Background: Pulmonary involvement of Non-Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (PNLCH) is a rare cause of interstitial pulmonary disease in people and are classified as either Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) or Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD). In veterinary medicine, feline pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) has been identified as an infiltrative histiocytic disorder with an insidious onset of progressive respiratory distress and is non-responsiveness to empiric therapies. Unfortunately, subsequent death either from respiratory failure or humane euthanasia are the reported outcomes in all reported cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: African American (AA) women are disproportionately affected by hypertension. Discrimination, which can be traumatic, and depressive symptoms are independently associated with blood pressure (BP).
Objective: We assessed whether the combined influence of discrimination and race-related trauma and depressive symptoms influenced BP over time.
Introduction: Our aim was to determine if there is a relationship between librarian involvement on a knowledge synthesis project and the synthesis's citation count or the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of its publication venue.
Methods: A total of 551 knowledge syntheses published during a one-year period (2020) from a single category, "Psychology, Clinical", in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports were exported from Web of Science along with the citation counts for each synthesis and the JIF of its publication venue. The full-text of each article was examined in order to code each as either co-author, acknowledged, or unknown to reflect the level of librarian involvement in the synthesis.
Objective: The purpose of this research was to develop an automatic wound segmentation method for a pressure ulcer (PU) monitoring system (PrUMS) using a depth camera to provide automated, non-contact wound measurements.
Method: The automatic wound segmentation method, which combines multiple convolutional neural network classifiers, was developed to segment the wound region to improve PrUMS accuracy and to avoid the biased decision from a single classifier. Measurements from PrUMS were compared with the standardised manual measurements (ground truth) of two clinically trained wound care nurses for each wound.
Ultra-processed foods high in fat and sugar have been theorized to be addictive due to their purported ability to induce an exaggerated post-ingestive brain dopamine response akin to drugs of abuse. Using [C]raclopride positron emission tomography (PET) displacement methods used to measure brain dopamine responses to addictive drugs, we measured striatal dopamine responses beginning 30 min after ingesting an ultra-processed milkshake high in fat and sugar in 50 young, healthy adults over a wide body mass index (BMI) range (20-45 kg/m). Surprisingly, milkshake consumption did not result in a significant post-ingestive dopamine response in the striatum (p = 0.
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