Economic Costs Attributed to Diagnosed Diabetes in Each U.S. State and the District of Columbia: 2021.

Objective: To update state-specific estimates of diabetes-attributable costs in the U.S. and assess changes in spending from 2013 to 2021.

Weight Loss in Short-Term Interventions for Physical Activity and Nutrition Among Adults With Overweight or Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Introduction: Reaching, enrolling, and retaining participants in lengthy lifestyle change interventions for weight loss is a major challenge. The objective of our meta-analysis was to investigate whether lifestyle interventions addressing nutrition and physical activity lasting 6 months or less are effective for weight loss.

Methods: We searched for peer-reviewed studies on lifestyle change interventions of 6 months or less published from 2012 through 2023.

The individual, interactive, and syndemic effect of substance use, depression, education, and ethnicity on retention in HIV care.

In this study, we sought to assess the individual, syndemic, and interactive associations between individual-level factors and retention in care. The sample was derived from the Miami Adult Studies on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) cohort from 2009 to 2014. The variables were entered into a multiple logistic regression with retention as the outcome.

Maternal Caffeine Consumption and Racial Disparities in Fetal Telomere Length.

Background And Objectives: The identification of risk factors for shorter telomere length, especially during fetal development, would be important towards caffeine consumption recommendations for pregnant women on a global scale. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between caffeine intake and fetal telomere length as well as racial/ethnic differences in telomere length regardless of maternal caffeine consumption status.

Methods: Caffeine intake was measured using a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ).

The effect of maternal vitamin C intake on fetal telomere length.

Background: A telomere is a nucleoprotein structure that is located at the end of a chromosome. Reduced telomere length manifests as physical ailments such as the increased risk of age-related illnesses. These age-related illnesses include heart disease and failure.

The Role of HIV in the Progression through the Stages of the Human Papillomavirus to Cervical Cancer Pathway.

Globally, an estimated 36.9 million persons are living with HIV/AIDS, and approximately 291 million women worldwide are carriers of human papillomavirus (HPV). A large number of women currently infected with either or both viruses constitute a large burden on the national health care system.