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• Setting your clock: associations between timing of objective physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk in the general population; Study challenges “good” cholesterol’s role in universally predicting heart disease risk Lower levels of HDL cholesterol were associated with increased risks for heart attacks in white but not Black adults, and higher levels were not protective for either group; DASH diet reduces long-term risk of heart disease;
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• 💕; ;Modelling the dynamic relationship between spread of infection and observed crowd movement patterns at large scale events; Here's How a Virus Moves in a Crowd so You Can Avoid It; These scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office — through sewage. Researchers are hunting through waste water for heavily mutated SARS-CoV-2 variants that could be the next Omicron; CDC starts tracking BF.7: 5 notes on the subvariant; Binge drinking raises young women’s COVID-19 risk; Will there be a COVID winter wave? What scientists say. Emerging variants and waning immunity are likely to push infections higher in the northern hemisphere as influenza also makes a comeback; Here’s what might happen the second—or third—time you get Covid, experts say: ‘There’s no guarantee; From BQ.1.1 to XBB and beyond: How the splintering of Omicron variants could shape Covid’s next phase; Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows. Lower vaccination rates among Republicans could explain the partisan gap, but some researchers say mask use and social distancing were bigger factors; Three COVID Scenarios That Could Spell Trouble for the Fall; New section: XBB and BQ.1.1; BA.275.2; > Understanding Exposure Risks; "Pretty troublesome": New COVID variant BQ.1 now makes up 1 in 10 cases nationwide, CDC estimates; Vaccination Tied to Shorter COVID Illness, Less Viral Shedding - Study in health workers also affirms milder infections with vaccination during Delta and Omicron; Endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: an overview of evidence, biomarkers, mechanisms and potential therapies; Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2; Aerosols from speaking can linger in the air for up to nine hours; SARS-CoV-2 infection drives an inflammatory response in human adipose tissue through infection of adipocytes and macrophages; Why the 5-Day Isolation Period for COVID Makes No Sense; Prevalence of Positive Rapid Antigen Tests After 7-Day Isolation Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection in College Athletes During Omicron Variant Predominance; Duration of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infectivity: When Is It Safe to Discontinue Isolation?; Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity; COVID-19 Death Rates in Urban and Rural Areas: United States, 2020; COVID ‘variant soup’ is making winter surges hard to predict.Descendants of Omicron are proliferating worldwide — and the same mutations are coming up again and again; COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab. The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give the clearest view yet of a biocomplex in crisis; Biosecurity Incident in Wuhan; Senate HELP Committee Minority Oversight Staff Releases Interim Report Analyzing Origins of COVID-19 Pandemic; An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID19 Pandemic Interim Report Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions Minority Oversight Staff October 2022; Probable Aerosol Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through Floors and Walls of Quarantine Hotel, Taiwan, 2021; COVID Hospitalizations Spiked in Youngest Infants During Omicron - However, indicators of severe disease "consistently lower" versus Delta period; Chances of finding COVID-virus ancestor ‘almost nil’, say virologists. Genome analysis finds SARS-CoV-2 and bat coronaviruses shared an ancestor just a few years ago, but extensive recombination has muddied the picture; Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection; Who Is Dying from COVID Now, and Why Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID’s mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people; COVID-19 Data Review: Update on COVID-19–Related Mortality; You dirty rats! Researchers find COVID-19 in NYC sewer rodents; Are Repeat Coronavirus Infections Really More Dangerous Than the First? — No, but a recent study has been misinterpreted by some as saying that; Gradual emergence followed by exponential spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Africa;
Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends Report;Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now?; SARS-CoV-2 Serology and Self-Reported Infection Among Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, August 2021–May 2022;
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• 💕; Long COVID; New section: Protein Test; Blood test predicts which hospitalized COVID patients will get worse; Long Covid: What science has learned about the loss of smell and taste; Long COVID is still disabling millions of Americans; Transcriptomic profiling of cardiac tissues from SARS-CoV-2 patients identifies DNA damage; COVID Attacks DNA in Heart, Unlike Flu, Study Says; Relationship Between Preexisting Cardiovascular Disease and Death and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19; Adverse Childhood Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associations with Poor Mental Health and Suicidal Behaviors Among High School Students -Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January-June 2021; Outcomes among confirmed cases and a matched comparison group in the Long-COVID in Scotland study; Duration of Behavioral Policy Interventions and Incidence of COVID-19 by Social Vulnerability of US Counties, April–December 2020; Study Shows Benefits of COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters; Do Skin Manifestations of COVID-19 Differ by Variant Type?; COVID-19 ages organs, compilation of studies finds; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19 ― United States, January–July 2022; Myocarditis risk higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination, new study of 43 million patients confirms; New evidence that heart damage risk is much higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination; Small study links prior SARS-CoV-2 infection with coronary vasomotor dysfunction; Association between regular physical activity and the protective effect of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in a South African case–control study; ‘Inflammasome’ pathway links COVID and Parkinson’s; Lifting Universal Masking in Schools — Covid-19 Incidence among Students and Staff; Incidence of Epilepsy and Seizures Over the First 6 Months After a COVID-19 Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study; How infectious disease experts are responding to Covid nearly three years in; Effectiveness of Bivalent mRNA Vaccines in Preventing Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection - Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, September-November 2022; MakeMyTestCount.org; NIH establishes website for self-reporting COVID-19 test results; COVID-19 disrupts gut microbiome; Should We Bring Masks Back Into the Classroom?— Mask mandates can ease the burden on our healthcare system; Higher BMI a Risk Factor for Long COVID Symptoms — Female sex was another independent risk factor, U.K. study showed; Patients With COVID-19 More Likely to Experience New-Onset Diabetes;
• Any weight-loss strategy lowers risk for type 2 diabetes for adults with obesity; Type 2 diabetes risk lower for women with diabetes history, optimal risk factor levels; Gestational diabetes increases risks for CV, cerebrovascular diseases; Low-Carb Diet Helps Cut HbA1c in Prediabetes - Could be a useful approach for preventing, treating type 2 diabetes, says researcher; Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Dietary Intervention on Hemoglobin A1c. A Randomized Clinical Trial; Outdoor Lighting at Night Tied to Diabetes Prevalence - China study may have global implications for diabetes risk; Habitual coffee consumption and subsequent risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with a history of gestational diabetes – a prospective study; Type 2 Diabetes and Dietary Supplements: What the Science Says;
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• New section: D68; 4 things to know about enterovirus D68 ; New section - Chickenpox; U.S. Chickenpox Vaccine Program Led to Near Elimination of the Virus - Cases decreased by 99% in people under 20 after implementation of the two-dose vaccine; New section: Cholera; Cholera 101: Why this ancient disease is making headlines in 2022; WHO releases list of threatening fungi. The most dangerous might surprise you; Update on Ebola Virus Disease (Sudan ebolavirus) Outbreak in Central Uganda; New section: Bacterial Pathogens; Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019;Visualized: The Many Shapes of Bacteria;
• Evolutionary consequences of delaying intervention for monkeypox; Monkeypox Signs and Symptoms; Technical Report #3; 2022 Outbreak Cases & Data; 2022 Multi-National Monkeypox Outbreak - Technical Reports; Monkeypox eradication unlikely in the U.S. as virus could spread indefinitely, CDC says; Incidence of Monkeypox Among Unvaccinated Persons Compared with Persons Receiving ≥1 JYNNEOS Vaccine Dose - 32 U.S. Jurisdictions, July 31-September 3, 2022; The monkeypox virus is mutating. Are scientists worried? In some samples, large chunks of the virus’s genome have disappeared — but understanding whether the mutations affect its behaviour will be difficult; Human Monkeypox Virus Infection 2022: Part 3 — Treatment and Prevention; Monkeypox Virus Infection Resulting from an Occupational Needlestick — Florida, 2022; As monkeypox subsides, experts grapple with the possibility of long-term consequences; Ocular Monkeypox — United States, July–September 2022; Harm reduction and rights-based approaches to reduce monkeypox transmission among sex workers; Severe Monkeypox in Hospitalized Patients — United States, August 10–October 10, 2022; New section: Respiratory Syncytial Virus; What Is RSV? 5 Questions About Respiratory Syncytial Virus Answered; Wastewater Testing and Detection of Poliovirus Type 2 Genetically Linked to Virus Isolated from a Paralytic Polio Case — New York, March 9–October 11, 2022; One of the World's Biggest Killers Is on the Rise Again; More Evidence of Monkeypox Spread Before Symptoms Appear - Pre-symptomatic transmission has implications for infection control, experts say; RSV References & Resources; Update on Managing Monkeypox in Patients Receiving Therapeutics; An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us; Monkeypox Toolkit for People Who Work in Sex Trades or Conduct Outreach to Sex Workers; WHO Issues New Name for Monkeypox - New name reflects current virus naming convention guidelines to reduce stigma, racism; Which Respiratory Virus Do I Have? — There's a range of possibilities, and it's not easy to tell them apart;
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• Any weight-loss strategy lowers risk for type 2 diabetes for adults with obesity; New research points to health benefits of eating earlier in the day and within a 10-hour window. Two studies suggest that there are optimal times of day for eating and fasting; How diet may disrupt gut microbes to promote weight gain; Phthalate exposure linked to lower SHBG, higher risk for obesity in women; Small boosts to physical activity can prevent, reverse obesity; Don't Skip Exercise in Lifestyle Interventions for Kids With Obesity -Adding exercise to behavioral and diet interventions made bigger dent in fat loss; Adiposity in the older population and the risk of dementia: The Rotterdam Study; Obesity Linked to Brain Abnormalities in Kids — It remains unclear whether losing weight would reverse these changes;
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• Vaping Prevention and Education: Resources for Talking With Students is a robust collection of science-based, standards-mapped classroom resources; E-cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2022; E-cigarette Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2022; Health effects associated with smoking: a Burden of Proof study (Supplementary Information); Impact of Vaping Prevention Advertisements on US Adolescents. A Randomized Clinical Trial; How To Quit Vaping. Quitting vaping may not come easily, but it’s important to give yourself grace and patience; NIH-funded studies show damaging effects of vaping, smoking on blood vessels. Combining e-cigarettes with regular cigarettes may increase health risks; E-cigarettes linked with blood vessel damage; Gen Vape: How Clinicians Can Help Their Young Patients Quit; Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2022; Results from the Annual National Youth Tobacco Survey; Real-Time Digital Surveillance of Vaping-Induced Pulmonary Disease;
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