Non-medical factors can have a positive or negative effect on health outcomes and equity. These social determinants of health can play a role in patients' risk of developing kidney failure, as well as their access to kidney transplantation and long-term allograft survival. Nephrology nurses have the opportunity to identify and address negative social determinants of health factors in their patients because they are often patients' first contact in the nephrology setting. The purpose of this article is to promote nephrology nurses' and other nephrology health care providers' understanding of social determinants of health factors, and the fundamental practices for addressing them among kidney transplant candidates and kidney transplant recipients.
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Microbiol Res
January 2025
College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. Electronic address:
Social bees, with their specialized gut microbiota and societal transmission between individuals, provide an ideal model for studying host-gut microbiota interactions. While the functional disparities arising from strain-level diversity of gut symbionts and their effects on host health have been studied in Apis mellifera and bumblebees, studies focusing on host-specific investigations of individual strains across different honeybee hosts remain relatively unexplored. In this study, the complete genomic sequences of 17 strains of Gilliamella from A.
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January 2025
School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
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Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
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Paraíba State University, Dentistry Program (Campina Grande/PB, Brazil).
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