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Also, emphasizing how to overcome potential barriers would improve low-income older adults' actual F&V intake by increasing their sense of control over consuming F&V.

Findings from this study suggest health promotion programs aimed at increasing F&V intake among low-income older adults should focus on establishing F&V intake as a habit so that an individual's intentions to consume F&V can be transformed into actual F&V intake. Sodium hydroxide supplier Also, emphasizing how to overcome potential barriers would improve low-income older adults' actual F&V intake by increasing their sense of control over consuming F&V.Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) still remain the leading concern of global health, accounting for approximately 17.9 million deaths in 2016. The pathogenetic mechanisms of CVDs are multifactorial and incompletely understood. Recent evidence has shown that alterations in the gut microbiome and its associated metabolites may influence the pathogenesis and progression of CVDs such as atherosclerosis, heart failure, hypertension, and arrhythmia, yet the underlying links are not fully elucidated. Owing to the progress in next-generation sequencing techniques and computational strategies, researchers now are available to explore the emerging links to the genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes in parallel meta-omics approaches, presenting a panoramic vista of culture-independent microbial investigation. This review aims to outline the characteristics of meta-omics pipelines and provide a brief overview of current applications in CVDs studies which can be practical for addressing crucial knowledge gaps in this field, as well as to shed its light on cardiovascular risk biomarkers and therapeutic intervention in the near future.Background Sarcopenia has a high prevalence in older adults and is associated with chronic aggravations to health, so therefore it is important to identify older adults who are affected by sarcopenia in order to establish preventative strategies or early interventions.Objective To estimate the prevalence of probable sarcopenia and verify its association with cognitive impairment, fear of falling, depressive symptoms and health self-perception in community-dwelling older adults.Methods A cross-sectional study with simple random sampling including 306 older adults of both genders. The outcome variable was probable sarcopenia evaluated by the Five times sit-to-stand test (5XSST) considering probable sarcopenia when the measured time was > 15 seconds, following the recommendation of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People. The predictor variables were cognitive impairment, fear of falling, depressive symptoms and self-perception of health. Multivariate Logistic Regression was performed to verify associations between the variables.Results The prevalence of probable sarcopenia was 50.00%. The older adults had significantly higher chances of presenting probable sarcopenia when displaying cognitive impairment (OR 2.49; 95%CI 1.46-4.24), fear of falls (OR 4.23; 95%CI 2.51-7.12), depressive symptoms (OR 2.20; 95%CI 1.32-3.67), poor (OR 2.48; 95%CI 1.19-5.16) and fair self-perception of health (OR 2.11; 95%CI 1.22-3.63) when compared to those who did not have the same conditions.Conclusion The prevalence of probable sarcopenia in this study was 50.00%, and was associated with the presence of depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment, fear of falls and negative self-perception of health.Acinetobacter baumannii is an important pathogen in hospital acquired infections. Although tigecycline currently remains a potent antibiotic for treating infections caused by multidrug resistant A. baumannii (MDRAB) strains, reports of tigecycline resistant isolates have substantially increased. The resistance mechanisms to tigecycline in A. baumannii are far more complicated and diverse than what has been described in the literature so far. Here, we characterize in vitro-selected MDRAB strains obtained by increasing concentrations of tigecycline. We have identified mutations in adeS, rrf and rpoB that result in reduced susceptibility to tigecycline. Using in situ complementation experiments, we confirm that mutations in rrf, rpoB, and two types of mutations in adeS correlate with tigecycline resistance. By Western blot and polysome profile analysis, we demonstrate that the rrf mutation results in decreased expression of RRF, which affects the process of ribosome recycling ultimately leading to increased tigecycline tolerance. A transcriptional analysis shows that the mutated rpoB gene plays a role in regulating the expression of the SAM-dependent methyltransferase (trm) and transcriptional regulators, to confer moderate tigecycline resistance. This study provides direct in vitro evidence that mutations in the adeS, rpoB and rrf are associated with tigecycline resistance in A. baumannii.Workplace bullying among school nurses is a significant problem with supervisors either contributing to or preventing such behavior. This study aimed to determine if support from nursing and school supervisors is associated with workplace bullying among Virginia school nurses. In this analysis of a cross-sectional survey, responses from 159 school nurses with two supervisors to the Survey of Perceived Supervisor Support and Short-Negative Acts Questionnaire were examined. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed. Findings demonstrated a significant, inverse relationship between perceived support from both supervisors and workplace bullying, accounting for 27.7% of the variance. No relationship was found between bullying and frequency of supervisor contact. The research suggests quality and not quantity of supervisor support may protect school nurses against workplace bullying.Introduction Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (WM) is a rare lymphoma characterized by the accumulation of IgM-secreting lymphoplasmacytic cells in the bone marrow and other organs. Clinical sequelae relate to direct tissue infiltration by malignant cells but also to the physicochemical and immunological properties of the monoclonal IgM, resulting in a variety of disease-related complications.Areas covered This narrative review, following a thorough Pubmed search of pertinent published literature, discusses complications secondary to WM, related to direct tumor infiltration, monoclonal IgM circulation, and deposition, as well as other less common ones. The description and pathophysiology of these complications were described together with their specific management strategies and in the context of available treatment options for WM (anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody-based combinations, proteasome inhibitors, BTK inhibitors, and other emerging ones).Expert opinion The availability of many novel, active and less toxic regimens for the treatment of WM allows the management of the disease with strategies that depend on clinical presentation and disease-related complications, age, toxicity considerations, and presence of comorbidities.

Dispatcher assistance can help to save lives during layperson cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiac arrest. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different camera positions on the evaluation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance during video-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

For this randomized, controlled simulation trial, seven video sequences of cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance were recorded from three different camera positions side, foot and head position. Video sequences showed either correct cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance or one of the six typical errors low and high compression rate, superficial and increased compression depth, wrong hand position or incomplete release. Video sequences with different cardiopulmonary resuscitation performances and camera positions were randomly combined such that each evaluator was presented seven individual combinations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and camera position and evaluated each cardiopulmonarr all perspectives.

Participants were able to recognize significantly more mistakes when the camera was located on the opposite side of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation provider. Foot position should be avoided in order to enable the dispatcher the best possible view to evaluating cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality.

Participants were able to recognize significantly more mistakes when the camera was located on the opposite side of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation provider. Foot position should be avoided in order to enable the dispatcher the best possible view to evaluating cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality.Bacteria that cause life-threatening illnesses in humans are also capable of contaminating hospital surfaces, thus pose as a potential source of infection. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, genetic diversity, virulence, and antibiotic resistance profile of Klebsiella pneumoniae in South Africa. In a nonoutbreak setting involving four public hospitals, 777 samples were collected in three different wards from 11 different sites. Phenotypic and genotypic methods were used for isolation and identification. The Kirby-Bauer disk-diffusion method was used to examine antibiotic resistance followed by the combination disk method to characterize extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs). Antibiotic resistance and virulence genes were screened using PCR and clonality was investigated using enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR. Seventy-five (10%) K. pneumoniae isolates were recovered. These isolates were obtained from all four hospitals and all three wards involved. However, only six frequently touched surfaces were contaminated. Thirty (40%) isolates were characterized as ESBLs showing high resistance to antibiotics and mostly harboring the blaCTX-M group one gene. Virulence genes were highly prevalent among all the isolates. ERIC-PCR showed that the isolates recovered from different sites within the same hospital were genetically similar. The study highlighted that K. pneumoniae can contaminate various surfaces and this persistence allows for the dissemination of bacteria within the hospital environment. The information from this study can assist hospitals to evaluate and improve current infection prevention and control interventions in place.

The aim of current systematic review and meta-analysis is to provide insight into the therapeutic efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for the decolonization of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria from the gut.

The protocol for this Systematic Review was prospectively registered with PROSPERO(CRD42020203634). Four databases (EMBASE, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, and WEB of SCIENCE) were consulted up until September 2020. A total of fourteen studies [

(

 = 2), case reports (

 = 7), case series without control arm (

 = 3), randomized clinical trials (RCT,

 = 2)], were reviewed. Data were synthesized narratively for the case reports, along with a proportion meta-analysis for the case series studies (

 = 102 subjects) without a control arm followed by another meta-analysis for case series studies with a defined control arm (

 = 111 subjects) for their primary outcomes.

Overall, seven non-duplicate case reports (

 = 9 participants) were narratively reviewed and found to have broad AMR remission events at the 1-month time point.