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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xin'nan Zong, Roya Kelishadi, Hae Soon Kim, Peter Schwandt, Tandi E Matsha, Jose G Mill, Carmelo Antonio Caserta, Carla Campos Muniz Medeiros, Anastasios Kollias, Peter H Whincup, Lucia Pacifico, Abel López-Bermejo, Min Zhao, Miaobing Zheng, Bo Xi
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is becoming prevalent in the pediatric population. The existing pediatric MetS definitions (e.g., the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition and the modified National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) definition) involve complex cut-offs, precluding fast risk assessment in clinical practice.We proposed a simplified definition for assessing MetS risk in youths aged 6-17 years, and compared its performance with two existing widely used pediatric definitions (the IDF definition, and the NCEP definition) in 10 pediatric populations from 9 countries globally (n = 19,426) using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses...
May 7, 2024: BMC Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guillermo De-La-Borda-Prazak, Carolina Mendez-Guerra, Fiorella Huertas-Campos, Percy Herrera-Añazco, Vicente A Benites-Zapata
OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between ethnicity and self-reported refractive errors (REs) among Peruvian children aged 7-11 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study incorporating a secondary data analysis of 2017-2021 data from the Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). REs and ethnicity were obtained from focal child's mother's report. Four outcomes were assessed: hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism and any RE. We included potential confounders, such as age, sex, wealth index, area of residence, region of origin, frequency of watching TV and watching screens at less than 30 cm distance...
May 6, 2024: Journal of Optometry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anderson Arboleda-Lamus, Leonardo Muñoz-Rugeles, Jorge M Del Campo, Nicolas Santos-Santos, Julio Pérez, Enrique Mejía-Ospino
Smart water injection is a technology that allows changing the wettability of the oil rock by injecting water at different salinities, in a cheap and environmentally friendly way compared to other traditional methods. In this study, the individual effect of some typical salts on the wettability of the (104) surface of calcite toward non-polar and polar crude oil models was explored by molecular dynamics as a function of the salinity and pH. The results obtained show that the electrical double layer plays a principal role in the detachment of crude oil models...
May 7, 2024: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics: PCCP
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mahsa Ebrahimi, Mariana Arreguín-Campos, Aaliyah Z Dookhith, Ana A Aldana, Nathaniel A Lynd, Gabriel E Sanoja, Matthew B Baker, Louis M Pitet
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are confronted with a persistent challenge: the urgent demand for robust, load-bearing, and biocompatible scaffolds that can effectively endure substantial deformation. Given that inadequate mechanical performance is typically rooted in structural deficiencies─specifically, the absence of energy dissipation mechanisms and network uniformity─a crucial step toward solving this problem is generating synthetic approaches that enable exquisite control over network architecture...
May 7, 2024: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Ferreira, Amandeep Sagwal, Jiří Doležal, Sofia Canola, Pablo Merino, Tomáš Neuman, Martin Švec
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) under ultrahigh vacuum and cryogenic conditions enables exploration of the relations between the adsorption geometry, electronic state, and vibrational fingerprints of individual molecules. TERS capability of reflecting spin states in open-shell molecular configurations is yet unexplored. Here, we use the tip of a scanning probe microscope to lift a perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) molecule from a metal surface to bring it into an open-shell spin one-half anionic state...
May 6, 2024: ACS Nano
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Paulo Gustavo Kotze, Nicolas Avellaneda, Rafaela de Araujo Molteni Moretti, Michele Carvello, Elisa Paoluzzi Tomada, Fabio Guilherme Campos, Antonino Spinelli
BACKGROUND: Available techniques for IPAA in ulcerative colitis include handsewn, double-stapled, and single-stapled anastomoses. There are controversies, indications, and different outcomes regarding these techniques. OBJECTIVE: To describe technical details, indications, and outcomes of 3 specific types of anastomoses in restorative proctocolectomy. DATA SOURCE: Systematic literature review for articles in the PubMed database according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses criteria...
June 1, 2024: Diseases of the Colon and Rectum
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cristina Suárez Ferrer, Francisco Mesonero Gismero, Berta Caballol, Maria Pilar Ballester, Iria Bastón Rey, Andrés Castaño García, Jose Miranda Bautista, Rosa Saiz Chumillas, Jose Manuel Benitez, Laura Sanchez Delgado, Alicia López García, Cristina Rubin de Celix, Inmaculada Alonso Abreu, Luigi Melcarne, Rocío Plaza Santos, Miquel Marques Camí, Antonio Caballero Mateos, César Gómez Díez, Margalida Calafat, Horacio Alonso Galan, Pablo Vega Vilaamil, Beatriz Castro Senosiain, Andrea Guerro Moya, Carmen Yolanda Rodriguez Diaz, Katerina Spicakova, Noemi Manceñdo Marcos, Gema Molina, Luisa de Castro Parga, Andres Rodriguez Angulo, Lidia Cuevas Del Campo, Maria Del Carmen Rodriguez Grau, Fernando Ramirez, Barbara Gomez Pastrana, Irene Gonzalez Partida, Belen Botella Mateu, Elena Peña Gonzalez, Eduardo Iyo, Alfonso Elosua Gonzalez, Empar Sainz Arnau, Luis Hernandez Villalba, Pablo Perez Galindo, Leyanira Torrealba Medina, Sara Monsalve Alonso, Jose Antonio Olmos Perez, Carmen Dueñas Sadornil, Laura Garcia Ramirez, María Dolores Martín-Arranz, Antonio López Sanroman, Agnès Fernández, Victor Merino Murgui, Cristina Calviño Suárez, Pablo Florez, María Elena Lobato Matilla, Beatriz Sicilia, Pilar Soto Escribano, Carlos Maroto Martin, Míriam Mañosa, Manuel Barreiro De Acosta
INTRODUCTION: Biological therapies used for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have shown to be effective and safe, although these results were obtained from studies involving mostly a young population, who are generally included in clinical trials. The aim of our study was to determine the efficacy and safety of the different biological treatments in the elderly population. METHODS: Multicenter study was carried out in the GETECCU group.Patients diagnosed with IBD and aged over 65 years at the time of initiating biological therapy (infliximab, adalimumab, golimumab, ustekinumab or vedolizumab) were retrospectively included...
May 4, 2024: Gastroenterología y Hepatología
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Márcia Verônica Ertel, Amanda Beatriz Adriano da Silva, Daniel Francisco de Sousa, Cairo José Dos Santos, Tatiane Mendonça da Silva, Marcelle Figueira Marques da Silva-Sales, Amanda de Oliveira Matos, Helioswilton Sales-Campos
The Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells (TREM) family of receptors plays a crucial role in the immune response across various species. Particularly, TREM-1 and TREM-2 have been extensively studied, both in terms of their applications and their expression sites and signaling pathways. However, the same is not observed for the other family members collectively known as TREM-like-transcripts (TREML). The TREML family consists of eight receptors, with TREML1-5 identified in humans and mice, TREML-6 exclusive found in mice, TREML-7 in dogs and horses, and TREML-8 in rabbits and opossums...
May 4, 2024: Life Sciences
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Joyce Cordeiro Borges, Luís André de Almeida Campos, Elisângela Afonso Moura Kretzschmar, Isabella Macário Ferro Cavalcanti
Natural and synthetic biodegradable polymers are widely used to obtain more sustainable films with biological, physicochemical, and mechanical properties for biomedical purposes. The incorporation of essential oils (EOs) in polymeric films can optimize the biological activities of these EOs, protect them from degradation, and serve as a prototype for new biotechnological products. This article aims to discuss updates over the last 10 years on incorporating EOs into natural and synthetic biodegradable polymer films for biomedical applications...
May 4, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicole Rigney, Elba Campos-Lira, Matthew K Kirchner, Wei Wei, Selma Belkasim, Rachael Beaumont, Sumeet Singh, Sara Guedez Suarez, Delenn Hartswick, Javier E Stern, Geert J de Vries, Aras Petrulis
One of the largest sex differences in brain neurochemistry is the expression of the neuropeptide arginine vasopressin (AVP) within the vertebrate brain, with males having more AVP cells in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) than females. Despite the long-standing implication of AVP in social and anxiety-like behaviors, the circuitry underlying AVP's control of these behaviors is still not well defined. Using optogenetic approaches, we show that inhibiting AVP BNST cells reduces social investigation in males, but not in females, whereas stimulating these cells increases social investigation in both sexes, but more so in males...
May 14, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Telma Christina do Campo Silva, Luciene Muniz Braga, Jose Mauro Vieira Junior
INTRODUCTION: Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) due to Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) is one of the most threatening complications after device insertion. OBJECTIVE: To assess the rate of PICC-associated DVT and analyze the risk factors associated with this event in cancer and critically ill patients. METHODS: We conducted a descriptive, retrospective cohort study with 11,588 PICCs from December 2014 to December 2019. Patients ≥ 18 years receiving a PICC were included...
2024: PloS One
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Adolfo I Ruiz-Ballesteros, Alejandra Betancourt-Núñez, Mónica R Meza-Meza, Melissa Rivera-Escoto, Paulina E Mora-García, Karen Pesqueda-Cendejas, Barbara Vizmanos, Isela Parra-Rojas, Bertha Campos-López, Margarita Montoya-Buelna, Sergio Cerpa-Cruz, Ulises De la Cruz-Mosso
Objetive: Serum and dietary vitamin D could influence clinical disease activity and cardiometabolic outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This study aimed to assess the relationship of serum and dietary vitamin D with cardiometabolic risk in Mexican SLE patients and healthy subjects (HS). Methods: 224 SLE patients and 201 HS were included in this cross-sectional study. Serum calcidiol was measured using a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Vitamin D dietary intake was assessed by collecting three 24h food records...
May 6, 2024: Lupus
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Edward Lain, Andrew F Alexis, Anneke Andriessen, Valeria Barreto Campos, Ariel Haus, Jihee Kim, Mark Lupin, Cara McDonald, Chen Feng Zhang
BACKGROUND: Medical aesthetic procedures for facial antiaging with laser and energy-based devices (EBDs) are rapidly increasing, but standards integrating skincare before, during, and after these treatments are lacking. The algorithm for integrated skin care for facial antiaging treatment with EBDs aims to stimulate healing, reduce downtime, and improve comfort and treatment outcomes. METHODS: A panel of 8 global physicians employed a modified Delphi method and reached a consensus on the algorithm integrating skincare based on the best available evidence, the panel's clinical experience, and opinions...
May 1, 2024: Journal of Drugs in Dermatology: JDD
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Feng Xiao, Ngoc Uyen Nhi Nguyen, Ping Wang, Shujuan Li, Ching-Cheng Hsu, Suwannee Thet, Wataru Kimura, Xiang Luo, Nicholas T Lam, Ivan Menendez-Montes, Waleed Elhelaly, Alisson Campos Cardoso, Ana Helena Macedo Pereira, Rohit Singh, Sakthivel Sadayappan, Mohammed Kanchwala, Chao Xing, Feria A Ladha, J Travis Hinson, Roger J Hajjar, Joseph A Hill, Hesham A Sadek
BACKGROUND: Recent interest in understanding cardiomyocyte cell cycle has been driven by potential therapeutic applications in cardiomyopathy. However, despite recent advances, cardiomyocyte mitosis remains a poorly understood process. For example, it is unclear how sarcomeres are disassembled during mitosis to allow the abscission of daughter cardiomyocytes. METHODS: Here, we use a proteomics screen to identify adducin, an actin capping protein previously not studied in cardiomyocytes, as a regulator of sarcomere disassembly...
May 6, 2024: Circulation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marília Costa Paiva, Antonio A M Castro, Polyagna Ferreira Carvalho, Weslley Barbosa Sales, Isabelly Cristina Soares Oliveira, Maryela Neves Mourão, Álvaro Campos Cavalcanti Maciel, Gérson Fonseca Souza
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, requiring support to manage symptoms and improve prognosis. Home-based cardiac rehabilitation is a realistic resource for this purpose, but it requires patients' self-management skills in order to change behaviours. Smartphones are considered mHealth technology (mobile technological resources in healthcare) and have the potential to provide modalities for delivery of cardiac rehabilitation. This systematic review aims to examine these modalities and identify those that are most effective for improving exercise capacity, quality of life, and patient compliance...
April 2024: CJC open
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cristina Campos-Villegas, Lucía Ortega-Pérez de Villar, Javier Gámez-Payá, Jorge Alarcón-Jiménez, Nieves de Bernardo
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The characteristics of Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy (PHT) include deep, localized pain in the region of the ischial tuberosity. Chronic lesions are often found in long-distance runners. Compression of the tendon and shear force at its insertion at the ischial tuberosity during hip flexion/adduction is a key etiologic factor. The aim of this case report is to analyze the effectiveness of an exercise protocol with progression of tendon loading in PHT in an amateur runner, by assessing pain and functional capacity...
2024: International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy
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Clement Hamani, Benjamin Davidson, Nir Lipsman, Agessandro Abrahao, Sean M Nestor, Jennifer S Rabin, Peter Giacobbe, Rosana L Pagano, Ana Carolina P Campos
Deep brain stimulation has revolutionized the treatment of movement disorders and is gaining momentum in the treatment of several other neuropsychiatric disorders. In almost all applications of this therapy, the insertion of electrodes into the target has been shown to induce some degree of clinical improvement prior to stimulation onset. Disregarding this phenomenon, commonly referred to as 'insertional effect', can lead to biased results in clinical trials, as patients receiving sham stimulation may still experience some degree of symptom amelioration...
2024: Brain communications
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Celia Pinedo Sierra, Elena Curto Sánchez, Rocio Diaz Campos, Tamara Hermida Valverde, Silvia Sánchez-Cuellar, Ana Fernández Tena
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects about 5% of the world's population and generates high health and social costs. Proper management of the disease requires a correct diagnosis, based on objective measures of functional impairment, as well as symptom control and assessment of the future risk of exacerbations.It has been estimated that 18% of asthma patients in Western Europe have severe asthma and approximately 50% of them have poor control. The severity of asthma is established based on the minimum maintenance treatment needs to achieve control...
2024: Open Respir Arch
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Larry Oscar Chañi-Paucar, Perfecto Chagua-Rodríguez, Walter Javier Cuadrado-Campó, Godofredo Román Lobato Calderón, Julio Cesar Maceda Santivañez, Célio Fernando Figueiredo Angolini, Maria Angela A Meireles
Tumbo fruit has potential for industrialization due to its nutritional and functional properties, but scientific knowledge of this species is still limited compared to other species of the same genus, Passiflora . This review compiles the latest scientific advances on Tumbo, which cover the food technological aspects of Tumbo fruit, its uses and its potential as a source of bioactives for different industries, especially food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics. The products (nectar, jellies, jams, wines, others) and by-products of the processing of the Tumbo fruit have various nutritional, sensory, and composition attributes for developing new food and non-food products...
May 15, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ryan V Labana, Ma Cate Nicole M Borda, Ryan Toribio A Campo, Maria Antonia V Ocampo
BACKGROUND: Parasitic diseases pose challenges in impoverished urban settlements with limited access to clean water, proper hygiene, and sanitation (WASH). This study assesses WASH practices and risk perceptions of parasitic infections among households in the Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Corporation (BASECO) Compound in Manila, an urban poor community in the Philippines. METHODS: A cross-sectional study design was employed to collect data through a self-administered questionnaire...
April 2024: Curēus
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