Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a prevalent psychological condition. Although the effect of obstetrical and maternal complications on PPD are well described, the impact of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) on PPD is relatively unexplored.
Objectives: This study examined the relationship between neighborhood SES score and PPD.
J Health Econ Outcomes Res
September 2024
Although increasing in prevalence, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is often undiagnosed in clinical practice. This study identified patients in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system who likely had undiagnosed NASH using a machine learning algorithm. From a VA data set of 25 million adult enrollees, the study population was divided into NASH-positive, non-NASH, and at-risk cohorts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of telehealth education and art therapy on diet-fluid restriction and anxiety in hemodialysis patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: This randomized controlled study included 60 hemodialysis patients (30 in the intervention group and 30 in the control group). Data were collected using the Patient Information Form, Dialysis Diet and Fluid Non-Adherence Questionnaire, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Modified Morisky Scale.
Obesity (Silver Spring)
July 2024
Objective: Obesity and its cardiovascular complications are major causes of morbidity and mortality. Little is known in real-world settings about the effect of newly approved antiobesity medications (AOMs) on cardiovascular complications among patients with obesity.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study examined the association between newly approved AOM use and cardiovascular events among Medicare patients with obesity using data from 2020 to 2022.
This study investigated the association of blood and semen Bisphenol A (BPA) levels of the male partner on the reproductive outcome in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment cycles. For this prospective study (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02703584), blood and semen samples of the male partner of the 75 women who had ICSI were analyzed.
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