Author(s): Côté M; Ramos Salas X; Carrière K; Alberga AS;

Incretin-based therapies, including glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), are approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and related conditions, and have demonstrated significant benefits for individuals with these conditions. However, in recent years, public interest and demand for GLP-1RAs-often driven by media, social media ...

Article GUID: 41986775

Author(s): Brouillette-Alarie S; Hassan G; Varela W; Danis E; Ousman S; Madriaza P; Pauls IL; Kilinc D; Pickup D; Pelzer R; Borokhovski E;

Assessment of the risk of engaging in a violent radicalization/extremism trajectory has evolved quickly in the last 10 years. Guided by what has been achieved in psychology and criminology, scholars from the field of preventing violent extremism (PVE) have tried to import key lessons from violenc ...

Article GUID: 41978672

Author(s): Brodeur M; Fortier MÈ; Carrier N; Audette-Chapdelaine S; Auger AM; Savard AC; Kairouz S;

Objectives: This article presents the quantitative phase of a two-phase mixed methods study. The main objective of this article is to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected adult gamblers' gambling behaviours and mental health in Quebec. Design: A cross-sectional online survey was used to collect data. Setting: Quebec (Canada). Participants: A ...

Article GUID: 41887629

Author(s): Léger C; Boucher VG; Deslauriers F; Gupta S; Dialufuma M; Vallis M; Bacon SL; Lavoie KL; iCARE Study Team OBOT;

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Canadian healthcare workers (HCWs) and identify motivators for COVID-19 vaccination, compared to the general population (GPop). Methods: As part of the iCARE study, four cross-sectional age, sex, and provi ...

Article GUID: 41608973

Author(s): Ghannoum Al Chawaf K; Lahmiri S;

The COVID-19 outbreak has made it evident that the nature and behavior of SARS-CoV-2 requires constant research and surveillance, owing to the high mutation rates that lead to variants. This work focuses on the statistical analysis of energy measures as biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2. The main purpose of this study is to determine which energy measure can diffe ...

Article GUID: 41596038

Author(s): de Brito-Araújo AP; Hamada-Fearnside N; Peruzzo S; Pereira IF; Lins PGAS; Miller K; Rodrigues PEDS; Iniesta LFM; Ferreira RG;

Parasitism is one of the primary causes of biotic stress in several taxa, and behaviors resembling self-medication have been documented in numerous species. Anointing involves the application of chemical substances derived from animals, plants, mud, soils, and minerals, often emitting a pungent o ...

Article GUID: 41587383

Author(s): Calvo N; Phillips N; Bialystok E; Einstein G;

Introduction: The relationship between biological sex, considered a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and bilingualism, a resilience factor, is unclear. We assessed this relationship in 335 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in a Canadian cohort. Methods: We used univariate analysis and structural equation modelling to study the ...

Article GUID: 41573422

Author(s): Côté M; Kairouz S; Savard AC; Brodeur M;

Objective: This article is one of the first to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on online gambling (OG) participation and gambling-related problems in relation to living conditions. The latter include whether people reported being in a significant intimate relationship, their living arrangements (alone vs. cohabitation), and whether they lived ...

Article GUID: 41387820

Author(s): Bayoumi I; Mcfadden K; Valkanas H; Tu K; Kalia S; Chen T; Christie CD; Rourke J; Rourke L; Greiver M; Leduc D; Li P;

Background: Well child visits (WCV) are fundamental to preventive primary care. We examined trends in WCV attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic and characterised variation by patient and provider characteristics. Methods: Deidentified electronic medical records from two academic practice-based ...

Article GUID: 41290264

Author(s): Spence DS; Painter KJ; Nazemi A; Venkiteswaran JJ; Baulch HM;

Drinking water treatability is defined by multiple parameters that are strongly impacted by climatic and anthropogenic drivers. Working in a shallow reservoir in the Canadian Prairies, generalized additive models (GAMs) were applied to a 33-year dataset to identify drivers of interannual variability in multiple indicators of drinking water treatability. I ...

Article GUID: 41166973

Author(s): Grant KR; Kembel SW; Naik S; Dayanandan S;

Endophytes asymptomatically infect virtually all plant species, yet little is known about endophyte community assembly and diversity within the woody tissues of forest trees. We utilised phylogenetic null models of alpha (ses.MNTDab and ses.MPDab) and beta diversity (ses.ßMNTDab and ses.ßMPDab) to infer the role of deterministic and stochastic ecological ...

Article GUID: 41089252