This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by examining whether psychological intervention for anxiety disorders is associated with a lower incidence of dementia. The results suggest that improvement in anxiety from these therapies was associated with reduced incidence of future dementia.

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by assessing the impact of physical activity and sleep on 10-year cognitive decline in older people. They showed that the cognitive benefits associated with increased activity were not enough to ameliorate decline associated with short sleep.

This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by showing that although there was an increase in prescribing of antipsychotics to people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic, this increase was not responsible for the large increase in all-cause and stroke mortality in this population.

This paper assesses the role of hepatitis B and hepatitis C on chronic liver disease according to age, gender and ethnicity.

WGS data revealed that herpesvirus/anelloviruses are naturally found in European populations. This represents the first comprehensive research on the plasma virome of pregnant Turkish women.

This Article supports SDG 3 by analysing two vaccination strategies for hepatitis A outbreaks in men who have sex with men: pre-emptive (before an outbreak occurs) and reactive (once an outbreak has started). The study shows that both strategies can be cost-saving, but pre-emptive vaccination can save more money, suggesting that a pre-emptive strategy should be the first choice, and reactive used if the pre-emptive vaccination fails to prevent the outbreak.

The gender pay gap has declined slightly, although the majority of organisations continue to have a gap in favour of males. This article explores a number of statistics covering pay and bonus gaps, with details of broad sector and industry, and relates to SDG 5, Gender Equality.

This paper provides first assessment of nutrient contents in whale faeces prior to their dissolution in seawater, which has overcome the challenges associated with getting reliable estimations of elemental nutrients from whale faeces. By combining measured faecal nutrient concentrations with the best available prey-consumption and prey-assimilation estimates, we calculated the expected contribution of minke whale faeces to nutrient pools in surface waters during summer.

This study contributes to Goal 15 - Life on Land because it shows that tree growth to temperature change is a combination of short-term plastic and long-term adaptive reactions, and it suggests a limited adaptation to climate warming of trees growing at high altitudes. Such studies remind us that Life on Land as we know it currently will only be possible through conservation of natural ecosystems.

How serious is the pollution in the Mediterranean area by mircoplastics? This review paper analyzes the abundance, the marine contamination, and accumulation of mircoplastics in the Mediterranean basin. Also the impacts on the economic and environmental sector, and effects by country on general health and marine life.