A study on the relationship between depression, treatment side effects, and marital quality in cervical cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy (宫颈癌放化疗患者抑郁与治疗副反应和婚... by LI Yuhuan (李玉环), ZENG Ya (曾娅), XING Yuzhen (邢育珍)

“…Objective To explore the relationship between depression and treatment side effects and marital quality in patients undergoing radiotherapy and or chemotherapy for cervical cancer, as well as the moderating role of neurotic personality and quality of life in this relationship, in order to provide a theoretical basis for the prevention of and intervention in patients' depression. Methods The Patient-Reported Outcome Version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE), the Functional Assessment of Cervical Cancer Therapy Scale (FACT-Cx), the 9-entry Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the Big Five personality neuroticism subscale (NEO-FFIN), and the short version of the Marital Adjustment and Prediction Scale (Locke-Wallace) were used to conduct a cross-sectional survey of 1053 cervical cancer patients. …”
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Reversing cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure using a cardiac targeting peptide linked to miRNA106a by Ming Lu, Siqi Cai, Kyle Korolowicz, Claire Deng, Kaan Taskintuna, Gerard Ahern, Raymond B. Yurko, Kazi R. Islam, Bryn Schoonover, Jack B. Lopuszynski, Hongkun Wang, Maliha Zahid, G. Ian Gallicano

“…., hypertension, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, etc.) lead to structural and functional changes in cardiomyocytes, resulting in HF. …”
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Left ventricle myocardial remodeling following septal myectomy in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy by Guanyu Lu, Liqi Cao, Jiehao Ou, Xinyi Luo, Wei Zhu, Zhicheng Du, Jian Liu, Yuelong Yang, Xinyue Zhang, Peijian Wei, Hongxiang Wu, Huiming Guo, Hui Liu

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ANALYSIS OF THE GINGIVAL RECESSION PREVALENCE AMONG DENTAL PATIENTS CONSIDERING ASSOCIATED AGE-RELATED, IATROGENIC AND PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF DENTAL STATUS by O.A. Krasnokutskyy, P.A. Hasiuk, M.Y. Goncharuk-Khomyn

“…Among all diagnosed recessions cases that were observed among patients of different age subgroups, 13,71±6,72% were associated with periodontitis pathology, 5,04±2,98% with overcrowding, 7,80±3,84% with signs of pathological attrition, 9,06±2,13% with non-carious cervical dental lesions, 7,85±1,60% with carious lesions of enamel and dentin, 7,97±1,83% with parafunctional activity and/or traumatic occlusion pattern, 7,85±4,26% with the fact of orthodontic intervention, 9,75±2,44% with existing problematic restorations, 8,16±1.62% with anomalies of teeth position, 7,72±0,74% with inadequate oral hygiene condition, 5,25±0,90% with bad habits that were identified during anamnesis collection, 5,28±2,60% with anomalies of mucous bundles attachment, while in 4,55±4,18% of the cases diagnosed recessions were not clinically associated with functional or structural dental status disorders. …”
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