Depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and their co-occurrence among people living with schizophrenia in China: Prevalence and correlates.

Background: The current study examines the prevalence of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, their occurrence, and key socio-demographic and clinical correlates among people living with schizophrenia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 390 schizophrenia individuals. Depressive and anxiety symptoms, patient symptoms, functioning, and disability were assessed using standard assessment tools.

Waist-to-hip ratio is the most relevant obesity index at each phase of insulin secretion among obese patients.

We aimed to explore the relationship between different obesity indices and insulin secretion at each phase among obese subjects and to find out the most relevant obesity index. Height, weight, waist circumstance, and hip circumstance were obtained among 419 obese subjects to calculate body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio, body adiposity index (BAI), conicity index, abdominal volume index and a body shape index (ABSI). Fasting plasma glucose and fasting insulin were detected to calculate HOMA-β.

The Akkermansia muciniphila is a gut microbiota signature in psoriasis.

Psoriasis is an immune-mediated chronic inflammatory skin disease. Although its pathogenesis is not fully understood, Th17 cells and the cytokines they produce, such as IL-17, IL-22 and IL-23, play critical roles in the pathogenesis of psoriasis. Evidence has demonstrated that psoriasis has some common features, including immune responses (due to Th17 cells) and inflammatory cytokine profiles, with systematic diseases including inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) and obesity.

[Effectiveness on the education and food safety programs among senior primary students in 2 counties from west China-a cluster randomized trial].

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition and food safety educational programs on primary students from grade 4 to 6 in impoverished areas of Western China, under a school-based cluster-randomized trial.

Methods: Twelve primary schools were selected from 2 impoverished counties in West China and assigned to intervention or control groups, randomly, with 6 schools in each group. Self-rating knowledge, attitude and practice questionnaires were used at both baseline and final stages.

Assessment of a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic interaction between simvastatin and Ginkgo biloba extracts in healthy subjects.

1. Ginkgo biloba extract (GBE) is one of the most commonly used herbal remedies worldwide. It is usually concomitantly administrated with statins to treat diseases in geriatric patients.