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This difference was strongest among long-term pet owners.“As stress can badly affect cognitive function, the potential stress-reducing effects of pet ownership could provide a reasonable cause for our findings," said Braley. “ A companion animal can also increase physical activity, which could ...
For these reasons, we are focused on implementing solutions that mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change. In 2021, we established a goal of achieving net-zero GHG emissions across our value chain by 2040 — one decade earlier than called for in the Paris Agreement. To help ...
Pet ownership can also come with increased exercise, which may help to explain some of the heart and mental health benefits. And it may explain why dogs, who need to be taken out regularly for walks, appear to be more beneficial for heart health than other pets. Although the exact mechanis...
S.C. receives institutional grants and/or funding from AstraZeneca, Daiichi Sankyo and Lilly; has shares and/or ownership interests in Odyssey Biosciences and Totus Medicines; and has received honoraria as a consultant or adviser from AstraZeneca, Lilly, Prelude Therapeutics, Neogenomics, Novartis,...
dogs or both did not own dogs, while a lack of concordance would be present when one twin owned a dog and the other did not. The researchers concluded that identical twins had higher concordance than the concordance in fraternal twins, which is consistent with the presence of genetic ef...
Pet research sug- gests that relationships with animals can have similar effects (Winefield et al. 2008). It would be worth investi- gating how prolonged contact with, interest in or care for wild animals, specific species and their habitats relation- ships contribute to happiness through the ...
They also began to take ownership of the process, "working" the spaces of the intervention by experimenting and adapting the interaction scripts. We view these adaptations as important in the life of the change process, as they represented a new level of engagement in the in- terven...
This demonstrated a successful case of transitioning advanced lung cancer into a chronic disease. The advent of targeted therapy and immunotherapy made it possible to achieve long-term disease control with minimal side effects even in a geriatric patient with multiple comorbidities. Appropriately ...
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