SDG 3:
GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

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Predictors of optimal cognitive aging in 80+ women: The women’s health initiative memory study

By: Goveas J.S., Rapp S.R., Hogan P.E., Driscoll I., Tindle H.A., Smith J.C., Kesler S.R., Zaslavsky O., Rossom R.C., Ockene J.K., Yaffe K., Manson J.E., Resnick S.M., Espeland M.A.
Published in: Journals of Gerontology – Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background. Independent predictors of preserved cognitive functioning and factors associated with maintaining high prese (more…)

Adolescent weight and height are predictors of specific non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes among a cohort of 2,352,988 individuals aged 16 to 19 years

By: Leiba M., Leiba A., Keinan-Boker L., Avigdor A., Derazne E., Levine H., Kark J.D.
Published in: Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND The age-adjusted annual incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has risen worldwide. This trend may be affect (more…)

Dependent and autonomous interpersonal styles and level of differentiation among male patients with eating disorders

By: Rothschild-Yakar L., Bashan-Levi Y., Gur E., Vorgaft I., Stein D.
Published in: Psychoanalytic Psychology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study examined whether difficulties in maintaining a balance between the personality variables of relatedness (depe (more…)

‘As long as it’s good’: An intergenerational family perspective of bridging gaps between reality and ideality of second couplehood as a problem and as a solution

By: Koren C., Simhi S.
Published in: Ageing and Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Second couplehood in old age following widowhood or divorce is a phenomenon developing with the increase in life expecta (more…)

Nonmedical information seeking amid conflicting health information: negative and positive effects on prostate cancer screening

By: Gibson L., Tan A.S.L., Freres D., Lewis N., Martinez L., Hornik R.C.
Published in: Health Communication
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study investigates the impact of seeking information about the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test on men’s PSA te (more…)

Assessing the effects of reported torture in the Israeli-Palestinian context: A struggle for psycho-political thirdness

By: Mukamel M.
Published in: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: A group of Israeli and Palestinian physicians and mental health professionals was trained to assess the physical and psy (more…)

Featured Article: Inhibition of diabetic cataract by glucose tolerance factor extracted from yeast

By: Mirsky N., Cohen R., Eliaz A., Dovrat A.
Published in: Experimental Biology and Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Diabetes leads to many complications; among them is the development of cataract. Hyperglycemia brings to increased polyo (more…)

The Role of Ephs and Ephrins in Memory Formation

By: Dines M., Lamprecht R.
Published in: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The ability to efficiently store memories in the brain is a fundamental process and its impairment is associated with mu (more…)

Identification of Risk Factors for Mortality and Poor-Quality-of-Life Survival in Frail Older Women Participating in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study

By: Zaslavsky O., Woods N.F., LaCroix A.Z., Cauley J.A., Johnson K.C., Cochrane B.B., Sagi S.Z.
Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives To identify potentially modifiable factors associated with overall and poor-quality-of-life (QoL) survival in (more…)

Behavioral profiling as a translational approach in an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder

By: Ardi Z., Albrecht A., Richter-Levin A., Saha R., Richter-Levin G.
Published in: Neurobiology of Disease
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in humans is based on comparing individuals to the normal population. However, many a (more…)

Fatalism, Diabetes Management Outcomes, and the Role of Religiosity

By: Berardi V., Bellettiere J., Nativ O., Ladislav S., Hovell M.F., Baron-Epel O.
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study aimed to determine whether fatalistic beliefs were associated with elevated levels of glycated hemoglobin (Hb (more…)

Scapular muscle activity in a variety of plyometric exercises

By: Maenhout A., Benzoor M., Werin M., Cools A.
Published in: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Plyometric shoulder exercises are commonly used to progress from slow analytical strength training to more d (more…)

Complications and safety of preconception low-dose aspirin among women with prior pregnancy losses

By: Ahrens K.A., Silver R.M., Mumford S.L., Sjaarda L.A., Perkins N.J., Wactawski-Wende J., Galai N., Townsend J.M., Lynch A.M., Lesher L.L., Faraggi D., Zarek S., Schisterman E.F.
Published in: Obstetrics and Gynecology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: OBJECTIVE: To evaluate complications and safety of preconception low-dose aspirin in 1,228 U.S. women (2007-2011). METHO (more…)

Factors Associated With Preferences for Institutionalized Care in Elderly Persons: Comparing Hypothetical Conditions of Permanent Disability and Alzheimer’s Disease

By: Werner P., Segel-Karpas D.
Published in: Journal of Applied Gerontology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: To study the willingness to use institutional care versus home care in hypothetical situations of permanent d (more…)

RNA Recombination Enhances Adaptability and Is Required for Virus Spread and Virulence

By: Xiao Y., Rouzine I.M., Bianco S., Acevedo A., Goldstein E.F., Farkov M., Brodsky L., Andino R.
Published in: Cell Host and Microbe
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Mutation and recombination are central processes driving microbial evolution. A high mutation rate fuels adaptation but (more…)

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

By: Di Cesare M., Bentham J., Stevens G.A., Zhou B., Danaei G., Lu Y., Bixby H., Cowan M.J., Riley L.M., Hajifathalian K., Fortunato L., Taddei C., Bennett J.E., Ikeda N., Khang Y.-H., Kyobutungi C., Laxmaiah A., Li Y., Lin H.-H., Miranda J.J., Mostafa A., Turley M.L., Paciorek C.J., Gunter M., Ezzati M., Abdeen Z.A., Hamid Z.A., Abu-Rmeileh N.M., Acosta-Cazares B., Adams R., Aekplakorn W., Aguilar-Salinas C.A., Ahmadvand A., Ahrens W., Ali M.M., Alkerwi A., Alvarez-Pedrerol M., Aly E., Amouyel P., Amuzu A., Andersen L.B., Anderssen S.A., Andrade D.S., Anjana R.M., Aounallah-Skhiri H., Ariansen I., Aris T., Arlappa N., Arveiler D., Assah F.K., Avdicová M., Azizi F., Babu B.V., Balakrishna N., Bandosz P., Banegas J.R., Barbagallo C.M., Barceló A., Barkat A., Barros M.V., Bata I., Batieha A.M., Batista R.L., Baur L.A., Beaglehole R., Romdhane H.B., Benet M., Bernabe-Ortiz A., Bernotiene G., Bettiol H., Bhagyalaxmi A., Bharadwaj S., Bhargava S.K., Bhatti Z., Bhutta Z.A., Bi H., Bi Y., Bjerregaard P., Bjertness E., Bjertness M.B., Björkelund C., Blake M., Blokstra A., Bo S., Bobak M., Boddy L.M., Boehm B.O., Boeing H., Boissonnet C.P., Bongard V., Bovet P., Braeckman L., Bragt M.C.E., Brajkovich I., Branca F., Breckenkamp J., Brenner H., Brewster L.M., Brian G.R., Bruno G., Bueno-De-Mesquita H.B., Bugge A., Burns C., De León A.C., Cacciottolo J., Cama T., Cameron C., Camolas J., Can G., Cândido A.P.C., Capuano V., Cardoso V.C., Carvalho M.J., Casanueva F.F., Casas J.-P., Caserta C.A., Castetbon K., Chamukuttan S., Chan A.W., Chan Q., Chaturvedi H.K., Chaturvedi N., Chen C.-J., Chen F., Chen H., Chen S., Chen Z., Cheng C.-Y., Chetrit A., Chiolero A., Chiou S.-T., Chirita-Emandi A., Cho Y., Christensen K., Chudek J., Cifkova R., Claessens F., Clays E., Concin H., Cooper C., Cooper R., Coppinger T.C., Costanzo S., Cottel D., Cowell C., Craig C.L., Crujeiras A.B., D’Arrigo G., D’Orsi E., Dallongeville J., Damasceno A., Damsgaard C.T., Dankner R., Dauchet L., De Backer G., De Bacquer D., De Gaetano G., De Henauw S., De Smedt D., Deepa M., Deev A.D., Dehghan A., Delisle H., Delpeuch F., Dhana K., Di Castelnuovo A.F., Dias-Da-Costa J.S., Diaz A., Djalalinia S., Do H.T.P., Dobson A.J., Donfrancesco C., Döring A., Doua K., Drygas W., Egbagbe E.E., Eggertsen R., Ekelund U., El Ati J., Elliott P., Engle-Stone R., Erasmus R.T., Erem C., Eriksen L., De La Peña J.E., Evans A., Faeh D., Fall C.H., Farzadfar F., Felix-Redondo F.J., Ferguson T.S., Fernández-Bergés D., Ferrante D., Ferrari M., Ferreccio C., Ferrieres J., Finn J.D., Fischer K., Flores E.M., Föger B., Foo L.H., Forslund A.-S., Fortmann S.P., Fouad H.M., Francis D.K., Do Carmo Franco M., Franco O.H., Frontera G., Fuchs F.D., Fuchs S.C., Fujita Y., Furusawa T., Gaciong Z., Gafencu M., Gareta D., Garnett S.P., Gaspoz J.-M., Gasull M., Gates L., Geleijnse J.M., Ghasemian A., Giampaoli S., Gianfagna F., Giovannelli J., Giwercman A., Goldsmith R.A., Gross M.G., Rivas J.P.G., Gorbea M.B., Gottrand F., Graff-Iversen S., Grafnetter D., Grajda A., Grammatikopoulou M.G., Gregor R.D., Grodzicki T., Grøntved A., Gruden G., Grujic V., Gu D., Guan O.P., Gudnason V., Guerrero R., Guessous I., Guimaraes A.L., Gulliford M.C., Gunnlaugsdottir J., Guo X.H., Guo Y., Gupta P.C., Gureje O., Gurzkowska B., Gutierrez L., Gutzwiller F., Halkjær J., Hardy R., Kumar R.H., Hayes A.J., He J., Hendriks M.E., Cadena L.H., Heshmat R., Hihtaniemi I.T., Ho S.Y., Ho S.C., Hobbs M., Hofman A., Hormiga C.M., Horta B.L., Houti L., Htay T.T., Htet A.S., Htike M.M.T., Hu Y., Hussieni A.S., Huu C.N., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N., Iacoviello L., Iannone A.G., Ibrahim M.M., Ikram M.A., Irazola V.E., Islam M., Iwasaki M., Jackson R.T., Jacobs J.M., Jafar T., Jamil K.M., Jamrozik K., Jasienska G., Jiang C.Q., Joffres M., Johansson M., Jonas J.B., Jørgensen T., Joshi P., Juolevi A., Jurak G., Jureša V., Kaaks R., Kafatos A., Kalter-Leibovici O., Kapantais E., Kasaeian A., Katz J., Kaur P., Kavousi M., Keil U., Boker L.K., Kelishadi R., Kemper H.H.C.G., Kengne A.P., Kersting M., Key T., Khader Y.S., Khalili D., Khaw K.-T.H., Khouw I.M.S.L., Kiechl S., Killewo J., Kim J., Kiyohara Y., Klimont J., Kolle E., Kolsteren P., Korrovits P., Koskinen S., Kouda K., Koziel S., Kratzer W., Krokstad S., Kromhout D., Kruger H.S., Kula K., Kulaga Z., Kumar R.K., Kusuma Y.S., Kuulasmaa K., Laamiri F.Z., Laatikainen T., Lachat C., Laid Y., Lam T.H., Landrove O., Lanska V., Lappas G., Laugsand L.E., Le Nguyen Bao K., Le T.D., Leclercq C., Lee J., Lee J., Lehtimäki T., Rampal L., León-Munoz L.M., Lim W.-Y., Lima-Costa M.F., Lin X., Linneberg A., Lissner L., Litwin M., Liu J., Lorbeer R., Lotufo P.A., Lozano J.E., Luksiene D., Lundqvist A., Lunet N., Lytsy P., Ma G., Machi S., Maggi S., Magliano D.J., Makdisse M., Malekzadeh R., Malhotra R., Rao K.M., Manios Y., Mann J.I., Manzato E., Margozzini P., Markey O., Marques-Vidal P., Marrugat J., Martin-Prevel Y., Martorell R., Masoodi S.R., Matsha T.E., Mazur A., Mbanya J.C.N., McFarlane S.R., McGarvey S.T., McKee M., McLachlan S., McLean R.M., McNulty B.A., Md Yusof S., Mediene-Benchekor S., Meirhaeghe A., Meisinger C., Mendes L.L., Menezes A.M.B., Mensink G.B.M., Meshram I.I., Metspalu A., Mi J., Michaelsen K.F., Mikkel K., Miller J.C., Miquel J.F., Mišigoj-Duraković M., Mohamed M.K., Mohammad K., Mohammadifard N., Mohan V., Yusoff M.F.M., Molbo D., Møller N.C., Molnár D., Mondo C.K., Monterrubio E.A., Monyeki K.D.K., Moreira L.B., Morejon A., Moreno L.A., Morgan K., Mortensen E.L., Moschonis G., Mossakowska M., Mota J., Motlagh M.E., Motta J., Mu T.T., Muiesan M.L., Müller-Nurasyid M., Murphy N., Mursu J., Murtagh E.M., Musa K.I., Musil V., Nagel G., Nakamura H., Námešná J., Nang E.E.K., Nangia V.B., Nankap M., Narake S., Navarrete-Muñoz E.M., Nenko I., Neovius M., Nervi F., Neuhauser H.K., Nguyen N.D., Nguyen Q.N., Nieto-Martínez R.E., Ning G., Ninomiya T., Nishtar S., Noale M., Norat T., Noto D., Al Nsour M., O’Reilly D., Ochoa-Avilés A.M., Oh K., Olayan I.H., Olinto M.T.A., Oltarzewski M., Omar M.A., Onat A., Ordunez P., Ortiz A.P., Osler M., Osmond C., Ostojic S.M., Otero J.A., Overvad K., Paccaud F.M., Padez C., Pajak A., Palli D., Palloni A., Palmieri L., Panda-Jonas S., Panza F., Parnell W.R., Parsaeian M., Pednekar M.S., Peeters P.H., Peixoto S.V., Pereira A.C., Pérez C.M., Peters A., Peykari N., Pham S.T., Pigeot I., Pikhart H., Pilav A., Pilotto L., Pistelli F., Pitakaka F., Piwonska A., Piwonski J., Plans-Rubió P., Poh B.K., Porta M., Portegies M.L.P., Poulimeneas D., Pradeepa R., Prashant M., Price J.F., Puiu M., Punab M., Qasrawi R.F., Qorbani M., Bao T.Q., Radic I., Radisauskas R., Rahman M., Raitakari O., Raj M., Rao S.R., Ramachandran A., Ramke J., Ramos R., Rampal S., Rasmussen F., Redon J., Reganit P.F.M., Ribeiro R., Riboli E., Rigo F., De Wit T.F.R., Ritti-Dias R.M., Rivera J.A., Robinson S.M., Robitaille C., Rodríguez-Artalejo F., Del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez M., Rodríguez-Villamizar L.A., Rojas-Martinez R., Rojroongwasinkul N., Romaguera D., Ronkainen K., Rosengren A., Rouse I., Rubinstein A., Rühli F.J., Rui O., Ruiz-Betancourt B.S., Horimoto A.R.V.R., Rutkowski M., Sabanayagam C., Sachdev H.S., Saidi O., Salanave B., Martinez E.S., Salomaa V., Salonen J.T., Salvetti M., Sánchez-Abanto J., Sandjaja, Sans S., Santos D.A., Santos O., Dos Santos R.N., Santos R., Sardinha L.B., Sarrafzadegan N., Saum K.-U., Savva S.C., Scazufca M., Rosario A.S., Schargrodsky H., Schienkiewitz A., Schmidt I.M., Schneider I.J., Schultsz C., Schutte A.E., Sein A.A., Sen A., Senbanjo I.O., Sepanlou S.G., Shalnova S.A., Shaw J.E., Shibuya K., Shin Y., Shiri R., Siantar R., Sibai A.M., Silva A.M., Silva D.A.S., Simon M., Simons J., Simons L.A., Sjostrom M., Slowikowska-Hilczer J., Slusarczyk P., Smeeth L., Smith M.C., Snijder M.B., So H.-K., Sobngwi E., Söderberg S., Soekatri M.Y.E., Solfrizzi V., Sonestedt E., Sørensen T.I.A., Sorić M., Jérome C.S., Soumare A., Staessen J.A., Starc G., Stathopoulou M.G., Staub K., Stavreski B., Steene-Johannessen J., Stehle P., Stein A.D., Stergiou G.S., Stessman J., Stieber J., Stöckl D., Stocks T., Stokwiszewski J., Stratton G., Strufaldi M.W., Sun C.-A., Sundström J., Sung Y.-T., Sunyer J., Suriyawongpaisal P., Swinburn B.A., Sy R.G., Szponar L., Tai E.S., Tammesoo M.-L., Tamosiunas A., Tang L., Tang X., Tanser F., Tao Y., Tarawneh M., Tarp J., Tarqui-Mamani C.B., Taylor A., Tchibindat F., Thijs L., Thuesen B.H., Tjonneland A., Tolonen H.K., Tolstrup J.S., Topbas M., Topór-Madry R., Torrent M., Traissac P., Trichopoulou A., Trichopoulos D., Trinh O.T.H., Trivedi A., Tshepo L., Tulloch-Reid M.K., Tuomainen T.-P., Tuomilehto J., Tynelius P., Tzotzas T., Tzourio C., Ueda P., Ukoli F.A.M., Ulmer H., Unal B., Valdivia G., Vale S., Valvi D., Van Der Schouw Y.T., Van Herck K., Van Minh H., Van Valkengoed I.G.M., Vanderschueren D., Vanuzzo D., Vatten L., Vega T., Velasquez-Melendez G., Veronesi G., Monique Verschuren W.M., Viegi G., Viet L., Viikari-Juntura E., Vineis P., Vioque J., Virtanen J.K., Visvikis-Siest S., Viswanathan B., Vollenweider P., Voutilainen S., Vrijheid M., Wade A.N., Wagner A., Walton J., Mohamud W.N.W., Wang M.-D., Wang Q., Wang Y.X., Wannamethee S.G., Wareham N., Weerasekera D., Whincup P.H., Widhalm K., Widyahening I.S., Wiecek A., Wilks R.J., Willeit J., Wojtyniak B., Wong J.E., Wong T.Y., Woo J., Woodward M., Wu F.C., Wu J., Wu S.L., Xu H., Xu L., Yamborisut U., Yan W., Yang X., Yardim N., Ye X., Yiallouros P.K., Yoshihara A., You Q.S., Younger-Coleman N.O., Yusoff A.F., Zainuddin A.A., Zambon S., Zdrojewski T., Zeng Y., Zhao D., Zhao W., Zheng Y., Zhou M., Zhu D., Zimmermann E., Cisneros J.Z., NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
Published in: The Lancet
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcome (more…)

The connection between illness representations of Alzheimer’s disease and burnout among social workers and nurses in nursing homes and hospitals: a mixed-methods investigation

By: Shinan-Altman S., Werner P., Cohen M.
Published in: Aging and Mental Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: To examine the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) illness representations and burnout among social (more…)

A novel approach to PTSD modeling in rats reveals alternating patterns of limbic activity in different types of stress reaction

By: Ritov G., Boltyansky B., Richter-Levin G.
Published in: Molecular Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Human reactions to trauma exposure are extremely diverse, with some individuals exhibiting only time-limited distress an (more…)

The immediate effect of dry needling on multifidus muscles’ function in healthy individuals

By: Dar G., Hicks G.E.
Published in: Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: Dry needling of muscles is mainly used for the management of pain in musculoskeletal disorders. Yet, the ass (more…)

Antiatherosclerotic effects of licorice extract supplementation on hypercholesterolemic patients: Decreased CIMT, reduced plasma lipid levels, and decreased blood pressure

By: Fogelman Y., Gaitini D., Carmeli E.
Published in: Food and Nutrition Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Ethanolic extract of licorice root has been shown to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation in ather (more…)