Effects of aerobic training and resistance training in reducing cardiovascular disease risk for patients with prediabetes: A multi-center randomized controlled trial.

Aims: Aerobic training (AT) and resistance training (RT) can reduce blood glucose and type 2 diabetes risk, and increase muscle mass for prediabetes patients. However, the impact of long-term AT and RT on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of AT and RT on CVD risk reduction in prediabetes patients.

Comparisons of Papanicolaou Utilization and Cervical Cancer Detection between Rural and Urban Women in Taiwan.

Using the claims data of one million insured residents in Taiwan from 1996-2013, this study identified 12,126 women in an urban city (Taichung) and 7229 women in a rural county (Yunlin), aged 20 and above. We compared Papanicolaou (Pap) test uses and cervical cancer detection rates between urban and rural women. Results showed that the Pap screening rate was slightly higher in rural women than in urban women (86.

HbA1c variability as an independent predictor of diabetes retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Aims: To evaluate the association of both mean HbA1c and HbA1c variability with DR development in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: Patients with type 2 diabetes who received dilated funduscopic examination annually and who underwent at least 2-year follow-up were included in this longitudinal study. Subjects were excluded if they took less than five HbA1c measurements during the follow-up period.

A cross-sectional study on the attitudes and perceptions of outpatients towards palliative care at the Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital Hospice Centre.

Background: Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life for patients and their families, by helping them to cope with problems associated with illness. It targets four aspects of health: physical, psychological, social, and spiritual. Most of the current literature on palliative care is limited to the perspectives of health professionals.

Effect of 12-Month Resistance Training on Changes in Abdominal Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Variables in Patients with Prediabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To examine the effects of resistance training relative to aerobic training on abdominal adipose tissue and metabolic variables in adults with prediabetes.

Methods: 105 participants with prediabetes were randomized into the resistance training group (RT, = 35), aerobic training group (AT, = 35), and control group (CG, = 35). The participants completed supervised 12-month exercise; the control group followed the primary lifestyle without exercise intervention.

Comparing the effects of 6 months aerobic exercise and resistance training on metabolic control and β-cell function in Chinese patients with prediabetes: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.

Background: It is clear that aerobic training (AT) can delay pancreatic exhaustion and slow the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes (T2D), but there is little information regarding the effects of resistance training (RT) in people with prediabetes. This study compared the effectiveness of RT and AT in improving metabolic control and protecting β-cell function in people with prediabetes.

Methods: Chinese subjects (n = 248) with prediabetes were randomized to three groups: AT (n = 83), RT (n = 82) and control (n = 83).

BRCA mutation testing for ovarian cancer in the context of available targeted therapy: Survey and consensus of Hong Kong specialists.

Aims: BRCA mutation (BRCAmut) testing is an important tool for the risk assessment, prevention and early diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) and ovarian cancer (OC), and more recently, for determining patient susceptibility to targeted therapy. This study assessed the current BRCAmut testing patterns and explored physicians' perspectives on the utilities and optimal sequencing of the testing, in order to facilitate and standardize testing practices.

Methods: Medical specialists in BC and OC in Hong Kong were invited to complete a questionnaire on BRCAmut testing practices.

Two-year-supervised resistance training prevented diabetes incidence in people with prediabetes: A randomised control trial.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore the long-term effects of aerobic training (AT), resistance training (RT), and combined training (AT + RT) on the prevention of T2D incidence in patients with prediabetes.

Materials And Methods: In this randomised controlled trial, people with prediabetes (fasting glucose ≥5.6 and <7.

Visceral adipose tissue is more strongly associated with insulin resistance than subcutaneous adipose tissue in Chinese subjects with pre-diabetes.

Aims: To investigate the value of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in a cohort of a community's residents who were diagnosed as pre-diabetes, and to evaluate the association of VAT and SAT with insulin resistance.

Methods: This study was based on cross-sectional analysis of data from 107 adults. VAT and SAT were assessed by computed tomography.

Impact of "Conversation Maps" on diabetes distress and self-efficacy of Chinese adult patients with type 2 diabetes: a pilot study.

The objective was to compare Diabetes Conversation Maps-based education and traditional education in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. A total of 53 outpatients were randomized to the intervention group (Diabetes Conversation Maps-based education) and control group (traditional education). In the intervention group, six 1-hour sessions covering diabetes overview, living with diabetes, risk factors and complications of diabetes, starting insulin treatment, foot care, and healthy eating and exercise were provided during 4 weeks.

Knowledge of A1c Predicts Diabetes Self-Management and A1c Level among Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

This study was to identify current A1c understanding status among Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes, assess if knowledge of A1c affects their diabetes self-management and their glycemic control and recognize the factors influencing knowledge of A1c among patients with type 2 diabetes. A multi-center, cross-sectional survey was conducted between April and July 2010 in 50 medical centers in the Mainland China. Participants were recruited from inpatients and outpatients who were admitted to or visited those medical centers.

Does patient empowerment predict self-care behavior and glycosylated hemoglobin in chinese patients with type 2 diabetes?

Background: Patient empowerment is playing an increasingly important role in diabetes and related disorders. This study evaluated the correlations among patient empowerment, self-care behavior, and glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes in mainland China.

Subjects And Methods: We conducted a multicenter cross-sectional study.

Hourly oral misoprostol administration for terminating midtrimester pregnancies: a pilot study.

Objective: This pilot study retrospectively evaluated the outcomes of medical induction of termination of midtrimester pregnancies with hourly oral misoprostol administration.

Materials And Methods: Sixteen women with living fetuses, who had undergone pregnancy termination at 12-25 weeks of gestational age, were reviewed. The method of induction was hourly oral administration of misoprostol, given at doses of 200 μg/hr for the first 12 hours and 400 μg/hr after 12 hours until delivery.

Optimal electron doping of a C60 monolayer on Cu(111) via interface reconstruction.

We demonstrate the charge state of C60 on a Cu(111) surface can be made optimal, i.e., forming C60(3-) as required for superconductivity in bulk alkali-doped C60, purely through interface reconstruction rather than with foreign dopants.

Orbital ordering and Jahn-Teller distortion in Perovskite ruthenate SrRuO3.

Local density approximation plus on-site Coulomb interaction U band structure calculations reveal that SrRuO3 exhibits a half-metallic ground state with an integer spin moment of 2.0 microB/SrRuO3. An associated tilting 4dt2g orbital ordering on a Ru sublattice is observed under the on-site Coulomb interaction U in the presence of lattice distortion.

Dural cavernous angioma mimicking a meningioma and causing facial pain.

An 18-year-old girl who had severe headaches in the left temporal and facial regions was found to have a small enhanced dural-based parietal convexity mass. On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), this mass was homogeneously enhanced with "dural tail sign," and was similar to a meningioma. This mass was completely removed surgically, and pathology proved it to be a cavernous angioma without previous hemorrhages.