Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body − and can clarify how diseases develop.
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Your physical environment, social life and lifestyle have as much an influence on your biology − and hence, how you process drugs − as your genes.
Chronic stress from living with systemic racism and gun violence can lead to increased symptoms of PTSD and depression as well as elevated cortisol levels.
The way we build our cities is adversely affecting our health, and, in particular, our hearts. Thinking of urban planners as health professionals could change that
Even the tidiest space has some dust. Researchers are investigating just what these indoor particles are made of and their possible implications for human health.
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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PhD researcher in behavioural epidemiology and urban health, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning and Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California