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Impact of rehabilitation adherence and depressive symptoms on post-stroke self-care ability and quality of life: a longitudinal study
CONCLUSION: Both depressive symptoms and rehabilitation adherence behavior impacted the rehabilitation effect among patients who are recovering from a stroke.PMID:37722691 | DOI:10.1080/10749357.2023.2259652
Source: Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation - September 18, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Jeng Wang Wen-Yu Kuo Min-Chi Chen Chen-Yin Chen Source Type: research
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, NIH unionization roadblocks, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ courtship and eg...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, a new infectious disease institute head, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ courtship and eg...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 10, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Incident risk and burden of cardiovascular diseases attributable to long-term NO < sub > 2 < /sub > exposure in Chinese adults
CONCLUSIONS: This study provided nationwide cohort evidence for elevated risks of CVD incidence associated with long-term ambient NO2 exposure among Chinese adults, particularly in urban areas and among overweight/obese individuals. Our findings highlighted that reducing NO2 exposure below 2021 WHO guideline could help prevent a substantial portion of incident CVD cases in China.PMID:37478679 | DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2023.108060
Source: Environment International - July 21, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kai Wang Yang Yuan Qun Wang Zhiming Yang Yu Zhan Yaqi Wang Fang Wang Yunquan Zhang Source Type: research
Analysis of carotid plaque risk factors in a population at high risk of stroke in Yubei District, Chongqing, China
Stroke is a condition marked by a high rate of morbidity, mortality, and impairment that is brought on by the rapid rupture of blood vessels in the brain or the obstruction of blood vessels that prevent blood from reaching the brain.1 The World Health Organization (WHO) lists the top 10 causes of mortality, with stroke coming in at number two. More than 6 million people worldwide lose their lives to stroke each year, with about 2 million of those deaths reported in China. Incidence of stroke is also higher in China than in Western populations.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - June 24, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Yujia Zou, Xiaohui Zhang, Xiaoqing Bu, Ziyan Zhang, Yi Wu, Yanni Ren, Lihong Mu Source Type: research
Alcohol consumption and risks of more than 200 diseases in Chinese men
Nat Med. 2023 Jun 8. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02383-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlcohol consumption accounts for ~3 million annual deaths worldwide, but uncertainty persists about its relationships with many diseases. We investigated the associations of alcohol consumption with 207 diseases in the 12-year China Kadoorie Biobank of >512,000 adults (41% men), including 168,050 genotyped for ALDH2- rs671 and ADH1B- rs1229984 , with >1.1 million ICD-10 coded hospitalized events. At baseline, 33% of men drank alcohol regularly. Among men, alcohol intake was positively associated with 61 diseases, including 33 not defi...
Source: Cancer Control - June 8, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Pek Kei Im Neil Wright Ling Yang Ka Hung Chan Yiping Chen Yu Guo Huaidong Du Xiaoming Yang Daniel Avery Shaojie Wang Canqing Yu Jun Lv Robert Clarke Junshi Chen Rory Collins Robin G Walters Richard Peto Liming Li Zhengming Chen Iona Y Millwood China Kadoo Source Type: research
Different types of percutaneous endovascular interventions for acute ischemic stroke
CONCLUSIONS: This review did not establish any difference in safety and effectiveness between the thrombo-aspiration approach and stent-retrieval thrombectomy for treating people with AIS. Furthermore, the combined group did not show any obvious advantage over either intervention applied alone.PMID:37249304 | PMC:PMC10228464 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD014676.pub2
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - May 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Xuesong Bai Xiao Zhang Haozhi Gong Tao Wang Xue Wang Wenjiao Wang Kun Yang Wuyang Yang Yao Feng Yan Ma Bin Yang Antonio Lopez-Rueda Alejandro Tomasello Vikram Jadhav Liqun Jiao Source Type: research
The final puff: Can New Zealand quit smoking for good?
Smoking kills. Ayesha Verrall has seen it up close. As a young resident physician in New Zealand’s public hospitals in the 2000s, Verrall watched smokers come into the emergency ward every night, struggling to breathe with their damaged lungs. Later, as an infectious disease specialist, she saw how smoking exacerbated illness in individuals diagnosed with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. She would tell them: “The best thing you can do to promote your health, other than take the pills, is to quit smoking.”
Verrall is still urging citizens to give up cigarettes—no longer just one by one, but by the thousands. As New...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 9, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting for vertebral artery stenosis
CONCLUSIONS: This Cochrane Review provides low- to moderate-certainty evidence indicating that there are no significant differences in either short- or long-term risks of stroke, death, or TIA between people with symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis treated with ET plus MT and those treated with MT alone.PMID:35579383 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD013692.pub2
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - May 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ran Xu Xiao Zhang Sihua Liu Xue Wang Wenjiao Wang Kun Yang Tao Wang Adam A Dmytriw Xuesong Bai Yan Ma Liqun Jiao Bin Yang Source Type: research
Why Acupuncture Is Going Mainstream in Medicine
When the opioid addiction crisis began to surge in the U.S. about a decade ago, Dr. Medhat Mikhael spent a lot of time talking to his patients about other ways to heal pain besides opioids, from other types of medications to alternative treatments.
As a pain management specialist at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., he didn’t anticipate leaving behind the short-term use of opioids altogether, since they work so well for post-surgical pain. But he wanted to recommend a remedy that was safer and still effective.
That turned out to be acupuncture.
“Like any treatment, acupuncture...
Source: TIME: Health - April 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate medicine Source Type: news
Nearly Everyone in the World is Breathing Polluted Air, Says WHO
(GENEVA, Switzerland) — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.
The World Health Organization, about six months after tightening its guidelines on air quality, on Monday issued an update to its database on air quality that draws on information from a growing number of cities, towns, and villages across the globe — now totaling over 6,000 municipalitie...
Source: TIME: Health - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JAMEY KEATEN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Environment healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
COVID-19 meets neurointervention on the pages of JNIS
As 2019 came to a close, a novel B-coronavirus, labeled by the World Health Organization as COVID-19, was noted to be spreading in China.1 The COVID-19 virus is an enveloped single-strand, positive-sense RNA, which means that the virus can use its RNA as the template from which to create proteins needed for propagation and, ultimately, spread. The name coronavirus refers to the characteristic crown-like appearance of these viruses that is seen on electron microscopy. By spring 2020, COVID-19 was spreading rapidly throughout the United States and Europe, and neurointerventionalists soon found themselves on the frontline.2 T...
Source: Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery - September 15, 2021 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Milburn, J. M., Regenhardt, R. W., Fiehler, J., Fargen, K. M., Hirsch, J. A. Tags: COVID-19 Commentary Source Type: research
Intrinsic capacity and its associations with incident dependence and mortality in 10/66 Dementia Research Group studies in Latin America, India, and China: A population-based cohort study
ConclusionsIn this study we observed a high prevalence of DICs, particularly in older age groups. Those affected had substantially increased risks of dependence and death. Most needs for care arose in those with DIC yet to become frail. Our findings provide some support for the strategy of optimising intrinsic capacity in pursuit of healthy ageing. Implementation at scale requires community-based screening and assessment, and a stepped-care intervention approach, with redefined roles for community healthcare workers and efforts to engage, train, and support them in these tasks. ICOPE might be usefully integrated into commu...
Source: PLoS Medicine - September 14, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Martin J. Prince Source Type: research
