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The effect of religious belief on Chinese elderly health

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background With the accelerated ageing of the population in China, the health problems of elderly people have attracted much attention. Although religious belief has been shown to be a key way to improve the health of elderly people in various studies ...
Yucheng Chen, Yuxiao Zhao, Zengwen Wang
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ABC-GOALScl score predicts admission to the intensive care unit and mortality of COVID-19 patients over 60 years of age

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background One of the risk factors for getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and reaching high mortality rates is older age. Older age is also associated with comorbidities, which are risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection.
María Elena Camacho-Moll, Zayra Ramírez-Daher, Brenda Leticia Escobedo-Guajardo, Julio César Dávila-Valero, Brenda Ludmila Rodríguez-de la Garza, Mario Bermúdez de León   +5 more
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A 71-Year-Old Man From Ecuador With a History of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia and Lung Cavitation Associated With Triple Infection With , , and

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022
Unvaccinated patients with comorbidities that impair the immune function, such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, are more likely to develop severe COVID-19. The COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome has raised new concerns in intensive care ...
Killen H. Briones-Claudett MD, MSc, Mónica H. Briones-Claudett MSc, MD, Francisco Javier Cordova Loor MD, MSc, Roger Alexander Murillo Vasconez MD, Carolina del Rosario Rivera Salas MD, Cynthia K. Bajaña Huilcapi MD, Domenica F. Estupinan Vargas MD, Stalin E. Rodriguez Garcia MD, Jaime Benitez Sólis MD, MSc, Killen H. Briones Zamora MS, Diana C. Briones Marquez MD, Michelle Grunauer MD, PhD   +11 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Thyroid Ultrasound in Non-Toxic Nodules in a Mexican Population

Revista de Investigación e Innovación en Ciencias de la Salud
Introduction. Thyroid nodules are common and distinguishing benign from malignant lesions, especially in non-toxic nodules, remains a clinical challenge. Objective.
Eder Fernando Ríos-Bracamontes, Cruz Angélica Moreno-Leaño, Mario Hiram Figueroa-Andrade, Aldrin Uriel Hernández-Zamorano, Eduardo Antonio Béjar-Ángeles, Christian Alejandro Ríos-Bracamontes, Ofelia Berenice Valle-Figueroa, Jesús Venegas-Ramírez, Efrén Murillo-Zamora   +8 more
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Measurement of Gallbladder Volume with Ultrasonography in Pregnant Women

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000
Fasting and postprandial gallbladder volumes were investigated using ultrasonography in three groups (10 subjects in each) of healthy women: third trimester pregnant women, postpartum women up to 10 days after giving birth and nonpregnant controls.
Sait Kapicioglu, Sevgi Gürbüz, Ahmet Danalioglu, Ömer Sentürk, Mehmet Uslu   +4 more
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Health spillover studies of long-term care insurance in China: evidence from spousal caregivers from disabled families

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background To alleviate the shortage of caregivers associated with disabled persons, China has implemented a pilot policy for long-term care insurance. This policy has the characteristics of "familialization" and "de-familialization" policy orientation ...
Wenjing Jiang, Hongyan Yang
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An Unusual Case of Severe Pneumonia Caused Due With a Favorable Clinical Response to Antifungals in a Nonimmunocompromised Patient From the Community

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2023
Severe pneumonia due to Candida tropicalis infection mainly occurs in immunosuppressed patients or those currently receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics. Herein, we report a case of severe pneumonia caused due to C tropicalis in an elderly patient.
Killen H. Briones-Claudett MD, MSc, H. Mónica Briones-Claudett MSc, MD, Roger Alexander Murillo Vasconez MD, Cynthia K. Bajaña Huilcapi MD, Carolina del Rosario Rivera Salas MD, Jaime Benitez Sólis MD, MSc, Domenica F. Estupinan Vargas MD, Henry Parra-Vera MSc, Killen H. Briones Zamora MS, Diana C. Briones Marquez MD, Michelle Grunauer MD, PhD   +10 more
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Social Security and Democracy [PDF]

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2002
Abstract Using some new international data sets to produce both across-country econometric estimates as well as case studies of South American and southern European countries, we find that Social Security policies vary according to economic and demographic factors but that very different political histories can result in the same Social ...
Mulligan, Casey B., Gil, Ricard, Sala-i-Martin, Xavier   +2 more
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Molecular characterisation of human penile carcinoma and generation of paired epithelial primary cell lines

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Generation of two normal and tumour (cancerous) paired human cell lines using an established tissue culture technique and their characterisation is described. Cell lines were characterised at cellular, protein, chromosome and gene expression levels and for HPV status.
Simon Broad, Mahmood Hachim, Tom Bertin, Karolina Penderecka, Rifat Hamoudi, Saif Khan, Rui Henrique, Natalie Bergmoser, Manit Arya, Kalle Sipila, Matteo Vietri Rudan, Asif Muneer, Aamir Ahmed   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Air pollution, migrants’ health inequality, and China’s Cross-regional Medical Insurance Scheme: a moderating effect analysis

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Health inequality induced by environmental degradation has become a growing global concern. Especially for migrants across different medical insurance pooling regions, the problem is even more serious.
Hongyan Yang, Lin Li, Wenjing Jiang, Yang Yang, Mengxin Sun, Qiang Yao   +5 more
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