Background Patients with psychotic disorders have a higher risk of physical illnesses on account of genetic predisposition, poorer access to healthcare, medication use, environmental factors and lifestyle. Because healthy lifestyle behaviour is established at young age, it is important to signal problems in good time. A lifestyle screening might be useful in this respect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe most abundant immunoglobulin present in the human body is IgA. It has the highest concentrations at the mucosal lining and in biofluids such as milk and is the second most abundant class of antibodies in serum. We assessed the structural diversity and clonal repertoire of IgA1-containing molecular assemblies longitudinally in human serum and milk from three donors using a mass spectrometry-based approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm (PM) has been associated with preterm delivery and low birth weight (LBW), but few studies have examined possible effect modification by oxidative potential.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate if regional differences in the oxidative potential of PM modify the relationship between PM and adverse birth outcomes.
Background: Biomass burning is an important source of ambient fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) in many regions of the world.
Methods: We conducted a time-stratified case-crossover study of ambient PM2.