New Guidance on Vaping Injuries
Recent data on vaping-associated respiratory distress syndrome (VARDS) has sparked a growing...
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Smoking & Tobacco
The Influence of Parental Marijuana Use on Children
Data suggest that the ascendancy of medicalization, legalization, and social acceptability of...
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What cells does the novel coronavirus attack?
Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin...
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E-Cigarette Use & Coronary Vascular Dysfunction
Research has indicated that chronic combustible cigarette users are at an increased risk of...
Read MorePhysical activity trajectories, mortality, hospitalization, and disability in the Toledo Study of Healthy Aging.
Physical activity (PA) is a recognized contributor to healthy aging. However, the majority of studies exploring its associations with adverse outcomes in cohorts of older adults use single-time PA estimates, which do not...
Read MoreChange in Pulmonary Function Following Decortication for Chronic Pleural Empyema.
Chronic empyema is the final stage of the triphasic pathogenesis of empyema that is characterized by fibrin deposits in both pleural surfaces, leading to the formation of a thickened pleural peel. This restricts the lung...
Read MoreSpatial index relating urban environment to health lifestyle and obesity risk in men and women from different age groups.
The challenge in the search for relationships between urban space, physical mobility, and health status, is detecting indicators able to link the environment with healthy life habits. Therefore, the objective was to design an...
Read MoreLong-term Functional Maintenance of Exteriorized Portal Venous Catheters in a Porcine Animal Model.
Portal venous access for blood sampling, infusion therapy, and measurement of portal venous pressure is of special interest for experimental studies in surgery, pharmacology, and hepatology. Chronic animal models with continuous...
Read MoreCardiovascular Health Trajectories From Childhood Through Middle Age and Their Association With Subclinical Atherosclerosis.
Cross-sectional measures of cardiovascular health (CVH) have been associated with cardiovascular disease in older age, but little is known about longitudinal trajectories in CVH and their association with subclinical...
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