Publications by authors named "M BATT"
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted adolescent mental health worldwide. The current study aims to assess the feelings of French adolescents and the factors related to anxiety among these adolescents during the first lockdown due to COVID-19. A sample of 284 French adolescents from the Grand Est region aged 12-18 years completed an online survey evaluating their pandemic-related anxiety symptoms, behaviors, and feelings regarding the contingent strategies of lockdown that were taken and their living and learning conditions, family relationships, and social support.
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- Eight calves in a Nebraska herd exhibited exercise intolerance, leading to a hypothesis that a genetic variant could be responsible due to shared ancestry in their sire lines.
- A genome-wide association study identified a variant in the PYGM gene linked to the condition, resulting in elevated glycogen levels in the skeletal muscle of affected calves.
- The deficiency of myophosphorylase, an enzyme crucial for glycogen breakdown, not only poses welfare concerns for the animals but also results in poor meat quality, impacting economic outcomes for the beef industry.
Thirteen American Hereford cattle were reported blind with presumed onset when ~12-mo-old. All blind cattle shared a common ancestor through both the maternal and paternal pedigrees, suggesting a recessive genetic origin. Given the pedigree relationships and novel phenotype, we characterized the ophthalmo-pathologic changes associated with blindness and identified the responsible gene variant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Emergency general surgery (EGS) is a major part of the provision of healthcare, and patients undergoing EGS are at elevated risk of morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to determine factors contributing to patients losing their independence and being discharged to residential and nursing homes having previously lived in their own residences.
Methods: Our local data uploaded to the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) (2014-2022) were analyzed.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic placed important challenges on parents, as they had to meet various demands during lockdown, including childcare, work and homeschooling. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate perceived stress levels among the parents of school-aged children and explore their association with sociodemographic, environmental and psychological factors during lockdown.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the parents of school-aged children ages 8 to 18, who lived in the Grand Est region of France during the first wave of the pandemic.