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BMC Health Serv Res
January 2025
Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7-2-1, Higashiogu, Arakawa City, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Among the people with diverse backgrounds and cultural customs living in Japan, two important groups, namely, war-displaced Japanese returning from China and South and North Korean nationals who are naturalized citizens residing in Japan, will experience population aging in the same way as the general Japanese population. In old age, physical function generally declines, multiple diseases are more likely to occur, and health issues that need to be addressed increase in number. The aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with the use of preventive health services in Japan by older Korean residents and war-displaced Japanese returning from China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTaiwan J Obstet Gynecol
January 2025
Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Electronic address:
Objective: With an estimated global frequency ranging from5 % to 21 %, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most prevalent hormonal disorders. There are many factors found to be related to PCOS. However, most of these researches used traditional methods such as multiple logistic regression (LR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
January 2025
Department of Communication, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
There is a widespread perception that China's digital censorship distances its people from the global internet, and the Chinese Communist Party, through state-controlled media, is the main gatekeeper of information about foreign affairs. Our analysis of narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War circulating on the Chinese social media platform Weibo challenges this view. Comparing narratives on Weibo with 8.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Hist Biol
January 2025
Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
This paper explores the control of visiting "foreign scientists" at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) after it was established in the Galápagos Islands in 1959. Scholarly accounts of the creation of the Galápagos National Park and of the field station have emphasized their place in an international "land grab," as leading scientists and conservationists sought to control nature in places around the world that seemed less "civilized" to European thinkers. The actual administrative labor in the early years at this scientific field station, however, in practice struggled to control people widely taken to represent "civilization" in its highest form-European and American scientists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEClinicalMedicine
January 2025
Medical Laboratory CSD, Kyiv 02000, Ukraine.
Background: Although the number of studies reporting war-induced effects on the health of the Ukrainian population has been growing, there are still little data on assessing patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) during the war. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of war on T2D patients' health to define key risk factors promoting disease progression.
Methods: A survey covering various aspects of T2D patients' experience and glycemic control data was conducted from June 2022 to February 2024.
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