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As obesity rates continue to rise, it is increasingly important to understand factors that can influence body weight and growth, especially from an early age. The infant gut microbiota has broad effects on a variety of bodily processes, but its relation to infant growth is not yet fully characterized. Since the infant gut microbiota is closely related to breastfeeding practices and maternal health, understanding the relationship between these factors and infant growth may provide insight into the origins of childhood obesity.
Identify the relationship between human milk exposure, maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), the infant gut microbiota, and 12-month-old BMI-for-age z-scores (12M BAZ) to identify key factors that shape infant growth.
Two Michigan cohorts (ARCHGUT and BABYGUT) comprised of a total of 33 mother-infant dyads provided infant fecal samples at 12M. After DNA extraction, amplification, and sequencing of the V4 16S rRNA region using Illumina MiSeq v2 Chemistry, gut bacterial diveron between the infant gut microbiota and 12M-old infant BAZ suggests that genetic, physiological, dietary, and other environmental factors may play a more direct role than the gut microbiota in determining infant BAZ at 12M.In September 2020, samples of galled roots with rhizosphere soil were collected from declining Gentiana macrophylla in Yulong County, China. The pathogenic nematodes were identified by observing morphological characteristics of females, second-stage juveniles and perineal pattern, sequence alignments, and specific amplification of sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR). The results showed that the perineal pattern of this nematode was round or oval, the dorsal arch was moderately high or low, one side or both of the lateral field extended to form a wing shape, the tail region had punctations, and the morphological characteristics and morphometric values of second-stage juveniles and females were similar to those of Meloidogyne hapla. The ITS region fragment of this nematode were highly similar to those of M. Adenosine 5′-diphosphate hapla in NCBI database, with a similarity of over 99.35%. Using the SCAR specific primers, a specific band with an expected size of approximately 440 bp was amplified from this nematode. Morphological and molecular identification supports the nematode species found on Gentiana macrophylla as M. hapla. This is the first report of this regulated root-knot nematode on Gentiana macrophylla in China.To determine if early CNS symptoms are associated with severe coronavirus disease 2019.
A retrospective, observational case series study design.
Electronic health records were reviewed for patients from five healthcare systems across the state of Florida, United States.
A clinical sample (
= 36,615) of patients with confirmed diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 were included. Twelve percent (
= 4,417) of the sample developed severe coronavirus disease 2019, defined as requiring critical care, mechanical ventilation, or diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, or severe inflammatory response syndrome.
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We reviewed the electronic health record for diagnosis of early CNS symptoms (encephalopathy, headache, ageusia, anosmia, dizziness, acute cerebrovascular disease) between 14 days before the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 and 8 days after the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019, or before the date of severe coronavirus disease 2019 diagnosis, whichever came first. Hi course. Therapies for early coronavirus disease 2019 are scarce, and further identification of subgroups at risk may help to advance understanding of the severity trajectories and enable focused treatment.
Early CNS symptoms, and specifically encephalopathy, are differentially associated with risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 and may serve as an early marker for differences in clinical disease course. Therapies for early coronavirus disease 2019 are scarce, and further identification of subgroups at risk may help to advance understanding of the severity trajectories and enable focused treatment.A statewide working group in Minnesota created a ventilator allocation scoring system in anticipation of functioning under a Crisis Standards of Care declaration. The scoring system was intended for patients with and without coronavirus disease 2019. There was disagreement about whether the scoring system might exacerbate health disparities and about whether the score should include age. We measured the relationship of ventilator scores to in-hospital and 3-month mortality. We analyzed our findings in the context of ethical and legal guidance for the triage of scarce resources.
Retrospective cohort study.
Multihospital within a single healthcare system.
Five-hundred four patients emergently intubated and admitted to the ICU.
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The Ventilator Allocation Score was positively associated with higher mortality (
< 0.0001). The 3-month mortality rate for patients with a score of 6 or higher was 96% (42/44 patients). Age was positively associated with mortality. The 3-month mortality rate for patiefrom consensus on the primary ethical objective.
The Ventilator Allocation Score can accurately identify patients with high rates of short-term mortality. However, these high mortality patients only represent 27% of all the patients who died, limiting the utility of the score for allocation of scarce resources. The score may unfairly prioritize older patients and inadvertently exacerbate racial health disparities through the inclusion of specific comorbidities such as end stage renal disease. Triage frameworks that include age should be considered. Purposeful efforts must be taken to ensure that triage protocols do not perpetuate or exacerbate prevailing inequities. Further work on the allocation of scarce resources in critical care settings would benefit from consensus on the primary ethical objective.Accurate identification of acute respiratory distress syndrome is essential for understanding its epidemiology, patterns of care, and outcomes. We aimed to design a computable phenotyping strategy to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome in electronic health records of critically ill patients.
This is a retrospective cohort study. Using a near real-time copy of the electronic health record, we developed a computable phenotyping strategy to detect acute respiratory distress syndrome based on the Berlin definition.
Twenty multidisciplinary ICUs in Mayo Clinic Health System.
The phenotyping strategy was applied to 196,487 consecutive admissions from year 2009 to 2019.
The acute respiratory distress syndrome cohort generated by this novel strategy was compared with the acute respiratory distress syndrome cohort documented by clinicians during the same period. The sensitivity and specificity of the phenotyping strategy were calculated in randomly selected patient cohort (50 patients) using the results from manual medical record review as gold standard.