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Infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) increases the likelihood of developing cervical cancer (CC). A plethora of cellular processes is required to produce pre-malignant lesions, which in turn may become malignant if left untreated. Those changes are induced by viral oncoproteins, which represent an ideal target to identify the viral presence, or by some particularities of the host that ultimately promote the establishment of CC. This article describes the different methods used for HPV detection and quantification, as well as the current trend of secondary screening approaches to detect premalignant lesions and CC. selleck In addition, we analyzed validated biomarkers and those under clinical investigation for the classification (triage) of women at risk of developing CC after an initial positive HPV test and that could be used as prognostic biomarkers for CC. The use of molecular biomarkers, together with the detection of HPV DNA sequences, provides a high impact diagnostic and prognostic tool in the detection of patients at increased risk of developing CC and also may guide their clinical management. In addition, some of those biomarkers could represent pharmacological targets for the future design of therapeutic approaches to CC treatment.There is currently a lack of strong evidence linking childhood elevated blood pressure to long-term cardiovascular risk in adulthood. Repeated observations of abnormal blood pressure in childhood may enhance the prediction of cardiovascular risk in adulthood compared with a single observation. The study included 1738 individuals in rural areas of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi, who had been followed for 30 years since baseline (1987, at which time participants were aged 6-15 years). According to four independent measurements of blood pressure in 1987, 1989, 1992, and 1995, childhood elevated blood pressure was defined as 2 in-person examinations with blood pressure values above the 90th percentile. Arterial stiffness and left ventricular hypertrophy in adulthood were assessed by brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity and the Cornell product index, respectively. Childhood elevated blood pressure was associated with an increased risk of adult hypertension (OR, 2.01; 95% CI, 1.53-2.65), arterial stiffness (OR, 1.69; 95% CI, 1.32-2.16) and left ventricular hypertrophy (OR, 1.86; 95% CI, 1.13-3.05) (all P less then 0.05). Cardiovascular risk in adults increased with increasing childhood blood pressure levels. In addition, two abnormal childhood blood pressure observations predicted an increased likelihood of hypertension in adulthood (0.77 for 2 versus 0.70 for 1 observation, P less then 0.001). Our study provides strong evidence that elevated blood pressure in childhood predicts cardiovascular risk in adults. The prediction was enhanced by two observations of abnormal blood pressure in childhood compared with a single measurement. We emphasize the importance of childhood blood pressure monitoring and control in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.The aim of our cross-sectional study was to evaluate skin microvascular alterations in patients with hypertension secondary to primary aldosteronism (PA) and in subjects with essential hypertension (EH). Skin microcirculation was detected by nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) and laser Doppler perfusion imaging (LDPI), both noninvasive techniques for the evaluation of digital capillaroscopic damage and hand skin blood perfusion. From September 2018 to April 2019, we consecutively enrolled 80 patients, of whom 42 had PA and 38 had EH. A morphological and structural study of cutaneous microcirculation was carried out through NVC, while functional evaluation of the peripheral microcirculation was carried out with LDPI. Using LDPI indices, dermal perfusion gradients were calculated in various regions of interest at the level of the back of the hand (ROI1 and ROI2). No differences between the two groups in NVC parameters were found. In contrast, LDPI showed worse skin perfusion parameters in patients with PA compared with patients with EH (ROI1 143.9 ± 29.9 pU vs 163.3 ± 35.2 pU, p = 0.01; perfusion gradient ROI1-ROI2 62.4 ± 28.8 pU vs 79.3 ± 33.5 pU, p = 0.019). Furthermore, the ROI1-ROI2 (proximal-distal) perfusion gradient was negatively correlated with aldosterone plasma levels (r -0.269; p = 0.017). Multivariate analysis showed that aldosterone was significantly associated with the ROI1-ROI2 perfusion gradient (b -0.220; p = 0.044). Patients with PA showed altered skin perfusion and greater microvascular dysfunction compared with the EH group. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that aldosterone may have a pathophysiological role in microvascular remodeling in patients with PA, with predominant functional dysfunction.Here we report on the effects of material strength factors on the generation of surface structure due to nonuniform laser irradiation. The influence of material strength on the generation of perturbation on a diamond surface subjected to nonuniform laser irradiation was experimentally investigated. Our previous investigations suggested that stiffer and denser materials reduce surface perturbation due to spatially nonuniform laser irradiation, which was reproduced well by calculations with multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulation code. In this work, we found that local fractures due to yield strength failure are generated by high degrees of irradiation non-uniformity. A characteristic crack-like surface structure was observed, which was not reproduced by the 2D simulation code calculations at all. The 2D simulations showed that the pressure at the diamond surface locally exceeds the Hugoniot elastic limit due to nonuniform irradiation, implying the potential for development of surface perturbations. We also measured the areal-density distribution of perturbations for single-crystal diamond and diamond with a thin high atomic number (high-Z) coating on its surface. The experimental results imply that the combination of a stiff material and thin high-Z coating can suppress the solid-strength effects caused by large irradiation non-uniformity. The knowledge given here is applicable to inertial confinement fusion target design, laser material processing, and universal problems involving solids and high-energy-density plasmas.