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INTRODUCTION Diabetes mellitus is a chronic endocrine-metabolic disease, the evolution of which is closely related to people´s self-control of glycemic levels through nutrition, exercise, and medicines. AIM To determine whether smartphone apps can help persons with diabetes to improve their % levels of glycosylated hemoglobin. METHOD A systematic…[Read more]

BACKGROUND Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a highly effective therapy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI); however, a small percentage of patients fail to achieve cure even after two FMTs. This high-risk cohort remains poorly understood. METHODS We performed a multicenter, multinational retrospective review of patients…[Read more]

ery better and lessened the degree of myocardial tissue damage. The counts of white blood cell (WBC), neutrophil (Neu), lymphocyte (Lym), and the release of TNF-α and IL-6 were reversed by TI treatment. SOD level was increased, while MDA level was decreased by TI treatment.

Collectively, our findings indicated that TI exerted…[Read more]

BACKGROUND A Mediterranean-style eating pattern is consistently associated with a decreased diabetes risk in Mediterranean and European populations. U0126 supplier However, results in U.S. populations are inconsistent. The objective of this study was to assess whether a Mediterranean-style eating pattern would be associated with diabetes risk in a…[Read more]

The median visual analog scale scores for tampon use and invasive endometrial sampling were 0 (range, 0-10) and 5.5 (range, 1-10) (p  less then  0.001). None of the tampon samples analyzed by cytology showed endometrial cells, but they did contain vital squamous cells and granulocytes. By contrast, 18 (78%) of the invasive endometrial samples c…[Read more]

Intra-articular hyaluronic acid and corticosteroids are alternative to oral NSAIDs, but the evidence is still limited. Shield-1 If steps 1 and 2 are not sufficient, weak opioids could be used. Overall, the conclusions of the ESCEO algorithm are accepted in China for products available in this country. The WG suggests the importance of economic…[Read more]

This dataset contains demographic information of 355 respondents and a validated 32-items Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (SoCQ). The SoCQ questionnaire was developed based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) which measures seven stages of concerns as the variables. They are unconcerned, informational, personal, management, consequence,…[Read more]

The proposal of metformin as an anticancer drug has been explored in many types of cancers. Metformin may act synergistically with standard prostate cancer therapies. However, there is still a debate about the effect of metformin on hormone sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC).

randomized controlled trial. Eligible patients were high risk…[Read more]

Intracardiac platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is a pathological condition that leads to a reduction in oxygenation in the sitting position. The detection rate of patent foramen ovale that causes POS increases with Valsalva manoeuvre and cough. We report the case of a 92-year-old woman with POS, which could not be diagnosed in the sitting…[Read more]