Antioxidative-Micronutrients and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases

Air Pollution and Primordial Prevention of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases

Men's health: non-communicable chronic diseases and social vulnerability 1

OBJECTIVES to evaluate the relationship between absences in scheduled appointments and the number of non-communicable chronic diseases and to investigate the relationship between spatial distribution of these diseases and social vulnerability, using geoprocessing. METHOD a quantitative study of sequential mixed approach by analyzing 158 medical records of male users to relate the absences and...

Dietary fat consumption and non- communicable chronic diseases in China.

Fat consumption at a national level is largely determined by the economic development of a country. Based on the data of nationwide nutrition surveys undertaken in China in 1982 and 1992, the average intake per capita per day of meat increased from 62.6 to 100.5 g in urban areas and from 22.9 to 37.6 g in rural areas. The consumption per capita per day of eggs increased from 15.5 to 29.4 g in u...

Developmental determinants in non-communicable chronic diseases and ageing.

Prenatal and peri-natal events play a fundamental role in health, development of diseases and ageing (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)). Research on the determinants of active and healthy ageing is a priority to: (i) inform strategies for reducing societal and individual costs of an ageing population and (ii) develop effective novel prevention strategies. It is important to c...

Biosecurity and Non-Communicable Diseases

Although the traditional biosecurity paradigm is concerned with the deliberate misuse of biological agents, in recent years national security strategies have widened in scope to address a much wider spectrum of biological threats. This expanding remit, partly spurred by the high-profile epidemics of the early 2000s, still does not include conditions that have been traditionally conceived as non...