Fit with Faith: An Exploratory Study Examining a Behavior Change Intervention for African-American Clergy and Their Spouses.

Fit with Faith is a 10-week, diet, physical activity, and stress reduction intervention for African-American clergy and spouses, which included: meetings, phone calls, a behavior tracking app. Survey, 24-h recall, accelerometer, anthropometric, and blood pressure data were collected. Wilcoxon signed ranked tests were used for analyses.

Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors by Key Demographic Variables Among Mid-South Church Leaders from 2012 to 2017.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors were examined among church leaders (n = 2309) who attended Mid-South United Methodist Church annual meetings between 2012 and 2017 using repeated cross-sectional data. There was a significant increase in body mass index (BMI) (b = 0.24, p = 0.

Cavus foot reconstruction in 3 patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Unlabelled: Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) is a progressive genetic disorder that produces motor and sensory neuropathy that affects the legs, feet, and hands. A dorsally based closing wedge midfoot osteotomy at the apex of the cavus foot deformity combined with soft tissue and other osseous procedures are procedures performed for CMT patients at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital. The focus of this article is to present a prospective evaluation of 3 patients using radiographic assessment, static biomechanical and the malleolar valgus index (MVI), dynamic alignment, and function results using the F-scan.

Tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis with retrograde intramedullary nailing.

Nineteen patients (20 feet) with severe hindfoot and ankle deformity underwent tibiotalocalcaneal fusion with a retrograde locked intramedullary nail as a limb-salvage procedure. The purpose of this study was to compare the complication rates of this procedure in diabetic versus nondiabetic patients. There were 8 men and 11 women with preoperative diagnoses including Charcot neuroarthropathy, primary osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, equinocavovarus, posttraumatic osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis, and ankle malunion.