Adults with diabetes residing in “food swamps” have higher hospitalization rates

Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts in the United States

This paper investigates the effect of food environments, characterized as food swamps, on adult obesity rates. Food swamps have been described as areas with a high-density of establishments selling high-calorie fast food and junk food, relative to healthier food options. This study examines multiple ways of categorizing food environments as food swamps and food deserts, including alternate vers...

Mouse spermatozoa with higher fertilization rates have thinner nuclei

BACKGROUND Although spermatozoa with normal morphology are assumed to have uniform fertilization ability, recent data show that even normal spermatozoa have considerable variation in their head shape which is associated with differences in fertilization ability. Appropriate quantitative indicators for good sperm morphology, however, remain unidentified. METHODS Therefore, in an effort to iden...

Older adults with higher income or marriage have longer telomeres

BACKGROUND telomere length has been used to represent biological ageing and is found to be associated with various physiological, psychological and social factors. OBJECTIVE to explore the effects of income and marriage on leucocyte telomere length in a representative sample of older adults. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS cross-sectional analysis among 298 adults, aged 65-74, randomly selected from th...

Decreasing rates of hospitalization for varicella among young adults.

Hospitalizations for varicella-zoster virus infection (n = 13,018) among active-duty Navy and Marine Corps personnel were studied retrospectively for the years 1981-1994. A large increase in hospitalization rates occurred during the 1980s, peaking in 1987 with 2025 total hospitalizations and a crude rate of 258/100,000 persons. Since that time, hospitalization rates have decreased markedly, wit...

Special Considerations for Older Adults With Diabetes Residing in Skilled Nursing Facilities