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25-2.34), macrosomia (OR 1.68 and 95% CI 1.26-2.22), and LGA (OR 1.53 and 95% CI 1.28-1.83) increase for every increase of 1% maternal HbA1c. Women with a prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) of < 25 kg/m

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Our results indicated that the midpregnancy normal-range HbA1c level within the normal range is associated with adverse birth outcomes. Monitoring and controlling HbA1c may reduce the risk of adverse birth outcomes.

Our results indicated that the midpregnancy normal-range HbA1c level within the normal range is associated with adverse birth outcomes. Monitoring and controlling HbA1c may reduce the risk of adverse birth outcomes.Since December 2019, corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global pandemic, posing a huge threat to human health, and the current epidemic prevention situation is still severe. Hematological parameters directly reflect the damage of SARS-CoV-2 to human blood cells, which can better assess the severity and prognosis of patients infected with COVID-19, but hematological parameters have some differences between adults and children. This article comprehensively reviews the differences in hematological parameters between adults and children after SARS-CoV-2 infection, and provides a reference for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19.

Since current systematic reviews (SRs) show that results of effectiveness on Tai Chi for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are inconsistent, the purpose of this study is to find the reasons of the disparity by comprehensively appraising the related SRs.

Six databases were systematically searched from the inception date to April 17, 2021. The methodological quality, the risk of bias, the reporting quality, and the quality of evidence were independently assessed by two reviewers with the AMSTAR 2, ROBIS, PRISMA, and GRADE.

A total of 12 studies met the inclusion criteria 10 SRs were rated critically low quality and two SRs were low quality by AMSTAR 2. By the ROBIS, four out of 12 SRs were rated as "low risk". According to PRISMA, nine out of 12 SRs were adequately reported over 80%. With the GRADE tool, three out of 12 SRs rated the FEV1 as "Moderate", one out of 12 SRs (1/12, 9%) rated the FEV1/FVC (%) as "Moderate", three out of 12 SRs assessed the 6MWD as "Moderate", three out of 12 SRs evaluated the SGRQ as "Moderate", and the remaining evidence was fully rated as "Low" or "Very Low".

We found that the methodological quality, risk of bias, reporting quality, and quality of evidence of the included SRs on Tai Chi for COPD were suboptimal. These limitations may have a negative impact on SRs, consequently leading to inconsistent results. Further well-conducted SRs with less risk of bias, more rigorous methodology, normative reporting and high-quality of evidence are needed to provide robust evidence on Tai Chi for COPD.

This study has been registered in the PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (registration number CRD42019126600).

This study has been registered in the PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (registration number CRD42019126600).Single-cell RNA-sequencing data have significantly advanced the characterization of cell-type diversity and composition. However, cell-type definitions vary across data and analysis pipelines, raising concerns about cell-type validity and generalizability. With MetaNeighbor, we proposed an efficient and robust quantification of cell-type replicability that preserves dataset independence and is highly scalable compared to dataset integration. In this protocol, we show how MetaNeighbor can be used to characterize cell-type replicability by following a simple three-step procedure gene filtering, neighbor voting and visualization. We show how these steps can be tailored to quantify cell-type replicability, determine gene sets that contribute to cell-type identity and pretrain a model on a reference taxonomy to rapidly assess newly generated data. The protocol is based on an open-source R package available from Bioconductor and GitHub, requires basic familiarity with Rstudio or the R command line and can typically be run in less then 5 min for millions of cells.Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the main cause of female infertility worldwide and is associated with a substantially increased lifetime risk of comorbidities, including type 2 diabetes mellitus, psychiatric disorders and gynaecological cancers. Despite its high prevalence (~15%) and substantial economic burden, the aetiology of PCOS remains elusive. The genetic loci linked to PCOS so far account for only ~10% of its heritability, which is estimated at 70%. However, growing evidence suggests that altered epigenetic and developmental programming resulting from hormonal dysregulation of the maternal uterine environment contributes to the pathogenesis of PCOS. Male as well as female relatives of women with PCOS are also at an increased risk of developing PCOS-associated reproductive and metabolic disorders. Although PCOS phenotypes are highly heterogenous, hyperandrogenism is thought to be the principal driver of this condition. BB-2516 Current treatments for PCOS are suboptimal as they can only alleviate some of the symptoms; preventative and targeted treatments are sorely needed. This Review presents an overview of the current understanding of the aetiology of PCOS and focuses on the developmental origin and epigenetic inheritance of this syndrome.Myocardial ischaemia results from coronary macrovascular or microvascular dysfunction compromising the supply of oxygen and nutrients to the myocardium. The underlying pathophysiological processes are manifold and encompass atherosclerosis of epicardial coronary arteries, vasospasm of large or small vessels and microvascular dysfunction - the clinical relevance of which is increasingly being appreciated. Myocardial ischaemia can have a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, together denoted as chronic coronary syndromes. The most common antianginal medications relieve symptoms by eliciting coronary vasodilatation and modulating the determinants of myocardial oxygen consumption, that is, heart rate, myocardial wall stress and ventricular contractility. In addition, cardiac substrate metabolism can be altered to alleviate ischaemia by modulating the efficiency of myocardial oxygen use. Although a universal agreement exists on the prognostic importance of lifestyle interventions and event prevention with aspirin and statin therapy, the optimal antianginal treatment for patients with chronic coronary syndromes is less well defined.