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7%). FA supplementation within 1month before and after pregnancy correlated positively with CHD (OR 1.10, 95%CI 0.99-1.23), and high-dose FA intake is positively associated with atrial septal defect (OR 1.23, 95%CI 0.64-2.34). Pregnant women with irrational FA use may be at increased risk for CHD.

Data from the present study indicate that the heterogeneity of the association between maternal FA supplementation and CHD is high and suggest that the real relationship between maternal FA supplementation and CHD may need to be further investigated with well-designed clinical studies and biological experiments.

Data from the present study indicate that the heterogeneity of the association between maternal FA supplementation and CHD is high and suggest that the real relationship between maternal FA supplementation and CHD may need to be further investigated with well-designed clinical studies and biological experiments.Early diagnosis and effective treatment of cancer are challenging. To diagnose and treat cancer effectively and to overcome these challenges, fundamental innovations in traditional diagnosis and therapy are necessary. Peptides can be very helpful in this regard due to their potential and diversity. To enhance the therapeutic potential of peptides, their limitations must be properly identified and their structures engineered and modified for higher efficiency. Promoting the bioavailability and stability of peptides is one of the main concerns. Peptides can also be effective in different areas of targeting, alone or with the help of other therapeutic agents. There has been a lot of research in this area, and the potential for variability of peptides will continue to improve this process. Another promising area in which peptides can help treat cancer is peptide vaccines, which are undergoing promising research, and high throughput technologies can lead to fundamental changes in this area. Peptides have been effective in almost all areas of cancer treatment, and some have even gone through clinical phases. However, many barriers need to be overcome to reach the desired point. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the mechanisms associated with peptides in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Therefore, related studies in this area will be discussed.

The potential cardiovascular impact of usual intakes of oxalate (Ox) is uninvestigated. We evaluated the effect of dietary Ox and its interaction with dietary calcium (Ca) on incident cardiovascular disease (CVD).

We included 2966 adult men and women aged 19-84 y without known CVD during baseline enrollment (2006-2008) of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. Dietary intakes were assessed using a validated FFQ, and incident CVD (i.e., coronary heart disease, stroke, and CVD mortality) were documented through March 2018.

A 7.1% incident of CVD occurred during a median follow-up of 10.6 y. After multivariable adjustment for traditional risk factors and key dietary nutrients, including total fat and fiber, Ox intakes ≥220 mg/d increased incident CVD (HR T3 vs. T1 = 1.47, 95% CI = 1.02-2.12). This association was potentiated (HR T3 vs. T1 = 2.42, 95% CI = 1.19-4.89) in subjects who had a lower intake of Ca (< 981 mg/d); in a low-Ca diet, an even lower amount of dietary Ox (second tertile, 148-220 mg/d) was related to increased CVD events by 92% (HR = 1.92, 95% CI = 1.00-3.70). No association was observed between dietary Ox and CVD events in the presence of medium- and high levels of Ca intakes. The critical cut-off point of Ox-to-Ca for predicting CVD events was 0.14, which was related to an increased risk of CVD by 37% (HR = 1.37, 95% CI = 1.02-1.84).

Higher dietary Ox intake appeared to be associated with a modestly elevated risk of incident CVD, especially in a diet with a lower amount of Ca.

Higher dietary Ox intake appeared to be associated with a modestly elevated risk of incident CVD, especially in a diet with a lower amount of Ca.

Pulmonary involvement in individuals with transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis is unclear. The aim of this study was to quantify

Tc-hydroxy methylene diphosphonate (HMDP) lung retention in hereditary transthyretin (ATTRv) cardiac amyloidosis patients and to relate tracer uptake intensity to pulmonary function and aerobic capacity.

We prospectively enrolled 20 patients with biopsy-proven ATTRv cardiac amyloidosis and 20 control subjects. Cardiac involvement was confirmed by echocardiography and nuclear imaging using

Tc-HMDP. Semi-quantitative analysis of the heart, rib and lung retention was assessed using a simple region of interest technique. Pulmonary function was evaluation by the means of whole-body plethysmography, diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide, forced oscillation technique and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.

Pulmonary tracer uptake estimated by lung to rib retention ratio was higher in ATTRv amyloidosis patients compared with control subjects median 0.62 (0.55-0.69) vs 0.51 (0.46-0.60); p = 0.014. Analysis of relation between lung

Tc-HMDP retention and pulmonary function parameters shown statistically significant correlations with total lung volume (% predicted), lung reactance (X

5Hz) and peak VO

, suggesting total lung capacity restriction impaired elastic properties of the lung and poor aerobic capacity.

Our study suggests that some grade of pulmonary retention of

Tc-HMDP may occur in patients with cardiac ATTRv amyloidosis, which can elicit deleterious effects on patient's lung function and aerobic capacity.

Our study suggests that some grade of pulmonary retention of 99mTc-HMDP may occur in patients with cardiac ATTRv amyloidosis, which can elicit deleterious effects on patient's lung function and aerobic capacity.

Implementation of health financing reforms for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is inherently political. Despite the political determinants of UHC, health financing reform in Zimbabwe is often portrayed as a technical exercise with a familiar path of a thorough diagnosis of technical gaps followed by detailed prescriptions of reform priorities. In this study, we sought to understand the interaction between political and economic aspects of health financing reforms since the country got its independence in 1980.

We conducted a scoping review of health financing reforms in Zimbabwe and reviewed 84 relevant sources of information. We then conducted a thematic analysis using an adapted Fox and Reich's framework of ideas and ideologies, interests and institutions.

We found that ideas, institutions and interests significantly influence health financing reforms in Zimbabwe with implications on health system performance. Reform priorities of the 1980s were influenced by socialist ideologies with an interest to aive process. International and domestic actors involved in UHCin Zimbabwe need to explicitly consider the politics of health financing reforms to improve the implementation feasibility of desired reforms.

Health financing reform process in Zimbabwe is heavily influenced by political economy characteristics which favor certain financing arrangements over others with profound implications on health system performance. We concluded that the political economy factors that slow down UHC reforms are not rooted in the ambiguities of ideas on what needs to be done. Instead, the missing link is how to move from intention to action by aligning espoused ideas with interests and institutions which is an inherently political and redistributive process. MS1943 International and domestic actors involved in UHC in Zimbabwe need to explicitly consider the politics of health financing reforms to improve the implementation feasibility of desired reforms.

Although PD-L1 expression is a crucial predictive biomarker for immunotherapy, it can be influenced by many factors.

A total of 248 Chinese patients with lung adenocarcinoma was retrospectively identified. Data for clinical features, gene alternations, signaling pathways and immune signatures was analyzed among negative expression group (TPS < 1%, n = 124), intermediate expression group (1% ≤ TPS < 50%, n = 93), and high expression group (TPS ≥ 50%, n = 38). Clinical outcomes among different expression groups were also evaluated from public database.

Firstly, high tumor mutation burden was significantly associated with high PD-L1 expression in these Chinese patients with lung adenocarcinoma. In addition, gene alternations including TP53, PRKDC, KMT2D, TET1 and SETD2 apparently occurred in high PD-L1 expression group. Moreover, pathway analysis showed that mutations involving in DDR pathway, TP53 pathway, cell-cycle pathway and NOTCH pathway were obviously varied among three PD-L1 expression groups. Besides, most of patients in high PD-L1 expression group from TCGA database were determined as high-grade immune subtypes (C2-C4), showing significant higher proportions of IFN-gamma, CD8+ T-cells, NK cells, NK CD56 dim cells, Th1 cells, Th2 cells (P < 0.0001). Moreover, SETD2 mutation slightly correlated with overall survival from MSKCC cohort (HR 1.92 [95%CI 0.90-4.10], P = 0.085), and the percentage of IFN-gamma was significantly higher in SETD2 mutant group than in wild-type group (P < 0.01).

This study illustrated in-depth genomic correlates of PD-L1 expression in Chinese lung adenocarcinoma patients and relevant immune signatures from public database, which might interpret more potential molecular mechanisms for immunotherapy in NSCLC.

This study illustrated in-depth genomic correlates of PD-L1 expression in Chinese lung adenocarcinoma patients and relevant immune signatures from public database, which might interpret more potential molecular mechanisms for immunotherapy in NSCLC.

Early diagnosis and continuous monitoring are the key to emergency treatment and intensive care of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Nevertheless, there has not been a fully accepted method targeting continuous assessment of AIS in clinical.

Near-field coupling (NFC) sensing can obtain the conductivity related to the volume of intracranial components with advantages of non-invasiveness, strong penetrability and real-time monitoring. In this work, we built a multi-parameter monitoring system that is able to measure changes of phase and amplitude in the process of electromagnetic wave (EW) reflection and transmission. For investigating its feasibility in AIS detection, 16 rabbits were chosen to establish AIS models by bilateral common carotid artery ligation and then were enrolled for monitoring experiments.

During the 6h after AIS, the reflection amplitude (RA) shows a decline trend with a range of 0.69dB and reflection phase (RP) has an increased variation of 6.48°. Meanwhile, transmission amplitude (TA) and transmission phase (TP) decrease 2.14dB and 24.29°, respectively. The statistical analysis illustrates that before ligation, 3h after ligation and 6h after ligation can be effectively distinguished by the four parameters individually. When all those parameters are regarded as recognition features in back propagation (BP) network, the classification accuracy of the three different periods reaches almost 100%.

These results prove the feasibility of multi-parameter NFC sensing to assess AIS, which is promised to become an outstanding point-of-care testing method in the future.

These results prove the feasibility of multi-parameter NFC sensing to assess AIS, which is promised to become an outstanding point-of-care testing method in the future.