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INTRODUCTION: Nutrition therapy is essential to the care of critically ill patients. Information that is used to calculate the differences between patients' nutrition prescription and actual provision may be flawed due to errors in manually recording the amount of enteral nutrition (EN) provided. This study's purpose w…

OBJECTIVE: Despite the significant influence of collective violence on the health status of its victims, there are still many gaps in our understanding of the nature of the functional limitations this violence produces and its impact on victims' wellbeing and quality of life. The ISAVIC study was carried out in the aut…

Few neuroimaging studies are sufficiently large to adequately describe population-wide variations. This study's primary aim was to generate neuroanatomical norms and individual markers that consider age, sex, and brain size, from 629 cerebral measures in the UK Biobank (N = 40,028). The secondary aim was to…

Context • Anecdotal evidence concerning a relationship between human illnesses and a full moon is frequently claimed by as many as 81% of mental health workers. Previous scientific investigations have studied only the full-moon phase and its possible effect on psychiatric presentations. However, information is l…

Research consistently highlights how systemic and social factors can adversely impact mental health, and the potential buffering effects of family support, yet raced sexual minorities are vastly underrepresented among these studies. As rates of suicide increase among Black people and remain high among men and those in…

OBJECTIVE: The study's objective was to summarize the psychometric evaluation of self-report symptom instruments used in children with cancer younger than 8 years of age. METHODS: We conducted electronic searches of Ovid Medline, EMBASE, PsycInfo, Science Citation, Social Science Citation (Web of Science), and CI…

OBJECT: To systematically evaluate the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy on anxiety and depression symptoms of patients with Parkinson's disease. METHODS: Four electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Library) to May 2019 were searched. The outcome measure of interest was anxiety and depres…

PURPOSE: This study determined acculturative stress' effect on the life satisfaction of multicultural adolescents based on Roy's Adaptation Model and some earlier studies. Further, it examined the sequential multiple mediating effects of bicultural acceptance attitude, self-esteem, and social withdrawal on life satisfa…

The prevalence rate of those overweight, as well as obesity among children in Saudi Arabia, keeps rising. The aim of the study was to estimate childhood obesity in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. Over the period 2016 to 2017, a cross-sectional campaign was carried out in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Data w…

Despite efforts to improve healthcare delivery and ensure patient safety, medicolegal claims in Saudi Arabia remain a concerning issue. This study investigated medical violation claims referred to the medical violation committee in the Eastern Province in Saudi Arabia. A retrospective study was conducted on medical vio…

Communicating physiological information via the tactile modality is shown as a promising means to address data overload faced by anesthesia providers. However, it is important to ensure that the tactile parameters which represent information are intuitive. There is currently no consensus on which tactile parameters sho…

AIM: To describe how reliability assessment data in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS) were collected and analysed, and to present the results thereof. METHODS: There were two sources of anthropometric data (length, head and arm circumferences, triceps and subscapular skinfolds, and height) for these an…

OBJECTIVE: The study's subject was to examine the correlation between histologic findings in patients with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HGSIL) who have undergone loop electrosurgical excisional procedure (LEEP) with and without prior colposcopically directed biopsy. STUDY DESIGN: This retrospective stud…

OBJECTIVE: To examine self service tobacco displays (SSTDs) and youth retail tobacco access by comparing longitudinal illegal tobacco sales rates in three communities in Santa Barbara County, California, that considered or implemented ordinances banning SSTDs. A confirmatory survey was also conducted to substantiate th…

Evaluation of: Segal BM, Constantinescu CS, Raychaudhuri A et al. Repeated subcutaneous injections of IL12/23 p40 neutralising antibody, ustekinumab, in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a Phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, dose-ranging study. Lancet Neurol. 7, 796-804 (2008). I…

BACKGROUND: It is thought that airway inflammation is more common in obese asthmatic patients because inflammation is harder to control and does not respond well to glucocorticoid treatment. OBJECTIVE: This study's aim was to investigate the effect of obesity on airway and systemic inflammation in children with asthma…

Increasing activity of oil sands extraction and processing in northern Alberta is marked by ongoing controversy about the nature and extent of associated environmental impacts. Bitumen contains a mixture of toxic chemicals, including metals and residual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), whose release into the en…

A proof-of-principle study was conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of dental putty as an alternative sinus augmentation biomaterial. Six healthy patients requiring a total of 10 sinus augmentations received sinus augmentations. All patients volunteered and signed an informed consent based on the Helsinki declar…

Nitrogen mustard (NM) is a highly toxic alkylating agent. Inhalation exposure can cause acute and chronic lung injury. This study's aims were to develop an in vitro coculture model of mustard-induced airway injury and to identify growth factors contributing to airway pathology. Primary human bronchial epithelial cells…

UNLABELLED: Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. As dyslipidemia increases cardiovascular disease risk, proper management of dyslipidemia is one means by which to decrease cardiovascular disease risk. This review focuses on dyslipidemia treatment utilizing fibrate therapy, which target…