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Associations between mineral intake and mortality in non-Western countries have not been studied adequately. This study evaluated these associations in the Golestan Cohort Study, featuring a Middle Eastern population. The mineral intake was estimated from the baseline food frequency questionnaire, adjusted by using the nutrient density method, and divided into quintiles. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the mortality. We analyzed 41,863 subjects with a mean age of 51.46 ± 8.73 years at the baseline. During 578,694 person-years of follow-up (median: 14.1 Years), 7217 deaths were recorded. Dietary calcium intake was inversely associated with the all-cause mortality (HRQ5 vs. Q1 = 0.91, 95%CI = 0.85–0.99). We observed significant associations between calcium (HRQ5 vs. Q1 = 0.82, 95% CI = 0.73–0.93), copper (HRQ5 vs. Q1 = 1.11, 95% CI = 0.99–1.26), and selenium intake (HRQ5 vs. Q1 = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.01–1.29) and CVD mortality. Dietary phosphorus…

Scientists from EMBL Rome and EMBL Heidelberg show that disrupting the gut microbiome of male mice before conception increases the risk of disease in offspring

A new study that looked at almost 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel internationally.

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A study in Brain Communications reveals that individuals with aphantasia, who cannot voluntarily create mental images, show no increase in brain activity during motor simulations, contrasting sharply with those who can visualize movements, indicating profound neural differences.

Archaeologists discovered charred remains of former rulers tossed "haphazardly" into a tomb in present-day Guatemala, suggesting they had been removed from their original burial sites

Nature - Scientists identify the brain cells that regulate inflammation, and pinpoint how they keep tabs on the immune response.

If there's one thing that needs to be antibacterial, it's the public touchscreen displays that everyone paws at with their filthy fingers. Well, help is on the way, in the form of a newly developed copper coating.