Impact of Clinical Factors on Generic and Disease-Specific Quality of Life in COPD and Asthma-COPD Overlap with Exacerbations by Zsófia Lázár, Alpár Horváth, Gábor Tomisa, Lilla Tamási, Veronika Müller

“…Patients with COPD (N =705) and ACO (N =148) belonging to C and D groups according to GOLD 2017 were recruited in stable condition. Demographic and clinical data were collected, spirometry was performed, and patients rated the intensity of respiratory symptoms during the previous week. …”
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Indicators of Glucose Metabolism in Children and Adolescents Characterized as Having “Metabolically Healthy” and “Metabolically Unhealthy” Obesity by Maria Baltogianni, Niki Dermitzaki, Vasileios Giapros, Foteini Balomenou, Chrysoula Kosmeri, Fani Ladomenou, Evanthia Kantza, Anastasios Serbis

“…Methods: This study recruited prospectively 104 children and adolescents (aged 6–16 years, 47 boys) with obesity. …”
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To remove or to replace traditional electronic games? A crossover randomised controlled trial on the impact of removing or replacing home access to electronic games on physical act... by Anne J Smith, Leon M Straker, Rebecca A Abbott

“…Objective To evaluate the impact of (1) the removal of home access to traditional electronic games or (2) their replacement with active input electronic games, on daily physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children aged 10–12 years.Design Crossover randomised controlled trial, over 6 months.Setting Family homes in metropolitan Perth, Australia from 2007 to 2010.Participants 10-year-old to 12-year-old children were recruited through school and community media. From 210 children who were eligible, 74 met inclusion criteria, 8 withdrew and 10 had insufficient primary outcome measures, leaving 56 children (29 female) for analysis.Intervention A counterbalanced randomised order of three conditions sustained for 8 weeks each: no home access to electronic games, home access to traditional electronic games and home access to active input electronic games.Main outcome measures Primary outcome was accelerometer assessed moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA). …”
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Development and Evaluation of a Mindfulness-Based Mobile Intervention for Perinatal Mental Health: Randomized Controlled Trial by Sehwan Park, Hee Young Cho, Jin Young Park, Kyungmi Chung, Kyungun Jhung

“…MethodsPregnant women were recruited and randomized to an intervention or a wait-list control group. …”
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Psilocybin-assisted therapy for reducing alcohol intake in patients with alcohol use disorder: protocol for a randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled 12-week clinical trial... by Claus Thorn Ekstrøm, Patrick MacDonald Fisher, Gitte Moos Knudsen, Dea Siggaard Stenbæk, Anders Fink-Jensen, Mathias Ebbesen Jensen, Tobias Søgaard Juul

“…Ninety treatment-seeking patients, aged 20–70 years, diagnosed with alcohol use disorder will be recruited from the community via advertisement and referrals from general practitioners or specialised treatment units. …”
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Moderate-severe aortic arch calcification and high serum alkaline phosphatase co-modify the risk of cardiovascular events and mortality among chronic hemodialysis patients by Cheng-Hao Chang, Hung-Hsiang Liou, Chung-Kuan Wu

“…The Cox proportional hazard model and Kaplan–Meier analysis were used to evaluate the risks of major adverse cardiovascular effects (MACEs) and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality after multivariate adjustment.Results Among 376 chronic HD patients recruited, 125 (33%) had non-to-mild AoAC/low Alk-P, 76 (20%) had non-to-mild AoAC/high Alk-P, 89 (24%) had moderate-to-severe AoAC/low Alk-P, and 86 (23%) had moderate-to-severe AoAC/high Alk-P. …”
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The accuracy of anthropometric indices in detecting hypertension in Sudanese adults: a cross-sectional study by Imad R. Musa, Osman E. Osman, Ahmed M. Khair, Ishag Adam

“…Methods Adults were recruited for a multi-stage sampling survey in Northern Sudan. …”
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Association among Blink Rate, Changes in Ocular Surface Temperature, Tear Film Stability, and Functional Visual Acuity in Patients after Cataract Surgery by Takashi Itokawa, Yukinobu Okajima, Takashi Suzuki, Tatsuhiko Kobayashi, Yuto Tei, Koji Kakisu, Yuichi Hori

“…To investigate the association among the ocular surface temperature (OST), tear film stability, functional visual acuity (FVA), and blink rate in patients after cataract surgery. Methods. We recruited 98 eyes of 69 patients (mean age, 73.7 ± 5.2 years) 1 month after phacoemulsification with implantation of acrylic intraocular lenses and assessed slit-lamp microscopy, corrected distance VA, FVA, noninvasive tear breakup time (NIBUT), and OST. …”
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Higher systemic immune-inflammation index is associated with increased risk of Parkinson’s disease in adults: a nationwide population-based study by Jiayu Zhao, Zhipeng Wu, Zhipeng Wu, Fengyin Cai, Xuejv Yu, Zhenyu Song

“…BackgroundThis study aimed to explore the association between a new inflammatory marker, systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), and the risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD) in adult population.MethodsA cross-sectional design was used, participants were recruited from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2005 to 2020. …”
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Swiss chiropractic practice-based research network and musculoskeletal pain cohort pilot study: protocol of a nationwide resource to advance musculoskeletal health services researc... by Milo A Puhan, Viktor von Wyl, Alice Kongsted, Cesar A Hincapié, Léonie Hofstetter, Rahim Lalji

“…Phase I focuses on the development of the Swiss chiropractic PBRN, and will use a cross-sectional design to collect information from chiropractic clinicians nationwide. Phase II will recruit consecutive patients aged 18 years or older with MSK pain from community-based chiropractic practices participating in the PBRN into a prospective chiropractic cohort pilot study. …”
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Availability and use of child safety seats among children aged 0-3 years by CHEN Bo，WANG Xihui，QIU Fengqian，YU Yan，GAO Shuna，HE Lihua，LI Weiyi，JI Yunfang，CHEN Weihua

“…Methods:Parents of children aged 0-3 years in Huangpu District, Shanghai Municipality, were recruited using the stratified multistage random sampling method from May to July 2024. …”
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Client perspectives on creating supportive sexual health environments for people with persistent anxiety: a qualitative study by Mark Gilbert, Travis Salway, Stéphanie Black, Sarah Watt, Aidan Ablona, Hsiu-Ju Chang, Heather Nicole Pedersen

“…Objectives We sought to explore sexual health service clients’ perspectives, preferences and suggestions for how to better address or alleviate anxiety among clients of sexual health services (eg, sexually transmitted infection testing) regarding both online and in-person sexual health services among those who experience persistent anxiety.Methods We conducted qualitative interviews with 27 sexual health service clients with persistent experiences of anxiety in British Columbia, Canada. Participants were recruited from respondents to a COVID-19-related sexual health survey who consented to follow up. …”
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Effect of Kinesiophobia Mediated Disease Perception on Rehabilitation Exercise Adherence in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by LI Juanli, CHEN Fangyuan, ZHENG Xiaopu, CHEN Chen, LI Rui

“…ObjectiveTo explore the effect of kinesiophobia mediated disease perception on rehabilitation exercise adherence in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).MethodsA total of 313 outpatients who have been treated with PCI and followed up in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University from January to December 2021 were recruited with the convenient sampling method. The included patients were investigated with the basic data questionnaire, the simplified version of the Disease Perception Questionnaire, the Exercise Adherence for Cardiac Rehabilitation Questionnaire, and the Kinesiophobia Scale.ResultsThere were 65 patients (20.77%) with good rehabilitation exercise adherence after PCI treatment, 185 patients (59.11%) with fair rehabilitation exercise adherence and 63 patients (20.13%) with poor rehabilitation exercise adherence. …”
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The Relationship between Perirenal Fat Thickness and Reduced Glomerular Filtration Rate in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Yuan Fang, Yuechao Xu, Yuxian Yang, Chang Liu, Dong Zhao, Jing Ke

“…A total of 171 patients with T2DM were recruited in the study. The basic and clinical characteristics including sex, age, diabetes duration, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), visceral fat area (VFA), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), serum uric acid (UA), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) were collected. …”
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Comparison of Brain Activation Between Different Modes of Motor Acquisition: A Functional Near‐Infrared Study by Meng‐Hsuan Tsou, Pei‐Yun Chen, Yi‐Ting Hung, Yong‐Wei Lim, Shiuan‐Ling Huang, Yan‐Ci Liu

“…Methods This cross‐sectional study recruited 29 healthy young adults. Participants performed a functional reaching and grasping task under ME, MI, AO, and MVF mode with their right arms at a frequency of 0.5 Hz for 1 min per task. …”
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Association between deep gray matter iron deposition and clinical symptoms in Parkinson’s disease: a quantitative susceptibility mapping study by Hui Zhao, Hui Zhao, Qiu-Hong Ji, Zhong-Zheng Jia, Li-Hua Shen

“…PurposeThis study aimed to assess the association between motor and non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and iron accumulation within the deep gray matter of the brain by Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM).MethodsFifty-six PD patients and twenty-nine healthy controls were recruited in this study. According to the Hoehn and Yahr (H-Y) stage score, PD patients were divided into early stage (H-Y ≤ 2) and advanced stage (H-Y > 2) groups. …”
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Prevalence of Fabry Disease among Patients with Parkinson’s Disease by Alexandra Lackova, Christian Beetz, Sebastian Oppermann, Peter Bauer, Petra Pavelekova, Tatiana Lorincova, Miriam Ostrozovicova, Kristina Kulcsarova, Jana Cobejova, Martin Cobej, Petra Levicka, Simona Liesenerova, Daniela Sendekova, Viktoria Sukovska, Zuzana Gdovinova, Vladimir Han, Mie Rizig, Henry Houlden, Matej Skorvanek

“…The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of FD among patients with PD. Methods. We recruited 236 consecutive patients with PD from February 2018 to December 2020. …”
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Benefits of the Global Integration Method (Método de Integração Global - MIG) in functional priorities of parents of Brazilian children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorde... by Amanda Aparecida Alves Cunha Nascimento, Deisiane Oliveira Souto, Thalita Karla Flores Cruz, Arthur Felipe Barroso de Lima, Gabriela Silva Oliveira, Vitor Geraldi Haase

“…Methods A total of 241 children/adolescents with ASD (mean age, 6.92 ± 3.61 years) were recruited from different regions of Brazil. 76% (76%) were male, and 40.7% were classified as having support level 2. …”
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Estimation of Knowledge, Attitude and Prevalence of Female Sex Dysfunction in Elderly Pakistani Women by Khola Noreen, Farah Ayyaz, Lubna Meraj, Tabinda Khalid, Javara Malik, Muhammad Akram Randhawa

“…Results: A total of 150 middle-aged and elderly women were randomly included in the study.The females reporting with some medical or gynaecological problem at the teaching hospital of RMU, willing to participate and gave informed written consent where recruited. Their mean age was 54.5+ 2.5 and the overall FSD prevalence rate, estimated from the ‘Yes’ response to questions related to FSD symptoms, was 56.9%. …”
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Dimensions of suffering and the need for palliative care: experiences and expectations of patients living with cancer and diabetes and their caregivers in Mexico – a qualitative st... by Svetlana V Doubova, Ingrid Patricia Martinez-Vega, Felicia Knaul, Afsan Bhadelia, Diana Pérez-Moran, Nancy García-Cervantes

“…Data were analysed through inductive thematic analysis.Participants Overall, 20 patients with end-stage cancer, 13 patients with diabetes and 35 family caregivers were interviewed individually.Setting Participants were recruited from two family medicine clinics and a pain clinic in Mexico City.Results Seven themes emerged: (1) suffering as a multifaceted phenomenon, (2) diversity in perceptions of suffering, (3) different coping strategies, (4) need and perceived importance of relief from suffering, (5) barriers to accessing services to relieve suffering, (6) demand for the health sector’s active and humane role in addressing suffering and (7) preferences and need for comprehensive care for relief from suffering. …”
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