Publications by authors named "L K Frankel"
Unlabelled: This project examines associations of gender and emotions in videos on YouTube Kids, a virtual environment for socialization during middle childhood. We selected YouTube Kids because of its popularity, newness, and absence in previous research on emotion socialization. The top 20 recommended videos were sampled and coded for gender and emotional content, by two independent teams of coders.
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- Patients with pancreatic cancer have a low 5-year survival rate, primarily because they are often diagnosed at advanced stages, prompting research into the potential benefits of vitamin C.
- A national database study analyzed over 83,000 patients to compare the incidence of pancreatic cancer between those who used prescribed vitamin C and those who did not, finding a significant lower incidence in those who took vitamin C.
- Results indicated that patients without vitamin C prescriptions had a higher prevalence of pancreatic cancer and higher healthcare costs, suggesting a possible protective effect of vitamin C that warrants further investigation.
Background: ( or ) is a toxin-producing bacteria that is notorious for causing life-threatening diarrhea. Recent literature has investigated various effects of infection (CDI) in cancer patients, but research into the impact of CDI on the development of cancer and its effects on the microbiome is limited. CDI predominately affects the colon, which urges consideration into the sequalae of infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There has been little exploration of the effect of fragility fractures on patient perceptions of their age. The common assumption is that fractures "happen to old people". In individuals with a fragility fracture, our objective was to explore the experience of feeling old after sustaining a fragility fracture.
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