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Health todayFrailty and multimorbidity new
Sixty of 99 dietary factors are associated with hip fracture in UK women
Among 541,887 UK postmenopausal women followed for about 20 years, 60 of 99 dietary factors were associated with hip fracture risk after correction for multiple testing.
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Behavioural scienceAlcohol and drug use refines
Drug-poisoning deaths are set against the change in US life expectancy, 2019 to 2024
A cross-sectional study examines how far changes in drug-poisoning deaths account for the change in US life expectancy between 2019 and 2024.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics new
Bangladesh's measles outbreak has killed up to 1144, most of them children
Bangladesh has recorded 22 116 laboratory-confirmed measles cases since mid-March and a death toll put as high as 1144, while officials say their own confirmed counts are an underestimate.
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Data, models and systemsHealth systems and access refines
US county excess deaths linked to education and insurance coverage
A screen of 2,745 county-level variables found the strongest correlates of US county excess deaths were college attainment (-0.54) and uninsurance at ages 40-64 (+0.53).
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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep refines
Mid-life exercise of about an hour a day reduces hip fracture risk
In 324,284 UK Biobank adults followed for 16 years, hip fracture risk was lowest at about one hour a day of leisure-time activity, with no further reduction at higher volumes.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics new
Higher HPV antibody levels are associated with greater vaccine efficacy across types
A Bayesian meta-analysis of randomised HPV vaccine trials found higher type-specific antibody levels associated with greater efficacy against infection and CIN2+, with the level associated with protection differing by type.
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Behavioural scienceAdherence and persistence new
Most adults starting semaglutide or tirzepatide did not continue for a year
Among 743,153 US adults starting semaglutide or tirzepatide for obesity in 2024, 29.9% and 35.9% respectively were still being prescribed the drug at 12 months.
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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep new
Weight-management texts did not reduce weight in postpartum women over 12 months
Among 892 postpartum women with a BMI of 25 or more, 12 months of automated weight-management texts made no difference to weight against texts on child health (-0.1 kg).
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Behavioural scienceSmoking and vaping new
Nicotine pouch take-up is higher among US adults using other tobacco products
In the PATH study of 24,640 US adults, those using smokeless tobacco only took up oral nicotine pouches at 42.4 times the rate of adults using no other tobacco product.
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Behavioural scienceDiet, exercise and sleep refines
Swapping sleep for activity relates to mortality differently in short sleepers
Among UK Biobank adults meeting sleep duration guidelines, moving 30 minutes from sleep to moderate or vigorous activity carried an all-cause mortality hazard ratio of 0.80.
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Behavioural scienceInfection and pandemics refines
Dutch infant vaccination uptake fell during the pandemic and again after it
Children in the Netherlands due their first diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-polio dose after the pandemic had a fifth the odds of vaccination by six months of their pre-pandemic siblings.
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Data, models and systemsValue in health new
Modelled extra HPV doses for women with HIV averted cervical cancer
A Markov model of 13 African countries found that extra HPV doses for women living with HIV averted cervical cancer beyond routine vaccination at 14, at added programme cost.
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