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Parental control and depressive symptoms in college freshmen with myopia: the mediating role of vision-related quality of life

Frontiers in Psychiatry
ObjectivesMyopia is considered to be associated with depressive symptoms. Perceived parental control plays a critical role in children and adolescents’ mental health.
Gang Liang, Xing-Xuan Dong, Dan-Lin Li, Min-Xin Liu, Zhi-Jian Yin, Yue-Zu Li, Tianyang Zhang, Tianyang Zhang, Tianyang Zhang, Chen-Wei Pan   +9 more
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Cancer Risk in Marfan Syndrome: A Swedish Population‐Based Cohort Study

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
The cancer risk in Marfan syndrome, an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder, largely remains to be explored. In this population‐based matched cohort study of 1544 Swedish patients, the overall cancer risk in adults with Marfan syndrome showed no significant increase, except for the risk of endocrine tumours with a nearly threefold increase ...
Ida Nordgren, Anna Skarin Nordenvall, Alexandra Wachtmeister, Fulya Taylan, Yunxia Lu, Christina Norrby, Anna Lindstrand, Giedre Grigelioniene, Giorgio Tettamanti   +8 more
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Should we Subsidize Longevity? [PDF]

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness.
Grégory Ponthiere, Marie-Louise Leroux, Pierre Pestieau   +2 more
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Prevalence and risk factors of myopia among children and adolescents in Hangzhou

Scientific Reports
To analyze the prevalence and influencing factors of myopia among children and adolescents in Hangzhou city, and provide ideas for the formulation of myopia prevention and control measures.
Lijuan Zhao, Xiujun Jiang, Wenhui Zhang, Li Hao, Yuting Zhang, Shangxi Wu, Bing Zhu, Hong Xu   +7 more
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Minimizing the Expected Lifetime Spent in Drawdown under Proportional Consumption

, 2015
We determine the optimal amount to invest in a Black-Scholes financial market for an individual who consumes at a rate equal to a constant proportion of her wealth and who wishes to minimize the expected time that her wealth spends in drawdown during her
Angoshtari, Bahman, Bayraktar, Erhan, Young, Virginia R.   +2 more
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Hypertensive retinopathy in pre‐eclampsia and its association with disease severity and neonatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Pre‐eclampsia (PE) involves systemic endothelial dysfunction and microvascular injury, yet routine obstetric care lacks noninvasive readouts of maternal microvascular health. We evaluated whether hypertensive retinopathy (HR) detected during pregnancy is associated with maternal disease severity and adverse neonatal outcomes ...
Gabriele Saccone, Francesco Matarazzo, Mariarosaria Motta, Marika Rovetto, Michele Rinaldi, Maurizio Guida, Ciro Costagliola   +6 more
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Correlation of Hepatocyte Growth Factor Levels with Myopia Degree and Axial Length in Outpatient Myopic Adolescents

Majalah Kedokteran Bandung
Myopia is the most common ophthalmic condition worldwide, with an estimated 22.9% of the population or 1.406 billion people affected. Studies of candidate gene-associated refraction abnormalities have also identified several genes that cause ...
Fithria Aldy, Gema Nazri Yanni, Jelita Siregar   +2 more
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Microelectromechanical system‐based devices for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of ophthalmic diseases

Interdisciplinary Medicine, EarlyView.
Due to the characteristics of miniaturization, high sensing performance, integration, and high comfort, MEMS‐based devices were employed to design sensors, imaging systems, drug delivery systems, retinal prosthesis, surgical tools, and wearable products for the ophthalmic disease diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.
Yaling Peng, Xiaoming Huang, Xueyuan Zhang, Yiling Jiang, Xin Zhang, Xueying Zeng, Fengyuan Sun, Peng Liu, Jin Zhou, Zewei Luo, Tong Wu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of Spectacle Correction Using Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments in the Myopic Population

Clinical Ophthalmology
Marketa Zakova, Martin Fus, Leos Tejkl Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Kladno, Czech RepublicCorrespondence: Marketa Zakova, FBME Czech Technical University in Prague, Sitna Sq. 3105, Kladno, 27201, Czech Republic,
Zakova M, Fus M, Tejkl L
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The Effect of the Interaction Between Price and Time Preference on Cigarette Consumption

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The primary focus of this essay is to obtain new estimates of the price sensitivity of cigarette consumption and related outcomes using the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). This work expands on the existing literature on the topic by taking into account measures of time preference in the NLSY79 to examine ...
Yan Song
wiley   +1 more source