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Objective: To explore the relationship between environmental and personal factors and health behavior in patients with stroke through pathway analysis.
Methods: A path analysis was performed to consider the relationships between social support, healthcare payment, residence, self-regulatory fatigue (SRF), and health literacy (HL) and health behavior.
Results: Social support and residence were directly and indirectly associated with health behavior through the SRF and/or HL. Healthcare payment was associated with health behavior through HL. Compared to patients with stroke under 65, those aged 65 and above demonstrated a more significant decline in HL with increasing SRF, and the relationship between healthcare payment and HL was also more notable within this older population.
Conclusion: The associations between environmental and personal factors in patients with stroke and health behavior were complicated, with age group serving as an important moderator. These findings would inform the design and implementation of health behavioral interventions among patients with stroke, particularly encouraging attention to the SRF and medical insurance status of elderly patients.
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Obesity (Silver Spring)
September 2025
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Objective: From October 18-20, 2022, the National Institutes of Health held a workshop to examine the state of the science concerning obesity interventions in adults to promote health equity. The workshop had three objectives: (1) Convene experts from key institutions and the community to identify gaps in knowledge and opportunities to address obesity, (2) generate recommendations for obesity prevention and treatment to achieve health equity, and (3) identify challenges and needs to address obesity prevalence and disparities, and develop a diverse workforce.
Methods: A three-day virtual convening.
Glob Chang Biol
September 2025
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF), Reading, UK.
The catastrophic Los Angeles Fires of January 2025 underscore the urgent need to understand the complex interplay between hydroclimatic variability and wildfire behavior. This study investigates how sequential wet and dry periods, hydroclimatic rebound events, create compounding environmental conditions that culminate in extreme fire events. Our results show that a cascade of moisture anomalies, from the atmosphere to vegetation health, precedes these fires by around 6-27 months.
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September 2025
Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (A.-T.P.J., M.R.O., A.S., F.P.).
Background: Intensive language-action therapy treats language deficits and depressive symptoms in chronic poststroke aphasia, yet the underlying neural mechanisms remain underexplored. Long-range temporal correlations (LRTCs) in blood oxygenation level-dependent signals indicate persistence in brain activity patterns and may relate to learning and levels of depression. This observational study investigates blood oxygenation level-dependent LRTC changes alongside therapy-induced language and mood improvements in perisylvian and domain-general brain areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Dental caries in children remains a global health challenge. Fissure sealant therapy (FST) is an effective preventive measure, yet parental acceptance remains low. This study aimed to identify predictors of parental FST behavior for children aged 6-12 years in Bandar Abbas, Iran, using the health belief model (HBM).
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September 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Goal-directed behavior requires adjusting cognitive control, both in preparation for and in reaction to conflict. Theta oscillations and population activity in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) and dorsolateral PFC (dlPFC) are known to support reactive control. Here, we investigated their role in proactive control using human intracranial electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings during a Stroop task that manipulated conflict expectations.
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