The role of healthy lifestyle categories and score trend in managing hypertension among hypertensive adults

The role of healthy lifestyle categories and score trend in managing hypertension among hypertensive adults

Study design and participants We obtained data from the 2021 nationwide STEPS survey conducted by the NCD Research Center in Iran. The detailed design protocol and methodology of the STEPS study 2021 have been described elsewhere19. Briefly, the World Health Organization introduced the STEPS studies according to its framework for NCD risk factors surveillance, assessment,…

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A comparative corpus-based news values analysis of Philippine, South Korean, Singapore and Chinese media reactions to Japan’s nuclear wastewater release

A comparative corpus-based news values analysis of Philippine, South Korean, Singapore and Chinese media reactions to Japan’s nuclear wastewater release

Media attitudes and news value construction This corpus-based news discourse analysis suggested the different attitudes and positions of the four neighboring societies toward Japan’s nuclear wastewater release by analyzing the sentiment, keywords, and nominations of their mainstream media reporting about this issue. The results show that the Chinese media was the only media that constructed…

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Healthy lifestyle, daytime sleepiness, and gut microbiome composition are determinants of functional strength in humans: a cross-sectional study

Healthy lifestyle, daytime sleepiness, and gut microbiome composition are determinants of functional strength in humans: a cross-sectional study

Participant characterization In total, 627 participants (394 women/233 men) were included in this study (Table 1 and Supplementary Table S2 in the Electronic Supplementary Material). The median age was 52.0 (43.0, 62.5) years, and men were significantly older than women (padjust < 0.001). Women had a significantly higher BMI than men (padjust = 0.006). Participants had…

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Eco positioning drives sustainable fashion consumption through process related strategies and brand familiarity

Eco positioning drives sustainable fashion consumption through process related strategies and brand familiarity

Dataset collection and experimental environment This study employs an online experiment to investigate the impact of eco-positioning strategies on consumer behavior. For participant recruitment, the research team collected data through the SoJump platform. To ensure sample representativeness and experimental validity, random sampling was used to recruit participants from the platform’s user pool. Additionally, the following…

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Inequities in cardiovascular risk and lifestyle factors among individuals with developmental disabilities: evidence from Korea’s national health screening program

Inequities in cardiovascular risk and lifestyle factors among individuals with developmental disabilities: evidence from Korea’s national health screening program

Data sources We derived the study population from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database. The NHIS provides mandatory health care coverage for nearly all Koreans (approximately 50 million people), including NHI enrollees (97%) and Medical Aid beneficiaries (3%), including emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care. The NHIS database contains socio-demographic data such as sex, age, residence,…

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An accurate approach to discriminate android colluded malware from single app malware using permissions intelligence

An accurate approach to discriminate android colluded malware from single app malware using permissions intelligence

In order to emphasize the originality of our research, we investigate topics related to malware detection and collusion detection techniques. Specifically, in this section, we review related work in two areas: machine learning-based Android malware detection and machine learning-based Android app-collusion detection. Machine learning-based android malware detection Many studies have explored the use of machine…

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Association between cardiovascular health and overactive bladder

Association between cardiovascular health and overactive bladder

This study demonstrates an inverse association between LE8 score, a composite metric of cardiovascular health, and risk of OAB10. Higher LE8 scores were associated with progressively lower odds of OAB in a dose-response manner11. This relationship persisted in multivariate regression models adjusting for potential demographic and socioeconomic confounders, suggesting it is independent of these factors….

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Comparative determination of factors affecting attitude level towards healthy nutrition

Comparative determination of factors affecting attitude level towards healthy nutrition

Türkiye Halk Sağlık Kurumu (2014). Suleiman, N., García-Lara, R. A., Martos-Cabrera, M. B., Albendín-García, L. & Gómez-Urquiza, J. L. Gamification for the improvement of diet, nutritional habits, and body composition in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrients 13(7), 2478 (2021). Article  Google Scholar  Bargiota, A., Delizona, M., Tsitouras, A. & Koukoulis, G….

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Healthy lifestyle reduces cardiovascular risk in women with genetic predisposition to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Healthy lifestyle reduces cardiovascular risk in women with genetic predisposition to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Ethics approval This study complies with all relevant ethical regulations for research involving human participants and was conducted in accordance with the criteria set by the Declaration of Helsinki. The UKBB study was approved by the National Research Ethics Committee (June 17, 2011 [RES Reference11 /NW/0382] and was extended on May 10, 2016 [RES Reference16…

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