background : migrant studies offer a unique opportunity to analyze variation in disease occurrence due to background factors. the role of environmental and lifestyle exposures are of particular interest in cancer research, and migrant studies can be considered as natural experiments in epidemiological research. large numbers of immigrants from different regions of the world and the availability...

When evaluating environmental risk and its perception, psychosocial and psychosomatic factors may be of fundamental importance for public health programming and the promotion of quality of life. This is the case in particular where knowledge of the true health consequences of environmental exposure to given risk factors are incomplete or its action is within the range of values where we do not ...

EDITORIAL article Front. Environ. Sci., 24 October 2022Sec. Toxicology, Pollution and the Environment Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1065958

    Molecular epidemiology is a subdivision of medical science and epidemiology that emphases on the involvement of potential environmental and genetic risk factors, recognized at the molecular level, to the etiology and avoidance of sickness through populations. This arena has developed from the combination of molecular biology and traditional epidemiological research. Molecular...

The aim of this study was to measure the impact of genetic data in improving the prediction of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the Malmö Diet and Cancer Study cohort. The current study was performed in 3,426 Swedish individuals and utilizes of a set of genetic and environmental risk data. We first validated our environmental risk model by comparing it to both the Finnish Diabetes Risk Score and the T2...

existence of heavy minerals in waters in some regions causes serious environmental pollution and affects the soil and water resources quality. soil and waters sensitive to pollutants were investigated in this research, based on the degree of sensitivity of their parameters. the samples obtained from industrial and agricultural areas for identifying water tables at higher risk and display region...

The present study explores Saudi Arabian university students’ insights into environmental risk perceptions (ERPs) and built behaviors (BEBs). Based on the findings of previous studies such as Geng et al. (2015), Islam (2019) Alnaim (2022) dire need for further exploration, researchers developed conceptual framework model confirmation in context Arabia. applied a quantitative approached utilized...