Cognitive, Family, and Quality-of-Life Characteristics of Youth with Depression Associated with Bipolar Disorder.

Depression associated with bipolar disorder (BD) is more common compared to mania. Cognitive, family, and quality-of-life (QOL) factors associated with pediatric bipolar depression are understudied. The goal of this study was to evaluate cognitive, family environmental, and QOL characteristics of youth with bipolar depression.

There's an App for That: Development of an Application to Operationalize the Global Diet Quality Score.

Background: The global diet quality score (GDQS) is a simple, standardized metric appropriate for population-based measurement of diet quality globally.

Objectives: We aimed to operationalize data collection by modifying the quantity of consumption cutoffs originally developed for the GDQS food groups and to statistically evaluate the performance of the operationalized GDQS relative to the original GDQS against nutrient adequacy and noncommunicable disease (NCD)-related outcomes.

Methods: The GDQS application uses a 24-h open-recall to collect a full list of all foods consumed during the previous day or night, and automatically classifies them into corresponding GDQS food group.

Four symptoms define the piriformis syndrome: an updated systematic review of its clinical features.

Purpose: To update the evidence on the clinical features of the piriformis syndrome since the first systematic review published in 2010.

Method: A systematic review of all case, cross-sectional and prevalence studies.

Results: The commonest features reported were: buttock pain, pain aggravated on sitting, external tenderness near the greater sciatic notch and pain on any maneuver that increases piriformis muscle tension, and limitation of straight leg raising.