13396 papers
This cross-sectional study of 786 older adults in Haikou, China, found that adherence to a dietary pattern rich in grains, tubers, soy, and whole grains is significantly associated with a reduced risk of sarcopenia, particularly among women, those aged 70–79, and rural residents.
This prospective two-center study in Chinese adults demonstrates that while split-dose oral sodium phosphate maintains high bowel cleansing adequacy across preparation-to-colonoscopy intervals of 3 to over 9 hours, a 3–5 hour interval yields the highest quality cleansing, making it the preferred scheduling window.
This retrospective study of 139,492 pediatric fractures at a Beijing orthopaedic center from 2009 to 2020 reveals a bimodal, sex-specific age distribution with a warm-season predominance, identifying falls and sports injuries as the primary mechanisms and distal radius and supracondylar humerus fractures as the most common types, thereby highlighting the need for targeted, preventable injury programs.
Contrary to the hypothesis that poor healthcare access would amplify the negative effects of heat exposure on child stunting, a study of two Nigerian Demographic and Health Surveys revealed a reversed interaction where heat was more strongly associated with stunting in areas with better healthcare access, likely due to a ceiling effect in regions with already high baseline stunting rates.
This retrospective cohort study of a tertiary centre in Southeast England reports an annual incidence of biopsy-proven paediatric glomerulonephritis of 2.45 per 100,000 children, highlighting a notably high proportion of lupus nephritis compared to typical paediatric cohorts and underscoring the need for nationwide epidemiological surveillance.
This single-center retrospective cohort study of 105 patients with symptomatic intracranial vertebral artery V4 stenosis found that while drug-eluting stents (DES) and bare-metal stents (BMS) demonstrated comparable 30-day safety, DES was associated with a significantly lower risk of follow-up ischemic stroke and a non-significant trend toward reduced in-stent restenosis.
This qualitative study utilizing the COM-B model identifies that medication non-adherence among elderly osteoporotic fracture patients stems from interactive barriers across capability, opportunity, and motivation domains, including physical limitations, economic constraints, and negative treatment perceptions, necessitating multifaceted interventions to improve adherence and prevent re-fractures.
This multi-country analysis of Global School-based Student Health Survey data from 11 African nations reveals that recommended twice-daily toothbrushing among 52,559 adolescents is incomplete (66.4%) and significantly associated with a complex interplay of factors, where general hygiene practices and supportive family environments correlate with higher uptake, while male sex, food insecurity, and various risk behaviors correlate with lower uptake.
This study protocol outlines a multicenter, assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of remotely monitored, home-based Baduanjin exercise combined with conventional education versus conventional education alone in improving cardiopulmonary function and other clinical outcomes for elderly patients with cardiopulmonary dysfunction following coronary revascularization.
This retrospective multi-center study demonstrates that while oocyte survival rates after vitrification remain stable regardless of advancing female age, blastulation rates significantly decline with age, highlighting that age-related reproductive challenges manifest post-fertilization rather than during the thawing process.