the human living environment, with many epidemiological studies estimating its impact on human health. However, no study has quantitatively assessed the credibility of the existing evidence, impeding their translations into policy decisions and hindering researchers from identifying new research gaps. This overview aims to evaluate and rank such evidence credibility.

The role of core self-evaluation between peer victimization and depression: A longitudinal multilevel moderated mediation model and the healthy context paradox in Chinese adolescents.

Background: According to the healthy context paradox, the negative effects of peer victimization on core self-evaluation and depressive symptoms may vary in different levels of classroom-level victimization. However, previous studies have not investigated this issue using a longitudinal study design.

Objective: The present study used a longitudinal design to examine why and under what conditions peer victimization was associated with adolescents' depressive symptoms.

Development and Validation of a Community-Based Prediction Model for Depression in Elderly Patients with Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: In elderly diabetic patients, depression is often overlooked because professional evaluation requires psychiatrists, but such specialists are lacking in the community. Therefore, we aimed to create a simple depression screening model that allows earlier detection of depressive disorders in elderly diabetic patients by community health workers.

Methods: The prediction model was developed in a primary cohort that consisted of 210 patients with diabetes, and data were gathered from December 2022 to February 2023.

Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM) and attributable pulmonary tuberculosis notifications in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China: a health impact assessment.

Introduction: Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (≤2.5 µm (PM)) has been associated with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) notifications or incidence in recent publications. Studies quantifying the relative contribution of long-term PM on TB notifications have not been documented.

Associations of Ambient Particulate Matter with Maternal Thyroid Autoimmunity and Thyroid Function in Early Pregnancy.

This prospective birth cohort study evaluated the association of exposure to PM (diameter ≤2.5 μm), PM (1-2.5 μm), and PM (≤1 μm) with maternal thyroid autoimmunity and function during early pregnancy.

Development of a novel membrane-based quorum-quenching microbial isolator for biofouling control: Process performance and microbial mechanism.

Quorum quenching (QQ) can mitigate biofouling in membrane bioreactors (MBRs) by inhibiting cell-to-cell communication. However, it is difficult to maintain long-term QQ activity. Here, a novel microbial isolator composed of tubular microfiltration membranes was developed to separate QQ bacteria (Rhodococcus sp.

Greenspace and human microbiota: A systematic review.

Background: Potential effect of greenspace exposure on human microbiota have been explored by a number of observational and interventional studies, but the results remained mixed. We comprehensively synthesized these studies by performing a systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

Methods: Comprehensive literature searches in three international databases (PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science) and three Chinese databases (China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, and China Biology Medicine disc) were conducted from inception to November 1, 2023.

Antimony and arsenic migration in a heterogeneous subsurface at an abandoned antimony smelter under rainfall.

While antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) co-contamination in subsurface soil systems due to the legacy of Sb smelting wastes has been documented, the role of inherent heterogeneity on pollutant migration is largely overlooked. Herein this study investigated Sb and As migration in a slag impacted, vertically stratified subsurface at an abandoned Sb smelter. A 2-dimensional flume was assembled as a lab-scale analogue of the site and subject to rainfall and stop-rain events.

Exposure to ambient air pollution and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: Findings from over 2.7 million adults in Northwestern China.

Ambient air pollutants exposures may lead to aggravated Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD). However, there is still a scarcity of empirical studies that have rigorously estimated this association, especially in regions where air pollution is severe. To fill in the literature gap, we conducted a cross-sectional study involving 2711,207 adults living in five regions of southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 2021.

Severer air pollution, poorer cognitive function: Findings from 176,345 elders in Northwestern China.

Background: Limited evidence exists regarding the link between air pollution exposure and cognitive function in developing countries, particularly in areas with abundant natural sources of particulate matter.

Objectives: To investigate this association in a large representative sample of the elderly in northwestern China.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study among 176,345 participants aged 60-100 years in northwestern China in 2020.

Urban greenspace and visual acuity in schoolchildren: a large prospective cohort study in China.

Background: Greenspace is known to have a positive impact on human health and well-being, but its potential effects on visual acuity have not been extensively studied.

Objectives: Our aim was to examine the relationship between long-term greenspace exposure and visual acuity in children, while also exploring the potential mechanisms in this association.

Methods: We conducted this prospective cohort study based on the Children's growth environment, lifestyle, physical, and mental health development project (COHERENCE), which screened 286,801 schoolchildren in Guangzhou, China, starting in the 2016/17 academic year and followed them up for three academic years (2017/18-2019/20).

Association of residential greenness with obstructive sleep apnea among Chinese old adults and the mediation role of PM and leisure-time physical activity.

Few studies have investigated the association of residential greenness with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This study was to comprehensively examine the association of residential greenness exposure with OSA and explore the mediating effect of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and PM on the association among Chinese old adults. A prospective cohort study that enrolled 2027 adults aged ≥65 was conducted between 1st July 2015 and 30th September 2019 in Southern China.

Urban greenspaces and child blood pressure in China: Evidence from a large population-based cohort study.

Background: With the world's population steadily shifting toward urban living, children's engagement with the natural environment seems to be diminishing. This raises significant concerns about the influence of urban greenspaces on the cardiovascular health of children.

Objective: To assess the association between urban greenspaces exposure and blood pressure (BP) in Chinese primary schoolchildren.

The potential mechanism of the progression from latent to active tuberculosis based on the intestinal microbiota alterations.

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) poses a serious challenge to global health systems. The altered intestinal microbiota is associated with the pathogenesis of TB, but the exact links remain unclear.

Methods: 16 S rDNA sequencing was performed to comprehensively detect the changes in the intestinal microbiota of feces from active TB (ATB), latent TB infection (LTBI) and healthy controls (HC).