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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38646420/lifestyle-interventions-in-a-patient-identified-as-super-super-obese-with-a-body-mass-index-of-90-5
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Ghadeer Al Ghareeb, Duoaa Abdoh, Mostafa Kofi, Ayman Afify Konswa
Obesity is a growing global health concern. Saudi Arabia is experiencing a higher prevalence of obesity compared to the globe. This case report focuses on a 38-year-old female with a body mass index (BMI) of 90.5 kg/m2 , prediabetes, and obstructive sleep apnea who successfully underwent a lifestyle modification process resulting in remarkable weight loss. The patient's past unsuccessful attempts at weight loss had left her with a reluctance to try again initially. A multidisciplinary team collaborated to develop a management plan starting with an intensive lifestyle intervention...
April 2024: Journal of Medical Cases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38570010/the-dynamics-of-casual-groups-can-keep-free-riders-at-bay
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
José F Fontanari, Mauro Santos
Understanding the conditions for maintaining cooperation in groups of unrelated individuals despite the presence of non-cooperative members is a major research topic in contemporary biological, sociological, and economic theory. The N-person snowdrift game models the type of social dilemma where cooperative actions are costly, but there is a reward for performing them. We study this game in a scenario where players move between play groups following the casual group dynamics, where groups grow by recruiting isolates and shrink by losing individuals who then become isolates...
April 1, 2024: Mathematical Biosciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38559482/mental-health-issues-and-lifestyle-changes-associated-with-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-adolescents-a-cross-sectional-study-in-selected-schools-of-eastern-india
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Medha Gupta, Rachita Sarangi, Sumita Sharma, Lipilekha Patnaik
BACKGROUND: Due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), adolescents from all over the world have higher rates of anxiety, depression, and stress. This study attempts to assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health and lifestyle issues. The study also focuses on coping strategies adopted by the participants during the pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a cross-sectional study performed among school-going adolescents studying from classes VII to X of selected schools in Bhubaneswar...
2024: Journal of Education and Health Promotion
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38463422/exploiting-natural-language-processing-to-unveil-topics-and-trends-of-traumatic-brain-injury-research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mert Karabacak, Ankita Jain, Pemla Jagtiani, Zachary L Hickman, Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Konstantinos Margetis
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has evolved from a topic of relative obscurity to one of widespread scientific and lay interest. The scope and focus of TBI research have shifted, and research trends have changed in response to public and scientific interest. This study has two primary goals: first, to identify the predominant themes in TBI research; and second, to delineate "hot" and "cold" areas of interest by evaluating the current popularity or decline of these topics. Hot topics may be dwarfed in absolute numbers by other, larger TBI research areas but are rapidly gaining interest...
2024: Neurotrauma reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38452996/achieving-consensus-severity-graded-definitions-of-fontan-associated-complications-to-characterize-fontan-circulatory-failure
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kurt R Schumacher, Ari Cedars, Kiona Allen, David Goldberg, Adrianna Batazzi, Garrett Reichle, Frank DiPaola, David Selewski, Melissa Cousino, David N Rosenthal
BACKGROUND: Fontan physiology leads to chronic changes in other organ systems that may affect long-term survival and the success of heart transplantation. Inadequate assessment and treatment of the extra-cardiac effects of Fontan may contribute to poor outcomes. Severity graded/ordinal consensus definitions of Fontan complications are lacking which limits understanding of how Fontan-specific morbidity affects patient outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS: A panel of Fontan patient and physiology experts, including pediatric, adult congenital, heart failure, and critical care cardiology, and pediatric nephrology, hepatology and psychology, convened to develop definitions of Fontan complications...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Cardiac Failure
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38429842/what-could-be-the-reasons-for-not-losing-weight-even-after-following-a-weight-loss-program
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REVIEW
Jyoti Dabas, S Shunmukha Priya, Akshay Alawani, Praveen Budhrani
INTRODUCTION: Approximately four million people worldwide die annually because of obesity. Weight loss is commonly recommended as a first-line therapy in overweight and obese patients. Although many individuals attempt to lose weight, not everyone achieves optimal success. Few studies point out that weight loss eventually slows down, stagnates or reverses in 85% of the cases. RESEARCH QUESTION: What could be the reasons for not losing weight even after following a weight loss program? METHODS: A scoping review of the literature was performed using weight loss-related search terms such as 'Obesity,' 'Overweight,' 'Lifestyle,' 'weight loss,' 'Basal Metabolism,' 'physical activity,' 'adherence,' 'energy balance,' 'Sleep' and 'adaptations...
March 2, 2024: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38407195/assessment-and-management-of-patients-with-obesity-and-hypertension-in-european-society-of-hypertension-excellence-centres-a-survey-from-the-esh-working-group-on-diabetes-and-metabolic-risk-factors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christina Antza, Guido Grassi, Thomas Weber, Alexandre Persu, Jens Jordan, Peter M Nilsson, Josep Redon, Stella Stabouli, Reinhold Kreutz, Vasilios Kotsis
BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers are faced with an increasing number of patients with obesity and arterial hypertension. Preventing obesity-associated hypertension and appropriately managing patients with established disease are both important. Hence, the aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical care of patients with obesity and hypertension among ESH Excellence Centres (ECs). METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, international 30-item survey through e-mails...
December 2024: Blood Pressure
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38383249/influencing-factors-for-the-development-of-obstructive-sleep-apnea-after-orthognathic-surgery-in-skeletal-class-iii-patients-a-systematic-review
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REVIEW
Ziqing Wei, Huan Jiang, Shaotai Wang, Zheqing Wang, Bo Qu, Min Hu
This systematic review aimed to investigate the factors that may contribute to the development of OSA after orthognathic surgery in patients with skeletal class III. Electronic searches of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases were conducted up to December 10, 2022. In total, 277 studies were retrieved and screened according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and 14 were finally selected. All studies were of medium quality (moderate risk of bias). The occurrence of OSA after orthognathic surgery in patients with class III skeletal relationships depends on surgical factors and patient self-factors...
February 5, 2024: Journal of Cranio-maxillo-facial Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38380582/perceived-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-substance-use-in-a-dual-diagnosis-population-with-severe-mental-disorders-and-severe-substance-use-disorder-considering-the-self-medication-hypothesis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Signe Wegmann Düring, Stephen Fitzgerald Austin, Solvej Mårtensson, Katrine Schepelern Johansen
Aim: Based on a large cohort of dual diagnosis patients, the aim of this study was to quantify the patient-perceived problems and advantages of their substance use and relate the quantity of problems to the substance type and psychiatric diagnosis. Material : Data comes from a naturalistic cohort admitted to an in-patient facility in Denmark specialized in integrated dual diagnosis treatment. We included 1076 patients at their first admission to the facility from 2010 to 2017. Participants completed 607 DrugCheck and 130 DUDIT-E questionnaires...
February 21, 2024: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38342767/the-association-of-weight-loss-from-anti-obesity-medications-or-bariatric-surgery-and-apnea-hypopnea-index-in-obstructive-sleep-apnea
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REVIEW
Brian W Locke, Ainhoa Gomez-Lumbreras, Chia Jie Tan, Teerawat Nonthasawadsri, Sajesh K Veettil, Chanthawat Patikorn, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
INTRODUCTION: Weight loss is recommended for individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and overweight or obesity, but there is limited evidence to guide the selection of weight management strategies for patients who do not lose sufficient weight with diet and lifestyle changes. We evaluated the relationship between weight loss caused by pharmacologic or surgical interventions and subsequent improvement in OSA by the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). METHODS: PubMed, Cochrane CENTRAL, and EMBASE were searched for randomized trials comparing pharmacologic or surgical obesity interventions to usual care, placebo, or no treatment in adults with OSA...
February 11, 2024: Obesity Reviews
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38333766/healthiness-as-a-virtue-the-healthism-of-mhealth-and-the-challenges-to-public-health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michał Wieczorek, Leon Walter Sebastian Rossmaier
Mobile health (mHealth) technologies for self-monitoring health-relevant parameters such as heart frequency, sleeping patterns or exercise regimes aim at fostering healthy behavior change and increasing the individual users to promote and maintain their health. We argue that this aspect of mHealth supports healthism, the increasing shift from institutional responsibility for public health toward individual engagement in maintaining health as well as mitigating health risks. Moreover, this healthist paradigm leads to a shift from understanding health as the absence of illness to regarding health as the performance of certain rituals in order to project healthiness...
November 2023: Public Health Ethics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38306676/menstrual-cycle-and-situational-match-variables-effects-on-well-being-in-professional-female-soccer-players
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Will Abbott, Zoe Exall, Lisa Walsh, Tom Clifford
Purpose: We examined whether the situational match factors (location, result, and opposition quality), as well as playing position and menstrual cycle phase, influenced self-reported well-being in female soccer players. Methods: Twenty-two professional players (25 ± 5 years) from a squad in the Women's Super League in England self-reported their menstrual cycle phase via an online survey, and their soreness, sleep, stress, mood, and fatigue on a 1 (positive) to 5 (negative) scale on the morning of match day (MD) and for the next 3 days (referred to as MD + 1, MD + 2, MD + 3, respectively)...
February 2, 2024: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38241764/exercise-and-hypoxia-induced-hypercoagulability-is-counterbalanced-in-women-in-part-by-decreased-platelet-reactivity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
M Ninivaggi, F Swieringa, H Middelveld, V Schmalschläger, M Roest, R de Laat-Kremers, B de Laat
Hypoxia plays an important role in several pathologies, e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and is linked to an increased thrombosis risk. Furthermore, oxygen deprivation is associated with hypercoagulability. In this study, we investigated the effect of gender and exercise on the coagulation potential under hypoxic conditions at high altitude by assessing thrombin generation (TG) and platelet activation. Hereto, ten healthy volunteers were included (50 % male, median age of 27...
January 12, 2024: Thrombosis Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38174860/contribution-of-dysfunctional-sleep-related-cognitions-on-insomnia-severity-a-network-perspective
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eun Jung Cha, Sumin Hong, Seolmin Kim, Seockhoon Chung, Hong Jun Jeon
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Various models of insomnia stress the role of cognitive components, such as dysfunctional sleep-related beliefs, in maintenance and exacerbation of insomnia. This study aimed to employ network analysis to identify the particular beliefs that are central and have strong associations with insomnia severity. In addition, we aimed to employ a relative importance network to map out predictive pathways between types of dysfunctional beliefs and insomnia severity. METHODS: This study was a retrospective study, with data collected from 219 patients suffering from insomnia...
January 4, 2024: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine: JCSM: Official Publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38147286/association-of-sleep-duration-with-tooth-loss-and-periodontitis-insights-from-the-national-health-and-nutrition-examination-surveys-2005-2020
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manyi Liu, Yadong Wu, Jukun Song, Wei He
OBJECTIVE: Sleep disorders such as insomnia, apnea, and restless leg syndrome can negatively affect a person's overall health and may cause hypertension, heart failure, and coronary heart disease. Likewise, periodontitis, a gum disease, can lead to both physical and psychological health issues, exerting a considerable effect on one's overall well-being-periodontitis stands as a primary cause of tooth loss. Nevertheless, there has been insufficient research on the correlation between the amount of sleep individuals get and the occurrence of periodontitis/tooth loss among Americans...
December 26, 2023: Sleep & Breathing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38123281/don-t-lose-sleep-over-chronic-rhinosinusitis-with-nasal-polyps
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EDITORIAL
Charlene Dunaway Altamirano, Marc Breidenbaugh, Larry Borish
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 2024: Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38022002/obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-adults-and-ear-nose-and-throat-ent-health-a-narrative-review
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REVIEW
Nishtha Choudhury, Prasad Deshmukh
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a form of sleep-disordered breathing, is a significant health concern that leads to substantial morbidity. The collapse or occlusion of the upper airway, which results in reduced or cessation of airflow, is the pathophysiology of sleep apnea. The condition has been attributed to numerous cardiovascular, metabolic, and neuropsychological issues and carries serious health concerns. The ensuing intermittent hypoxia and sleep disruption set off a chain of physiological reactions that aid in developing endothelial dysfunction, systemic inflammation, and oxidative stress...
October 2023: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38015429/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-italian-students-mental-health-and-relationships-differences-between-adolescent-males-and-females
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Massimiliano Aragona, Martina Ventura, Anteo DI Napoli, Alessio Petrelli, Cristina Calvi, Andrea Cavani, Domenico Carbone, Manuel Finelli, Anna R Favretto, Concetta Mirisola
BACKGROUND: The negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of young people have been reported, often with possible differences between the sexes. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the differences in mental health status and healthy behaviors between adolescent males and females. METHODS: An online questionnaire exploring sociodemographic characteristics, living conditions, mental health, behaviors, and relationships during the implementation of the COVID-19 social restriction measures, was administered to 16-18 years old high school students living in the metropolitan area of Turin...
November 28, 2023: Minerva pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38004167/how-covid-19-pandemic-restrictions-affected-kuwaiti-college-students-anthropometry-lifestyle-behaviors-and-dietary-habits
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ahmad R Al-Haifi, Nayef Y Bumaryoum, Balqees A Al-Awadhi, Fahad A Alammar, Bader N Alkhalaf, Hazzaa M Al-Hazzaa
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented to control it have led to widespread lifestyle changes globally. While previous studies have explored these effects across different age groups, this research focuses uniquely on college students in Kuwait. A cross-sectional study (N = 1259) was conducted among college students using a validated online questionnaire covering various aspects, including demographics, academic performance, self-reported body weight and height, sleep duration, dietary habits, and physical activity...
November 13, 2023: Nutrients
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38002464/glp-1-receptor-agonists-and-related-mental-health-issues-insights-from-a-range-of-social-media-platforms-using-a-mixed-methods-approach
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Davide Arillotta, Giuseppe Floresta, Amira Guirguis, John Martin Corkery, Valeria Catalani, Giovanni Martinotti, Stefano L Sensi, Fabrizio Schifano
The emergence of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs; semaglutide and others) now promises effective, non-invasive treatment of obesity for individuals with and without diabetes. Social media platforms' users started promoting semaglutide/Ozempic as a weight-loss treatment, and the associated increase in demand has contributed to an ongoing worldwide shortage of the drug associated with levels of non-prescribed semaglutide intake. Furthermore, recent reports emphasized some GLP-1 RA-associated risks of triggering depression and suicidal thoughts...
October 24, 2023: Brain Sciences
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