Background: This is a hospital-based, single-center, cross-sectional study to investigate the of hyperuricaemia (HUA) in general adults in Shenzhen, a booming seaside city in the South China.
Methods: All health adults (≥18 years old) undergoing health examination from 2020 Oct 1 to 2021 September 30 in a general hospital were enrolled. Their medical records were investigated and analyzed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated anxiety and related symptoms among the general population. In order to cope with the mental health burden, we developed an online brief modified mindfulness-based stress reduction (mMBSR) therapy. We performed a parallel-group randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the mMBSR for adult anxiety with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) as an active control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Although a high infection rate has been reported in dyspeptic patients, published data for the asymptomatic population are inadequate. We aimed to investigate the prevalence of infection and the association between infection diagnosed using the noninvasive 13C urea breath test (13C UBT) and risk factors in asymptomatic Chinese individuals.
Methods: Healthy subjects who underwent hospital health examinations in the hospital health management department from September 2020 to September 2021 were consecutively enrolled.
During China's urbanization process, rural labor migrants have been suggested to be one important bridge population to change urban-rural distribution on tuberculosis (TB) burden. Aiming to estimate the prevalence of TB infection and to track the active disease development in rural labor migrants, a prospective study was conducted in Shenzhen city, southern China. TB infection was detected using interferon-γ release assay (IGRA).
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June 2013
Objective: To assess healthy related quality of life in patients with HBV induced liver cirrhosis.
Methods: A total of 103 cases of patients with HBV induced liver cirrhosis were recruited from shenzhen Third People's Hospital during January 2009 to January 2012. The health related quality of life were assess using the most commonly used SF-36 scale questionnaire in all 103 patiemts.