Health status of Asian Americans

• ABU DHABI, UAE, Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SUPCON (688777.SH, SUPCON.SW) exhibited at ADIPEC 2023, one of the largest and most inclusive gathering for the energy industry, which took place in Abu Dhabi on October 2-5 with the theme Decarbonising.
• Many industry leaders such as ADNOC, NPCC, PDO, CPECC, Fauji, visited SUPCON's stand and had sparkling dialogues that forge partnerships and explore game-changing solutions.
• During ADIPEC, vibrant idea exchanges were made regarding the SUPCON BA+PA Smart Enterprise Architecture.
• Moving forward, SUPCON will continue to focus on the voices in the industry and strive to solve the unresolved challenges.

• Among the most common, and arguably the most meaningful, tracking method for daily physical activity is step counting.
• Counting steps is far more than a fad: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services dedicated a sizable portion of its most recent physical activity guidelines to documenting the relationship between daily step counts and several chronic diseases.
• Unfortunately, the guidelines have little to say about how step counts might be used to aid in weight management, an outcome of critical importance given the high rates of overweight and obesity in the U.S.
• I am a professor of exercise science at Kennesaw State University, and our lab has been conducting studies examining relationships among step counts and a number of health outcomes.

Step counts may – or may not – lead to weight loss

• A number of recent studies have looked at whether increasing step counts can lead to weight loss over a certain period of time.
• One large-scale study called a meta-analysis concluded that increasing physical activity by way of step counts was effective for attaining modest weight loss.
• My team’s research has compiled weight, body fat percentages and average step counts for large numbers of adults between 19 and 40 years of age.

Parsing the numbers

• We have used our data to develop a model that predicts average daily step counts per unit of fat mass from body fat percentage.
• Take, for instance, a man who weighs 175 pounds (80 kilograms), of which 25% is fat.
• Although they have different amounts of lean mass, both men have about 44 pounds (20 kilograms) of fat.
• In other words, the heavier person has a lower percentage of body fat and walks more to maintain that leaner body composition.

Step counts for weight loss

• With our model, you must determine your body weight and fat weight in kilograms – to do this, simply divide your weight in pounds by 2.2.
• With this information in hand, our model can provide a step count target that is specific to a person’s current body weight and body fat percentage, and their goal for fat loss and weight reduction.
• So even with a comfortable pace, this additional daily dose of walking would take fewer than 30 minutes.

Blue-light glasses are said to reduce eye strain when using computers, improve your sleep and protect your eye health. You can buy them yourself or your optometrist can prescribe them. But do they work? Or could they do you harm? We reviewed the evidence. Here’s what we found.

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What are they?

• Blue-light glasses, blue light-filtering lenses or blue-blocking lenses are different terms used to describe lenses that reduce the amount of short-wavelength visible (blue) light reaching the eyes.
• Most of these lenses prescribed by an optometrist decrease blue light transmission by 10-25%.
• Standard (clear) lenses do not filter blue light.

Blue light is all around us

• Outdoors, sunlight is the main source of blue light.
• Indoors, light sources – such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and the screens of digital devices – emit varying degrees of blue light.
• The amount of blue light emitted from artificial light sources is much lower than from the Sun.

Do they reduce eye strain?

We found no benefit of using blue light-filtering lenses, over standard (clear) lenses, to reduce eye strain with computer use. This conclusion was based on consistent findings from three studies that evaluated effects on eye strain over time periods ranging from two hours to five days.

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Do they help you sleep?

• Six studies evaluated whether wearing blue-light filtering lenses before bedtime could improve sleep quality, and the findings were mixed.
• So we do not yet know whether these lenses affect sleep quality in the general population.

Do they boost your eye health?

We did not find any clinical evidence to support using blue-light filtering lenses to protect the macula (the region of the retina that controls high-detailed, central vision). None of the studies evaluated this.

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Could they do harm? How about causing headaches?

We could not draw clear conclusions on whether there might be harms from wearing blue light-filtering lenses, compared with standard (non blue-light filtering) lenses. Some studies described how study participants had headaches, lowered mood and discomfort from wearing the glasses. However, people using glasses with standard lenses reported similar effects.

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What about other benefits or harms?

• First, most of the studies were for a relatively short period of time, which limited our ability to consider longer-term effects on vision, sleep quality and eye health.
• Finally, we could not draw conclusions about the possible effects of blue light-filtering lenses on many vision and eye health measures, including colour vision, as the studies did not evaluate these.

In a nutshell

• It is unclear whether these lenses affect vision quality or sleep, and no conclusions can be drawn about any potential effects on the health of the retina.
• They can perform a thorough examination of your eye health and vision, and discuss any relevant treatment options.

• BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced that palleos healthcare has selected Veeva Vault Clinical Data Management Suite (CDMS) with Veeva Vault EDC and Veeva CDB (clinical database) to connect all clinical study data on one platform.
• A unified view of clinical data from wearables and other sources offers palleos healthcare greater visibility and control to adapt studies in real time.
• "Unifying data with Veeva Vault EDC and Veeva CDB gives palleos healthcare real-time insight into how a study is progressing, enabling us to better assess and manage outcomes."
• "Veeva Vault EDC and Veeva CDB offer palleos healthcare a comprehensive view of their study data, enabling them to further advance clinical trial execution to benefit patients."