Publications by authors named "Moualla M"

Psychiatric disorders are common and can cause psychological disabilities. While the creation of day hospitals (DHs) was intended to direct psychiatric care towards community settings, they may have paradoxically contributed to a form of chronicity. Furthermore, the heterogeneity and lack of evaluation of care within DHs prevent the availability needed to collect objective data on users outcomes.

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Physical activity (PA) is recommended to optimize well-functioning in people with schizophrenia. PA has been found to improve quality of life, general symptomatology, depression, anxiety and stress symptoms, global and social functioning. In PA research, most of the interventions are based on one-on-one interventions but there is poor information about group-based PA interventions.

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Employment rate in psychiatry is around 10 to 30%. Cognitive remediation (CR) associated with psychosocial rehabilitation shows good functional outcomes, with a high level of satisfaction in participants provided by tailored CR. However, few studies looked at the long-term outcome in participants who experienced such a program.

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Rationale: Adiposity is associated with low lung function, but the longitudinal relationship between lung function and adiposity is inadequately studied.

Objective: To examine the bidirectional longitudinal associations between rapid decline in lung function and adiposity phenotypes in healthy adults.

Methods: This secondary analysis used a 25-year longitudinal dataset from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study that enrolled 5115 participants.

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3,3'-Diindolylmethane is available as a supplement in the United States for "cancer prevention" and "augmentation of physical fitness." A derivative of indole-3-carbinol found in plants, diindolylmethane, binds to receptors associated with the sex steroid pathways and has unclear effects on estrogen and androgen physiology. We present a patient who had been taking diindolylmethane and developed right lower extremity deep venous thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary embolism.

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Genetic diversity among 49 wheat varieties (37 durum and 12 bread wheat) was assayed using 32 microsatellites representing 34 loci covering almost the whole wheat genome. The polymorphic information content (PIC) across the tested loci ranged from 0 to 0.88 with average values of 0.

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Purpose Of The Study: The object of this study was to define the requirements for successful management of polyhandicapped adults with low mental level. The goal of surgery was to improve motion performances, suppress pain, improve sitting position, and facilitate handicapped adults life.

Material: Thirty-five adults operated during a period of 20 years with a follow-up between 6 months and 20 years were studied.

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We report a case of acute respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in a patient treated with Atenolol (Tenormin) for two months. According to the different criteria which are generally used, the diagnosis of pulmonary oedema induced by Atenolol was made. There were extra pulmonary clinical signs (cutaneous and articular) which were associated with blood hypereosinophilia and were suggesting the mechanism of RDS was hypersensitivity.

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The authors report two cases of myelomatosis localised to the pleura, one of which was associated with an adenocarcinoma. Pleural effusions are relatively rare during the course of multiple myeloma and most often occur with non-specific disorders of the disease. The myelomatous origin of a pleural effusion can only be made by analysis of the pleural fluid and should be recognised early enough to enable aggressive treatment to be instituted even if the prognosis associated with such a localisation is very poor.

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