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Effect of body image perception and skin-lightening practices on mental health of Filipino emerging adults: a mixed-methods approach protocol

Author(s): Regencia ZJG; Gouin JP; Ladia MAJ; Montoya JC; Baja ES;

Introduction: The rampant distribution of idealised images on the internet may lead the general public to improve their body appearance in a way that is sometimes excessive, compulsive or detrimental to other aspects of their lives. There is a decreasing ap ...

Article GUID: 37192806


Geospatial analysis reveals a hotspot of fecal bacteria in Canadian prairie lakes linked to agricultural non-point sources

Author(s): Oliva A; Onana VE; Garner RE; Kraemer SA; Fradette M; Walsh DA; Huot Y;

Lakes are sentinels of environmental changes within their watersheds including those induced by a changing climate and anthropogenic activities. In particular, contamination originating from point or non-point sources (NPS) within watersheds might be reflec ...

Article GUID: 36653256


Body-composition phenotypes and their associations with cardiometabolic risks and health behaviours in a representative general US sample

Author(s): Kakinami L; Plummer S; Cohen TR; Santosa S; Murphy J;

Body mass index is poor at distinguishing between adiposity and muscle. Based on dual energy X-ray absorptiometry data, a diagnostic framework to analyze body composition by categorizing fat- and muscle-mass body composition into four phenotypes has been pr ...

Article GUID: 36183799


Household income and maternal education in early childhood and activity-limiting chronic health conditions in late childhood: findings from birth cohort studies from six countries

Author(s): Spencer NJ; Ludvigsson J; You Y; Francis K; Abu Awad Y; Markham W; Faresjö T; Goldhaber-Fiebert J; Andersson White P; Raat H; Mensah F; Gauv ...

Background: We examined absolute and relative relationships between household income and maternal education during early childhood ( Methods: Relative inequality (risk ratios, RR) and absolute ineq ...

Article GUID: 35863874


Comparison of different severe obesity definitions in predicting future cardiometabolic risk in a longitudinal cohort of children

Author(s): Kakinami L; Smyrnova A; Paradis G; Tremblay A; Henderson M;

Objectives: Severe obesity (SO) prevalence varies between reference curve-based definitions (WHO: =99th percentile, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): >1.2×95th percentile). Whether SO definitions differentially predict ca ...

Article GUID: 35705336


COVID-19-Related Concerns and Symptoms of Anxiety: Does Concern Play a Role in Predicting Severity and Risk?

Author(s): Benzouak T; Gunpat S; Briner EL; Thake J; Kisely S; Rao S;

Objective Rates of anxiety have increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, partially attributable to the experience of COVID-19 related concerns. It remains pivotal to determine the implications of such concerns on the severity of an ...

Article GUID: 34987892


The occurrence of potentially pathogenic fungi and protists in Canadian lakes predicted using geomatics, in situ and satellite-derived variables: Towards a tele-epidemiological approach

Author(s): Oliva A; Garner RE; Walsh D; Huot Y;

Eukaryotic pathogens including fungi and enteroparasites infect humans, animals and plants. As integrators of landscape catchment, lakes can reflect and record biological and geochemical events or anthropogenic changes and provide useful knowledge to formul ...

Article GUID: 34915335


Discovery of new vascular disrupting agents based on evolutionarily conserved drug action, pesticide resistance mutations, and humanized yeast

Author(s): Garge RK; Cha HJ; Lee C; Gollihar JD; Kachroo AH; Wallingford JB; Marcotte EM;

Thiabendazole (TBZ) is an FDA-approved benzimidazole widely used for its antifungal and antihelminthic properties. We showed previously that TBZ is also a potent vascular disrupting agent and inhibits angiogenesis at the tissue level by dissociating vascula ...

Article GUID: 34849907


Overestimation of Postpartum Depression Prevalence Based on a 5-item Version of the EPDS: Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

Author(s): Thombs BD; Levis B; Lyubenova A; Neupane D; Negeri Z; Wu Y; Sun Y; He C; Krishnan A; Vigod SN; Bhandari PM; Imran M; Rice DB; Azar M; Chiovi ...

Objective: The Maternal Mental Health in Canada, 2018/2019, survey reported that 18% of 7,085 mothers who recently gave birth reported "feelings consistent with postpartum depression" based on scor ...

Article GUID: 33104415


Weight cycling is associated with adverse cardiometabolic markers in a cross-sectional representative US sample

Author(s): Kakinami L; Knäuper B; Brunet J;

Background: Whether weight cycling (repeated weight loss and regain) is associated with cardiometabolic health is unclear. Study objective was to examine whether weight cycling since young adulthood (ie, 25 years of age) was associated with cardiometabolic ...

Article GUID: 32366587


Income inequality and social gradients in children's height: a comparison of cohort studies from five high-income countries.

Author(s): Bird PK, Pickett KE, Graham H, Faresjö T, Jaddoe VWV, Ludvigsson J, Raat H, Seguin L, Wijtzes AI, McGrath JJ

BMJ Paediatr Open. 2019;3(1):e000568 Authors: Bird PK, Pickett KE, Graham H, Faresjö T, Jaddoe VWV, Ludvigsson J, Raat H, Seguin L, Wijtzes AI, McGrath JJ

Article GUID: 31909223


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