Insulin Resistance Linked to Risk for More Than 30 Diseases
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Insulin resistance (IR) is associated with multiple...
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Metabolic Pattern at Birth Linked to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Infants with sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)...
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Most Patients With Stage I PDAC Are Upstaged on Histopathology
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than 70 percent of patients with stage I...
Read MorePhysiotherapists’ attitudes, practice and barriers to sexual issues among stroke survivors in South-East Nigeria.
Sexual issues post-stroke are common and can include difficulties related to arousal, orgasm, and decreased sexual desire, and satisfaction.To determine the attitudes, practices, and barriers experienced by physiotherapists in...
Read MoreA systematic review and meta-analysis of HHV-6 and mortality after hematopoietic cell transplant.
Human herpesvirus-6B (HHV-6B) reactivation has been associated with non-relapse mortality (NRM) and overall mortality (OM) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT). We performed a systematic review and...
Read MoreSoundscape analysis can be an effective tool in assessing seagrass restoration early success.
Restoration of vulnerable marine habitats is becoming increasingly popular to cope with widespread habitat loss and the resulting decline in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Lately, restoration strategies have been employed...
Read MoreEffects of facial forms and midline deviations and rolls on female facial beauty according to laypeople, orthodontists, and prosthodontists or restorative dentists.
No study has examined the simultaneous effect of facial forms, midline deviations and midline angulations on facial beauty. Therefore, this comprehensive study aimed to evaluate these and many other hypotheses. This psychometric...
Read MoreImpact of hemispherotomy on quality of life and burden of caregivers in children and adolescents: a retrospective observational study.
To evaluate QOL and caregiver burden of children and teenagers submitted to hemispherotomy for pharmacoresistant epilepsy, by comparing pre and post-surgical intervention data.Retrospective analysis of pediatric patients...
Read MoreClinical outcomes and radiolucent line analysis in cementless mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty: a prospective multicentre study in Japan.
The objective of this study was to assess radiolucent lines (RLLs) and to determine their effect on clinical outcomes of the newly introduced cementless mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) system. This was prospective,...
Read MoreImproving Sleep in People with HIV and Chronic Pain: A Pilot Study of Brief Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia.
Insomnia and chronic pain are common symptoms in people with HIV. Poor sleep has been associated with chronic pain. While cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia improves insomnia in clinical populations, there are barriers to...
Read MorePeering into the mind: unraveling schizophrenia’s secrets using models.
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a complex mental disorder characterized by a range of symptoms, including positive and negative symptoms, as well as cognitive impairments. Despite the extensive research, the underlying neurobiology of...
Read MoreElevated atmospheric CO alters the multi-element stoichiometry of pollen-bearing oak flowers, with possible negative effects on bees.
Increasing atmospheric CO levels change the elemental composition in plants, altering their nutritional quality and affecting consumers and ecosystems. Ecological stoichiometry provides a framework for investigating how...
Read MoreComparing the remineralization potential of undemineralized dentin powder versus chicken eggshell powder on artificially induced initial enamel carious lesions: an in-vitro investigation.
White spot lesions are a widespread undesirable effect, especially prevalent during fixed orthodontic treatments. The study compared the in vitro enamel remineralization potential of undemineralized dentin matrix (UDD) versus...
Read MoreAssessing the effect of body mass index on perioperative outcomes and short-term recurrence after paraesophageal hernia repair.
Previous assessments suggest that surgical results of paraesophageal hernia (PEH) repair were negatively impacted by increasing levels of obesity. A better understanding of the association of obesity on outcomes of PEH repair...
Read MoreIntergranular fracture, grain-boundary structure, and dislocation-density interactions in FCC bicrystals.
A dislocation-density based crystalline plasticity (DCP) and nonlinear finite element (FE) analysis were used to predict, and fundamentally understand how and why fracture nucleation and propagation are related to the...
Read MoreAxial length reduction and choroidal thickening with short-term exposure to cyan light in human subjects.
Given the potential role of light and its wavelength on ocular growth, this study investigated the effect of short-term exposure to red, cyan and blue light on ocular biometry in humans.Forty-four young adults and 20 children,...
Read MorePrior-guided attention fusion transformer for multi-lesion segmentation of diabetic retinopathy.
To solve the issue of diagnosis accuracy of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and reduce the workload of ophthalmologists, in this paper we propose a prior-guided attention fusion Transformer for multi-lesion segmentation of DR. An...
Read MoreHealthcare professionals’ knowledge and attitudes towards polygenic risk testing for glaucoma.
Effective clinical implementation of polygenic risk testing for glaucoma relies on healthcare professionals’ attitudes and knowledge of the test. Given the emerging applications of the test, it will likely impact a range...
Read MoreMRI-measured periprostatic to subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness ratio as an independent risk factor in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomy.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether the periprostatic adipose tissue thickness (PPATT) is an independent prognostic factor for prostate cancer patients after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP). This...
Read MoreA review of the perioperative management of direct oral anticoagulants for pediatric anesthesiologists.
Although direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been used in the adult population for over a decade, DOACs use has begun to rise in pediatric populations since FDA approval of rivaroxaban and dabigatran, DOACs offer several...
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