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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wen Wu, Wenxing Guo, Naifan Zhang, Min Gao, Kexin Zhang, Elizabeth N Pearce, Shaohan Li, Zhiyuan Ren, Ying Yang, Chunxi Wang, Wanqi Zhang
Ensuring optimal iodine nutrition in pregnant women is a global public health concern. However, there is no direct data on safe tolerable upper intake levels (ULs) for pregnant women. A cross-sectional study was performed to determine the ULs of pregnant women. A total of 744 pregnant women were enrolled in this study. The median (IQR) urinary iodine concentration (UIC) in pregnant women was 150.2 (87.6, 268.0) μg/L, and the urinary iodine excretion (UIE) over 24 h was 204.2 (116.0, 387.0) μg/day...
March 28, 2023: Nutrients
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Asma Mathlouthi, Kevin Yei, Isabella Guajardo, Omar Al-Nouri, Mahmoud B Malas, Andrew Barleben
BACKGROUND: Type II endoleaks (ELII) are the most common complication following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). Persistent type II endoleaks require continual surveillance and have been shown to increase the risk of Type I and III endoleaks, sac growth, need for intervention, conversion to open or even rupture directly or indirectly. These are often difficult to treat following EVAR and there are limited data regarding the effectiveness of prophylactic treatment of ELII. The aim of this study is to report midterm outcomes of prophylactic perigraft arterial sac embolization (pPASE) performed in patients undergoing EVAR...
March 9, 2023: Annals of Vascular Surgery
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Yamile Zabana, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Iago Rodríguez-Lago, Isabel Vera, María Dolores Martín-Arranz, Iván Guerra, Javier P Gisbert, Francisco Mesonero, Olga Benítez, Carlos Taxonera, Ángel Ponferrada-Díaz, Marta Piqueras, Alfredo J Lucendo, Berta Caballol, Míriam Mañosa, Pilar Martínez-Montiel, Maia Bosca-Watts, Jordi Gordillo, Luis Bujanda, Noemí Manceñido, Teresa Martínez-Pérez, Alicia López, Cristina Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Santiago García-López, Pablo Vega, Montserrat Rivero, Luigi Melcarne, María Calvo, Marisa Iborra, Manuel Barreiro de Acosta, Beatriz Sicilia, Jesús Barrio, José Lázaro Pérez Calle, David Busquets, Isabel Pérez-Martínez, Mercè Navarro-Llavat, Vicent Hernández, Federico Argüelles-Arias, Fernando Ramírez Esteso, Susana Meijide, Laura Ramos, Fernando Gomollón, Fernando Muñoz, Gerard Suris, Jone Ortiz de Zarate, José María Huguet, Jordina Llaó, Mariana Fe García-Sepulcre, Mónica Sierra, Miguel Durà, Sandra Estrecha, Ana Fuentes Coronel, Esther Hinojosa, Lorenzo Olivan, Eva Iglesias, Ana Gutiérrez, Pilar Varela, Núria Rull, Pau Gilabert, Alejandro Hernández-Camba, Alicia Brotons, Daniel Ginard, Eva Sesé, Daniel Carpio, Montserrat Aceituno, José Luis Cabriada, Yago González-Lama, Laura Jiménez, María Chaparro, Antonio López-San Román, Cristina Alba, Rocío Plaza-Santos, Raquel Mena, Sonsoles Tamarit-Sebastián, Elena Ricart, Margalida Calafat, Sonsoles Olivares, Pablo Navarro, Federico Bertoletti, Horacio Alonso-Galán, Ramón Pajares, Pablo Olcina, Pamela Manzano, Eugeni Domènech, Maria Esteve, On Behalf Of The Eneida Registry Of Geteccu
(1) Scant information is available concerning the characteristics that may favour the acquisition of COVID-19 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess these differences between infected and noninfected patients with IBD. (2) This nationwide case-control study evaluated patients with inflammatory bowel disease with COVID-19 (cases) and without COVID-19 (controls) during the period March-July 2020 included in the ENEIDA of GETECCU. (3) A total of 496 cases and 964 controls from 73 Spanish centres were included...
December 19, 2022: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Jinxian Lin, Ling Zhang
China's energy-intensive industry (EII) is characterized by high pollution, high energy consumption, and high emissions. It is essential to boost this sector's green total factor productivity (GTFP) in order to support the sustainable development of the China's economy and help to achieve the objective of carbon neutrality. This work measures the evolution of GTFP in EII and its subsectors at provincial and regional level from 2001 to 2019, identifies the causes of these changes, and finally analyzes the particular spatial aggregation effect of GTFP in EII...
December 19, 2022: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
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Jose Luis Rueda García, Cristina Suárez Ferrer, Eduardo Martín-Arranz, Laura García-Ramírez, María Sánchez-Azofra, Joaquín Poza Cordón, Jesús Noci, Tamara Vergés, Paula Blanco San Miguel, María Dolores Martín-Arranz
BACKGROUND: Data regarding bowel preparation in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) are scarce. AIM: To compare efficacy, safety, and tolerability of low-volume preparations in patients with IBD. METHODS: Single-center, randomized, prescriber, and colonoscopist-blinded clinical trial. IBD outpatients undergoing colonoscopy were randomized 1:1:1 to receive 1 Liter-polyethylene glycol-ascorbate (1L-PEG), 2 Liters-PEG, or sodium picosulfate (SP)...
December 15, 2022: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
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Ludovic Giraud, Marie Destors, Rita Clin, Christol Fabre, Stéphane Doutreleau, Ihab Atallah
PURPOSE: Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction (EILO) is suspected when dyspnea associated with upper airway symptoms is triggered by exercise. This condition affects mainly adolescent athletes. Visualization of the obstruction, while the patient is experiencing the symptoms during continuous laryngoscopy during exercise (CLE-test) is the gold standard for diagnosing EILO. Our study aims to evaluate the prevalence of EILO in a population presenting exercise-induced inspiratory symptoms (EIIS) or uncontrolled asthma with exertional symptoms...
September 22, 2022: European Archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology
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Cang Gong, Shunxiang Wang, Dewei Wang, Haichuan Lu, Hang Dong, Jiufen Liu, Buqing Yan, Liang Wang
To determine the heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) contamination of agricultural soil in hotbed chives hometown of Tangchang, 788 topsoil samples were collected and analyzed for their heavy metal(loid)s concentration. The index of geo-accumulation (Igeo ), pollution index (PI) and potential ecological risk index (EIi ) were used to assess the degree of pollution. Correlation analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to determine the sources of soil HMs. Human health risks estimated with hazard index (HI) and carcinogenic risk (CR) indices based on ingestion, inhalation and dermal exposure pathways for adults and children...
September 1, 2022: Scientific Reports
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D Polterauer, G Mandruzzato, M Neuling, M Polak, J Müller, J M Hempel
OBJECTIVE: Subjective promontory stimulation is used to evaluate cochlear implant (CI) candidacy, but the test reliability is low. Electrically evoked auditory brainstem response (EABR) can verify the function of the auditory system objectively. This study's procedure uses a trans-tympanic rounded bent-tip electrode to perform pre-operative EABR under local anaesthesia (LA-TT-EABR) using MED-EL Software and Hardware. This study aimed to determine usability and effectiveness for CI candidates...
August 27, 2022: International Journal of Audiology
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Boram Cha, Kyungmin Choi, Kee Wook Jung, Hwa Jung Kim, Ga Hee Kim, Hee Kyong Na, Ji Yong Ahn, Jeong Hoon Lee, Kee Don Choi, Do Hoon Kim, Ho June Song, Gin Hyug Lee, Hwoon-Yong Jung, Segyeong Joo
BACKGROUND: Currently, there are no high-resolution impedance manometry (HRIM)-based diagnostic criteria for non-obstructive dysphagia (NOD). New impedance parameters, such as the esophageal impedance integral (EII) and volume of inverted impedance (VII) ratios, have shown strong correlations with bolus transit. This study compared the EII and VII ratios as diagnostic tools for NOD. METHODS: We analyzed 36 participants (12 patients with achalasia, 12 patients with NOD [7 with normal motility and 5 with ineffective esophageal motility], and 12 asymptomatic controls) who underwent HRIM with a maximum of 5 swallows per participant...
August 23, 2022: Neurogastroenterology and Motility: the Official Journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society
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Renxin Wang, Jianxin Bai, Xiaohang Zhu, Zhaodong Li, Lixia Cheng, Guojun Zhang, Wendong Zhang
To acquire high-quality electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, traditional Ag/AgCl wet electrodes used together with conductive gel can effectively reduce electrode-skin interface impedance (EII) in a short term. However, their weaknesses of poor flexibility and instability can no longer meet the long-term monitoring requirements of intelligent wearable devices. Owing to the flexible dry electrode without conductive gel, it is a good choice to solve the critical problem on drying-out of conductive gel. Therefore, we develop a flexible microneedle array electrode (FMAE) based on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate, which obtains reliable bioelectrical signals by way of penetrating into the stratum corneum (SC) of the skin...
August 12, 2022: Biomedical Microdevices
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Junshi Li, Yundong Ma, Dong Huang, Zhongyan Wang, Zhitong Zhang, Yingjie Ren, Mengyue Hong, Yufeng Chen, Tingyu Li, Xiaoyi Shi, Lu Cao, Jiayan Zhang, Bingli Jiao, Junhua Liu, Hongqiang Sun, Zhihong Li
Polyimide-based flexible microneedle array (PI-MNA) electrodes realize high electrical/mechanical performance and are compatible with wearable wireless recording systems. The normalized electrode-skin interface impedance (EII) of the PI-MNA electrodes reaches 0.98 kΩ cm2 at 1 kHz and 1.50 kΩ cm2 at 10 Hz, approximately 1/250 of clinical standard electrodes. This is the first report on the clinical study of microneedle electrodes. The PI-MNA electrodes are applied to clinical long-term continuous monitoring for polysomnography...
June 14, 2022: Nano-Micro Letters
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Supakit Khacha-Ananda, Unchisa Intayoung, Klintean Wunnapuk, Kanyapak Kohsuwan, Pitchayuth Srisai, Ratana Sapbamrer
Epidemiologic studies have suggested an association between agrochemical exposure and risk of renal injury. Farmers face great risks to developing adverse effects. The most appropriate biomarker related to renal injury needs to be developed to encounter earlier detection. We aim to study the association between early renal biomarker and occupational herbicide exposure in maize farmers, Thailand. Sixty-four farmers were recruited and interviewed concerning demographic data, herbicide usage, and protective behavior...
May 17, 2022: Toxics
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Tianyi Zeng, Hong Jin, Zhifei Geng, Zihang Kang, Zichen Zhang
Climate change caused by CO2 emissions is a controversial topic in today's society; improving CO2 emission efficiency (CEE) is an important way to reduce carbon emissions. While studies have often focused on areas with high carbon and large economies, the areas with persistent contraction have been neglected. These regions do not have high carbon emissions, but are facing a continuous decline in energy efficiency; therefore, it is of great relevance to explore the impact and mechanisms of CO2 emission efficiency in shrinking areas or shrinking cities...
May 9, 2022: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Mohammad Shoushtari, Ladan Mafakher, Saman Rahmati, Mostafa Salehi-Vaziri, Arash Arashkia, Farzin Roohvand, Ladan Teimoori-Toolabi, Kayhan Azadmanesh
One-third of the world's population is at risk of Dengue infection. Envelope domain 3 (EDIII) and nonstructural protein1 (NS1) proteins as the potent antigenicity regions for humoral immunity in addition to the bc loop region as a completely conserved region have been used for designing protective vaccines. We aimed to design vaccine candidates according to the bc loop, EDIII, and NS1 regions of Dengue serotype2 to be used as vaccine candidates for all serotypes of Dengue virus especially serotype 2. Firstly the bc loop region with EDII fragments at both ends as well as EDIII and NS1 regions were used which were linked with the GGGGS linker to the bc loop region...
June 2022: Molecular and Cellular Probes
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Zhongliang Shen, Jingwen Wu, Zixiang Gao, Shenyan Zhang, Jingwen Chen, Jingjing He, Yifei Guo, Qiang Deng, Youhua Xie, Jing Liu, Jiming Zhang
Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) is associated with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Upon infection of hepatocytes, HBV covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) exists as histone-bound mini-chromosome, subjected to transcriptional regulation similar to chromosomal DNA. Here we identify high mobility group AT-hook 1 (HMGA1) protein as a positive regulator of HBV transcription that binds to a conserved ATTGG site within enhancer II/core promoter (EII/Cp) and recruits transcription factors FOXO3α and PGC1α...
February 7, 2022: Nucleic Acids Research
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Yamile Zabana, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Iago Rodríguez-Lago, Isabel Vera, María Dolores Martín-Arranz, Iván Guerra, Javier P Gisbert, Francisco Mesonero, Olga Benítez, Carlos Taxonera, Ángel Ponferrada-Díaz, Marta Piqueras, Alfredo J Lucendo, Berta Caballol, Míriam Mañosa, Pilar Martínez-Montiel, Maia Bosca-Watts, Jordi Gordillo, Luis Bujanda, Noemí Manceñido, Teresa Martínez-Pérez, Alicia López, Cristina Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Santiago García-López, Pablo Vega, Montserrat Rivero, Luigi Melcarne, Maria Calvo, Marisa Iborra, Manuel Barreiro de-Acosta, Beatriz Sicilia, Jesús Barrio, José Lázaro Pérez, David Busquets, Isabel Pérez-Martínez, Mercè Navarro-Llavat, Vicent Hernández, Federico Argüelles-Arias, Fernando Ramírez Esteso, Susana Meijide, Laura Ramos, Fernando Gomollón, Fernando Muñoz, Gerard Suris, Jone Ortiz de Zarate, José María Huguet, Jordina Llaó, Mariana Fe García-Sepulcre, Mónica Sierra, Miguel Durà, Sandra Estrecha, Ana Fuentes Coronel, Esther Hinojosa, Lorenzo Olivan, Eva Iglesias, Ana Gutiérrez, Pilar Varela, Núria Rull, Pau Gilabert, Alejandro Hernández-Camba, Alicia Brotons, Daniel Ginard, Eva Sesé, Daniel Carpio, Montserrat Aceituno, José Luis Cabriada, Yago González-Lama, Laura Jiménez, María Chaparro, Antonio López-San Román, Cristina Alba, Rocío Plaza-Santos, Raquel Mena, Sonsoles Tamarit-Sebastián, Elena Ricart, Margalida Calafat, Sonsoles Olivares, Pablo Navarro, Federico Bertoletti, Horacio Alonso-Galán, Ramón Pajares, Pablo Olcina, Pamela Manzano, Eugeni Domènech, Maria Esteve, On Behalf Of The Eneida Registry Of Geteccu
We aim to describe the incidence and source of contagion of COVID-19 in patients with IBD, as well as the risk factors for a severe course and long-term sequelae. This is a prospective observational study of IBD and COVID-19 included in the ENEIDA registry (53,682 from 73 centres) between March-July 2020 followed-up for 12 months. Results were compared with data of the general population (National Centre of Epidemiology and Catalonia). A total of 482 patients with COVID-19 were identified. Twenty-eight percent were infected in the work environment, and 48% were infected by intrafamilial transmission, despite having good adherence to lockdown...
January 14, 2022: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Fermín Mearin, Miquel Sans, Agustín Balboa
In our opinion there is an imbalance between the relevance of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and the resources that are provided. OBJECTIVE: To review the different factors that determine (or should determine) the interest of gastroenterologists in IBS, comparing it with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For this, 7 different areas have been analyzed: 1. Medical impact; 2. Social impact; 3. Academic importance; 4. Clinical relevance; 5. Scientific relevance; 6. Public relevance; and 7...
January 17, 2022: Gastroenterología y Hepatología
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Mingcong Xie, Xizhang Wei, Yanqun Tang, Dujuan Hu
Aperture-level simultaneous transmit and receive (ALSTAR) attempts to utilize adaptive digital transmit and receive beamforming and digital self-interference cancellation methods to establish isolation between the transmit and receive apertures of the single-phase array. However, the existing methods only discuss the isolation of ALSTAR and ignore the radiation efficiency of the transmitter and the sensitivity of the receiver. The ALSTAR array design lacks perfect theoretical support and simplified engineering implementation...
December 24, 2021: Sensors
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Meijie Chu, Hongye Li, Shengnan Lin, Xinlan Cai, Xian Li, Shih-Han Chen, Xiaoke Zhang, Qingli Man, Chun-Yang Lee, Yi-Chen Chiang
Suicide events may have a negative impact on all of society. The media plays a significant role in suicide prevention. Therefore, the aims of this study are (a) to understand the association between characteristics of suicide events and characteristics of who committed suicide, and event impact indexes (EIIs) of suicide reported on the internet; (b) to analyze violation of recommendations for reporting suicide by Weibo, and (c) to investigate the effect of online reports of suicide on public opinion. We carried out a content analysis of online reports of suicide...
2021: Frontiers in Public Health
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Esther A Torres, Mariela Torres-Cintron, Stephanie Velazquez, Roberto Vendrell, Antonio Del Valle, Cynthia M Pérez
OBJECTIVE: Inflammatory Bowel Disease has increased in Hispanics. This study estimates its prevalence in Puerto Rico for 2013 and compares it with prior reports. METHODS: The database of commercial and government insurance claims of the Department of Health for 2013 was used. A case was defined as having at least two medical claims of outpatient services or one or more hospitalizations and emergency department visits with an ICD-9 code for Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis...
September 2021: Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal
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