Triglyceride-Glucose Index and Intravenous Thrombolysis Outcomes for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Multicenter Prospective-Cohort Study.

Background: The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index has recently been proposed as a reliable marker of insulin resistance. There is insufficient evidence to verify that the TyG index is correlated with functional outcomes and hemorrhagic transformation and in patients with stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT).

Methods: We designed a multicenter cohort study, which enrolled patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with IVT between December 2004 and December 2016.

Body image change in obese and overweight persons enrolled in weight loss intervention programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

To report the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis examining whether weight loss interventions improve body image in obese/overweight individuals. Medline, Current Contents, and the Cochrane database were searched to identify studies involving obese/overweight adults who were enrolled in weight loss interventions in which body image was quantitatively assessed. Outcomes assessed were changes in body shape concern, body size dissatisfaction, and body satisfaction (intervention vs comparator/control group).

Use of selected ambulatory dental services in Taiwan before and after global budgeting: a longitudinal study to identify trends in hospital and clinic-based services.

Background: The Taiwan government adopted National Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, providing universal health care to all citizens. It was financed by mandatory premium contributions made by employers, employees, and the government. Since then, the government has faced increasing challenges to control NHI expenditures.

Association of body image and health beliefs with health behaviors in patients with diabetes: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between body image, health beliefs, and health behavior in patients with diabetes classified according to body mass index (BMI).

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a community hospital between January and April 2010. One-hundred-sixty-eight patients with diabetes were enrolled.

Metabolic outcome for diabetes shared care program outpatients in a veterans hospital of southern Taiwan.

Background: To evaluate the metabolic outcomes of the Diabetes Shared Care Program (DSCP) for Type 2 diabetes after completion of 1 year and 3 years of intervention.

Methods: Total 162 Type 2 diabetes (average age 67.14 years with 62.

Calcified plaque resorptive status as determined by high-resolution ultrasound is predictive of successful conservative management of calcific tendinosis.

Objective: In patients with calcific tendinosis, the morphology of calcified plaques is associated with response to conservative management. We aimed to determine changes in pain and morphology of plaques in patients with calcific tendinosis and non-arc-shaped plaques identified by high-resolution ultrasonography who received only conservative treatment.

Methods: A total of 33 patients with a mean age of 63.

Neurosyphilis presenting with status epilepticus.

Background: With the introduction of antibiotics, neurosyphilis is now considered uncommon, and accurate diagnosis sometimes is problematic as the symptoms and signs are not pathognomonic.

Review Summary: We present a 51-year-old man who had a 4-month history of general malaise and subtle cognitive impairment, combined with a normal brain image study, who ultimately developed an episode of status epilepticus as the main manifestation of unrecognized neurosyphilis.

Conclusion: Because a clinical diagnosis of neurosyphilis is rarely encountered today in the developed world, a high index of suspicion and clinician awareness is very important in early diagnosis.