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BMC Public Health
January 2025
Escola de Medicina e Ciências da Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Prado Velho, Curitiba, PR, CEP 8021, Brazil.
Objective: To analyze the consumption frequency and factors associated with hookah usage.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involved adults, hookah users, residing in the city of Curitiba. Hookah groups were contacted on social networking sites via an invitation that contained a link to the questionnaire, which comprised 21 questions covering demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, user profiles, use of cigarettes and alcohol, symptoms, and perceptions of the risks of hookah use.
Nat Commun
January 2025
Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, 102488, Beijing, PR China.
Echinacoside (ECH), one of the most representative phenylethanoid glycosides (PhGs), has considerable neuroprotective effects and is an effective ingredient in numerous commercial drugs. Here, we elucidate the complete ECH biosynthetic pathway in the medicinal plant Cistanche tubulosa. In total, 14 related genes are cloned and functionally characterized.
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January 2025
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Proc 2024 9th Int Conf Math Artif Intell (2024)
May 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Little is known about the association of social media and belief in alcohol and cancer with binge drinking. This study aimed to perform feature selection and develop machine learning (ML) tools to predict occurrence of binge drinking among adults in the United State. A total of 5,886 adults including 1,252 who ever experienced with binge drinking were selected from the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 6).
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March 2025
Department of Cardiology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Av. de los Reyes Católicos, 2, Moncloa - Aravaca, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Objective: To quantify the added clinical benefit of a healthy lifestyle following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Our study seeks to answer the question: Is adherence to medical therapy sufficient or a healthy lifestyle provides additional improvement?.
Methods: This is a prospective observational multi-center study of 685 ACS patients.
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