The association between food preferences, eating behavior, and body weight among female university students in the United Arab Emirates.

Introduction: This cross-sectional study investigated the associations between lifestyle, eating habits, food preferences, consumption patterns, and obesity among female university students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Methods: Approximately 4,728 participants, including both Emirati and Non-Emirati students (International Students). Data collection involved face-to-face interviews and anthropometric measurements, showing an interrelated relationship between food preferences and obesity among female university students.

Genetic drivers of human plasma metabolites that determine mortality in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction.

Background: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) remains a significant public health issue, with the disease advancing despite neurohormonal antagonism. Energetic dysfunction is a likely contributor to residual disease progression, and we have previously reported a strong association of plasma metabolite profiles with survival among patients with HFrEF. However, the genetic and biologic mechanisms that underlie the metabolite-survival association in HFrEF were uncertain.

Transcriptome Analysis of Human Dermal Cells Infected with Candida auris Identified Unique Pathogenesis/Defensive Mechanisms Particularly Ferroptosis.

Candida auris is an emerging multi-drug resistant yeast that can cause life-threatening infections. A recent report clarified the ability of C. auris to form a biofilm with enhanced drug resistance properties in the host skin's deep layers.

Dietary diversity and iron deficiency anemia among a cohort of singleton pregnancies: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is considered one of the most common medical disorders observed during pregnancy. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), anemia and micronutrients deficiencies among pregnant women are associated with low consumption of animal products, monotonous starchy-diets, and seasonal consumption of vegetables and fruits.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 198 pregnant mothers aged between 19-45 years who visited the antenatal care clinics in Northern Jordan to document the prevalence of IDA and to describe the associations between dietary diversity, diet quality scores and oral iron supplementation with the pregnant women iron status.