Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents with Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Children and adolescents with overweight and obesity have an impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, it is unclear which of these children are most affected in their physical, psychological, and social functioning. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate HRQoL in treatment-seeking children and adolescents with overweight, obesity, and severe obesity.

Impacts of a subtropical storm on nitrogen functional microbes and associated cycling processes in a river-estuary continuum.

Storms, in subtropical regions such as S.E. China, cause major changes in the physical and biogeochemical fluxes of anthropogenic N species through the river-estuary continuum to the coast.

Spatiotemporal Variation of Microbial Communities in the Ultra-Oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Marine microbial communities vary seasonally and spatially, but these two factors are rarely addressed together. In this study, the temporal and spatial patterns of the bacterial and archaeal community were studied along a coast-to-offshore transect in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) over six cruises, in three seasons of 2 consecutive years. Amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and transcripts was performed to determine presence and activity, respectively.

Sedimentary processes dominate nitrous oxide production and emission in the hypoxic zone off the Changjiang River estuary.

Coastal oceans, known as the major nitrous oxide (NO) source to the atmosphere, are increasingly subject to eutrophication and concurrent near-bottom hypoxia. The natural nitrogen cycle is likely to be altered markedly in hypoxic coastal oceans. However, the processes responsible for NO production and emission remain elusive because of lacking field rate measurements simultaneously conducted in the water column and sediment.

Diagnostic tools to evaluate ankle instability caused by a deltoid ligament rupture in patients with supination-external rotation ankle fractures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: Supination-external rotation (SER) ankle fractures account for the majority of ankle fractures and can be divided into stable or unstable fractures, based on the state of the deltoid ligament. The objective of this review was to appraise the available literature concerning diagnostic tools to evaluate deltoid ligament integrity in patients with SER-type ankle fractures.

Methods: A comprehensive literature search of Pubmed and Embase was performed up to December 2020.