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Code Red for Health response in Latin America and the Caribbean: Enhancing peoples' health through climate action

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 11, July 2022
A Viewpoint on the interplay between social, climate, and health challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean, in the context of SDGs 3, 10, and 13, highlighting the need to address these challenges with adaption and mitigation policies that prioritise people's health and wellbeing.
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Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases - Chapter 1: Effect of plant extracts against Alzheimer’s disease

Plant Extracts in Neurodegenerative Diseases, 2022, Pages 1-15
This book chapter advances SDG #3 and #10 by focusing on polyphenols and flavonoids and their crucial role in decreasing AD symptoms. In addition, it highlights the neuroprotective role of various essential ingredients of plant extracts such as Icariside, Onjisaponin B, Asarones, Liquiritin, Tanshinone IIA (TIIA) and cryptotanshinone (CT), Ginsenoside Rg1, and n-Butylidenephthalide. The efficacy of green nanotechnology are also discussed.
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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Europe; Global; Middle East; North America; Oceania; Pacific; South America

United States and United Nations pesticide policies: Environmental violence against the Yaqui indigenous nation

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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 10, June 2022
A Health Policy paper on the health impacts of banned pesticides in the Yaqui population in Mexico, in the context of SDGs 3, 10, and 12, highlighting recommendations for system-level solutions and policy change to current US, UN, and global laws.
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Chemicals and waste; Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing; Sustainable consumption and production, South America

Meat substitutes - past, present, and future of products available in Brazil: changes in the nutritional profile

Elsevier, Future Foods, Volume 5, June 2022
Plant-based meat substitutes are products used to replace meat in the human diet. These products have developed from traditional whole-grain meat substitutes to products based on an advanced technology called 2nd generation meat substitutes. Increased market visibility of 2nd generation products raised questions about the products´ healthiness once they are classified by NOVA as ultra-processed, are allegedly high in salt and saturated fat, and might not be nutritionally equivalent to meat.
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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, South America

Unconventional food plants: Nutritional aspects and perspectives for industrial applications

Elsevier,

Future Foods, Volume 5, June 2022
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Innovative food products containing new ingredients have been designed to meet nutritional needs and new consumption trends. In this way, different vegetable species, named unconventional food plants (UFPs), are being studied in the literature and are emerging as candidates to provide foods containing a better composition, providing greater healthiness. Furthermore, specific vegetable tissues discarded in post-harvest and/or industrial pre-processing operations can be considered UFPs adequate for human consumption.

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Economic Aspect, South America

Imperiled - The Jaguar: Hope for a Brighter Future in the Americas

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Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, 2022, pp 113-120
This chapter aligns with Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Goal 15: Life on Land by giving a review of the jaguar species, including their ecology, behavior, threats, and conservation status, highlighting recent initiatives to conserve jaguars.
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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Forests, South America

Exercise to Prevent and Manage Chronic Disease Across the Lifespan - Chapter 31: Exercise and Alzheimer’s disease

Exercise to Prevent and Manage Chronic Disease Across the Lifespan, 2022, Pages 413-421
This book chapter advances SDG #3 and #10 by outlining the pathophysiology associated with Alzheimer’s disease and provide an overview of the impact of exercise programs on cognition, physical functional abilities, behavioral, and psychological symptoms and quality of life.
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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Europe; Global; Middle East; North America; Oceania; Pacific; South America

Neurobiology of Brain Disorders - Chapter 19: Alzheimer diseases

Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition), Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, 2022, Pages 313-336
This book chapter advances SDG #3 and #10 by reviewing several key topics that influence our understanding of pathogenic mechanisms and lead to the identification of novel therapeutic strategies. These include the diagnostic spectrum of MCI and AD, genetic risk alleles associated with late-onset AD, structures of gamma-secretase and tau, imaging and fluid biomarkers, the role of microglia and neuroinflammation, and novel animal models of AD.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome by SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Other Etiologic Agents Among Brazilian Indigenous Population: An Observational Study from the First Year of Coronavirus Disease (COVID)-19 Pandemic

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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 8, April 2022
An Article on the vulnerability of Indigenous populations to pandemics, in the context of SDGs 3 and 10, focusing specifically on the clinical characteristics and outcomes following COVID-19 in Indigenous Brazilian individuals.
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Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, South America

Prevalence of hepatitis C in the adult Mexican population: National Survey of Health and Nutrition 2018

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 8, April 2022
Background: Hepatitis C is a preventable and treatable disease that has been declared a public health problem. In 2012, the prevalence of HCV serum anti-bodies in the Mexican adult population aged 20 to 49 years was 0·30%. Methods: We randomly selected a probabilistic sub-sample of 12,389 adults (20+ years) from adults participating in the National Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT) 2018 who provided a venous blood sample. Anti-HCV antibodies and HCV RNA were determined for this sub-sample.
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