Association between hypertension and osteoporosis: a population-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Current evidence suggests that metabolic dysregulation is inextricably linked to both hypertension and osteoporosis, but the correlation between hypertension and osteoporosis is still unclear. Therefore, in this study, we explored the correlation between hypertension and osteoporosis.

Methods: A total of 37,807 participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2010, 2013-2014, 2017-2018) were enrolled in this population-based cross-sectional study.

Total serum IL-6 and TNF-C levels in children with bronchopneumonia following treatment with methylprednisolone in combination with azithromycin.

Objective: To analyze the expression levels of total serum interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-C in children with bronchopneumonia treated by methylprednisolone in combination with azithromycin.

Methods: Eighty-three children with bronchopneumonia were randomly divided into a test group (TG) and a control group (CG). The TG was comprised of 40 children treated with methylprednisolone combined with azithromycin, whereas the CG was comprised of 43 patients who received methylprednisolone monotherapy.

Sophocarpine Attenuates Cognitive Impairment and Promotes Neurogenesis in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease.

Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is characterized by abnormal deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and impaired neurogenesis and cognition, still lacks an optimally effective therapeutic agent for its management, and mounting evidence has shown that inflammatory processes are implicated in AD. Sophocarpine has been reported to exert inflammation-regulating effects in various diseases. However, whether sophocarpine can exert anti-neuroinflammatory and neuroprotective effects in AD remains unclear.

β-Sitosterol treatment attenuates cognitive deficits and prevents amyloid plaque deposition in amyloid protein precursor/presenilin 1 mice.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder causing dementia worldwide, and is mainly characterized by aggregated β-amyloid (Aβ). Increasing evidence has shown that plant extracts have the potential to delay AD development. The plant sterol β-Sitosterol has a potential role in inhibiting the production of platelet Aβ, suggesting that it may be useful for AD prevention.

Microcatheter looping facilitates access to both the acutely angled parent artery and cerebral aneurysms for effective embolization.

Aneurysms with an acutely angled parent artery are difficult to access for coiling. This study aimed to investigate the safety and effectiveness of microcatheter looping for embolization of cerebral aneurysms with access difficulty. Ten patients (male:female=5:5) with cerebral aneurysms treated with the microcatheter looping technique were analyzed retrospectively.