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PURPOSE: To investigate serum leptin levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and the relationship between leptin levels and T2DM complications and prevalence. METHODS: A total of 355 patients, 282 cases with T2DM and 73 normal controls, were recruited at 1st Medical Centre, Chinese PLA General Hospital (Beijing, China) between November 2013 and July 2014. Levels of serum leptin, biochemical markers and sexual hormones were measured, and clinical characteristics were retrieved through the electronic medical record system...

OBJECTIVES: In child and adolescent psychiatry, symptoms such as aggressive behaviors directed against others or self, anxiety, impulsivity, oppositional behaviors, sleep disorders, and impairments in emotional regulation or social interaction can resist conventional therapies, particularly in children with autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disability, early childhood trauma, or attachment disorders. Among complementary medicine, yoga and mindfulness meditation, which are relatively well documented, provide interesting avenues especially for emotional control in adolescents or any individuals with oppositional behaviors, anxiety, impulsivity or hyperactivity in males with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder...

Background: The incidence of ischemic stroke (IS) is much higher among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared to the general population. Few studies have evaluated the association between the risk of IS and the use of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in patients with CKD. We aimed to investigate the risk of IS among patients with CKD using CHM as add-on therapy. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study based on Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database to assess 21,641 patients with newly diagnosed CKD between 2003 and 2012...

INTRODUCTION: Allopurinol, widely used in the treatment of hyperuricemia and gout, has been shown to cause severe cutaneous reactions, including Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, as well as systemic reactions such as DRESS (Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms). The HLA-B*5801 allele is known to be a risk factor for severe cutaneous manifestations of hypersensitivity to allopurinol, mostly in Asian populations. OBSERVATION: We report the observation of a 47-year-old Chinese patient, with no previous medical history, carrying the HLA-B*5801 allele, who developed an isolated allopurinol hypersensitivity necrotizing renal vasculitis without cutaneous manifestations...

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OBJECTIVE: To keep health care providers, in response to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, informed about the medications that have been proposed to treat the disease and the evidence supporting their use. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE: A narrative review of medications most widely used to treat COVID-19 was conducted, outlining the best available evidence for each pharmacologic treatment to date. Searches were performed in PubMed, EMBASE, and MEDLINE using key words COVID-19 and treatment , as well as related terms...

Scientific research in integrative medicine has undergone significant development in recent years. Several studies published in 2020 focus on the management of chronic pain. Hypnosis has been shown to be as effective in analgesia as cognitive-behavioral therapy and therapeutic education. A study on chronic low back pain showed lower health care costs for patients using complementary medicine. Furthermore, the hypothesis of super responders to acupuncture treatment does not seem to be confirmed. Yoga could be a useful approach in the prevention of migraines...

The Confucian philosophy teaches us that the search for truth does not always follow a straight line. The clinical observation presented here illustrates this perfectly and is about a child afflicted by a rare neuromuscular disorder (in Chinese, the word 'myopathy' is translated to meaning 'frozen man') in whom was suspected a deficit in αB crystallin. The authors take the opportunity to put the spotlight on China, this great country which did not wait for Alain Peyrefitte to wake up or, more precisely, to rewake...

This collection of essays opens a critical examination of compassionate acts responding to social suffering in the intensely complex moral context of a rapidly changing and globalizing China. Jeanne Shea describes self-compassion among older women in China as a post-revolutionary response to changing opportunities and resistance to consumerism. Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce's essay frames the Buddhist organizations as NGOs and shows compassion being mobilized and its acts being spiritual-philanthropic, not political...

OBJECTIVE: To study the influence of different technique process and prescription on hygroscopic property of pharmaceutical materials of traditional Chinese medecine (TCM) was studied. METHOD: The sample prepared with banlangen and different excipients had been put in certain suroundings for 24 hours, then the hygroscopic curves and their parameters of hydroscopicity were gotten; the influence of that on hygscopic property of banlangen was studied. RESULT: The optimized damp-proof materials was polyoxylate II...