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How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we still have so little guidance about this all-important variable, the very air we breathe?

Good question. Hello, schools? Hello, universities? Hello, XYZ Airline? >>How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we still have so little guidance about this all-important variable, the very air we breathe?<< Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/    

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Free Access Low plasma 25(OH) vitamin D level is associated with increased risk of COVID‐19 infection: an Israeli population‐based study

ORIGINAL ARTICLE    Free Access Low plasma 25(OH) vitamin D level is associated with increased risk of COVID‐19 infection: an Israeli population‐based study Eugene Merzon    Dmitry Tworowski    Alessandro Gorohovski    Shlomo Vinker    Avivit Golan Cohen    Ilan … Continue reading

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COVID TRAVEL MAP: CROSS STATE TRAVEL COUNTIES AS OF JULY 24, 2020 (MODIFIED JULY 27, 2020)

TRAVEL MAP: CROSS STATE TRAVEL COUNTIES AS OF JULY 24, 2020 (MODIFIED JULY 27, 2020)
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Evidence-based prevention of Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review

Results A total of 44 676 reports were identified, and 243 OPSs and 153 RCTs were eligible for analysis after exclusion based on pre-decided criteria, from which 104 modifiable factors and 11 interventions were included in the meta-analyses. Twenty-one suggestions are proposed based on the consolidated evidence, with Class I suggestions targeting 19 factors: 10 with Level A strong evidence (education, cognitive activity, high body mass index in latelife, hyperhomocysteinaemia, depression, stress, diabetes, head trauma, hypertension in midlife and orthostatic hypotension) and 9 with Level B weaker evidence (obesity in midlife, weight loss in late life, physical exercise, smoking, sleep, cerebrovascular disease, frailty, atrial fibrillation and vitamin C). In contrast, two interventions are not recommended: oestrogen replacement therapy (Level A2) and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (Level B). Continue reading

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Leisure time aerobic and muscle strengthening activities are associated with important survival benefits.

Adults who engage in leisure time aerobic and muscle strengthening activities at levels recommended by the 2018 physical activity guidelines for Americans show greatly reduced risk of all cause and cause specific mortality. These data suggest that the physical activity levels recommended in the guidelines are associated with important survival benefits. Continue reading

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Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.