We investigated the correlation between bone cement distribution and adjacent vertebral fractures (AVFs) after percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP)....
We retrospectively analyzed patients who underwent single-segment PVP for osteoporotic compression fractures in our hospital from January 2016 to January 2021 and divided the patients into 2 groups, A...
A total of 570 patients were included in this study: 511 patients in group A and 59 patients in group B. There were no statistical differences in the general data such as age, gender, and fracture sit...
The 3 evaluation methods reliably predict AVF after PVP, with the LAT method, PA and LAT method being more predictive than the PA method, but the LAT method is simpler, with bone cement being widely d...
In nursing education, essential skills include Critical Thinking (CT). There is scant evidence on how nurse educators could promote CT in students in a clinical context....
To analyse the level of CT and correlated variables in healthcare nurses overseeing the clinicals of nursing undergraduates....
The study population were all nurse educators for clinicals at hospitals with nursing undergraduates. To evaluate the CT skills of nurses the Nursing Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnai...
The total number of participants was 639. The highest mean CT level was seen in clinical nurses involved in undergraduate nursing instruction and with experience of up to 10 years (mean CT score = 372...
CT levels are high in teaching healthcare professionals in the clinical environment....
To investigate whether there is a curvilinear relationship between burnout and work engagement among staff in Chinese community services for the elderly....
A stratified whole-group random sampling method was used to survey 244 staff members from eight communities in two cities. Data were collected using the Maslach Burnout Inventory scale (MBI) and the U...
Two hundred forty-four staff members completed the survey. Burnout, depersonalization (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA) were found to be related to work engagement in a cubic function (...
There was a cubic function relationship between burnout and work engagement, where "personal accomplishment" was related to work engagement in a U-shaped curve. Therefore, the government and related s...
Previous research has already indicated an elevated risk of breast cancer (BC) among survivors of malignant lymphoma, but the underlying reasons remain unknown. Our objective is to elucidate the causa...
The analysis results from the FinnGen consortium indicate that there is no causal relationship between HL and NHL with BC. HL (OR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.98-1.04, p = 0.29), NHL (OR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.96-1...
The two-sample MR analysis indicates that there is no significant causal relationship between malignant lymphoma (HL and NHL) and BC. The association between malignant lymphoma and breast cancer requi...
Work alienation has a negative impact on nursing profession and may affect professional nursing development and willingness to learn during the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The aim of t...
Indications for kidney biopsy in adult IgA vasculitis (IgAV) remain debated and there are very few studies on this subject. The aim of this study was to establish a correlation between renal histologi...
A retrospective multicenter study was conducted using three databases from French hospitals, gathered between 1977 and 2020. The study included 294 adult patients with IgAV who had undergone kidney bi...
The patients were primarily men (64%), with a mean age of 52 years. The main organs and tissues involved were: dermatological 100%, digestive 48% and rheumatological 61%. All had features of kidney in...
Our study suggests that there is no strict baseline correlation between renal pathology and clinical-laboratory data. Given the current knowledge, it seems relevant to recommend a kidney biopsy in the...
The degree of maturity of oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFB) at the time of harvest heavily affects oil production, which is expressed in the oil extraction rate (OER). Oil palm harvests must be harve...
microRNAs (miRNAs) play pivotal roles in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), an endocrine and metabolic disorder that commonly occurs in women of childbearing age. This paper aimed to measure miR-222-3p...
Totally 111 PCOS patients and 94 healthy people were recruited and assigned to the overweight (ow) group and non-overweight (non-ow) group, followed by determination of serum miR-222-3p expression. Th...
miR-222-3p was highly-expressed in PCOS patients (p < 0.001), in especially PCOS ow patients. The area under the curve (AUC) of miR-222-3p diagnosing PCOS non-ow patients was 0.9474 and cut-off value ...
High expression of miR-222-3p assisted PCOS diagnosis and predicted increased risks of diabetic and cardiovascular complications. miR-222-3p targeted PGC-1α and was negatively-correlated with PGC-1α....
We investigated whether the impacts of childhood adiposity on adult-onset diabetes differ across proposed diabetes subtypes using a Mendelian randomisation (MR) design....
We performed MR analysis using data from European genome-wide association studies of childhood adiposity, latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA, proxy for severe autoimmune diabetes), severe insu...
Higher levels of childhood adiposity had positive genetically predicted effects on LADA (OR 1.62, 95% CI 1.05, 2.52), SIDD (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.18, 3.80), SIRD (OR 2.76, 95% CI 1.60, 4.75) and MOD (OR 7...
Childhood adiposity is a risk factor not only for adult-onset diabetes primarily characterised by obesity or insulin resistance, but also for subtypes primarily characterised by insulin deficiency or ...
Observational evidence reported that air pollution is a significant risk element for numerous health problems, such as obesity and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but their causal relationship is...
We obtained instrumental variables strongly correlated to air pollutants [PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide (NO...
PM2.5 genetically correlated with 5 obesity-related traits, which obesity class 1 was most affected (beta = 0.38, 95% CI = 0.11 - 0.65,...
Our study suggested that exposure to heavy air pollutants causally increased risks for obesity. Besides, obesity causally increased the risks for COVID-19 phenotypes. Attention needs to be paid to wei...
