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Conclusions/Application to Practice Male workers reporting high OPA typically met aerobic PA guidelines but exceeded recommended OPA limits. The long-term health implications of such activity profiles should be investigated.
The present study examined the daily, within-individual associations of anxiety with sleep quality and sleep duration and the moderating effects of alexithymia on these associations in community-dwelling young adults. It was hypothesized that daily anxiety and sleep parameters would be bidirectionally related and alexithymia would moderate these relationships.
Participants completed morning and evening diaries assessing daily anxiety and sleep parameters for 30 consecutive days. They also completed questionnaires assessing baseline sleep parameters, anxiety, and alexithymia. Multilevel modeling was used to evaluate the within-individual associations between daily anxiety and sleep parameters and whether between-individual differences in alexithymia moderated these associations.
Higher anxiety relative to personal averages across the study period was associated with shorter sleep duration at night. Poorer sleep quality and shorter sleep duration relative to personal averages were associated with higher next-day anxiety. A significantly stronger association between poorer sleep quality and higher next-day anxiety was observed in individuals with higher levels of alexithymia.
Daily anxiety and sleep quantity are bidirectionally associated within individuals in community-dwelling young adults. Poorer sleep quality was associated with higher next-day anxiety but not vice versa. Individuals with higher levels of alexithymia might be more vulnerable to the effects of poor sleep on next-day anxiety.
Daily anxiety and sleep quantity are bidirectionally associated within individuals in community-dwelling young adults. Poorer sleep quality was associated with higher next-day anxiety but not vice versa. Individuals with higher levels of alexithymia might be more vulnerable to the effects of poor sleep on next-day anxiety.A new sesquiterpene glucoside (1), two new norsesquiterpenes (2, 3), and a new homomonoterpene (4), named myobontioids A-D respectively, along with twelve known flavonoids and lignans (5-16) were isolated from Myoporum bontioides A. Gray. Flavanones 5-11 specifically inhibited Phytophthora capsici and Magnaoeporthe grisea at the concentrations of 125, 250 and 500 µg.mL-1. Notably, the new compound 4 possessed a strong activity against Phytophthora capsici with IC50 below 63.5 µg.mL-1 and 90.4% inhibition at 125 µg.mL-1.
Few studies, so far, have been specifically designed to highlight the features related to Compulsory Admissions (CA) and Voluntary Admissions (VA) in Italian psychiatric emergency wards.
The main purpose of this observational study was to compare the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of VA and CA and to explore possible predictors of re-admissions.
During a 6-month Index Period (February, the 1st-July, the 31st 2008) all psychiatric admissions were documented and then followed-up through all available informatic systems for the next 9 years.
Out of 390 hospitalizations, 101 (25.9%) were compulsory (CA rate was 2.79 per 10,000 inhabitants per year, mean duration of hospitalizations of 7.33 ± 7.84 days). Diagnoses were recorded for the 325 patients who had been hospitalized during index period schizophrenic psychoses ([
= .042], in particular schizophrenia [
= .027]), manic episode (
= .044), and delusional disorders (
= .009) were associated with CA; conversely, the diagnosis of unipitalization.
Recent trials have shown early de-escalation of empiric antimicrobial therapy (EAT) in febrile neutropenia has led to less adverse effects with no difference in patient mortality. In 2019, our institution adjusted internal guidelines to de-escalate EAT after 7 days of intravenous anti-pseudomonal therapy in patients with signs of clinical recovery from febrile neutropenia and no evidence of infection.
This was a retrospective, single-center, observational, cohort study. Eligible patients were adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who received induction chemotherapy and developed febrile neutropenia without documented infection. Patients were separated based on EAT duration ≤ 9 days and > 9 days. Empiric antimicrobial therapy was defined as the initiation of an anti-pseudomonal beta-lactam. The primary outcome was the difference in number of EAT-free days. Secondary outcomes included fever recurrence, ICU admissions, fever duration, infections post de-escalation, and
infection (CDI).
Forty-four encounters met inclusion. The EAT ≤ 9 days group had 7 more EAT-free days compared to the EAT > 9 days group (p < 0.001). No between-group differences were identified in terms of fever after EAT discontinuation (p = 0.335), ICU admission (p = 0.498), or CDI (p = 0.498). GW806742X cell line The EAT > 9 days group experienced longer initial fever (p < 0.001) and received addition of resistant Gram-positive coverage (p = 0.014). More patients receiving EAT > 9 days had a diagnosis of AML (p = 0.001).
Shorter EAT duration did not lead to worse outcomes in patients with AML or ALL who received induction chemotherapy and developed febrile neutropenia without a documented infection source.
Shorter EAT duration did not lead to worse outcomes in patients with AML or ALL who received induction chemotherapy and developed febrile neutropenia without a documented infection source.
Collaboration between parents and professional care providers is an essential part of pediatric palliative care. As children are embedded in family systems and many of the patients are not able to communicate verbally, their parents are the primary interaction partners for palliative care providers. International standards for pediatric palliative care in Europe state that parents should be supported, acknowledged as the primary carers and involved as partners in all care and decisions.
To find out through which care practices pediatric palliative care teams shape collaboration with parents in everyday care.
Ethnographic method of participatory observations. Field notes were analyzed using thematic analysis.
Researchers accompanied three pediatric palliative care teams on home visits to eight different families caring for a child with life-limiting conditions.
Care practices of palliative care teams were characterized by familiarity, a resource-oriented attitude, empowerment of parents, shared decisThis review mainly explores less-reported neural markers to speech-evoked contrasts in children with cochlear implants (CI). Databases and electronic journals were searched with keywords of "mismatch responses" AND "positive mismatch response" (p-MMR) AND "late discriminate negativity" (LDN). P-MMR likely is as a measurement of brain immaturity in CI children while the developmental trajectories of LDN remain unexplained in older CI children. In CI children, there is a p-MMR-MMN-LDN sequence to speech stimuli developmentally. Whereas these aforementioned neural responses anticipate developmental changes in CI groups, it is still uncertain about the cutoff age for disappearance of p-MMR and LDN.
to assess whether participation in cardiac rehabilitation affects the probability of returning to work after ischaemic heart disease.
the study population consisted of 24,509 patients (18-70 years of age) discharged from an inpatient admission at a Danish hospital during 2014-2018 and who were working before their admission. Only patients with a percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting surgery procedure and ICD-10 codes I20-I25 as their main diagnosis or ICD-10 codes I21, I240, I248 or I249 as secondary diagnosis during an emergency admission were included. Exposure was defined as participation in cardiac rehabilitation (
= 15,742), and binary indicator of being at work in the last week of a given month were used as primary outcomes. Coarsened exact matching (CEM) of exposed and unexposed patients was used to reduce selection bias. Logistic regression models were applied on the matched population (
= 15,762).
Less deprived and less comorbid patients were more likely to receive cardiac rehabilitation. CEM succeeded in arriving at a population where this selection was reduced and in this population we found that patients who received cardiac rehabilitation had a lower probability of returning to work after 3 months (OR 0.81, 95%CI 0.77-0.84), a higher but insignificant probability after 6 (OR 1.02, 95%CI 0.97-1.08), and a higher probability after 9 (OR 1.08, 95%CI 1.02-1.15) and 12 months (OR 1.20, 95%CI 1.13-1.28).
Deprived and comorbid patients have lower use of cardiac rehabilitation. In a matched population where this bias is reduced, cardiac rehabilitation will increase the probability of returning to work.Although it is thought that there is a close relationship between Notch signal and preterm birth, the functioning of this mechanism in the cervix is unknown. The efficacy of surfactants and prostaglandin inhibitors in preterm labor is also still unclear. In this study, 48 female CD-1 mice were distributed to pregnant control (PC), Sham, PBS, indomethacin (2 mg/kg; intraperitoneally), lipopolysaccharides (LPS) (25 μg/100 μl; intrauterine), LPS + IND, and Surfactant Protein A Block (SP-A Block SP-A B; the anti-SP-A antibody was applied 20 µg/100μl; intrauterine) groups. Tissues were examined by immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and Western blot analysis. LPS administration increased the expression of N1 Dll-1 and Jagged-2 (Jag-2). Although Toll-like receptor (Tlr)-2 significantly increased in the LPS-treated and SP-A-blocked groups, Tlr-4 significantly increased only in the LPS-exposed groups. It was observed that Jag-2 is specifically expressed by mast cells. Overall, this experimental model shows that some protein responses increase throughout the uterus, starting at a specific point on the cervix epithelium. Surfactant Protein A, which we observed to be significantly reduced by LPS, may be associated with the regulation of the epithelial response, especially during preterm delivery due to infection. On the contrary, prostaglandin inhibitors can be considered an option to delay infection-related preterm labor with their dose-dependent effects. Finally, the link between mast cells and Jag-2 could potentially be a control switch for preterm birth.Daucus is a genus of economically important plants belonging to Apiaceae family spread in temperate regions. Species of this genus are used as food and several biological properties have reported. The chemical composition of the essential oils from different organs (roots, stems and flowers) of Daucus carota subsp. maximus, a species not previously investigated, was analyzed by GC-MS. Our results showed the presence of β-phellandrene as the most abundant component of stems and flowers and of γ-terpinene as a major compound of the oil from the roots. Flower essential oil caused a greater increase in the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) cells compared to stem and root essential oils. The antimicrobial activity of the flower and stem oil were more effective, compared to root oil, against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.