Heliyon
November 2024
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: People with HIV-1 (PWH) age differently than the general population. Blood telomere length (BTL) attrition is a surrogate biomarker of immunosenescence and aging in PWH. BTL is reduced immediately after HIV-1 infection and recovers in PWH with long-term virologic suppression, but the extent of this recovery is unknown.
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August 2024
This work faces the known problem of negative visión among prospective primary teachers regarding science teaching and learning. This is even more acute if gender is taken into account. To overcome this, the use of ethnobotany as a science of proximity is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To describe a temporal approach, digitally assisted phacovitrectomy in a patient with severe kyphosis due to axial spondyloarthritis. . A 70-year-old male patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy with vitreous hemorrhage and cataract and ankylosing spondylitis with severe kyphosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a heterogeneous entity with uncertain prognosis.
Objectives: This study sought to develop and validate a prediction model of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and to identify LVNC cases without events during long-term follow-up.
Methods: This is a retrospective longitudinal multicenter cohort study of consecutive patients fulfilling LVNC criteria by echocardiography or cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
Objectives: To describe and analyze the training programs carried out during the COVID-19 forced confinement in men´s professional football in Spain.
Methods: Observational Study based on a telematic ad-hoc questionnaire developed to meet the objective of the study. The sample consisted of thirty-six coaches representing thirty-six professional men's soccer teams in the Spanish first and second division.
Background: Sterols are structural and functional components of eukaryotic cell membranes. Plants produce a complex mixture of sterols, among which β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, and cholesterol in some Solanaceae, are the most abundant species. Many reports have shown that the stigmasterol to β-sitosterol ratio changes during plant development and in response to stresses, suggesting that it may play a role in the regulation of these processes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA food tradition not only corresponds to the vital need to be nourished every day, but is part of the particularity of a territory as a consequence of its history, traditions, natural heritage, and capacity for ecological and social resilience. In the search for culinary identity, a valorization of a rural territory of high identity potential is carried out, such as in the environmental protection area "Sierra Grande de Hornachos" (Extremadura, Spain), and specifically the town of Hornachos. For this purpose, a series of workshops and interviews were held for men and women who had lived most of their lives in Hornachos and who were older than 70.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Objective: since 1976, the term low birth weight (LBW) has been applied to all infants weighing less than 2 500 g and it constitutes the most important factor affecting neonatal mortality, morbidity in childhood. The aim of this study is to identify associations between biological, socioeconomic and health factors and underweight newborns in the Canary Islands.
Materials And Methods: a cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted, with the files belonging to pregnant women in 2011 and 2012 (n = 11.
Background: Elective caesarean section before 39 weeks gestational age (GA) has been associated with a higher incidence of iatrogenic respiratory distress and pneumothorax in term newborn babies, probably because of a higher respiratory morbidity and the need for resuscitation. These factors have not been systematically evaluated in our patients.
Objective: To determine whether the gestational age, type of delivery, and intensity of resuscitation, are associated with an increase in the incidence of pneumothorax in term neonates.
Introduction: Population ageing is a main concern under the biosanitary point of view.
Aim: To assess the nutritional status of people 65 year-old and older in Cantabria (Spain)
Method: A total of 1605 persons were studied by means of the MNA (Mini Nutritional Assessment); a) by primary care (59.9% in the unit, and 4.
Primary ovarian lymphoma is a rare entity. We submit a case of a 34-year-old black patient presenting with a bilateral adnexal tumor. She underwent hysterectomy with double salpingo-oophorectomy followed by polychemotherapy treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA method for the determination of cocaine (COC) and benzoylecgonine (BZE) in human urine using a column-switching liquid chromatography system is reported. A homemade precolumn (20 mm x 4.6 mm i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn epizootiological survey of leishmaniosis, coccidiosis and parasitic helminths in 67 foxes (Vulpes vulpes) was conducted in Guadalajara (central Spain). Examination for parasitic protozoa revealed prevalences of 74% Leishmania (determined by molecular methods) and 2.9% coccidia oocysts (fecal flotation).
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