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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 16, Issue 17

September-1 2019 - 221 articles

Cover Story: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic hepatopathy in Western countries. New evidence suggests that NAFLD has a multifaceted relationship with diabetes and metabolic syndrome and is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events, regardless of traditional risk factors. Systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, hepatic insulin resistance, oxidative stress, and altered lipid metabolism are some of the mechanisms by which NAFLD increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Given the pandemic-level rise of NAFLD—in parallel with the increasing prevalence of obesity and other components of the metabolic syndrome—we provided a critical review of the literature relevant to the clinical conundrum of NAFLD with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. View this paper
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Articles (221)

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,432 Views
10 Pages

Sleep is exceedingly important for our physical, physiological, psychological, and social health. Currently, few Koreans get the recommended daily amount of sleep. Stress can also have a major impact on our physiological, neurological, and mental hea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,236 Views
9 Pages

Presbyopia and Other Eye Conditions in Teachers in Ghana

  • Charles Koduah,
  • Catey Bunce and
  • Clare Gilbert

The aim of this paper is to assess the eye health needs of school teachers in the Asutifi districts of Ghana. Presenting distance visual acuity was measured in each eye. Those with visual acuity of <6/12 in one or both eyes had subjective refracti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,625 Views
12 Pages

In recent decades, the number of adolescents and young adults with poor mental health has been increasing, particularly among students in tertiary institutions. This study investigates the physical activities, resilience, and mental health status of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,279 Views
18 Pages

Certain components of global food security continue to be threatened. Globalization has impacted food patterns, leading to greater homogenization of diets and the standardization of processes of food transformation, both in the countryside and in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,936 Views
14 Pages

Secondary Traumatization, Psychological Stress, and Resilience in Psychosocial Emergency Care Personnel

  • Anja Greinacher,
  • Alexander Nikendei,
  • Renate Kottke,
  • Jürgen Wiesbeck,
  • Wolfgang Herzog and
  • Christoph Nikendei

Volunteers active in psychosocial emergency care offer psychological first aid to survivors of accidents and trauma, their relatives, eye witnesses, bystanders, and other first responders. So far, there are no studies that investigate the secondary a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
13,642 Views
14 Pages

Can Leadership Enhance Patient Satisfaction? Assessing the Role of Administrative and Medical Quality

  • Muhammad Asif,
  • Arif Jameel,
  • Noman Sahito,
  • Jinsoo Hwang,
  • Abid Hussain and
  • Faiza Manzoor

This paper aimed to investigate the relationships between participative leadership (PL), administrative quality (AQ), medical quality (MQ), and patient satisfaction (PS) using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Healthcare Criteria (MBNQA) cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,438 Views
16 Pages

Wastewater irrigation is widely practiced and may cause serious environmental problems. However, current knowledge on the effects of long-term irrigation with wastewater from different sources on the biouptake of trace metals (TMs) in the rhizosphere...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,977 Views
12 Pages

Adequate ehealth literacy is one of the key instruments safeguarding people against unreliable health-related information obtained from the Internet. This paper presents an assessment of the reliability and the validity of a Polish version of the ehe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,014 Views
13 Pages

The Hajj mass gathering attended by over two million Muslim pilgrims from around the world is a risk for heat-related illnesses (HRIs). We investigated the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of pilgrims attending the 2017 Hajj regarding HRIs and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,369 Views
14 Pages

Hip hop is a popular form of competitive and recreational sport worldwide, but studies rarely investigate injury prevalence and factors associated with injury occurrence in this sport. This study aimed to prospectively examine injury occurrence in hi...

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