Daily routine disruptions and psychiatric symptoms amid COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of data from 0.9 million individuals in 32 countries.

Background: There is currently a deficit of knowledge about how to define, quantify, and measure different aspects of daily routine disruptions amid large-scale disasters like COVID-19, and which psychiatric symptoms were more related to the disruptions. This study aims to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on the probable positive associations between daily routine disruptions and mental disorders amid the COVID-19 pandemic and factors that moderated the associations.

Methods: PsycINFO, Web of Science, PubMed, and MEDLINE were systematically searched up to April 2023 (PROSPERO: CRD42023356846).

Savoring mediates the mental health benefits of positive coping processes: A prospective population-based analysis.

Positive coping (e.g., self-efficacy and positive reappraisal) and savoring could bear mental health implications under large-scale disasters such as COVID-19.

Effects of mindfulness on stress, life satisfaction, and savoring beliefs among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adolescents all over the world are vulnerable in facing developmental challenges. Recent studies have evidenced that the unexpected interruptions of school learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns about the well-being of adolescents. This present study sought to investigate the relationship between mindfulness, stress, savoring beliefs, and satisfaction of life among adolescents in Hong Kong during COVID-19.

Predictors of linkage to hepatitis C virus care among people living with HIV with hepatitis C infection and the impact of loss to HIV follow-up.

Objective: Half of the people living with HIV (PLWH) with hepatitis C virus (HCV) remain untreated for HCV. We examined predictors of HCV linkage to care among PLWH and the impact of HIV lost to care.

Design And Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of PLWH/HCV from our HIV clinics between 2014 and 2017, and examined predictors of HCV linkage to care.

Toxoplasmosis Encephalitis: A Cross-Sectional Analysis at a U.S. Safety-Net Hospital in the Late cART Era.

Despite decreasing incidence of toxoplasmosis encephalitis(TE) among people living with HIV(PLWH) in the late antiretroviral era, U.S. safety-net hospitals still see significant numbers of admissions for TE.

Sleep duration associated with body mass index among Chinese adults.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between sleep duration and obesity among Chinese adults.

Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among Chinese adults in 2008. In total, 3225 participants were selected by a multistage cluster sampling method.

Sleep duration and quality among different occupations--China national study.

Objective: To examine the associations between occupation, sleep duration and sleep quality.

Methods: The data for this study was extracted from data collected from the 2008 Chinese Sub-optimal Health Study. Our study sample consisted of 18,316 Chinese subjects aged 18-65.

Serum cystatin C level is associated with carotid intima-media thickening and plaque.

Background And Aim: Chronic kidney disease has recently been shown to be a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and carotid intima-media thickness has been widely used as a biomarker for early detection of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to confirm whether carotid thickening and carotid plaque are associated with preclinical chronic kidney disease in individuals without clinical cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease.

Material And Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on participants from Maanshan City, China.

The impact of temperature and humidity measures on influenza A (H7N9) outbreaks-evidence from China.

Objectives: To examine the non-linear effects of meteorological factors on the incidence of influenza A H7N9 and to determine what meteorological measure, and on which day preceding symptom onset, has the most significant effect on H7N9 infection.

Methods: We applied a zero truncated Poisson regression model incorporating smoothed spline functions to assess the non-linear effect of temperature (maximum, minimum, and daily difference) and relative humidity on H7N9 human case numbers occurring in China from February 19, 2013 to February 18, 2014, adjusting for the effects of age and gender.

Results: Both daily minimum and daily maximum temperature contributed significantly to human infection with the influenza A H7N9 virus.

Assessing consistency in oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) across gender and stability of OHRQoL over time for adolescents using Structural Equation Modeling.

Background: The Child Perceptions Questionnaire for children aged 11-14 years (CPQ(11-14) ) was developed in Toronto as a measure of the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) for children/adolescents. The short form with eight items (RSF:8) was also derived.

Objectives: (i) To investigate the consistency of RSF:8 in measuring the OHRQoL between boys and girls, (ii) to investigate the measurement invariance and stability of RSF:8 in measuring OHRQoL for Hong Kong adolescents over time, and (iii) to determine the latent mean differences across gender and over time.

Confirmatory factor analysis on the health domains of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire.

Background: The Child Perceptions Questionnaire for children aged 11-14 years (CPQ(11-14)) with 37 items (full questionnaire) and short forms with 16 and 8 items were developed in Toronto as measures of the oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) for children.

Objectives: To confirm the four hypothesized health domains (oral symptoms, functional limitations, emotional well-being and social well-being) of CPQ(11-14) in measuring OHRQoL for children in Hong Kong.

Methods: The instrument was administered to 542 children aged 12 years.

Erratum to: Mutational analysis of 65 Wilson disease patients in Hong Kong Chinese: Identification of 17 novel mutations and its genetic heterogeneity.

The correct name of the eighth author should be given as Sik-To Lai, not Jak-Yiu Lai.

Mutational analysis of 65 Wilson disease patients in Hong Kong Chinese: identification of 17 novel mutations and its genetic heterogeneity.

Wilson disease (WD), an autosomal recessive disorder of copper transport, is the most common inherited liver disorder in Hong Kong Chinese. This was the first local study to elucidate the molecular basis and establish an effective DNA-based diagnostic protocol. The ATP7B genes of 65 patients were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced.

Abnormal expressions of the subunits of the UDP-N-acetylglucosamine: lysosomal enzyme, N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphotransferase, result in the formation of cytoplasmic vacuoles resembling those of the I-cells.

Defects in the multimeric enzyme, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine:lysosomal enzyme N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphotransferase (GNPT), result in the diseases of mucolipidosis (ML). This enzyme generates the mannose 6-phosphate residues on newly synthesized lysosomal enzymes for the efficient receptor-mediated transport to lysosomes. The enzyme contains alpha/beta and gamma subunits.