Immune fitness (ie, adequate functioning of the immune system) is essential to maintain
health, prevent and resolve disease, and improve quality of life. This article provides an …

Modern Western biomedical research and clinical practice are primarily focused on disease.
This disease-centric approach has yielded an impressive amount of knowledge around what …

Residential racial segregation is a key manifestation of anti-Black structural racism, thought
to be a fundamental cause of poor health; evidence has shown that it yields neighborhood …

In many countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to strong restrictions and changed the
everyday lives of older people. In Finland, people aged 70 and over were instructed to stay …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the digitalisation of services that poses
the risk of digital exclusion, especially among older adults. We examined the predictors of …

Population-based studies of individual-level residential greenspace and mental health
outcomes are still limited. Thus, the present study investigates greenspace–mental health …

Data from the early 2000s indicated worse overall health and larger socioeconomic (SES)
health inequalities in the US than in Canada. Yet, sociopolitical contexts, health levels, and …

Circulating cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) has emerged as a promising biomarker of ageing, tissue
damage and cellular stress. However, less is known about health behaviours, ageing …

Introduction The self-rated health (SRH) is a widely adopted indicator of overall health. The
sponge hypothesis suggests that predictive power of SRH is stronger among women …

Aim To explore if patient global assessment (PGA) is associated with inflammation over time
and if associations are explained by other measures of disease activity and function in …