The answer lies in how infected individuals invest into controlling pathogen proliferation and mitigating damage, two strategies respectively called resistance and disease tolerance. Pathogen ...

Viral epidemiology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the incidence and spread of viruses in populations over time. Host, virus and environmental factors are monitored to ...

Indeed, the focality and spatially-structured epidemiology of schistosomiasis, its transmission persistence and the morbidity induced, has long suggested that gene-environmental-interactions playing ...

snu.ac.kr Objective Metabolic syndrome (MetS) arises from complex interactions between host genetic and environmental factors. Although it is now widely accepted that the gut microbiota plays a ...

Objective To review and frequently update the available evidence on injury risk factors and epidemiology of injury in trail running. Design Living systematic review. Updated searches will be done ...

ryerson.ca Objective Declining participation has been observed in previous epidemiological studies, could occupational risk factor epidemiology be particularly vulnerable to this trend? The objective ...

Differences in hypertension care are related to several factors beyond healthcare access alone, including limited health literacy, cultural and social barriers and heuristically different health ...

Conclusions There is an evident heterogeneity in the prevalence of and risk factors for hypertension and diabetes within Peru. Prehypertension and prediabetes are highly prevalent across settings. Our ...

It refers to the natural context (climate or geography) as well as other physical factors. The built environment is based on urban planning and housing policies which usually depend on local authority ...

Objective Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major public health burden in China, and its prevalence is increasing. This study aimed to determine the risk factors and biomarkers of NAFLD.

From 2022 to 2024, weekly laboratory-confirmed mpox cases increased by a factor of 2.8 (from 176 ... analysis is to describe the changes in the epidemiology of mpox cases in Africa leading up ...

Makumbi F, Guyer B. The second question asked is: “How much does the baby weigh?” So, what is “normal” birth weight? In: Bledsoe C, ed. Discovering normality in health and the reproductive body.