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    Changes in transmission of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in England inferred from seroprevalence data

    Margarita Pons-Salort, Ben Lambert ... Nicholas C Grassly
    Serocatalytic models applied to seroprevalence data from England reveal an increase in Enterovirus D68 transmission that occurred before 2011.
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    Predictive performance of multi-model ensemble forecasts of COVID-19 across European nations

    Katharine Sherratt, Hugo Gruson ... Sebastian Funk
    A large collaborative project combined many different researchers' forecasts of COVID-19 across Europe, making predictions used in policy more reliable.
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    Affectionate touch and diurnal oxytocin levels: An ecological momentary assessment study

    Ekaterina Schneider, Dora Hopf ... Beate Ditzen
    Affectionate touch in everyday life is linked to lower self-reported burden and is associated with higher endogenous oxytocin levels during times of prolonged stress.
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    Approximating missing epidemiological data for cervical cancer through Footprinting: A case study in India

    Irene Man, Damien Georges ... Iacopo Baussano
    The proposed Footprinting framework enables approximation of missing cervical cancer epidemiological data and derivation of context-specific impact projection of cervical cancer prevention measures, assisting public health decisions on cervical cancer prevention in India and other countries.
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    Nationwide participation in FIT-based colorectal cancer screening in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study

    Tina Bech Olesen, Henry Jensen ... Morten Rasmussen
    The participation in the FIT-based colorectal cancer screening programme and subsequent compliance to colonoscopy after a positive FIT test was only slightly affected during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark.
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    Environment- and epigenome-wide association study of obesity in ‘Children of 1997’ birth cohort

    Jie Zhao, Bohan Fan ... C Mary Schooling
    The comprehensive assessment on environmental factors and epigenetics with obesity provides novel insights into potentially modifiable factors related to obesity at the outset and the end of puberty, with close relevance to health policy and public health.
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    Quantification of impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cancer screening programmes – a case study from Argentina, Bangladesh, Colombia, Morocco, Sri Lanka, and Thailand

    Eric Lucas, Raul Murillo ... Partha Basu
    Well-coordinated, decisive, and collective actions remain critical to make screening programmes more equitable and resilient in the face of natural and geo-political calamities.
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    ‘Skeletal Age’ for mapping the impact of fracture on mortality

    Thach Tran, Thao Ho-Le ... Tuan V Nguyen
    The lifespan of individuals who suffer from an osteoporotic fracture is reduced by between 1 and 7 years, depending on the location of the fracture and their risk profile, suggesting that their 'Skeletal Age' is higher than their chronological age.
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    The effect of weight loss following 18 months of lifestyle intervention on brain age assessed with resting-state functional connectivity

    Gidon Levakov, Alon Kaplan ... Iris Shai
    Assessing predicted fMRI-based functional brain age before and after a lifestyle intervention suggests that weight loss, improved liver biomarkers, decreased liver fat, and visceral and deep subcutaneous adipose tissues correlate with attenuated brain aging.
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    Phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in France, Europe, and the world in 2020

    Romain Coppée, François Blanquart ... Antoine Bridier-Nahmias
    By producing one hundred SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic trees for different geographical and time scales, the maximum likelihood-based phylodynamic method implemented here enabled to robustly describe SARS-CoV-2 geographic spread through France, Europe, and worldwide in 2020.