Publications by authors named "L A Stephens"
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- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne, Australia, faced extended lockdowns, prompting a study on children's health in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic data from 2019.
- The study found that primary school children in 2022 had higher rates of overweight and obesity, lower physical activity levels, and poorer diet quality compared to 2019.
- Results indicate a decline in health-related quality of life among children post-lockdown, highlighting the need for ongoing monitoring and interventions to address rising childhood obesity.
Article processing charges are increasingly being levied on authors via publication fees to provide open access to readers. These charges may impose challenges to early career physicians seeking to publish research but pathology journal article processing charges have not been investigated to date. We aimed to quantify pathology journal article processing charges and investigate the potential associated factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aim: Building on the evidence for multifaceted effects of different nutrients, foods and dietary patterns is a new priority for nutrition science. This review aims to describe the causal pathways and biological mechanisms that elucidate the associations between different nutrition exposures (nutrients, foods and dietary patterns) and health outcomes.
Methods: A scoping review was conducted in two stages: 1) review of nutrition science textbooks; and 2) a review of reviews of empirical literature using a systematic approach to elucidate causal pathways and biological mechanisms for nutrition exposures and health outcomes.
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- The ASFA Attending Physician Subcommittee reviewed 2023 apheresis literature and selected the top 10 seminal articles in the field.
- They focused on four main topics: donor apheresis, therapeutic apheresis, education, and cellular therapy, using PubMed and OVID for research.
- The chosen articles met key criteria such as novel findings, practice-changing results, and relevance to current clinical practice, while excluding case reports, reviews, and meta-analyses.