publishedmedium:the lancet

’Radical rethink’ needed to tackle obesity, hunger, climate: Report - Channel NewsAsia
▻https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/lancet-report-obesity-hunger-climate-change-health-major-rethink-11

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“Underpinning all of these are weak political governance, the unchallenging economic pursuit of GDP growth, and the powerful commercial engineering of overconsumption,” the report said.

The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report - The Lancet
▻https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32822-8/abstract

#politique #décideurs #PIB #croissance #commerce #obésité #malnutrition #climat #syndémie

The Polluted Brain
▻http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/brain-pollution-evidence-builds-dirty-air-causes-alzheimer-s-dementia

The link between air pollution and dementia remains controversial—even its proponents warn that more research is needed to confirm a causal connection and work out just how the particles might enter the brain and make mischief there. But a growing number of epidemiological studies from around the world, new findings from animal models and human brain imaging studies, and increasingly sophisticated techniques for modeling #PM2.5 exposures have raised alarms. Indeed, in an 11-year epidemiological study to be published next week in Translational Psychiatry, USC researchers will report that living in places with PM2.5 exposures higher than the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) standard of 12 µg/m3 nearly doubled dementia risk in older women. If the finding holds up in the general population, air pollution could account for roughly 21% of dementia cases worldwide, says the study’s senior author, epidemiologist Jiu-Chiuan Chen of the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

Deepening the concerns, this month researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada reported in The Lancet that among 6.6 million people in the province of Ontario, those living within 50 meters of a major road—where levels of fine pollutants are often 10 times higher than just 150 meters away—were 12% more likely to develop dementia than people living more than 200 meters away.

#pollution #air #cerveau #démence #santé

Maternal deaths in childbirth rise in the U.S. - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maternal-deaths-in-childbirth-rise-in-the-us/2014/05/02/abf7df96-d229-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html

Maternal deaths related to childbirth in the United States are nearly at the highest rate in a quarter century, and a woman giving birth in America is now more likely to die than a woman giving birth in China, according to a new study.

The United States is one of just eight countries to see a rise in maternal mortality over the past decade, said researchers for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in a study published in The Lancet, a weekly medical journal. The others are Afghanistan, Greece, and several countries in Africa and Central America.

The researchers estimated that 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in the U.S. in 2013, a total of almost 800 deaths. That is more than double the maternal mortality rate in Saudi Arabia and Canada, and more than triple the rate in the United Kingdom.

Une partie de la hausse proviendrait de l’amélioration de l’enregistrement des décès… qui resteraient encore sous-déclarés !

The reasons for the rise in the maternal deaths in the U.S. are not entirely clear, but several factors seem to be in play.

One reason for the rise is an improvement in how maternal deaths are reported, though Kassebaum said the numbers are still likely underreported and mischaracterized in the codings included on death certificates.

Introducing The Lancet Global Health
▻http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(13)70039-1/fulltext

I am delighted to introduce the inaugural issue of The Lancet Global Health. It is very likely that you are reading this online, this being an online-only journal, although we have also printed this first issue in order to showcase the journal to readers of The Lancet. What is certain is that, in accessing this article, and all the other articles in this journal, you will have met with no registration barrier or #paywall, for this is also an #open-access journal—the first Lancet journal so-designated.

(il y a un flux rss, grâce auquel je vous donnerai de temps en temps des nouvelles de la #santé globale)

#recherche