Recurrence of mental disorders: Evidence from surveillance analysis.

Psychosis is a psychiatric disorder characterized by hallucinations and delusions and include schizophrenia spectrum disorders and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorders. Treatment for psychosis lasts a long time with increased likelihood of hospitalization. Surveillance is used to monitor trends in mental disorders to predict and prevent recurrence.

Mapping Vulnerability to Potential Crisis Events in Surabaya City: A GIS-Based Approach.

Background: This study aims to develop a vulnerability map for Surabaya using GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to assess the city's vulnerability to COVID-19.

Methods: Six key factors influencing vulnerability were identified and their relative importance determined through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) pairwise comparison matrix. GIS was utilized to classify Surabaya's vulnerability into five levels: very low, low, medium, high, and very high.

Extracellular vesicles: a promising cell-free therapy for cartilage repair.

Few effective therapies for cartilage repair have been found as cartilage has a low regenerative capacity. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes, are produced by cells and contain bioactive components such as nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and other metabolites that have potential for treating cartilage injuries. Challenges like the difficulty in standardizing targeted therapy have prevented EVs from being used frequently as a treatment option.

Challenges and strategy in treatment with exosomes for cell-free-based tissue engineering in dentistry.

In dentistry, problems of craniofacial, osteochondral, periodontal tissue, nerve, pulp or endodontics injuries, and osteoarthritis need regenerative therapy. The use of stem cells in dental tissue engineering pays a lot of increased attention, but there are challenges for its clinical applications. Therefore, cell-free-based tissue engineering using exosomes isolated from stem cells is regarded an alternative approach in regenerative dentistry.

Plant-derived exosome-like nanoparticles: A concise review on its extraction methods, content, bioactivities, and potential as functional food ingredient.

Plant-derived exosome-like nanoparticles (PDENs) are small vesicles released by multivesicular bodies mainly to communicate between cells and regulate immunity against pathogen attack. Current studies have reported that PDENs could modulate gene expression in a cross-kingdom fashion. Therefore, PDENs could be a potential future functional food ingredient as their cross-kingdom communication abilities were reported to exert multiple health benefits.

Prevalence and determinants of depressive symptoms among adults in Indonesia: A cross-sectional population-based national survey.

Aims: To analyze the association between personal health conditions (self-rated health, physical function, and chronic conditions) and symptoms of depression in Indonesia.

Methods: Data were collected from the Indonesian family life survey 5. This study used a cross-sectional study design with a sample size of 17,734 respondents.

A population-based case-control study on the association of exposure with risk of breast cancer.

Background: Due to a lack of evidence from large-scale epidemiological studies by far on this issue, whether there is a link between exposure and breast cancer risk remained inconclusive.

Methods: We conducted a population-based case-control study using Taiwan's National Health Insurance claim data, in which all breast cancer patients newly diagnosed between 2005 and 2008 were employed as the case group ( = 34,262) and a random sample of non-breast cancer individuals selected from 1-million beneficiaries registered in 2005 was served as the control group. For fair comparability, we employed the time density sampling method to select controls who were matched to case on date of breast cancer diagnosis and age with a case/control ratio of 1/3 ( = 102,786).

Awareness of Salt Intake among Community-Dwelling Elderly at Coastal Area: The Role of Public Health Access Program.

A geographical location such as coastal area is known as risk factor hypertension relating to high exposure of salty foods. Public health access had significant effect on reducing salt intake at the community level. This study assesses salt intake in older women resident at urban coastal in Indonesia participating in the public health program.

Association of gout and colorectal cancer in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based cohort study.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine colorectal cancer (CRC) risks among patients with gout through a follow-up study on a nationwide population-based cohort that included patients with gout and the general population in Taiwan.

Participant: From the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database, we identified 28 061 patients who were newly diagnosed with gout between 2000 and 2010 as the study cohort. We randomly selected 84 248 subjects matching in gender, age and baseline year as comparison cohort.