The combination of Chinese and Western Medicine in the management of rheumatoid arthritis: A real-world cohort study across China.

To investigate the efficacy of Integrative medicine (IM), compare with Western medicine (WM), in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a cohort study. This is a cohort study with recruitment of RA patients from 10 hospitals in China. The primary outcome was change in disease activity score 28 (DAS28) during 4 follow-up visits.

Efficacy and safety of Chinese medicine JCM-16021 for diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: study protocol for a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial.

Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal functional disease. Adults with IBS may experience abdominal pain, change of bowel habits, and abnormal stool form without organic disease. IBS can seriously affect their work productivity and quality of life, especially diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D).

[Meta-analysis for clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine in treating resistant hypertension].

To systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of traditional Chinese medicine in treating patients with resistant hypertension. CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, CBM, PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, EMbase and other databases were retrieved by computers to screen out the randomized controlled trial of traditional Chinese medicine in treating resistant hypertension. Cochrane Handbook was used to evaluate the quality of the included literature, RevMan 5.

Age and Sex Differences in Rates of Influenza-Associated Hospitalizations in Hong Kong.

Few studies have explored age and sex differences in the disease burden of influenza, although men and women probably differ in their susceptibility to influenza infections. In this study, quasi-Poisson regression models were applied to weekly age- and sex-specific hospitalization numbers of pneumonia and influenza cases in the Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China, from 2004 to 2010. Age and sex differences were assessed by age- and sex-specific rates of excess hospitalization for influenza A subtypes A(H1N1), A(H3N2), and A(H1N1)pdm09 and influenza B, respectively.

Forecasting influenza epidemics from multi-stream surveillance data in a subtropical city of China.

Background: Influenza has been associated with heavy burden of mortality and morbidity in subtropical regions. However, timely forecast of influenza epidemic in these regions has been hindered by unclear seasonality of influenza viruses. In this study, we developed a forecasting model by integrating multiple sentinel surveillance data to predict influenza epidemics in a subtropical city Shenzhen, China.

Hospitalization risk of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic cases in Hong Kong.

Background: Reliable assessment for the severity of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza is critical for evaluation of vaccination strategies for future pandemics. This study aims to estimate the age-specific hospitalization risks of the 2009 pandemic cases during the first wave in Hong Kong, by combining the findings from the serology and disease burden studies.

Methods: Excess hospitalization rates associated with the pandemic H1N1 were estimated from Poisson regression models fitted to weekly total numbers of non-accidental hospitalization from 2005 to 2010.

[Effect of Nivalenol and selenium on IL-1beta and TNF-alpha secretion in cultured chondrocytes].

Aim: To investigate the effect of Nivalenol(NIV) and Selenium(Se) on the levels of IL-1beta and TNF-alpha in the cultured chondrocytes.

Methods: Human chondrocytes cultured in vitro were treated with or without NIV and Se. The morphology of chondrocytes was observed by optic microscope.