Industry of employment and occupational class in relation to cardiovascular health by race/ethnicity, sex/gender, age and income among adults in the USA: a cross-sectional study by Symielle A Gaston, Chandra L Jackson, Jamie A Murkey, Dana M Alhasan, W Braxton Jackson

“…Yet, few studies have included racially/ethnically diverse samples.Methods Using 2004–2018 National Health Interview Survey cross-sectional data, we investigated standardised occupational classifications in relation to ‘ideal’ CVH using a modified ‘ideal’ CVH (mICVH) metric among US adults (n=230 196) by race/ethnicity, sex/gender, age, and income. mICVH was defined as a report of ‘yes’ to the following: never smoked/former smoker; body mass index (≥18.5–25 kg/m2); physical activity (≥150–300 min/week moderate or ≥75–150 min/week vigorous); sleep duration (7–9 hours/night); and no prior diagnosis of dyslipidaemia, hypertension, or diabetes/pre-diabetes. …”
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Testing the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Potential Efficacy of an Innovative Digital Mental Health Care Delivery Model Designed to Increase Access to Care: Open Trial of the Dig... by Natalia Macrynikola, Kelly Chen, Erlend Lane, Nic Nguyen, Jennifer Pinto, Shirley Yen, John Torous

“…Feasibility and acceptability of this 8-week program were assessed against a range of benchmarks. …”
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Risk of Dysglycemia in Pregnancy amongst Kenyan Women with HIV Infection: A Nested Case-Control Analysis from the STRiDE Study by Sonak D. Pastakia, Wycliffe K. Kosgei, Astrid Christoffersen-Deb, Benson Kiragu, John N. Hector, Gertrude Anusu, Ponnusamy Saravanan

“…Within this study, women received venous testing for glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and fasting glucose between 8- and 20-week gestational age. At their 24-32-week visit, they received a venous 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). …”
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Effects of Yanghe Decoction on IL-1 and TNF-α of Papain in Rabbit Knee Osteoarthritis by Zhenqiang HONG, Hongjian GAO, Junjun HE, Zeling HUANG

“…All groups were intervened once a day, seven times a week, continuous intervention for five weeks. One week after drug withdrawal, all experimental animals were sacrificed, and the rabbit femoral medial condyle articular cartilage was taken. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Yijinjing Rehabilitation Training Combined with Interference Current Therapy on Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis by XU Ming, LI Ya, QIN Shuang, LU Xiaoye, AI Kun, ZHANG Hong

“…The control group received ICT on treatment additionally, with the carrier frequency of 4 000 Hz and the beat frequency of 90-100 Hz based on the tolerance of patients, once a day, 20 minutes a time, six times a week, lasting for four weeks. The observation group received additional Yijinjing rehabilitation training on the basis of the control group to ensure that the patients could complete 50% or more rehabilitation training, without pain or with slight pain, once a day, 20 minutes a time, six times a week, lasting for four weeks. …”
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Anti-TROVE2 Antibody Determined by Immune-Related Array May Serve as a Predictive Marker for Adalimumab Immunogenicity and Effectiveness in RA by Po-Ku Chen, Joung-Liang Lan, Yi-Ming Chen, Hsin-Hua Chen, Shih-Hsin Chang, Chia-Min Chung, Nurul H. Rutt, Ti-Myen Tan, Raja Nurashirin Raja Mamat, Nur Diana Anuar, Jonathan M. Blackburn, Der-Yuan Chen

“…ADAb-positive patients had lower drug levels at week 24 (median=0.024 μg/ml) compared with ADAb-negative patients (median=6.38 μg/ml, p<0.001). …”
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tiRNA-Gln-CTG is Involved in the Regulation of Trophoblast Cell Function in Pre-eclampsia and Serves as a Potent Biomarker by Yixiao Wang, Xiaohong Ji, Hengmei Shi, Sicong Liu, Hong Yu

“…It can serve as an effective biomarker for predicting PE progression within one week of delivery in women with suspected PE.…”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Chinese Medicine on Nonmotor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease by Ka-Kit Chua, Adrian Wong, Kam-Wa Chan, Yin-Kei Lau, Zhao-Xiang Bian, Jia-Hong Lu, Liang-Feng Liu, Lei-Lei Chen, Ka-Ho Chan, Kim-Pong Tse, Anne Chan, Ju-Xian Song, Justin Wu, Li-Xing Zhu, Vincent Mok, Min Li

“…We randomly assigned 111 patients with idiopathic PD to receive either JLT or placebo for 32 weeks. Outcome measures were baseline to week 32 changes in Movement Disorder Society-Sponsored Revision of Unified PD Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Parts I–IV and in NMS assessment scale for PD (NMSS). …”
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The Metabolome Characteristics of Aerobic Endurance Development in Adolescent Male Rowers Using Polarized and Threshold Model: An Original Research by Fanming Kong, Miaomiao Zhu, Xinliang Pan, Li Zhao, Sanjun Yang, Jinyuan Zhuo, Cheng Peng, Dongkai Li, Jing Mi

“…Objective: This study aimed to explore the molecular response mechanisms of differential blood metabolites before and after 8 weeks of threshold and polarized training models using metabolomics technology combined with changes in athletic performance. …”
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Effect of exercise intervention on health-related quality of life in middle-aged and older people with osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Di Geng, Xiaogang Li, Yan Shi

“…The optimal frequency is at least three per week, yielding the greatest improvement. Exercise interventions lasting 13–24 weeks had the most pronounced effect compared to other durations. …”
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Effect of Core Stability Training based on Bobath Concept on Motor Function of Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by Yaojin SUN, Xiaoqin ZHANG, Jian TANG, Xiaoke ZHAO, Ran HE

“…The control group was given conventional rehabilitation treatment, which mainly included anti-spasm (joint movement, passive traction), homework, language, massage, sports training (trunk rotation, hip adduction, pelvic pronation and control, limb movement, standing and balance, walking with legs raised, knee bending), one time a day, 40 min a time, six days a week, continuous treatment for three months. The observation group was given core stability training based on Bobath's concept on the basis of the control group, which mainly included static training (hip extension, hip, knee and ankle flexion, point support, bridge training, etc.) and dynamic training (paddling, trunk support, trunk rotation, chase toy etc.), one time a day, 80 min a time, six days a week, continuous treatment for three months. …”
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Deep proteomics and network pharmacology reveal sex- and age-shared neuropathic pain signatures in mouse dorsal root ganglia by Sabrina Grundtner, Julia R. Sondermann, Feng Xian, Daniel Malzl, Daniel Segelcke, Esther M. Pogatzki-Zahn, Jörg Menche, David Gómez-Varela, Manuela Schmidt

“…Here, we leveraged deep proteome profiling of mouse dorsal root ganglia (DRG) from adolescent (4-week-old) and adult (12-week-old) male and female mice to investigate the establishment of neuropathic pain in the spared nerve injury (SNI)-model in parallel. …”
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Elocalcitol, a fluorinated vitamin D derivative, prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity via SCAP downregulation and miR-146a-associated mechanisms by Monika Jürgenson, Keerthana Chithanathan, Aivar Orav, Külli Jaako, Janeli Viil, Mithu Guha, Kalev Kask, Alexander Zharkovsky

“…In this study, the therapeutic potential of elocalcitol, a fluorinated derivative of vitamin D, was studied on the model of high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity in mice.ResultsIt was demonstrated that co-administration of elocalcitol in the doses 15 ug/kg (i.p.) twice a week for 16 weeks prevented body weight gain by approximately 15%. …”
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Systemic Resolvin E1 (RvE1) Treatment Does Not Ameliorate the Severity of Collagen-Induced Arthritis (CIA) in Mice: A Randomized, Prospective, and Controlled Proof of Concept Study by Rafael Scaf de Molon, Rogier M. Thurlings, Birgitte Walgreen, Monique M. Helsen, Peter M. van der Kraan, Joni Augusto Cirelli, Marije I. Koenders

“…After CIA immunization, mice were treated twice a week by RvE1 or anti-TNF for 10 days. Arthritis development was assessed by visual scoring of paw swelling and histology of ankle joints. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Neuromuscular Joint Facilitation on Hemiplegia Patients with Cerebral Infarction by LIN Shaoying, YE Li, CHEN Zhenghong

“…The control group received upper limb rehabilitation therapy on the basis of conventional treatment, including functional electrical stimulation, passive joint movement training and transfer ability training, each training was 20 minutes a time, once a day, five days a week, continuous training for 10 days. The experimental group received NJF technical training on the basis of the control group, including upper limb extension-adduction-internal rotation mode, upper limb flexion-abduction-external rotation mode, upper limb flexion-adduction-external rotation mode and upper limb extension-abduction-internal rotation mode, 60 minutes a time, of which NJF technical training lasted for 20 minutes, the treatment content in the control group was shortened to 40 minutes a time, once a day, five days a week, continuous training for 10 days. …”
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S’unir au Prophète. L’expérience matérielle, esthétique et dévotionnelle du Dalā’il al-Khayrāt au Maroc. Approches codicologique et anthropologique by Hiba Abid, Anouk Cohen

“…The miniaturisation of manuscripts allows them to be recited at any moment of the day or week and in all situations. Their abundant illumination aims to facilitate the memorisation of the prayers while accompanying each division of the text. …”
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Giant Benign Senile Pyometra in Bicornuate Uterus by José Luís Lobato Miguélez, María Victoria San Roman Sigler, Miguel López Valverde

“…We present the case of an 84-year-old female patient referred to the Emergency Service of the Basurto University Hospital in Bilbao, Spain by the doctor of the nursing home where she is institutionalized because of a two-week history of continued fever without apparent cause. …”
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Shaggy Photoreceptors with Subfoveal Fluid Associated with a Distant Choroidal Melanoma by Ann Q. Tran, James A. Eadie, Michael M. Altaweel

“…The patient was treated with plaque brachytherapy and intravitreal bevacizumab. One week after plaque removal, there was a dramatic reduction in the shaggy photoreceptors. …”
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A Rare Presentation of a Rare Disease: Pulmonary Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis by Ghulam Rehman Mohyuddin, Fatima Sultan, Ghulam Khaleeq

“…A 70-year-old female presented with a 4-week history of dry cough and wheezing. Chest radiograph showed a 10.5 cm mass-like density in the anterior mediastinum which had not been previously visualized. …”
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Shönlein-Henoch Purpura in the Course of Chronic Primary Inmmune Thrombocytopenia. Presentation of a Case by Lucía Díaz Morejón, Belkis Lázara Rodríguez Jorge, Dumeivy García Sánchez

“…The progress was satisfactory in a three week period.…”
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