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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. These included gender, age, race or ethnicity, relative income, BMI, HEI-2015 score, smoking status, and whether the participants had a history of diabetes.

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Breast milk from Mennonite moms on farms better protects babies from allergies

Frontiers

For example, the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology estimates that half of the population of the EU will have allergies by 2025: an increase by 20 percent points since 2015. Multiple lifestyle and environmental risk factors have been proposed. Traditional farming lifestyle may be a protective factor.

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Predictive Analytics Drives Criminal Justice Reform with Recidivism Forecasting

Smart Data Collective

In addition to the Challenge data provided, NIJ encourages contestants to consider a wide range of potential supplemental data sources that are available to community corrections agencies to enhance risk determinations, including the incorporation of dynamic place-based factors along with the common static and dynamic risk factors.

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What is Mycobacterium Tuberculosis?

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Pulmonary Tuberculosis ( TB ): Chest x-ray shows alveolar infiltration at both lungs due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection Global Burden of the Disease The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a 22% decrease in TB-related mortality between 2000-2015, with a gradual 1.5% Talbot, Molecular Medical Microbiology, 2015.

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How to cover environmental exposure studies

Association of Health Care Journalists

When I first wrote about arsenic in wine in 2015, we didn’t know how much to worry. But the risk related to route of exposure will vary by substance. And there are bigger picture stories looking at whole categories of problematic exposures, such as air pollution from climate change or ultra-processed foods.

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The Gut Microbiome and Its Role in Health and Disease

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This led the FDA to recommend new safety measures for FMTs, including screening donors for risk factors associated with carrying multi-drug-resistant organisms and testing all donor stools for such organisms. 2015 Sep;24(5):403-9. Gastroenterology. 2012 Oct;143(4):913-6.e7. Available: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.06.031. 2012.06.031.

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Pneumonia: A Disease of the Ancients

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The Epidemiology of Pneumonia Risk Due to the many different factors that can contribute to pneumonia development, it is very difficult to pinpoint an exact cause or source of an individual case. For example, underlying medical conditions can be considered pneumonia risk factors. Online] [6] S. Walcott-Sapp and M.