Harriet Mpairwe, Milly Namutebi ... Alison M Elliott
Asthma risk among schoolchildren increases depending on area of residence in early life, from rural to town to city, and this risk increases further with other known risk factors.
Height in early adulthood is an indicator that integrates across different dimensions of sustainable human development with links to health and longevity, nutrition, education and economic productivity.
We provide a tutorial to use GAMLSS, applied using cohort data to study how risk factors may influence both the mean and variability of body mass index and mental health.
Third SARS-CoV-2 vaccination appears to eliminate disparities in anti-Spike antibodies between those who received Pfizer-BioNTech versus Oxford/AstraZeneca for first and second vaccination, but levels remain lower in certain groups such as those on the UK 'Shielded Patient List'.
Risk factors for cardiovascular diseases trigger molecular changes that harm the endothelial cells in the heart, but exercise can suppress these effects.
In a prospective, population-based cohort, high polygenic risk and infection with Fusobacterium nucleatum have a small, yet independent impact on coronary heart disease risk.
Rahul Gupta, Konrad J Karczewski ... Vamsi K Mootha
Although cellular organelles show a functional deterioration in aging, genetic loci associated with common age-associated disease instead nominate nuclear transcription factors across several age-related diseases.