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Healthy Foods, Healthy Families: combining incentives and exposure interventions at urban farmers’ markets to improve nutrition among recipients of US federal food assistance
(Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2016)Background: Healthy Foods, Healthy Families (HFHF) is a fruit and vegetable (F&V) exposure/incentive program implemented at farmers’ markets in low-income neighborhoods, targeting families receiving US federal food assistance. ... -
The healthy human microbiome
(BioMed Central, 2016)Humans are virtually identical in their genetic makeup, yet the small differences in our DNA give rise to tremendous phenotypic diversity across the human population. By contrast, the metagenome of the human microbiome—the ... -
Healthy Lifestyle and Leukocyte Telomere Length in U.S. Women
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Context: Whether a healthy lifestyle may be associated with longer telomere length is largely unknown. Objectives: To examine healthy lifestyle practices, which are primary prevention measures against major age-related ... -
Healthy Lifestyle and Risk of Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition Cohort Study
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)Abstract It has been estimated that at least a third of the most common cancers are related to lifestyle and as such are preventable. Key modifiable lifestyle factors have been individually associated with cancer risk; ... -
Healthy Lifestyle in the Primordial Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among Young Women
(Elsevier, 2015)BACKGROUND Overall mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the United States have declined in recent decades, but the rate has plateaued among younger women. The potential for further reductions in mortality ... -
Heart rate variability and DNA methylation levels are altered after short-term metal fume exposure among occupational welders: a repeated-measures panel study
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: In occupational settings, boilermakers are exposed to high levels of metallic fine particulate matter (PM2.5) generated during the welding process. The effect of welding PM2.5 on heart rate variability (HRV) ... -
Heart Rate Variability in Association with Frequent Use of Household Sprays and Scented Products in SAPALDIA
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2012)Background: Household cleaning products are associated with adverse respiratory health outcomes, but the cardiovascular health effects are largely unknown. Objective: We determined if long-term use of household sprays and ... -
Heat stroke admissions during heat waves in 1,916 US counties for the period from 1999 to 2010 and their effect modifiers
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Heat stroke is a serious heat-related illness, especially among older adults. However, little is known regarding the spatiotemporal variation of heat stroke admissions during heat waves and what factors modify ... -
Heat, Heat Waves, and Hospital Admissions among the Elderly in the United States, 1992–2006
(NLM-Export, 2014)Background: Heat-wave frequency, intensity, and duration are increasing with global climate change. The association between heat and mortality in the elderly is well documented, but less is known regarding associations ... -
Heat-related cardiovascular mortality risk in Cyprus: a case-crossover study using a distributed lag non-linear model
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: The frequency and intensity of heat waves is projected to increase in many parts of the world, particularly in regions such as the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME), where the warming trends are much ... -
Heat-Related Mortality and Adaptation to Heat in the United States
(NLM-Export, 2014)Background: In a changing climate, increasing temperatures are anticipated to have profound health impacts. These impacts could be mitigated if individuals and communities adapt to changing exposures; however, little is ... -
Heavy injection drug use is associated with lower percent body fat in a multi-ethnic cohort of HIV-positive and HIV-negative drug users from three U.S. cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Background: The clinical implications of lower body weight in drug using populations are uncertain given that lower mean weights may still fall within the healthy range. Objectives: To determine the effect of type, mode ... -
Hedging against Antiviral Resistance during the Next Influenza Pandemic Using Small Stockpiles of an Alternative Chemotherapy
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Background: The effectiveness of single-drug antiviral interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality during the next influenza pandemic will be substantially weakened if transmissible strains emerge which are resistant ... -
Height and blood chemistry in adults with a history of developmental arsenic poisoning from contaminated milk powder
(Elsevier BV, 2017)Background: Arsenic poisoning interferes with bone metabolism in laboratory animal studies, and human studies suggest lowered bone mass density at elevated exposures. As the long-term consequences of developmental arsenic ... -
Height of Nations: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Cohort Differences and Patterns among Women in 54 Low- to Middle-Income Countries
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011)BACKGROUND: Adult height is a useful biological measure of long term population health and well being. We examined the cohort differences and socioeconomic patterning in adult height in low- to middle-income countries. ... -
Height, Body Mass Index, and Ovarian Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of 12 Cohort Studies
(American Association for Cancer Research, 2008)Background: Although many studies have investigated the association between anthropometry and ovarian cancer risk, results have been inconsistent.Methods: The associations of height, body mass index (BMI), and ovarian ... -
Height, predictors of C-peptide and cancer risk in men
(Oxford University Press, 2004)Background: Excessive energy intake tends to increase circulating levels of insulin and free insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I), which may increase risk of some cancers that are common in Western countries. However, the ... -
Height, Socioeconomic and Subjective Well-Being Factors among U.S. Women, Ages 49-79
(Public Library of Science, 2014-04-07)Background: A vast literature has associated height with numerous factors, including biological, psychological, socioeconomic, anthropologic, genetic, environmental, and ecologic, among others. The aim of this study is to ... -
Height, Socioeconomic and Subjective Well-Being Factors among U.S. Women, Ages 49–79
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: A vast literature has associated height with numerous factors, including biological, psychological, socioeconomic, anthropologic, genetic, environmental, and ecologic, among others. The aim of this study is to ... -
Helmet regulation in Vietnam: impact on health, equity and medical impoverishment
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)Background: Vietnam's 2007 comprehensive motorcycle helmet policy increased helmet use from about 30% of riders to about 93%. We aimed to simulate the effect that this legislation might have on: (a) road traffic deaths and ...