Importance: During the past decade, spinal surgical procedures have been increasingly performed on an ambulatory basis, a change in clinical practice supported only by observational evidence thus far. There have been no randomized clinical trials (RCTs) comparing ambulatory care with inpatient care after any spinal surgery.
Objective: To assess whether ambulatory care is noninferior to overnight hospital surveillance in functional outcome, as measured by Neck Disability Index (NDI), in adults after anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) for cervical radiculopathy.
Background: Outdoor mobility supports functioning and active life in old age. There is scarce knowledge about the outdoor mobility of senior housing residents, and it remains unclear whether outdoor mobility is dependent on one's home location.
Aims: We investigated outdoor mobility among senior housing residents and community-dwelling older adults in different population-density areas.
Background And Objectives: Large-scale genome-wide studies of chronic hydrocephalus have been lacking. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).
Methods: We used a case-control study design implementing FinnGen data containing 473,691 Finns with genotypes and nationwide health records.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
September 2023
InO-based catalysts have shown high activity and selectivity for CO hydrogenation to methanol; however, the origin of the high performance of InO is still unclear. To elucidate the initial steps of CO hydrogenation over InO, we have combined X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations to study the adsorption of CO on the InO(111) crystalline surface with different terminations, namely, the stoichiometric, reduced, and hydroxylated surface. The combined approach confirms that the reduction of the surface results in the formation of In adatoms and that water dissociates on the surface at room temperature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate associations of early and middle adulthood physical activity (PA) with symptoms of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs), i.e. stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge urinary incontinence (UUI), faecal incontinence (FI), constipation or defecation difficulties (CDDs) and feeling of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) among middle-aged women.
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