The short form of the Impact Weight on Quality Life (IWQOL) is a 31-item self-report, that assesses influence weight life quality in five areas: physical function, self-esteem, sexual life, public distress, and work. objective this study was to assess reliability validity instrument Mexican adults with ranging from normal obese. Participants were 211 women 98 men recruited university. During pr...

BACKGROUND The observed controversy that N-(4-cyanophenylmethyl)-4-(2-diphenyl)-1-piperazinehexanamide (LP-211), a selective serotonin (5-HT7) receptor agonist, may either modify or exacerbate imbalances in serum electrolyte concentrations and renal tissue of spinal cord trauma cases has not been reported yet. The aim of this study was to better understand the effects of a new 5-HT7 receptor ag...

BACKGROUND Clinical application of body composition (BC) measurements for individual children has been limited by lack of appropriate reference data. OBJECTIVES (1) To compare fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM) standard deviation scores (SDS) generated using new body composition reference data and obtained using simple measurement methods in healthy children and patients with those obtaine...

Background Simultaneously adhering to multiple healthy lifestyle factors has been related to up to 90% reduction in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) incidence in White populations; however, little is known about whether such protective effects persist in other non-White populations. Methods We examined the associations of six lifestyle factors with T2DM in the China Kadoorie Biobank of 461 211 particip...

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BACKGROUND It is not clear which bariatric procedure that gives the best outcome for patients with super obesity (body mass index [BMI] > 50 kg/m2). This study aims to compare outcomes in patients with super obesity after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and duodenal switch (BPD/DS) using the Bariatric Analysis and Reporting Outcome System (BAROS) and a local questionnaire for gastrointestinal s...

The mortality of burn patients remains high in spite of the advances made in treating initial burn shock, controlling burn wound infection, and providing nutritional support. Smoke inhalation is recognized as a strong determinant of morbidity and mortality in burn patients, and most burn patients die because of associated inhalation injury. There are many reports on this combined injury (cutane...

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Purpose: To assess the effects of ligustrazine on progression hypoxia-reoxygenation (H/R), and explore possible role miR-211 in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury identify its potential targeting gene. Methods: The level H/R-induced cells was detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction. CCK-8, flow cytometry (FCM), Western blot assays were performed to examine effect USP47 remi...