Sleep regularity and major adverse cardiovascular events: a device ...
Oct 30, 2024 · Background This study examines the associations between device-measured sleep regularity and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), and aims to determine whether sufficient sleep duration attenuates or eliminates the effects of irregular sleep on MACE risk. Methods A prospective cohort study of adults aged 40–79 years from the UK Biobank who wore wrist-attached ...
COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on social relationships and …
This essay examines key aspects of social relationships that were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses explicitly on relational mechanisms of health and brings together theory and emerging evidence on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic to make recommendations for future public health policy and recovery. We first provide an overview of …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities
INTRODUCTION. In 1931, Edgar Sydenstricker outlined inequalities by socio-economic class in the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic in America, reporting a significantly higher incidence among the working classes. 1 This challenged the widely held popular and scientific consensus of the time which held that ‘the flu hit the rich and the poor alike’. 2 …
Six steps in quality intervention development (6SQuID)
Introduction. Improving the effectiveness of public health interventions depends as much on improving their design as their evaluation.1 Yet, compared to the vast literature on intervention evaluation,2–5 there is little to guide researchers or practitioners on developing interventions in logical, evidence-based ways to maximise effectiveness. Poor …
Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s ...
Background Over the last 30 years, South Africa has experienced four ‘colliding epidemics’ of HIV and tuberculosis, chronic illness and mental health, injury and violence, and maternal, neonatal, and child mortality, which have had substantial effects on health and well-being. Using data from the 2019 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study (GBD 2019), we …
Bias - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
The concept of bias is the lack of internal validity or incorrect assessment of the association between an exposure and an effect in the target population in which the statistic estimated has an expectation that does not equal the true value. Biases can be classified by the research stage in which they occur or by the direction of change in a estimate. The most important biases are those ...
Maternal cigarette smoking before or during pregnancy increases …
Background The association of maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy with severe neonatal morbidity (SNM) is still inconclusive. We aimed to examine the associations of the timing and the intensity of maternal cigarette smoking with infant SNM in the USA. Methods We used birth certificate data of 12 150 535 women aged 18–49 years who had live singleton births from the 2016–2019 US ...
Prescribing by level of deprivation in Wales: an investigation of ...
Background Prescribing is the most common intervention made by healthcare professionals. Our study aimed to compare prescribing between general practitioner (GP) practices with the highest and lowest levels of deprivation. Methods The deprivation level of each GP practice was determined using data from the income domain of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation and individual patient postcodes.