Background The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a globally accepted developmental agenda, and it is expected that everyone everywhere in the world would be aware, knowledgeable and be willing to contribute to its attainment. This study aims to assess the level of awareness, knowledge of, and attitudes towards the SDGs among members of a university community. Methods A cross-sectional s...

INTRODUCTION Some reported characteristics associated with hypothermia mortality include older age, alcohol consumption, male sex, and black race. The purpose of this paper is to present the epidemiology of hypothermia deaths in Jefferson County, Alabama. METHODS Autopsy reports maintained by the county coroner's office were abstracted for all cases with primary or underlying causes of death ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate suicide and "undetermined" deaths by age, economic activity status, and social class in Great Britain among males of working age. DESIGN The study was a cross sectional analysis of Registrar General's data for England and Wales around 1981, repeated for around 1971, and for Scotland around 1971 and 1981. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS For England an...

Boron is the fifth element in the periodic table of elements and has a number of important functions. The borate minerals have been known for thousands of years and have varied history from the deserts of Tibet to the alchemists of the middle ages. Boron occurs in most foods produced from plants. Since 1989 its nutritional value has been debated. Boron plays several biochemical roles in animals...

BACKGROUND LifeLines is a large prospective population-based three generation cohort study in the north of the Netherlands. Different recruitment strategies were adopted: recruitment of an index population via general practitioners, subsequent inclusion of their family members, and online self-registration. Our aim was to investigate the representativeness of the adult study population at basel...

Diabetes is a metabolic disease associated with insufficient insulin production in the pancreas, or increased demands for this substance. Early recognition of this disease is unfortunately not always easy. It has been observed that 12 per cent of the diabetic people present no clinical symptoms whatsoever. It is generally a disease of middle adult life, though diabetes in younger people is not ...

Personality traits predict substance use in adolescence, but less is known about prospective substance use in middle age and beyond. Moreover, there is growing interest in how personality change and the multiplicative effects among personality traits relate to substance use. Participants included approximately 4,000 adults aged 25-74 who participated in two waves of the Midlife in the U.S. (MID...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate quantitatively (the aetiological fraction) the impact of poor social network on premature death from cardiovascular disease in middle aged, white men. DESIGN The causality of the relationship has already been discussed in a large review, and it is assumed to be well documented. The numerical estimation of the impact was based on a review of all published cohort stu...

The Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) was developed to provide global measures of apathy in adults and elderly individuals 1 . Reliability and validity data are available for middle aged and older adults (2). Examination of individual items also provides qualitative information which may be of use in clinical assessments. The conceptual, clinical, and empirical background for the AES is presented i...

PURPOSE The study investigates the association between level of long-term physical workload in middle age and disability pension (DP) before 61 years of age with adjustments made for early life factors, level of education, and psychosocial working conditions. Associations with DP overall, DP due to musculoskeletal disorders and DP due to psychiatric disorders were examined. METHODS The study ...