Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2024
Review Meta AnalysisHealth-related quality of life in patients with inborn errors of immunity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEI) significantly affect patients' health-related quality of life (HRQOL), presenting greater challenges than those faced by the healthy population and other chronic disease sufferers. Current research lacks comprehensive integration of this critical issue. ⋯ Despite limitations like small sample sizes and reliance on generic instruments, this research underscores the substantially lower HRQOL among IEI patients, emphasizing the need for a patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach to improve their life quality and calling for more focused attention on IEI patients and their caregivers' HRQOL.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2024
Associations of steps per day and step intensity with the risk of cancer: Findings from the Women's Health Accelerometry Collaboration cohort.
Accumulating more steps/day is associated with a lower risk of cancer mortality and composite cancer outcomes. However, less is known about the relationship of steps/day with the risk of multiple site-specific cancers. ⋯ Among women 62-97 years, there were small nonsignificant inverse associations of colon, endometrial, and fatal cancer with more steps/day. Epidemiologic studies with longer follow-up and updated assessments are needed to further explore these associations.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2024
Public transport use and mortality among older adults in England: A cohort study.
Most evidence on transport use and mortality has focused on the commute to work. This study aims to fill a gap by assessing relationships between public transport use and mortality among older adults. ⋯ The use of public transport among older adults is linked to lower levels of mortality. Reductions in provision of public transport services could be detrimental to both transportation and population health.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2024
Contribution of greenness, air pollution, and residential food environment to excess gestational weight gain: A cross-sectional study in Wuhan, China.
Our goal was to explore how greenness, air pollution, and residential food environment were linked to excessive gestational weight gain (EGWG), and to estimate their combined effects on this condition. ⋯ This study emphasizes that exposure to elevated air pollution, high-density residential neighbourhood food environments, and low levels of greenness is a neighbourhood obesogenic environment for pregnant women.
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Preventive medicine · Sep 2024
Linear and non-linear relationships between body fat mass distribution and bone mineral density in adults: The NHANES, 2011-2018.
The relationship between body fat mass and bone mineral density (BMD) remains controversial. This research aimed to explore the linear or non-linear relationship between body fat mass and BMD among adults in the United States. ⋯ Body fat mass was negatively and linearly associated with lumbar spine BMD, but positively associated with whole body BMD. Body fat mass had a U-shaped relationship with lumbar spine BMD in males and an inverted U-shaped association with lumbar spine and whole body BMD in females.