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In recent decades in high industrialised countries the occupational risks and energy costs of labour have decreased while the subjective nutritional and metabolic risk of workers has increased because they often follow an incorrect lifestyle. This article addresses the multidisciplinary assessment and management of these risks in order to define a Nutrient Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point at Work (NACCPW), specifically dedicated to proper nutrition, which workers must take over before or during the work schedule. It describes the various steps that the professionals concerned will need to develop to define the work-related and subjective metabolic and nutritional critical points and their corrective actions. NACCPW allows to balance work-related metabolic risk with subjective nutritional risk of workers and gives indications to reduce both. The further improvement in working conditions and lifestyle, with a focus on the nutrition of workers, will help to prevent cardio-vascular, metabolic and cancer diseases still very common in Western countries. The effectiveness of NACCPW is ensured by the possibility of including it in periodic health surveillance, which is required by law, for the entire working life.This study investigated prevalence and factors associated with prenatal smoking among US women veterans using cross-sectional data from a cohort study of veterans from recent wars utilizing Veterans Health Administration primary care (N = 6190). Among the participants, 747 (12.0%) were current smokers and 1039 (16.8%) were former smokers. PCI32765 Multivariable logistic regression indicated that White race, substance use disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder were associated with increased likelihood of smoking during pregnancy. Conversely, being married and officer rank were associated with decreased likelihood of prenatal smoking. Findings suggest a need for empirical testing of interventions to address perinatal smoking, substance use, and mental health.RATIONALE Emerging evidence supports a crucial role for tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) progression. However, mechanisms of immune cell activation leading to TLO in COPD remain to be defined. OBJECTIVES To examine the role of lung dendritic cells (DC) in T follicular helper (Tfh)-cell induction, a T-cell subset critically implicated in lymphoid organ formation, in COPD. METHODS Myeloid cell heterogeneity and phenotype was studied in an unbiased manner via single-cell RNA sequencing on HLA-DR+ cells sorted from human lungs. The in vitro capability of FACS-sorted DC-subsets of control and COPD lungs to polarize IL-21+CXCL13+ Tfh-like cells was measured. In situ imaging analysis was performed on COPD stage IV GOLD lungs with TLO. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS ScRNAseq analysis revealed a high level of heterogeneity among human lung myeloid cells. Among these, cDC2 showed increased induction of IL-21+CXCL13+ Tfh-like cells. Importantly, the capacity to induce IL-21+ Tfh-like cells was higher in cDC2s from COPD patients compared with control patients. Increased Tfh-induction by COPD cDC2 correlated with increased presence of Tfh-like cells in COPD lungs as compared to controls, and cDC2 co-localized with Tfh-like cells in TLOs of COPD. Mechanistically, cDC2 exhibited a unique migratory signature and (transcriptional) expression of several pathways and genes related to DC-induced Tfh-priming. Importantly, blocking the co-stimulatory OX40L-OX40 axis reduced Tfh-induction by control lung cDC2. CONCLUSIONS In COPD lung, we found lung EBI2+ OX-40L-expressing cDC2 that induces IL-21+ Tfh-like cells, suggesting an involvement of these cells in TLO formation.Aim Most studies on parenting children with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities have focused on stress and coping; however, research has shown many rewards in parenting such children. Additionally, most research has assessed mothers' rather than fathers' perspectives. To take steps toward filling these literature gaps, we asked fathers of children with Down syndrome about their parenting experiences.Methods Participants were 175 fathers of children with Down syndrome. Open-ended questions asked fathers what they found most rewarding and challenging about parenting a child with Down syndrome. Researchers coded responses using inductive content analysis.Results Key themes for rewards included (1) Child's Positive Attributes and Behaviors; (2) Rewarding Father-Child Relationship; (3) Child Has Positively Changed Father; and (4) Father's Positive Relationship with Others. Key themes for challenges included (1) Father's Thoughts, Emotions, and Behaviors; (2) Child's Challenging Behavior and Development; (3) System and Institutional Problems; and (4) Other People's Negative Attitudes/Behaviors.Conclusions Rewards mainly concerned the father-child bond and the loving, happy child. Fathers rarely mentioned financial stressors or their children's negative behaviors. Instead, many fathers reported children's speech problems. Our findings may assist healthcare professionals in providing more beneficial resources and interventions (especially language-related ones) to families with a child with Down syndrome.Implications for rehabilitationConsistent with a positive psychology approach, fathers reported more rewards than challenges in raising a child with Down syndrome.There may be a need for greater involvement of fathers in language interventions for children with Down syndrome.Healthcare professionals can assist parents of children with Down syndrome in recognizing parenting rewards.Objective Texting while driving (TWD) is considered a particularly hazardous form of distracted driving. It is highly prevalent among young drivers, but fewer studies of TWD among adult drivers exist and these prevalence rates may approach those of younger drivers. The effectiveness of measures to prevent distracted driving, and TWD specifically, is unclear. On September 1, 2015, Ontario introduced increased penalties for distracted driving accompanied by public education programs to increase public awareness of the new regulations. Provincial police also introduced enhanced enforcement efforts. The current study examined self-reported TWD in a representative sample of Ontario adults before and after introduction of the new legislation and the enhanced public education and enforcement efforts.Methods Data were based on telephone interviews with 1,846 respondents who reported having driven in the past year. Data were derived from the 2015-2016 cycles of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Monitor, an ongoing cross-sectional telephone survey of adults aged 18+ years in Ontario, Canada.
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