A new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that a range of environmental factors, including lifestyle (smoking and physical activity), and living conditions, have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. The researchers used data from nearly half a million UK Biobank participants to assess the influence…
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This study explored perceptions of healthy eating and food choice motivations among a sample of adults in the UAE. It also segmented participants based on their food choice motivations to allow for tailored interventions and communication strategies to promote healthier dietary habits. The present study highlighted the prevalence of the internet and social media as primary…
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Facilitators and barriers Participants identified various facilitators and barriers for a healthy lifestyle in general, most of them observed for both diet and physical activity, but some were specific to each. Usually, facilitators and barriers overlapped. For example, participants identified having more time as an expected facilitator, and lack of time as a barrier (additional…
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Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the study population This study collected data from six survey cycles of NHANES from 2007 to 2018, with a total of 59,842 participants. Firstly, participants under the age of 20 were excluded, followed by those with missing covariates, exposure variables, and outcome variables. The detailed study population inclusion criteria are…
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Baseline characteristics of the participants Table 1 depicts the participant characteristics. Out of 438,681 participants, 75,056 (17.11%) had CMDs. Among them, 15.12% had one CMDs, 1.90% had two CMDs, and 0.09% had three CMDs. Individuals with one, two, or three CMDs were compared to those without CMDs. The former group was older, had more males and…
Study design and population This study was performed within CLHLS, an ongoing prospective population-based cohort study conducted in half of the countries and cities in 23 provinces in China and designed to investigate the determinants of healthy aging among Chinese older adults. Further details about the study design have been previously described elsewhere42. In brief,…