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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Aug 26

I think its time that the COREQ checklist gets updated... beyond the binary gender

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Will Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · Feb 22

Who knows but odds are MAHA won't actually clean up the food supply.

We'll find out from @foodfixco.bsky.social, but I expect Betteridge's law applies and any U.S. push for better labels & reformulation will hit the same obstacles as in Europe, per @alessandroford.bsky.social for @politico.eu:

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Europe’s biggest dietary problem? Lobbyists, says Nutri-Score creator.

France’s Serge Hercberg warns that disinformation is shortening the lives of consumers.

www.politico.eu

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Jul 29

Germany lags behind on prevention 🏥
📉 Low life expectancy
💔 High chronic disease
⚖️ Health inequality

Time to shift from cure to prevention! ✅
Evidence-based, population-wide action can save lives & 💶.

New govt = new chance. Let’s go. 🚀
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New government, old habits? The opportunity for a turning point in prevention health policies in Germany is now!

Germany has long lagged behind other high-income countries in terms of implementing evidence-based prevention policies. This is reflected by the relat…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Jun 23

The irony of researching the effectiveness of heat-health interventions with 35 degrees Celsius outside and the AC not working in the office 🌤️

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Praise Rudaviro Zimunya @praise-r-zimunya.bsky.social · Jun 12

'We might think we have autonomy over our food choices, but we are all heavily influenced by our environment – physical, economic and social' - @petescarbs.bsky.social

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · May 30

free: The Trump administration is creating heavy demands on European governments in many areas, which might undermine their fiscal capacity and willingness to fund health systems or new ventures, but diminished US investments create opportunities for European policymakers

The second Trump administration: A policy analysis of challenges and opportunities for European health policymakers

The second Trump administration has already made major changes in US policies that affect health and health systems worldwide.We use the Health System…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 28

Was told today that this graph would look much better with dot sizes according to share of voters ... so here its is :)

Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 27

Oh you can read the Cochrane Review here: www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Yoga for fatigue in people with cancer - Messer, S - 2025 | Cochrane Library

Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

www.cochranelibrary.com

Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 27

5/ Bottom line:

Yoga might help with CRF after treatment—but current evidence doesn’t let us say for sure.
If you're considering yoga, go for it—but don’t expect it to be a cure-all just yet.

#Cancer #Yoga #Fatigue #HealthResearch #CRF

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 27

4/ Why the uncertainty?

🧪 Small sample sizes
👁️ No blinding (hard to blind yoga!)
📉 Missing long-term data
📋 Varied outcome measures

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 27

3/ After treatment:

🧘‍♂️ CRF: Yoga probably helps in the short term (moderate certainty).
🌱 QoL: Small potential benefit—but the evidence is still very uncertain.

No strong data on long-term effects.

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 27

2/ During cancer treatment:

📉 CRF: Evidence is very uncertain. Yoga may have little to no impact in short, medium, or long term.
🙂 QoL: Yoga may help slightly in the short & medium term—but again, certainty is low.

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 27

🧵1/ Yoga & Cancer-Related Fatigue (CRF): What Does the Evidence Say?

My former colleagues at @uniklinikkoeln.bsky.social just reviewed 21 RCTs, 2041 participants, asking one key question: Does yoga 🧘help with cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and quality of life (QoL)? Here’s what we found ⬇️

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 22

Always a fan of network analysis 👍 Makes complicated relations easy to understand

Pedro Gullón @pgullon.bsky.social · May 21

Dejar a @jaimemanzano.bsky.social que tenga tiempo para mirar datos de la #WHA78 tiene consecuencias (geniales)

Jaime Manzano @jaimemanzano.bsky.social · May 21

🌍 Who connects the dots in global health governance at #WHA78?

Dozens of side events in Geneva brought together states, UN agencies, philanthropies, activists, and others. But who served as the bridges across all that noise?

Here’s a visual story. 👇 🧵1/

#GlobalHealth #WHA78 #IDsky 💊🌐

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 16

Read the article here: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5...

Communication-based interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine willingness and uptake: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Objective This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of different communication strategies to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake and willingness. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis o...

bmjopen.bmj.com

Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 16

Bottom line:
🧠 Facts help
💬 Peer pressure (the good kind) helps more
🎯 Changing minds ≠ changing behavior

These findings aren’t just about COVID—they could shape better communication for future health crises too.

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 16

✅ Education & info campaigns increased vaccine uptake significantly (RR 1.23)
✅ Social norms framing worked even better (RR 1.28)
🤷 Most strategies didn’t shift intention much
📈 Slight increase in confidence with gain-framed messages

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · May 16

🧪 What works to get people vaccinated? A systematic review & meta-analysis by Claire Iannizi, me & the team at Cologne uni on 49 RCTs on communication strategies to boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

The TL;DR: How you say it matters. 📢

Let’s break it down 👇
#VaccineUptake #COVID19 #SciComm

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Apr 25

Oh cool! I dont pay for Miro and its working fine but I guess for bigger projects an alternative would be good

Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Our team just came together to share common problems during the #systematic #Review process. We also collected helpful #tools and #tips. Maybe this is helpful to other researchers?

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ein Schoko-Hase ohne Gesicht? 🐇
In Chile darf der #Osterhase kein Gesicht haben, weil ungesunde Lebensmittel dort nicht an Kinder vermarktet werden dürfen.
Im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy gab es gestern einen Beitrag zu Lebensmittelwerbung für Kinder

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kinder-werbu...

Werbung: Wie Kinder zum Quengeln gebracht werden

Kids stehen auf Pizza, Pommes, Süßes – und die Werbung weiß das genau. Mit „Pester Power - Macht des Quengelns" steuern sie, was später auf dem Teller landet.

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Apr 22

Because I often resort to statements such as "climate change will exacerbate extreme weather events" and then @ilankelman.bsky.social corrects me, I´m sharing this useful resource here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

Climate change, weather, and disasters

Stating that human-caused climate change increases the frequency of hazards and/or disasters poorly matches scientific understanding. In summary: 1.

www.linkedin.com

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Apr 14

Respect to the young activists in the picture! And also: When will Germany follow the UK and ban junk food advetising?

Emma Calvert @emmacalvert.bsky.social · Apr 12

‼️Food companies spending big (an extra £420m) ahead of new UK junk food ad rules… Coinciding with a bumper 12 months for sales of snack foods (an extra 45.4m packs of chocolate, cakes and crisps)

It’s almost as if advertising is indeed very effective? 🤔

#stopmarketingtokids

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 12

Big brands send out barrage of junk food ads before obesity rules bite

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Stefanie Gissing @stefaniegissing.bsky.social · Apr 14

The food industry learning from the tobacco and the fossil fuel industries...

I'll give you three (or one..) guesses who's behind a PR campaign to intimidate scientists recommending eating more plants and fewer animals to save our climate and improve our health
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online

www.theguardian.com

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Marike Andreas @marikeandreas.bsky.social · Apr 9

das Gesundheitssystem durch nicht-übertragbare Erkrankungen (zb Adipositas) finanziell stark belastet ist 🚐

🔍Wo sind die effektiven, evidenzbasierten Maßnahmen, die darüber hinaus auch von der Bevölkerung akzeptiert werden? (Werbeverbote, Tabak-Kontrolle, Steuersenkungen auf gesunde Lebensmittel..)