J. Josh Snodgrass

TL;DR: The baseline information on the magnitude of the problem of risk factors provided by this study can help countries and health policymakers to set up interventions addressing the global non-communicable disease epidemic.

TL;DR: The devastating effects of colonization, the loss of ancestral land, and language and cultural barriers for access to health care are among the most salient themes characterizing the poor health situation of indigenous people.

TL;DR: Positive correlations between cognitive scores and sleep quality, and between cognitive z-scores and intermediate sleep duration are documented, clinically important given the growing rates of dementia and aging populations globally.

TL;DR: It is shown that diverse, low-level immune activity predicts reduced childhood growth over periods of competing energy use ranging from 1 wk to 20 mo, and that modest body fat stores protect children from the particularly detrimental impact of acute inflammation on growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the prevalence of edentulism and associated factors among older adults in a cross-sectional study across six such countries, including China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russian Federation and South Africa.