Publications by authors named "M E T Bragg"
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- A study investigated how prenatal dietary patterns affect child outcomes related to autism, analyzing data from up to 6084 participants across 14 cohorts.
- Results showed that higher scores on healthy eating indices were linked to lower scores on the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), indicating a potential connection between better prenatal diets and social behaviors in children.
- However, there were no significant links found between prenatal diets and official autism diagnoses, suggesting that while diet may influence some traits, more research is needed to clarify its effects on autism-related conditions.
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- Seedling disease management relies on accurately identifying pathogens, and a recent study focused on isolating oomycetes from diseased cotton roots to determine the associated species.
- Culture-independent methods like PCR and high-throughput sequencing were used alongside traditional culture-based methods to identify oomycete species, revealing crucial data about their presence and abundance.
- The combined findings from both methods provided a detailed understanding of oomycetes related to cotton seedling disease, which is vital for future research and may encourage similar studies in other regions.
Background: Weight stigma is a fundamental cause of health inequality. Body positivity may be a counterbalance to weight stigma. Social media is replete with weight-stigmatizing content and is a driver of poor mental health outcomes; however, there remains a gap in understanding its potential to mitigate the prevalence and impact of harmful messaging and to promote positive effects on a large scale.
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- Unhealthy food and beverage marketing contributes significantly to weight gain among young people, particularly impacting Black and Latinx communities.* -
- As companies adopt immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies for marketing, there is a growing concern about their potential effects on consumption behaviors, especially among marginalized groups.* -
- The discussion highlights the need for regulations and further research on VR marketing practices to understand their implications and address health disparities linked to diet-related illnesses.*
As part of a program evaluation of the New York City Test & Trace program (T2)-one of the largest such programs in the USA-we conducted a study to assess how implementing organizations (NYC Health + Hospitals, government agencies, CBOs) communicated information about the T2 program on Twitter. Study aims were as follows: (1) quantify user engagement of posts ("tweets") about T2 by NYC organizations on Twitter and (2) examine the emotional tone of social media users' T2-related tweets in our sample of 1987 T2-related tweets. Celebrities and CBOs generated more user engagement (0.
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