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Prevalence of liver fibrosis and associated risk factors in the Korean general population: a retrospective cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives The health burden of chronic liver disease is increasing worldwide. Its main histological consequence is liver fibrosis, and eventually cirrhosis. This process is rarely diagnosed at the pre-cirrhotic stage due to it being asymptomatic. Little
Eun-Hee Nah, Seon Cho, Suyoung Kim, Han-Ik Cho, Jieun Chu, Eunjoo Kwon   +5 more
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Health, health promotion, and homelessness

BMJ, 1999
Contemporary health promotion emphasises the concepts of lifestyle, risk, and preventive health behaviour alongside the broader societal concerns of the environment, public policy, and culture.1 The recent green paper Our Healthier Nation stresses a more coordinated approach to health promotion for people who are socially excluded, emphasising ...
R, Power, R, French, J, Connelly, S, George, D, Hawes, T, Hinton, H, Klee, D, Robinson, J, Senior, P, Timms, D, Warner   +10 more
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A missing ethical competency? A review of critical reflection in health promotion

, 2015
Issue addressed: There is increasing emphasis in the health promotion literature on the ethical imperative for the profession to move towards critical practice.
O'Hara, Lily, Rebecca Tretheway, Nikki Percival, Percival, Nikki, Taylor, J, Percival, N, Jane Taylor, Taylor, Jane, Tretheway, R, Taylor, J A, Lily O'Hara, Tretheway, Rebecca, O'Hara, L   +12 more
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Safety and Effectiveness of a High‐Dose, Tailored Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy Protocol: A Joint Pediatric Hematology and Cardiac ICU Quality Improvement Initiative Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric thromboembolism is increasingly encountered in critical care. Systemic thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) facilitates vessel or valve patency, yet pediatric‐specific protocols remain undefined, and safety concerns persist. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a tailored, prolonged systemic tPA
Eran Shostak, Oded Gilad, Yael Feinstein, Sigal Nakav, Ofer Schiller, Joanne Yacobovich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Daniel J. Indelicato, Jeanette Parkes, Natia Esiashvili, Josué Hernández Benítez, Miriam Mikhail‐Lette, Olivera Cirajc Bjelac, Daniel Berger, Eva Ciurana, Yavuz Anacak, Lisbeth Cordero‐Mendez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Activity Tracker & Application Use on Adherence, Metabolic Syndrome Factor and Body Composition in Middle and Senior-Aged [PDF]

The Asian Journal of Kinesiology, 2018
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of activity tracker & application use on adherence, metabolic syndrome factor and body composition of middle and senior-aged.
Dong Jin Kim, Min Su Kim, Na Young Park, Su Geol Lee, Yeon Kyung Lee   +4 more
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Promoting mental health as an essential aspect of health promotion [PDF]

Health Promotion International, 2006
This paper advocates that mental health promotion receive appropriate attention within health promotion. It is of great concern that, in practice, mental health promotion is frequently overlooked in health promotion programmes although the WHO definitions of health and the Ottawa Charter describe mental health as an integral part of health.
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Neuropsychological and Educational Outcomes in Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome—A Report From the North American Shwachman–Diamond Syndrome Registry

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Shwachman–Diamond syndrome (SDS) is a rare autosomal recessive ribosomopathy characterized by bone marrow failure and multisystem involvement, with emerging evidence of associated neurocognitive impairment. Methods We conducted a retrospective study of 240 individuals with biallelic Shwachman–Bodian–Diamond syndrome (SBDS) mutations
Jane Koo, Melissa Gerstle, Leah Cheng, Richard Cooper, Katherine Coyne, Claire Dusa, Naomi E. Joffe, Diana Schwarz, Sarah Steltz, Akiko Shimamura, Kasiani C. Myers, Thea Quinton   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Situational Assessment of the Diagnostic Landscape and Organizational Readiness to Implement Next‐Generation Sequencing at Two Childhood Cancer Treatment Centers in Ghana

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho, Emmanuella Amoako, Nihad Salifu, Lily Gloria Tagoe, Yaw Bediako, Michelle Hermiston, Catherine Segbefia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative study of user experience， knowledge and attitude of e-cigarette use in Shanghai

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2023
ObjectiveTo understand the experience， knowledge and attitudes of e-cigarette users in Shanghai， and to provide evidence for the development of intervention programs for e-cigarette use.MethodsThe Respondent-Driven Sampling （RDS） method was used to ...
DING Yuan, XIE Chenchen, JIA Xiaoxian, SUN Yuanqiao, LE Kunlei, WANG Jian, YIN Zhuyan, CHENG Yuzhi, CHEN De   +8 more
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