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  1. Medical students are more likely to have various physical and psychological issues, but less information is available about the healthcare-seeking behaviour for physical and mental health issues. The aim of th...

    Authors: Afriza Umami, Viktória Zsiros, Ágnes Maróti-Nagy, Zsuzsanna Máté, Sudalhar Sudalhar, Regina Molnár and Edit Paulik
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2126
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  2. Infections and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected underserved populations. A community-engaged approach that supports decision making around safe COVID-19 practices is needed to...

    Authors: Emily M. D’Agostino, Lauren M. Rosenberg, Alan Richmond, Allyn Damman, Camille Brown-Lowery, Princess Abbot-Grimes, Saira Siddiqui, Tigidankay Fadika, Mark Ward, Mia Cooper, Sonya Sutton, Lindsay Kenton, Bob Spaziano, Janet Kasper, Nicole Barnes and Christoph Hornik
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2121
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  3. Stroke is a major cause of acute neurological symptoms in children with significant long-term neurological sequelae. However, data of diseases burden on stroke among children was lack. We aimed to be dedicated...

    Authors: Min Du, Donghua Mi, Min Liu and Jue Liu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2120
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  4. Mathematical models are increasingly used to inform HIV policy and planning. Comparing estimates obtained using different mathematical models can test the robustness of estimates and highlight research gaps. A...

    Authors: Haroon Moolla, Andrew Phillips, Debra ten Brink, Edinah Mudimu, John Stover, Loveleen Bansi-Matharu, Rowan Martin-Hughes, Nisaa Wulan, Valentina Cambiano, Jennifer Smith, Anna Bershteyn, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Lise Jamieson and Leigh F. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2119
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  5. Identifying factors affecting health costs can contribute to formulating the best policies for controlling and managing health costs. To this end, the present study aimed to analyze resource wastage and identi...

    Authors: Vahid Vatandoost, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Maryam Okhovati and Mohsen Barooni
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2118
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  6. As the HIV epidemic among MSM in China continues, Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) face various mental health difficulties, including suicide ideation, depression, and stigma. The current study aims to ...

    Authors: Jiaqi Fu, Xu Chen, Zhenwei Dai, Yiman Huang, Weijun Xiao, Hao Wang, Mingyu Si, Yijin Wu, Ling Zhang, Shu Jing, Xin Liu, Fei Yu, Guodong Mi and Xiao-You Su
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2117
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  7. Hypertension care cascade in resource-limited settings is compromised with a majority of patients with hypertension remaining undiagnosed, untreated, non-adherent, and poorly controlled at every stage. However...

    Authors: Mongjam Meghachandra Singh, Saurav Basu, Heena Lalwani, Shivani Rao, Vansh Maheshwari, Sandeep Garg and Nandini Sharma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2116
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  8. Growing evidence indicates that gender-based violence (GBV) increased during COVID-19. We investigated self-reported impact of the pandemic on GBV at community, household and intimate partner (IPV) levels amon...

    Authors: Miriam Hartmann, Danielle Giovenco, Zangin Zeebari, Gina Itzikowitz, Anna Mia Ekström, Anna Nielsen, Audrey Pettifor, Linda-Gail Bekker and Anna E. Kågesten
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2115
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  9. There is little research on alcohol and other drugs (AOD) use by school-age children in low-resource settings like Uganda. Including the voices of children in research can inform prevention and early intervent...

    Authors: Joyce Sserunjogi Nalugya, Vilde Skylstad, Juliet N Babirye, Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata, Grace Ndeezi, Paul Bangirana, Ingunn M. S. Engebretsen and Noeline Nakasujja
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2114
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  10. Sarcopenia is a syndrome associated with aging that causes progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and muscle function. In this pilot study, we compared the effectiveness of elastic band training regarding gr...

    Authors: Pablo Valdés-Badilla, Eduardo Guzmán-Muñoz, Jordan Hernandez-Martinez, Cristian Núñez-Espinosa, Pedro Delgado-Floody, Tomás Herrera-Valenzuela, Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco, José Zapata-Bastias and Hadi Nobari
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2113
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  11. Resting heart rate (RHR) has been found to be a potential risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), with a highly significant heterogeneity among previous studies. Therefore, we examined the ...

    Authors: Seyyed Saeed Moazzeni, Kimia Karimi Toudeshki, Fatemeh Ghorbanpouryami, Mitra Hasheminia, Fereidoun Azizi, Mehdi Pishgahi and Farzad Hadaegh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2112
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  12. Plain packaging and graphic warning labels are two regulatory strategies that may impact cigarette risk beliefs and reduce consumption, but data are needed to better understand how smokers respond to such regu...

    Authors: Matthew D. Stone, Melissa Mercincavage, E. Paul Wileyto, Andy S.L. Tan, Janet Audrain-McGovern, Andrea C. Villanti and Andrew A. Strasser
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2111
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  13. Growing evidence suggests that individuals with COVID-19 face stigmatization, which is associated with poor health outcomes and behaviors. However, very few population-based studies have examined risk factors ...

    Authors: Soomin Ryu, Samhita Chaubal, Paula Guro, Elizabeth J. King, Robert Orellana, Nancy L. Fleischer and Jana L. Hirschtick
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2110
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  14. Two types of rotavirus vaccines (RVs), Rotarix (RV1) and RotaTeq (RV5), were licensed as optional vaccines in 2012 and became part of the National Immunization Program (NIP) in the fiscal year 2020 in Thailand...

    Authors: Busara Charoenwat, Kunanya Suwannaying, Watuhatai Paibool, Napat Laoaroon, Sumitr Sutra, Kaewjai Thepsuthammarat and Suphasarang Sirirattanakul
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2109
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  15. Universal social medical insurance coverage is viewed as a major factor in promoting social integration, but insufficient evidence exists on the integration of elderly rural migrants (ERM), generally aged 60 y...

    Authors: Xiaojie Ma, Wenjia Feng, Chaojun Shi, Yifan Wang, Qianqian Gao, Weiqin Cai, Hongqing An, Qi Jing, Runguo Gao and Anning Ma
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2108
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  16. An estimated 11 million individuals are released from U.S. jails and prisons each year. Individuals with a history of incarceration have higher rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and mortality compar...

    Authors: Johanna E. Elumn, Gul Jana Saeed, Jenerius Aminawung, Nadine Horton, Hsiu‑Ju Lin, H. Klar Yaggi and Emily A. Wang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2107
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  17. The COVID-19 pandemic and its prevention policies have taken a toll on Canadians, and certain subgroups may have been disproportionately affected, including those with non-communicable diseases (NCDs; e.g., he...

    Authors: Frédérique Deslauriers, Vincent Gosselin-Boucher, Camille Léger, Ariany Marques Vieira, Simon L. Bacon and Kim L. Lavoie
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2106
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  18. Indigenous populations in Canada and the United States (US) have maintained reciprocal relationships with nature, grounded in respect for and stewardship of the environment; however, disconnection from traditi...

    Authors: A. Malli, H. Monteith, E. C. Hiscock, E. V. Smith, K. Fairman, T. Galloway and A. Mashford-Pringle
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2105
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  19. A good muscle quality index (MQI) may have an inverse relationship with psychosocial variables of depression, anxiety, and stress in adolescents. Unfortunately, little scientific evidence has related MQI to ps...

    Authors: Guillermo Barahona-Fuentes, Álvaro Huerta Ojeda, Gabriela Lizana Romero, Pedro Delgado-Floody, Daniel Jerez-Mayorga, María-Mercedes Yeomans-Cabrera and Luis Javier Chirosa-Ríos
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2104
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  20. More than one-third of individuals experience post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, which includes long-COVID). The objective is to identify risk factors associated with PASC/long-COVID diagnosis.

    Authors: Elaine L. Hill, Hemalkumar B. Mehta, Suchetha Sharma, Klint Mane, Sharad Kumar Singh, Catherine Xie, Emily Cathey, Johanna Loomba, Seth Russell, Heidi Spratt, Peter E. DeWitt, Nariman Ammar, Charisse Madlock-Brown, Donald Brown, Julie A. McMurry, Christopher G. Chute…
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2103
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  21. One of the reasons for the more prominent resistance of canteen managers to implementing healthy canteens is based on the belief in the economic infeasibility of these models. The research aimed to verify the ...

    Authors: Luisa Arantes Vilela, Bruna Vieira de Lima Costa, Mariana Zogbi Jardim, Luiza Delazari Borges, Ariene Silva do Carmo, Monique Louise Cassimiro Inácio and Larissa Loures Mendes
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2102
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  22. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in the spring of 2020, many Americans avoided the healthcare system, while those with COVID-19 symptoms were faced with decisions about seeking he...

    Authors: Catherine A. Vander Woude, Elizabeth J. King, Jana L. Hirschtick, Andrea R. Titus, Laura E. Power, Michael R. Elliott and Nancy L. Fleischer
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2101
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  23. This study aimed to provide a reference for the prevention and treatment of abnormal bone mass in postmenopausal women by analysing the current situation and influencing factors of bone mass abnormalities in T...

    Authors: Huaichang Zhong, Yaxi Zhou, Peng Wang, Qundi Jia, Yang Wan and Hai Xiong
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2100
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  24. Evidence from the UK from the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic showed that people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) had higher rates of covid-19 mortality than people without ID. However, estimates of t...

    Authors: Filip Sosenko, Daniel Mackay, Jill P. Pell, Chris Hatton, Bhautesh D. Jani, Deborah Cairns, Laura Ward, Angela Henderson, Michael Fleming, Dewy Nijhof and Craig Melville
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2099
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  25. To determine the health needs and promote women's health, their quality of life should be investigated. For this purpose, a valid tool is needed, that has credible validity and reliability, and its concepts ar...

    Authors: FatemehSadat SeyedNematollah Roshan, Fatemeh Alhani, Armin Zareiyan and Anoshirvan Kazemnejad
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2098
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  26. The monitoring of children’s growth plays a crucial role in assessing their growth patterns and indicating their weight status. Overweight and obesity, determined by cut-offs of body mass index (BMI), are most...

    Authors: Špečkauskienė Vita, Trišauskė Justina, Grincaitė Monika, Kriaučionienė Vilma and Petrauskienė Aušra
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2097
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  27. Persons with disability may have a higher HIV prevalence and be less likely than persons without disability to know their HIV-positive status, access antiretroviral therapy (ART), and suppress their HIV viral ...

    Authors: David Chipanta, Sophie Mitra, Silas Amo-Agyei, Minerva Rivas Velarde, Kofi Amekudzi, Connie Osborne, Janne Estill and Olivia Keiser
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2096
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  28. The regulation of working hours is governed by legal standards in formal employment. While the association between long working hours and various health outcomes has been extensively studied, there is limited ...

    Authors: Luciana de Melo Gomides, Mery Natali Silva Abreu and Ada Ávila Assunção
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2095
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  29. Emerging evidence suggests that children’s fatness increases and fitness declines at a greater rate during the summer holiday period, compared with the school year. The aim of this study was to compare rates o...

    Authors: Tim Olds, Dorothea Dumuid, Emily Eglitis, Rebecca Golley, François Fraysse, Aaron Miatke, Grant R. Tomkinson, Amanda Watson, Mason Munzberg and Carol Maher
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2094
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  30. In the immediate aftermath of a 14-year civil conflict that disrupted the health system, Liberia adopted the internationally recommended integrated disease surveillance and response (IDSR) strategy in 2004. De...

    Authors: Tolbert G. Nyenswah, Laura Skrip, Mardia Stone, Jessica L. Schue, David H. Peters and William R. Brieger
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2093
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  31. The main aim of the study is to examine changes in the prevalence of obesity in Czech adolescents between 2018 and 2022 and its current non-genetic correlates with respect to the adolescents’ families’socioeco...

    Authors: Erik Sigmund, Dagmar Sigmundová, Jan Pavelka, Michal Kalman, Jaroslava Voráčová, Zdeněk Meier, Jaroslava Kopčáková and Petr Badura
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2092
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  32. Globally, HIV/AIDS is one of the diseases that have a huge burden in terms of cost and health of individuals; and Sub-Sahara Africa is the highly affected region by the pandemic. Tanzania is among the countrie...

    Authors: Habiel Benjamin Luvanda, Elevatus Nkebukwa Mukyanuzi and Rocky R. J. Akarro
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2091
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  33. South African women, including female sex workers (FSWs), are disproportionately affected by HIV, experience a high unmet need for contraception and high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Produc...

    Authors: Paballo Mataboge, Nqaba Mthimkhulu, Alison Kutywayo, Catherine E. Martin, Mbali Mazibuko, Khanyiswa Kwatsha, Nthabiseng Makalela, Elmari Briedenhann, Vusile Butler, Rutendo Bothma and Saiqa Mullick
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2090
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  34. Guided by Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the purpose of this study was to determine changes in the 16-week moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) trajectory of underserved adolescents who participated...

    Authors: Anqi Deng, Nicole Zarrett, Jongho Moon and Allison M. Sweeney
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2089
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  35. While benefiting from strong cultural ties to family, land and culture Native Americans residing on reservations experience psychological distress at rates 2.5 times that of the general population. Treatment u...

    Authors: Deborah H. Wilson, Danielle German, Adrian Ricker, Hilary Gourneau, Ginger C. Hanson, Justin Mayhew, Teresa N. Brockie and Michelle Sarche
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2088
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  36. The association between muscle defects and hypertension is well-established. However, the absence of pertinent and uncomplicated clinical indicators presents a challenge. Relative muscle strength (RMS) may off...

    Authors: Jin-hua Luo, Tu-ming Zhang, Lin-lin Yang, Yu-ying Cai and Yu Yang
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2087
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  37. COVID-19 resulted in enormous disruption to life around the world. To quell disease spread, governments implemented lockdowns that likely created hardships for households. To improve knowledge of consequences,...

    Authors: Jonathan A. Muir, Merga Dheresa, Zachary J. Madewell, Tamirat Getachew, Gamachis Daraje, Gezahegn Mengesha, Cynthia G. Whitney, Nega Assefa and Solveig A. Cunningham
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2086
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  38. The relationship between Mg (magnesium), Cu (copper), and K (potassium) intakes and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains limited. The aim of present study was to examine the associations between Mg, C...

    Authors: Jianguo Fang, Tingwei Cao, Cai Liu, Duojun Wang, Hui Zhang, Jinyu Tong and Zaijun Lin
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2085
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  39. Following the mass influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh in 2017, makeshift settlement camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf have been overburdened, leading to livelihood challenges for both Rohingya ...

    Authors: Sameen Nasar, A. S. M. Nadim, Saifa Raz, Abdul Jabbar, Muhammad Riaz Hossain, Bachera Aktar, M Shafiqur Rahman and Sabina Faiz Rashid
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2084
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  40. Living in hilly neighbourhoods can be associated with sedentary behaviour, but no study has compared sedentary behaviour and its associations with frailty, chronic diseases, and poor health between flat and hi...

    Authors: Nestor Asiamah, Simon Mawulorm Agyemang, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Hafiz T. A. Khan and Janvier Gasana
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2083
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  41. With millions of unscheduled patient contacts every year and increasing call outs clustered around the most deprived communities, it is clear the ambulance sector could have a role to play in improving populat...

    Authors: Suzanne Ablard, Elisha Miller, Steven Poulton, Anna Cantrell, Andrew Booth, Andrew Lee, Suzanne Mason and Fiona Bell
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2082
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  42. Anaemia persistently remains a grave public health challenge in most sub-Saharan African countries. Understanding the perspectives of young adults concerning the multi-factorial nature of anaemia may be an imp...

    Authors: Audrey Benfo, Francis Zumesew, Ebenezer Bugyei Akoto, Edward Ahiakwah, Belinda Baidoo, Nana Ama Frimpomaa Agyapong, Joseph Boachie and Patrick Adu
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2081
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  44. Adolescent hazardous alcohol use is prevalent and has serious short- and long-term consequences. The trial ‘Our Choice’ examines efficacy, feasibility and acceptability of prevention interventions targeting sc...

    Authors: Kristine Rømer Thomsen, Lotte Vallentin-Holbech, Synnøve Xylander, Kaare Bro Wellnitz, Janne Tolstrup, Anette Søgaard Nielsen and Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2079
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  45. Conflict is a complicated topic with a multidimensional consequences for community health. Its effects have a broad pattern, starting from direct war-related morbidity and mortality caused by bullets and bombs...

    Authors: Mulugeta Wodaje Arage, Henok Kumsa, Mulu Shiferaw Asfaw, Abebe Tarekegn Kassaw, Ephrem Mebratu Dagnew, Abayneh Tunta, Woldeteklehymanot Kassahun, Amanuel Addisu, Molla Yigzaw, Tilahun Hailu and Lebeza Alemu Tenaw
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2078
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  46. Depression is a common mental health problem all over the world including Bangladesh. World Health Organization included it in the Mental Health Gap Action Programme as one of its priority conditions. Research...

    Authors: Md. Abdul Wadood, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sheikh Md. Abu Hena Mostafa Alim, Md. Masud Rana and Md. Golam Hossain
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2077
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  47. Tracking the US smoking cessation rate over time is of great interest to tobacco control researchers and policymakers since smoking cessation behaviors have a major effect on the public’s health. Recent studie...

    Authors: Thuy T. T. Le, Kenneth E. Warner and David Mendez
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2076
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  49. Early sexual initiation refers to engaging in sexual activity at a young age, typically before the age of 18. Even though many studies have been conducted in Ethiopia, the result is inconsistent between studie...

    Authors: Natnael Kebede, Fekade Demeke Bayou, Fanos Yeshanew Ayele, Bereket Kefale, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Anteneh Mengist Dessie and Yawkal Tsega
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2072
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  50. Previous investigations have primarily examined the relationship between various dietary patterns and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, there have been limited studies that hav...

    Authors: Batoul Ghosn, Shokouh Onvani, Mohammad Emami Ardestani, Awat Feizi, Leila Azadbakht and Ahmad Esmaillzadeh
    Citation: BMC Public Health 2023 23:2071
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