Articles

Measuring the low-carbon energy transition in Chinese cities

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iScience, Volume 26, Issue 1, 20 January 2023, 105803

In this paper the authors show how the heterogeneity in cities means that individual cities need specific low-carbon roadmaps, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Energy; Climate change, Asia

UN's 2024 Summit of the Future

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UN's Summit of the Future 2024: Paving the Path for SDG Resources

The 75th anniversary of the UN, marked by global challenges like COVID-19, climate change, and tech advancements, inspired nations to rethink the course of our shared future. With the globe's interwoven destiny evident, nations rallied for a strengthened global governance system.

Purpose of the Summit

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SDG:

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 14: Life below water; Goal 15: Life on land; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 17: Partnership for the goals
Global

Iron metabolism: An emerging therapeutic target underlying the anti-Alzheimer's disease effect of ginseng

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Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, Volume 79, September 2023

The role of estrogen and ferroptosis in Alzheimer's disease is known. Ginseng has estrogen-like effects as well as a regulatory role in Alzheimer's disease and iron metabolism and this paper discusses for the frist time the link between ginseng, ferroptosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing; Health and population, Global

Potentially modifiable dementia risk factors in all Australians and within population groups: an analysis using cross-sectional survey data

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The Lancet. Public health, Volume 8, 1 September 2023

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by calculating the proportion of dementia in Australia attributable to 11 potentially modifiable risk factors. They found that 38% of dementia was attributable to these risk factors (increasing to 41% when a 12th risk factor, traumatic brain injury, was added). The authors note that these findings could help to guide culturally specific dementia risk reduction programmes.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Oceania

Balance performance measured by posturography in mild-moderate Alzheimer's Disease: An undervalued assessment

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Geriatric Nursing, Volume 53, 1 September 2023

This article underscores the need to screen early for balance issues and fall risk in patients with Alzheimer's, as these patients are more prone to falls. The end goal is to promote earlier screening so as to better improve their quality of life.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Global

Behavioural, genomics and proteomic approach to examine Alzheimer's disease in zebrafish

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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part - C: Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 271, September 2023

OKA is a potent neurotoxin and has a profound effect on cognitive dysfunction in Zebrafish. 4D and 10D OKA treated zebrafish show significant changes in gene expressions related to neuroinflammation. OKA exposed zebrafish display a substantial number of proteins that are involved in contributing to AD pathology. OKA-induced AD in zebrafish model can be used as a screening tool to explore further underlying possible mechanisms.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Prevalence of dementia among older age people and variation across different sociodemographic characteristics: a cross-sectional study in Bangladesh

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The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Available online 24 August 2023, 100257

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by estimating the prevalence of dementia in people aged 60 years and older in Bangladesh, finding an overall prevalence of 8%, and identifying positive associations between dementia prevalence and female sex, advanced age, and lower education levels.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Asia

Anxiety adds the risk of cognitive progression and is associated with axon/synapse degeneration among cognitively unimpaired older adults

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eBioMedicine, Volume 94, August 2023

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by identifying an independent relationship between anxiety and subsequent cognitive progression in older people without dementia; these findings suggest that treating anxiety and targeting mitochondrial dysfunction may be effective in preventing dementia.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Global

Safety, tolerability, immunogenicity, and efficacy of UB-311 in participants with mild Alzheimer's disease: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2a study

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eBioMedicine, Volume 94, August 2023

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by advancing our understanding of the possible role of active immunotherapy against amyloid-β in individuals with mild Alzheimer's disease; the findings of this phase 2a study support the continued clinical development of UB-311 as an active immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Asia

Antipsychotic drug prescribing and mortality in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study in Wales, UK

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The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 4, August 2023

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by showing that although there was an increase in prescribing of antipsychotics to people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic, this increase was not responsible for the large increase in all-cause and stroke mortality in this population.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Europe

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