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The following is a summary of "Supermarket Proximity and Risk of Hypertension, Diabetes, and CKD: A Retrospective Cohort Study," published in the February 2023 issue of the Kidney diseases by Garg et al. There may be a correlation between poor access to food and the development of chronic illness. Researchers studied the correlation between hypertension,

Leprosy incidence remained at around 200,000 new cases globally for the last decade. Current strategies to reduce the number of new patients include early detection and providing post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to at-risk populations. Because leprosy is distributed unevenly, it is crucial to identify high-risk clusters of leprosy cases for targeting interventions. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) methodology can be used to optimize leprosy control activities by identifying clustering of lepr...