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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ashly C Westrick, Peiyao Zhu, Christopher R Friese, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay C Kobayashi
PURPOSE: Cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are associated with increased risk for cognitive impairment and decline in the general population, but less is known about how CVRFs might influence cognitive aging among older cancer survivors. We aimed to determine how CVRFs prior to a cancer diagnosis affect post-cancer diagnosis memory aging, compared to cancer-free adults, and by race/ethnicity. METHODS: Incident cancer diagnoses and memory (immediate and delayed recall) were assessed biennially in the US Health and Retirement Study (N = 5,736, 1998-2018)...
April 22, 2024: Journal of Cancer Survivorship: Research and Practice
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Douglas Martin, Jacqui Hutchison, Agnieszka E Konopka, Carolyn J Dallimore, Gillian Slessor, Rachel Swainson
There is abundant evidence that emotion categorization is influenced by the social category membership of target faces, with target sex and target race modulating the ease with which perceivers can categorize happy and angry emotional expressions. However, theoretical interpretation of these findings is constrained by gender and race imbalances in both the participant samples and target faces typically used when demonstrating these effects (e.g., most participants have been White women and most Black targets have been men)...
March 2024: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Harrell Chesson, Ian H Spicknall, Kristen M Kreisel, Thomas L Gift
BACKGROUND: Productivity costs of STIs reflect the value of lost time due to STI morbidity and mortality, including time spent travelling to, waiting for, and receiving STI treatment. The purpose of this study was to provide updated estimates of the average lifetime productivity cost for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, per incident infection. METHODS: We adapted published decision tree models from recent studies of the lifetime medical costs of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in the United States...
April 19, 2024: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Jennifer Tang, Addie Crawley, Kelly Jamison, Athena Wong, Stephen Eng, Caroline Zhang, Isabella Navia, Carlos Cubas, Preeti Pathela
BACKGROUND: Public health emergencies can lead to reduced or suspended services in sexual health clinics (SHCs), raising questions about optimal ways to maintain access to care. We examined changes in sexual behaviors, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use, telehealth preference, and correlates of delayed sexual health care among patients attending New York City (NYC) publicly funded SHCs during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: 470 patients from four SHCs (July-September 2021) completed a self-administered survey that collected data on access to sexual health care, overall and over three distinct time periods [Spring 2020 (COVID-19 wave 1), Summer 2020, Fall 2020/Winter 2021 (COVID-19 wave 2)]...
April 19, 2024: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
TingTing Chen, YuanPeng Huang
BACKGROUND: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects 30% of men worldwide, folate is essential for life. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between folate levels and BPH. The present study aims to explore the relationship between red blood cell (RBC) folate, a better indicator of long-term folate intake, and BPH in United States (US) men. METHODS: We used statistics from four cycles of the "National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey" (NHANES2001-2008), RBC folate data come from laboratory data and BPH date come from questionnaire data...
December 2024: Aging Male: the Official Journal of the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male
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Redoy Ranjan, Gie Ken-Dror, Ida Martinelli, Elvira Grandone, Sini Hiltunen, Erik Lindgren, Maurizio Margaglione, Veronique Le Cam Duchez, Aude Triquenot Bagan, Marialuisa Zedde, Nicola Giannini, Ynte M Ruigrok, Bradford B Worrall, Jennifer J Majersik, Jukka Putaala, Elena Haapaniemi, Susanna M Zuurbier, Matthijs C Brouwer, Serena M Passamonti, Maria Abbattista, Paolo Bucciarelli, Robin Lemmens, Emanuela Pappalardo, Paolo Costa, Marina Colombi, Diana Aguiar de Sousa, Sofia Rodrigues, Patrícia Canhão, Aleksander Tkach, Rosa Santacroce, Giovanni Favuzzi, Antonio Arauz, Donatella Colaizzo, Kostas Spengos, Amanda Hodge, Reina Ditta, Alessandro Pezzini, Jonathan M Coutinho, Vincent Thijs, Katarina Jood, Turgut Tatlisumak, José M Ferro, Pankaj Sharma
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Coma is an independent predictor of poor clinical outcomes in cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT). We aimed to describe the association of age, sex, and radiological characteristics of adult coma patients with CVT. METHODS: We used data from the international, multicentre prospective observational BEAST (Biorepository to Establish the Aetiology of Sinovenous Thrombosis) study. Only positively associated variables with coma with <10% missing data in univariate analysis were considered for the multivariate logistic regression model...
April 22, 2024: European Journal of Neurology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul E Hanna, Tianqi Ouyang, Ismail Tahir, Nurit Katz-Agranov, Qiyu Wang, Lea Mantz, Ian Strohbehn, Daiana Moreno, Destiny Harden, James E Dinulos, Duru Cosar, Harish Seethapathy, Justin F Gainor, Sachin J Shah, Shruti Gupta, David E Leaf, Florian J Fintelmann, Meghan E Sise
BACKGROUND: Creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFRCRE ) may overestimate kidney function in patients with sarcopenia. While cystatin C-based eGFR (eGFRCYS ) is less affected by muscle mass, it may underestimate kidney function in patients with obesity. We sought to evaluate the relationship between body composition defined by computed tomography (CT) scans and discordance between creatinine, eGFRCRE and eGFRCYS in adult patients with cancer. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional study of consecutive adults with cancer with an abdominal CT scan performed within 90 days of simultaneous eGFRCRE and eGFRCYS measurements between May 2010 and January 2022...
April 22, 2024: Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guri Hagberg, Haakon Ihle-Hansen, Tamar Abzhandadze, Malin Reinholdsson, Adam Viktorisson, Hege Ihle-Hansen, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen
BACKGROUND: The shift towards milder strokes and studies suggesting that stroke symptoms vary by age and sex may challenge the Face-Arm-Speech Time (FAST) coverage. We aimed to study the proportion of stroke cases admitted with FAST symptoms, sex and age differences in FAST presentation and explore any additional advantage of including new item(s) from the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) to the FAST algorithm. METHODS: This registry-based study included patients admitted with acute stroke to Sahlgrenska University Hospital (November 2014 to June 2019) with NIHSS items at admission...
2024: BMJ neurology open
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Noha Bakhsh, Mai Banjar
PURPOSE: This retrospective study describes the imaging findings on chest computed tomography (CT) scans of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients as well as the prevalence of pulmonary fibrosis and the potential risk factors for the disease. METHODS: One of the major COVID-19 centers in the western province of Saudi Arabia, the King Abdullah Medical Complex in Jeddah, was the site of this study. All adult COVID-19 patients who got a CT chest scan between January 2020 and April 2022 were included in the trial...
March 2024: Curēus
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Yu Zhang, Ying-Bin Wang, Gui-Hua Yao, Hong Tang, Li-Xin Chen, Li-Xue Yin, Tian-Gang Zhu, Jian-Jun Yuan, Wei Han, Jun Yang, Xian-Hong Shu, Ya Yang, Yu-Lin Wei, Yan-Li Guo, Wei-Dong Ren, Dong-Mei Gao, Gui-Lin Lu, Ji Wu, Hong-Ning Yin, Yu-Ming Mu, Jia-Wei Tian, Li-Jun Yuan, Xiao-Jing Ma, Hong-Yan Dai, Yun-Chuan Ding, Ming-Yan Ding, Qing Zhou, Hao Wang, Di Xu, Mei Zhang, Yun Zhang
Three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography is an emerging technique for assessing right ventricular (RV) volume and function, but 3D-RV normal values from a large Chinese population are still lacking. The aim of the present study was to establish normal values of 3D-RV volume and function in healthy Chinese volunteers. A total of 1117 Han Chinese volunteers from 28 laboratories in 20 provinces of China were enrolled, and 3D-RV images of 747 volunteers with optimal image quality were ultimately analyzed by a core laboratory...
May 2024: MedComm
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Qi En Hong, Jonah Ee Hsiang Kua, Vincent K S Tay, Stephanie L S Chan, Christopher Wei Guang Ho, Jeremy Mingfa Sun
BACKGROUND: The goals of reconstruction have progressed from filling a defect to enhancing function and aesthetic appearance. We aimed to achieve better aesthetic and functional outcomes in terms of shoe fitting and mobility. This is accomplished via a classification of the subunits and aesthetic considerations of the lower limb. METHODS: Between April 2017 and December 2021, 66 cases of lower extremity free fasciocutaneous flap reconstruction cases were included in this retrospective study...
April 2024: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open
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Sophie C Bendrath, Hernán G Méndez, Anne M Dankert, Jose Manuel Lerma-Cabrera, Francisca Carvajal, Ana Paula Dornellas-Loper, Sophia Lee, Sofia Neira, Harold Haun, Eric Delpire, Montserrat Navarro, Thomas L Kash, Todd E Thiele
BACKGROUND: Binge alcohol drinking is a dangerous pattern of consumption that can contribute to the development of more severe alcohol use disorders (AUDs). Importantly, the rate and severity of AUDs has historically differed between men and women, suggesting that there may be sex differences in the central mechanisms that modulate alcohol (ethanol) consumption. Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) is a centrally expressed neuropeptide that has been implicated in the modulation of binge-like ethanol intake, and emerging data highlight sex differences in central CRF systems...
April 13, 2024: bioRxiv
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Chia-Chun Li, I-Ting Liu, Tien-Tsai Cheng, Fu-Wen Liang, Zih-Jie Sun, Yin-Fan Chang, Chin-Sung Chang, Yi-Ching Yang, Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Li-Chieh Kuo, Chih-Hsing Wu
The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) is a widely utilized country-specific calculator for identifying individuals with high fracture risk; its score is calculated from 12 variables, but its formulation is not publicly disclosed. We aimed to decompose and simplify the FRAX® by utilizing a nationwide community survey database as a reference module for creating a local assessment tool for osteoporotic fracture community screening in any country. Participants ( n = 16384; predominantly women (75%); mean age = 64...
May 2024: JBMR Plus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Valeria Cecchini, Neda Agahi
OBJECTIVES: Mental and cognitive health is crucial to ensure well-being in older age. However, prolonged periods of stress, grief, and bereavement might compromise mental health balance, leading to profound changes. This study investigated the sex-stratified associations between midlife bereavement experiences (e.g. sibling loss, spousal loss, and multiple losses) and late-life depression (LLD) and cognitive impairment. METHOD: Linked data from the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey and the Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD) were used...
April 21, 2024: Aging & Mental Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tae Kyung Yoo, Seung Wook Lee, Mi Yeon Lee, Hanna Choi, Ki-Chul Sung
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: This cohort study investigated associations of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) with risk of increase in arterial stiffness (AS), measured as brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV). METHODS AND RESULTS: Participants who had health examinations between 2006 and 2019 were analyzed for fatty liver and increased baPWV using liver ultrasonography and automatic volume plethysmography device...
March 13, 2024: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases: NMCD
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ziqing Zhong, Zuojian Hu, Wei Zhou, Xue Qin, Shaolin Tan
Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disorder characterized by an imbalance between bone resorption and formation, exhibiting a higher prevalence in women compared with men. While previous studies have primarily focused on genomics and genetics in osteoporosis susceptibility, there is a lack of systematic exploration of sex-specific differences in lipid levels in mouse bone marrow. Multiple reaction monitoring-based liquid chromatography-trandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was used to quantify lipidomic profiles in bone marrow samples from three female mice and three male mice...
April 21, 2024: Biomedical Chromatography: BMC
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paula M C Mommersteeg, Paul Lodder, Wilbert Aarnoudse, Michael Magro, Jos W Widdershoven
BACKGROUND: We examined the risk of psychosocial distress, including Type D personality, depressive symptoms, anxiety, positive mood, hostility, and health status fatigue and disease specific and generic quality of life for MACE in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease (NOCAD). METHODS: In the Tweesteden mild stenosis (TWIST) study, 546 patients with NOCAD were followed for 10 years to examine the occurrence of cardiac mortality, a major cardiac event, or non-cardiac mortality in the absence of a cardiac event...
April 19, 2024: International Journal of Cardiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
S De Vincentis, C Greco, F Fanelli, M C Decaroli, C Diazzi, M Mezzullo, J Milic, M C De Santis, L Roli, U Pagotto, G Guaraldi, V Rochira
PURPOSE: Sex steroids play a key role on male bone homeostasis and body composition (BC), their role in men living with HIV (MLWH) is less recognized. This study aimed at investigating the prevalence of low BMD, sarcopenia, and sarcopenic obesity (SO) and their relationship with sex steroids in MLWH aged < 50. METHODS: Prospective, cross-sectional, observational study on MLWH younger than 50 (median age 47.0 years). BC and BMD were evaluated with DXA...
April 20, 2024: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jan Jeszka, Darian Hummel, Malgorzata Woźniewicz, Tomoko Morinaka, Yoshiaki Sone, Douglas E Crews
BACKGROUND: Physiological dysregulation/allostatic load and the geriatric syndrome frailty increase with age. As a neurophysiological response system, allostasis supports survival by limiting stressor-related damage. Frailty reflects decreased strength, endurance, and physical abilities secondary to losses of muscle and bone with age. One suggestion, based on large cohort studies of person's ages 70 + years, is that frailty contributes to allostatic load at older ages. However, small community-based research has not confirmed this specific association...
April 20, 2024: Journal of Physiological Anthropology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Khandaker Tanveer Ahmed, Aziza Afrin, Mehedi Hasan, Sajjad Bin Sogir, Labiba Rahman, Md Karimuzzaman, Kazi Arifur Rahman, Md Moyazzem Hossain, Hafiz T A Khan
BACKGROUND: Disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) has been used to gain a better understanding of the population's quality of life. OBJECTIVES: The authors aimed to estimate age and sex-specific disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) for urban and rural areas of Bangladesh, as well as to investigate the differences in DFLE between males and females of urban and rural areas. METHODS: Data from the Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics-2016 and the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES)-2016 were used to calculate the disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) of urban and rural males and females in Bangladesh in 2016...
April 20, 2024: Population Health Metrics
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