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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…

BACKGROUND: Suicidal ideation and its most extreme outcome are important issues that should be studied from different theoretical approaches. Traditionally, it has been approached from the perspective of psychology; however, this study proposes an approach from the perspective of economics. The main objective of this s…

Using a longitudinal, cross-lagged design, this study examined the bidirectional relations between mothers' and fathers' sensitivity and children's externalizing (EXT) and internalizing (INT) behavior from middle childhood into adolescence. The subsample comprised families (N = 578) in which the mother and father cohab…

OBJECTIVES: IATPAD (Improvement in Access to Treatment for People with Alcohol and Drug Related Problems) is a European study. The study's main objective was to detect barriers and facilitators associated with access to treatment among patients with problems related to alcohol and drug use. This article presents the qu…

Thyroid function in early pregnancy has been reported to be slightly different from that in second or third trimester. We assessed thyroid function before and after induced abortion in normal pregnant women. A significant increase in serum Free T4 and a decrease in serum TSH were observed before abortion and these chan…

INTRODUCTION: Seasonal influenza vaccination (SIV) is recommended for people with diabetes, but its effectiveness has not been demonstrated. All of the available studies are observational and marred with the healthy vaccine bias, that is, bias resulting from the generally better health behaviours practised by people wh…

BACKGROUND: The study's primary goal is to ascertain whether there is a relationship between the processed green tea methanolic extract's (GTME) phytochemical components and its potential effectiveness against human liver cancer cells. The GTME's phytochemical composition was identified using gas chromatography-mass sp…

Membrane Bound O-Acyltransferase Domain-Containing 4 (MBOAT4) protein catalyzes ghrelin acylation, leading to prominent ghrelin activity, hence characterizing its role as an anti-obesity target. We extracted 625 exonic SNPs from the ENSEMBL database and one phenotype-based missense mutation associated with obesity (A46…

BACKGROUND: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the leading cause of genital diseases. It can cause a series of cervical lesions. The distribution of HPV genotypes indicates that the increased prevalence of high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) is positively correlated with the severity of cervical lesions. In addition, persisten…

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…

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…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether there are differences between the root canal disinfection, comparing the passive ultrasonic irrigation technique with the conventional technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The following electronic databases were searched: Pubmed; VHL; Web of Sciences and OVID with no publication date res…

BACKGROUND: The Gubbio Population Study (Gubbio Study) is a prospective epidemiological study carried out on the resident population of the city of Gubbio, Perugia, Italy. The study's objectives were both of public health nature (the control and awareness of hypertension), and experimental (the role of electrolyte hand…

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…

Full-length human retinal cDNA for S antigen (S-ag) and for the alpha subunit of transducin (alpha-Td) were subcloned into a bacterial expression plasmid vector to generate recombinant fusion proteins with glutathione-S-transferase (GST). The recombinant GST-S-ag and rGST-alpha-Td fusion proteins were purified from bac…

This editorial discusses a case-control study by Ibrahimpublished in the recent issue of the. Childhood bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease. It was found that an increase in oxidative stress leads to a decrease in antioxidants causing oxidative damage to mitochondrial respiratory chain comple…

Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening is an important issue. A recent study from Denmark concluded that one in three breast cancers diagnosed in screening areas in women aged 50-69 years were overdiagnosed. The purpose of this short communication was to disentangle the study's methodology in order to evaluate the so…

Pesticides and mycotoxins, prominent chemical hazards in the food chain, are commonly found in plant-based foods, contributing to their pervasive presence in the human body, as evidenced by biomonitoring programs. Despite this, there is limited knowledge about their co-occurrence patterns. While intervention studies ha…

PURPOSE: To analyze the self-reported outcomes after hearing aid fitting among individuals in the northern region of Minas Gerais and associated factors. METHODS: A cross-sectional and analytical study with a random sample of adults and elderly attending the public health care service was conducted in the northern reg…

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…