Objectives The 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in Korea caused major economic and social problems. The control intervention was conducted during the MERS-CoV outbreak in Korea immediately after the confirmation of the index case. This study investigates whether the early risk communication with the general public and mass media is an effective preventive st...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility and acceptability of a gentle yoga intervention for sleep disturbance in older women with osteoarthritis (OA) and to collect initial efficacy data on the intervention. METHODS All participants completed an 8-week yoga program that included 75-min weekly classes and 20 min of nightly home practice. Participants were women with OA...

This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public goods provision the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either increase or impede voluntary contributions. Surprisingly, very little light is shed in the literatur...

The authors conducted a quantitative literature review of the impact of 32 diet and physical activity (PA) interventions delivered in health care settings on cardiovascular disease risk factors. Intervention effects were relatively modest but statistically significant for PA, body mass index or weight, dietary fat, blood pressure, and total and low-density lipoprotein serum cholesterol. Interve...

However, recent studies have suggested a paradoxical relationship between obesity and clinical outcomes in certain subsets of patients. Data from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) registries suggest that the very lean and the very obese have an increased risk of in-hospital complications and short-term mortality.6 1. Dept. of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Tabriz University ...

When clopidogrel was first clinically used, the relation between the pharmacodynamic effect and thrombotic event occurrence was unknown. Moreover, when the new P2Y12 inhibitors were developed, the desired level of on-treatment platelet reactivity to adenosine diphosphate to avoid ischemic event occurrence was highly debated and some recommended that near-100% inhibition should be the target. Co...

The level of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) was observed to evaluate the improvement in function of the nutritional intervention. In total, 132 children with T1DM (T1DM group) and 132 healthy children (NC group) based on physical examination admitted to our hospital from September 2014 to June 2015 and were studied. General data of the two groups...