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Open AccessEarly-life house dust mite aeroallergen exposure augments cigarette smoke-induced myeloid inflammation and emphysema in mice
Longitudinal studies have identified childhood asthma as a risk factor for obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) where persistent airflow limitation can develop more aggressively. ...
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Open AccessThe rise and fall of excess winter mortality in New Zealand from 1876 to 2020
Excess winter mortality (EWM) has been used as a measure of how well populations and policy moderate the health effects of cold weather. We aimed to investigate long-term changes in the EWM of Aotearoa New Zea...
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Open AccessMathematical optimization of frost resistant crop production to ensure food supply during a nuclear winter catastrophe
This study aimed to estimate the optimal mix of frost resistant crops and land area needed to provide basic nutrition during various nuclear winter scenarios for New Zealand (NZ), a temperate island nation. It...
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Open AccessImpact of the Tambora volcanic eruption of 1815 on islands and relevance to future sunlight-blocking catastrophes
Island nations may have potential long-term survival value for humanity in global catastrophes such as sun-blocking catastrophes from nuclear winter and large magnitude volcanic eruptions. One way to explore t...
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Open AccessPredicting high health-cost users among people with cardiovascular disease using machine learning and nationwide linked social administrative datasets
To optimise planning of public health services, the impact of high-cost users needs to be considered. However, most of the existing statistical models for costs do not include many clinical and social variable...
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Open AccessPrioritization of intervention domains to prevent cardiovascular disease: a country-level case study using global burden of disease and local data
We aimed to combine Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study data and local data to identify the highest priority intervention domains for preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the case study country of Aotea...
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Open AccessThe potential human health hazard of nitrates in drinking water: a media discourse analysis in a high-income country
Recent studies linking low levels of nitrate in drinking water to colorectal cancer have raised public concerns over nitrate contamination. The aim of this study was to analyze the media discourse on the poten...
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Open AccessUsing household economic survey data to assess food expenditure patterns and trends in a high-income country with notable health inequities
This study aimed to identify dietary trends in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) and whether inequities in dietary patterns are changing. We extracted data from the Household Economic Survey (HES), which was designed ...
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Open AccessCorrection: Improving on estimates of the potential relative harm to health from using modern ENDS (va**) compared to tobacco smoking
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Open AccessComparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table
This study compares the health gains, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hundreds of Australian and New Zealand (NZ) health interventions conducted with comparable methods in an online interactive league table d...
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Open AccessBlocking the human common beta subunit of the GM-CSF, IL-5 and IL-3 receptors markedly reduces hyperinflammation in ARDS models
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is triggered by various aetiological factors such as trauma, sepsis and respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus. Immune profiling of severe COV...
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Open AccessDisaggregating proportional multistate lifetables by population heterogeneity to estimate intervention impacts on inequalities
Simulation models can be used to quantify the projected health impact of interventions. Quantifying heterogeneity in these impacts, for example by socioeconomic status, is important to understand impacts on he...
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Open AccessImproving on estimates of the potential relative harm to health from using modern ENDS (va**) compared to tobacco smoking
Although the harm to health from electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) compared to smoked tobacco remains highly uncertain, society and governments still need to know the likely range of the relative har...
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Open AccessImpact of taxes on purchases of close substitute foods: analysis of cross-price elasticities using data from a randomized experiment
To examine the effects of health-related food taxes on substitution and complementary purchases within food groups, including from unhealthier to healthier alternatives and between brands.
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Open AccessEstimating the impact of control measures to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19 associated with air travel into a COVID-19-free country
We aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel to a COVID-19-free country [New Zealand (NZ)]. A stochastic version of the SEIR model CovidSIM v1.1, designed specifically for COV...
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Open AccessUnusual solute segregation phenomenon in coherent twin boundaries
Interface segregation of solute atoms has a profound effect on properties of engineering alloys. The occurrence of solute segregation in coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) in Mg alloys is commonly considered to b...
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Open AccessEquity of expenditure changes associated with a sweetened-beverage tax in Tonga: repeated cross-sectional household surveys
The aim of this study was to examine changes in beverage expenditure patterns before and after a T$0.50/L sweetened-beverage (SB) excise was introduced in Tonga in 2013, by household income, household age comp...
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Open AccessSweetened beverage taxes and changes in beverage price, imports and manufacturing: interrupted time series analysis in a middle-income country
The Pacific Island nation of Tonga (a middle-income country) introduced a sweetened beverage tax of T$0.50/L in 2013, with this increasing further in 2016 (to T$1.00/L), and in 2017 (T$1.50/L; US$0.02/oz). Giv...
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In response to the climate emergency a growing number of researchers, journalists, economists, politicians and activists are calling for a ‘Green New Deal’ (GND). Proposing a revolution in energy, transport an...
