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In rural Tanzania, moms with no school are much more likely to have babies who miss vaccines — but in cities, whether a mom went to school doesn’t seem to affect vaccine timing.
Correlational
In rural Tanzania, dads’ education matters a lot for whether their baby gets vaccines on time — but in cities, it doesn’t seem to make much difference.
In both cities and rural areas of Tanzania, about 1 in 6 babies are late or miss their third vaccine shot — even though the reasons are different.
Descriptive
In rural Tanzania, babies who are the fifth or later child in their family are more likely to be late on their vaccines than the first child.
In both cities and rural areas of Tanzania, teenage moms are much more likely to have babies who miss or are late on their vaccines than moms in their mid-20s.
In cities in Tanzania, how much school a mom had doesn’t seem to affect whether her baby gets vaccines on time — but in the countryside, moms with more education are much more likely to get their babies vaccinated on time.
In rural Tanzania, babies born small are actually less likely to miss their vaccines than babies born at a normal weight — the opposite of what’s seen in most other poor countries.
In both cities and rural areas of Tanzania, babies from the poorest families are more likely to be late or miss their vaccines than babies from the richest families.
The injection makes the waist smaller relative to the hips, giving a less 'apple-shaped' body and more 'pear-shaped' proportions.
Causal
In rural Tanzania, babies born at home are more likely to be late or miss their vaccines than babies born in hospitals or clinics.
The drug only melts the fat deep inside the belly, not the fat you can pinch on the skin or in the arms and legs.
In cities in Tanzania, moms who wait until late in pregnancy to see a doctor for the first time are much more likely to have babies who don’t get their vaccines on time.
The drug didn’t cause serious side effects in these patients, even after a year of daily injections.
In rural Tanzania, babies whose dads didn’t finish school are more likely to miss their vaccines on time than babies whose dads did finish school.
Doctors who didn’t know who got the real drug thought patients’ bellies looked better after treatment.
Even though it reduces belly fat, the injection doesn’t make blood sugar worse or cause diabetes in these patients.
The injection makes the body produce more of a natural growth-related hormone called IGF-1, which helps explain how it reduces belly fat.
Mechanistic
Patients who got the real injection felt better about how their belly looked, while those who got the fake shot didn’t.
This injection makes the waist smaller without changing fat on the arms, legs, or just under the skin.
If HIV patients stop taking the injection, the belly fat they lost comes right back quickly.
If HIV patients keep taking the injection for a full year, they lose even more belly fat inside their abdomen—about 18% total.
A daily injection called tesamorelin helps HIV patients on medication lose belly fat inside their abdomen, while a fake shot doesn’t.
Mirabegron treatment improved how well the body uses insulin and processes sugar in healthy women after four weeks. This finding is from the abstract summary - full study details were not available
After four weeks of mirabegron, healthy women had 35% more adiponectin, a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar. This finding is from the abstract summary - full study details were not available