Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

The evidence is solid but not definitive, as the conclusions rely on the absence of changes in spatial breadth and would benefit from clearer statistical justification and a more cautious ...

USA: A recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice has unveiled compelling evidence that type 1 diabetes may be a significant and ...

Introduction Hypertension programmes have expanded substantially in low-income and middle-income countries, yet treatment and control rates remain insufficient. Programme scale-up may lead to ...

Introduction Previous reviews have investigated the relationship between empathy and burnout. However, these are now out of date, did not capture the effect of the pandemic, did not include healthcare ...

Introduction Implementing shared decision-making (SDM) in maternity care remains challenging in low-income and middle-income ...

Objective Unplanned hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge measure the quality of healthcare. This study aims to ...

Heat-related ED visits for extreme heat were generally higher in early summer than in late summer, suggesting the necessity to consider temporal changes in heat risk when developing nuanced and ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

Introduction The Netherlands implemented a supermarket tobacco sales ban on 1 July 2024. This study aimed to evaluate ...

Background Little is known about the association between direct pollen exposure and cognitive performance. The aim of our ...