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Consuming added sugars may increase risk of kidney stones

Frontiers

Known risk factors for developing kidney stones include being an adult male, obesity, chronic diarrhea, dehydration, and having inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, or gout. It suggests that limiting added sugar intake may help to prevent the formation of kidney stones.” National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Yin et al.

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What Are Hospital Acquired Infections?

Gideon

Risk Factors Immunocompromised individuals, such as those undergoing chemotherapy, are at an increased risk for hospital-acquired infection. Geriatric patients are also at increased risk, as are those with multiple medical comorbidities. N Engl J Med, 27;370(13), pp. 1198-208. (3) 3) Klevens, R., Edwards, J.,

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Sherri Shepherd On Diabetes and Pneumococcal Pneumonia

Black Health Matters

Sherri changed her eating habits and started working out, and she wanted to understand her risk factors for other diseases. She sat down with us to discuss why she needed to team up with Pfizer to raise awareness for the “This is Your Shot” campaign on the risk factors of pneumococcal pneumonia. 1:31 Grown.

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Public health has a language problem

Public Healthy

This tongue-in-cheek paper and commentary shows that public health was already fully in the grip of the management speak epidemic in 2007. Normal people having normal conversations don’t say ‘risk factor’ or ‘morbidity’, do they? But I don’t use jargon….” Yeah, you do.

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What is Staphylococcus aureus?

Gideon

Individuals at increased risk include patients with diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS , and other conditions that compromise the immune system. Hospitalization is in itself a risk factor for S. 2007 Aug 1;45(3):315-21. Intravenous drug users may introduce the bacteria into various tissues and/or the bloodstream. Pediatr Ann.

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Salmonella by Any Other Name: Salmonellosis in Finland & How to Prevent the Next Outbreak

Gideon

2007: 8,453 cases (almost 30% of the population) due to contaminated water in the town of Nokia, Finland. Other risk factors for Salmonella poisoning are travel to high-risk countries with poor sanitation and exposure to birds and reptiles being kept as pets. 1992: 224 cases due to contaminated mung beans.

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Chagas Disease

Gideon

In 2007, two notable outbreaks occurred due to ingesting sources contaminated with T. 16-0213 (14) “ Parasites – American Trypanosomiasis (also known as Chagas Disease): Epidemiology & Risk Factors ,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, 2019.