Objective: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a pediatric asthma education program delivered in the context of a French suburban general hospital.
Design: Monocentric retrospective study including children with asthma in Melun, Île-de-France, from January to December 2019. Data collected concerned asthma management, symptoms, education, and knowledge.
Objective: Netrin-1 expression in articular cartilage is correlated with osteoarthritic changes. We aimed to investigate the contribution of Netrin-1 secreted by human osteoarthritic articular chondrocytes to angiogenesis process .
Design: Human articular chondrocytes were extracted from non-osteoarthritic ( = 10) and osteoarthritic ( = 22) joints obtained from surgical specimens and incubated for 24 hours.
At the start of the COVID crisis, NephroCare operated 40 dialysis units in 7 regions, with 2,740 hemodialysis patients. The national COVID-19 crisis team implemented early the necessary measures to ensure the safety of dialysis patients and caregivers in the context of the pandemic. These measures were mostly traditional, but some were specific to our organization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: the aim of this study was to correlate the metabolic syndrome with the level of the physical activity in a population from Marrakech, Morocco.
Methods: the study was conducted at Ibn Zohr Regional Hospital in Marrakech. The body mass index (BMI) was calculated to assess the degree of obesity of each subject.