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Effects of electric current
Effects of electric current, also indexed as electric shock and electrocution, is the ICD-11 medical category covering electrical injuries ranging from skin burns to fatal organ damage.
Effects of heat
Effects of heat (ICD-11 NF01): adverse effects from failure to maintain normal core temperature in excessive heat, spanning heat syncope, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke (core temperature ≥40°C with CNS dysfunction).
Effects of high altitude on humans
Effects of high altitude on humans: hypobaric hypoxia above ~2,500 m lowers oxygen partial pressure, driving acclimatization, altitude illness (AMS, HACE, HAPE), sleep disturbance, and performance limits near Everest's 8,848 m summit.
Effects of hunger
Effects of hunger (ICD-11 NF07.0): health consequences of lacking food, from metabolic shutdown, organ wasting, and infection risk to famine; 645 million people faced hunger in 2025.
Effects of Hurricane Beryl in Texas
Hurricane Beryl struck the Texas coast near Matagorda on July 8, 2024 as a Category 1 storm, killing at least 36 people and knocking out power to nearly 2.8 million customers.
Effects of Hurricane Helene in Georgia
Hurricane Helene struck Georgia on September 26 and 27, 2024, causing over 1.5 million power outages, about 34 deaths, and at least $5.5 billion in agricultural losses.
Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina
Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina on September 26–27, 2024, bringing record rainfall, catastrophic flooding, over 2,000 landslides, 107 deaths, and an estimated $59.6 billion in damage, the costliest storm in state history.
Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
The effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, also called the Great Flood of New Orleans, began when levee failures on August 29, 2005 flooded 80 percent of the city, killing hundreds.
Effects of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on September 20, 2017, causing the longest blackout in U.S. history, an estimated 2,975 deaths, and a mass migration to the mainland.
Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York
The effects of Hurricane Sandy in New York began on October 29, 2012, when a record storm tide flooded subways and homes, killing 43 people and causing $19 billion in damage.
Effects of inflation
The effects of inflation are the costs a sustained rise in prices imposes on households, firms, and governments, from eroded purchasing power to arbitrary wealth transfers.
Effects of invasive earthworms on soil structure and carbon–nitrogen cycling
Invasive earthworms alter northern temperate and boreal forest soils by consuming surface litter, mixing organic matter into mineral soil, and accelerating carbon and nitrogen cycling, raising CO2 and N2O emissions.
Effects of long-term benzodiazepine use
Long-term benzodiazepine use (chronic BZD therapy) causes physical dependence, withdrawal, and raised risks of falls, accidents, and overdose; evidence for progressive cognitive decline and dementia remains limited and inconclusive.
Effects of nuclear explosions
The effects of nuclear explosions, or nuclear weapon effects, are the blast waves, thermal radiation, prompt radiation, electromagnetic pulse, and radioactive fallout from a nuclear detonation.
Effects of nuclear explosions on human health
The effects of nuclear explosions on human health, also called human effects of nuclear explosions, are injuries from blast, thermal radiation, prompt radiation, and fallout, including Acute Radiation Syndrome.
Effects of pornography
Effects of pornography: research on links between sexually explicit material use and sexual function, satisfaction, mental health, and behavior; ICD-11 CSBD, no DSM-5 porn addiction, mostly small mixed associations.
Effects of pornography on young people
Effects of pornography on young people: research on childhood and adolescent exposure to sexually explicit material, covering prevalence, age of first exposure, associations with sexual behavior, attitudes, and wellbeing, and why causal conclusions remain limited.
Effects of strenuous physical exercise
Effects of strenuous physical exercise (ICD-11 NF06) classifies acute bodily reactions to high-intensity exertion: exertional heat stroke, post-exercise postural hypotension, post-exertional dehydration, and exercise muscle cramp, within chapter 22 external-cause effects.
Effects of the Chernobyl disaster
The effects of the Chernobyl disaster are the health and environmental consequences of the 1986 reactor explosion in Ukraine, including thyroid cancers and mass resettlement.
Effects of the Cold War
The effects of the Cold War, also called Cold War legacies, cover the transformations from the 1947 to 1989 US-Soviet rivalry: armed blocs, nuclear parity, proxy wars, and decolonization.
Effects of thirst
Effects of thirst (ICD-11 NF07.1) classifies consequences of water deprivation and polydipsia; thirst begins at plasma osmolality about 285 mOsm/kg and fails as a guide in the elderly and athletes.
Effects of tropical cyclones
The effects of tropical cyclones span storm surge, extreme winds, heavy rain, and tornadoes that killed 412,644 people from 1980 to 2009 and caused nearly half of all natural disaster losses.
Effects of Varroa mites on honey-bee colonies
Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) kill honey-bee colonies mainly by vectoring viruses, above all deformed wing virus; untreated colonies die within one to four years, driving US winter losses averaging 28.7% since 2006.
Effects of vibration
Effects of vibration: health consequences of hand-arm and whole-body vibration exposure, causing hand-arm vibration syndrome, back pain, and vascular and neurological injury; also therapeutic WBV training.
Effects of war
Effects of war: consequences of armed conflict including direct and indirect deaths, disease, mental illness, displacement of about 123 million people, economic contraction, and environmental pollution.
Effects unit
An effects unit, also called an effects processor or effects pedal, is an electronic device that alters an instrument's sound, in forms from stompbox pedals to rack-mounted processors.
Effeminacy
Effeminacy: feminine appearance, mannerisms, or behavior in men or boys; from Latin effeminare. Known via Greek malakos and kinaidos, Victorian sexology, and modern femmephobia research; distinct from sexual orientation and gender identity.
Effi Briest
Effi Briest is Theodor Fontane's 1895 German realist novel about a 17-year-old married to Baron von Innstetten, filmed five times, most famously by Fassbinder in 1974 with Hanna Schygulla and by Huntgeburth in 2009 with Julia Jentsch.
Effi o Blaenau
Effi o Blaenau is a 2026 Welsh-language drama directed by Marc Evans, adapted from Gary Owen's monodrama Iphigenia in Splott, starring Leisa Gwenllian as Effi in Blaenau Ffestiniog; it set a Welsh-language box office record with £215,000 for MetFilm.
EFFICACE study
EFFICACE (NCT05114434) is a single-center, 8-week, open-label University of Parma study testing extrafine beclometasone/formoterol/glycopyrronium 87/5/9 µg on cough peak flow in moderate-to-severe COPD, distinct from the TRILOGY, TRIDENT, and TRIFORCE trials.