Publications by authors named "D Brandt"
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- The study explored how self-rated physical and mental work demands affect cognition in older working adults, examining data from 6,377 participants in the 2004 Health and Retirement Study.
- Results indicated that higher physical demands correlated with poorer cognitive performance, while higher mental demands were linked to better cognition, but the relationship between the two demands was interconnected.
- The findings suggest that mental work demands may support cognitive health in older adults, especially when physical demands are low, highlighting the importance of considering interactions between different types of work demands in future research.
Background: To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms in rural versus urban populations.
Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among 24,227 cisgender women who gave birth from 2010 to 2021 at an academic medical center located in a rural midwestern state. Exclusion criteria were <18 years old, incarcerated, or without a documented zip code.
Audet et al. (2024) investigate the genomic basis of sexual conflict in response to sexually discordant size selection in Drosophila melanogaster. They report interesting morphological changes in sexual dimorphism and multivariate allometry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article examines the implementation, participation rates, and potential determinants of participation in the digital addiction prevention program "ready4life." A two-arm cluster-randomized trial recruited German vocational students via class-based strategies. Intervention group received 16 weeks of in-app coaching; the control group received health behavior information, with coaching offered after 12 months.
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- Researchers studied how genetic variation affects vaccine responses in infants from African countries, finding specific HLA associations with antibody responses to vaccines like pertussis and hepatitis B.
- They used genetic data from over 1,700 individuals to identify patterns in HLA types that could explain up to 10% of the response variability in infants to these vaccines.
- The study highlighted differences in immune responses based on ancestry, indicating that understanding HLA-DRB1 expression could help refine vaccine design for better effectiveness in diverse populations.