A vignette study of mental health literacy for binge-eating disorder in a self-selected community sample.

Background: Mental health literacy has implications for mental disorder recognition, help-seeking, and stigma reduction. Research on binge-eating disorder mental health literacy (BED MHL) is limited. To address this gap, our study examined BED MHL in a community sample.

Family and Community Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Restorative Programs in the United States.

Now is the time to rethink reliance on legal intervention to end intimate partner violence (IPV). Arrest, incarceration, and family separation have fallen disproportionately on people who are Black or Brown, impoverished, or immigrant, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ). Restorative approaches bring together the persons harmed, persons causing harm, their family or community networks, or combinations of these stakeholders.

Evidence for GALNT12 as a moderate penetrance gene for colorectal cancer.

Characterizing moderate penetrance susceptibility genes is an emerging frontier in colorectal cancer (CRC) research. GALNT12 is a strong candidate CRC-susceptibility gene given previous linkage and association studies, and inactivating somatic and germline alleles in CRC patients. Previously, we found rare segregating germline GALNT12 variants in a clinic-based cohort (N = 118) with predisposition for CRC.

Ectomycorrhizas of Cercocarpus ledifolius (Rosaceae).

Premise Of The Study: Woody species in the Rosaceae form ectomycorrhizal associations, but the fungal symbionts are unknown. The species of fungi determine whether host plants are isolated from other ectomycorrhizal species in the plant community or linked with other trees through mycorrhizal networks. In this study we identified the fungi that form ectomycorrhizas with Cercocarpus ledifolius (curl-leaf mountain mahogany).

Advancing social workers' responsiveness to health disparities: the case of breast cancer screening.

This study provides the basis for customizing culturally responsive social work health promotion programs aimed at eliminating breast cancer screening and mortality disparities between white and African American women. Survey data collected from a random sample of 853 women in rural North Carolina were used to explore the impact of psychosocial factors, including cultural beliefs, on differences by race and age in behavioral intentions if a breast lump was found. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that age and past mammography screening predicted the intention to get a mammogram, whereas physician communication about breast cancer risk, never having a mammogram, breast cancer worry, and religious beliefs about God's role in curing cancer influenced women's intentions to watch the lump for changes.

Safety conferencing: toward a coordinated and inclusive response to safeguard women and children.

To reach out to women from different backgrounds, the battered women's movement needs to place women and their informal supports at the center of a coordinated response. This article shares the views of domestic violence survivors, staff, and supporters on how to create such a coordinated and inclusive response, lays a conceptual foundation for a decision-making forum called safety conferencing, and sets forth guidance for its practice. Safety conferencing is proposed as one means of building the individual and collective strength to reshape connections, make sound choices, and promote the safety of women and children from diverse cultures.

Iron sucrose in hemodialysis patients: safety of replacement and maintenance regimens.

Background: Parenteral iron replacement and maintenance are frequently required in hemodialysis patients. However, serious adverse events have been reported after single doses of some intravenous iron products. This multicenter phase IV clinical trial examined the safety of iron sucrose for the treatment of iron deficiency and for the maintenance of iron sufficiency in hemodialysis patients.

Increasing the cultural responsiveness of family group conferencing.

Child welfare struggles to manage child abuse and neglect and to seek permanency for children, while being culturally responsive to the communities it serves. Family group conferencing, piloted in New Zealand and now used in the United States and other countries, is a strengths-based model that brings together families and their support systems to develop and carry out a plan that protects, nurtures, and safeguards children and other family members. This article describes the model and a culturally competent method for assessing and adapting the model for the African American, Cherokee, and Latino/Hispanic communities in North Carolina.

Optimizing medical management of patients with pre-end-stage renal disease.

Patients with end-stage renal disease have reduced quality of life, high levels of morbidity, and an annual mortality of about 22%. Because the high morbidity and mortality of dialysis patients might be reduced substantially if patients were healthier at the time of initiating renal replacement therapy, this article will present treatment recommendations designed to retard the progression of chronic renal disease, to optimize the medical management of comorbid medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and lipid disorders, and to reduce the complications of renal insufficiency, including hypertension, anemia, hyperparathyroidism, and malnutrition. Given the lack of prospective clinical studies in this area, these recommendations are derived from consensus standards for managing dialysis patients or patients with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, and lipid disorders, and from expert opinion derived from laboratory investigations of pathophysiology and relevant experimental disease models.

Family group decision making: protecting children and women.

With rising demands on child welfare, workers need to consider new options, including strategies that promote a collaborative effort of family, community, and government. Family group conferencing integrates efforts to advance child and adult safety and strengthens family unity while expanding its meaning. The conclusions in this article are based on family interviews and child protective services' file comparison from an outcome study of the Family Group Decision Making Project.

Factors that influence serum hyaluronan levels in hemodialysis patients.

Serum hyaluronan levels are increased in dialysis patients. We evaluated several factors that influence serum hyaluronan levels in 184 patients on chronic hemodialysis (duration 2.3 +/- 2.

Detection of anti-hepatitis C virus antibodies in patients undergoing dialysis by utilizing a hepatitis C virus 3.0 assay: correlation with hepatitis C virus RNA.

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is endemic in long-term dialysis units. We assessed the performance of a recently developed HCV 3.0 assay for the detection of HCV antibodies in patients undergoing dialysis.

Prevalence of hepatitis C and G virus infection in chronic hemodialysis patients.

An RNA virus designated hepatitis G virus (HGV) has been recently identified in patients with acute and chronic liver disease. HGV is transfusion transmissible, it has global distribution, and it is present in the volunteer blood donor population in the United States. One hundred sixty patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis at the University of Miami-affiliated unit were evaluated.

Quantitative detection of hepatitis C virus RNA in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

The purpose of the current study was to detect quantitatively hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA among patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Study subjects were 88 patients on hemodialysis at the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center and the REN Dialysis Unit at the University of Miami School of Medicine. There were 66 men and 22 women, mean age 52 years (range, 22-87 years), and mean duration of dialysis was 2.

Should AIDS patients be dialyzed?

Should AIDS patients be dialyzed? For asymptomatic HIV carriers and patients with ARC developing renal failure, dialysis is medically beneficial and may delay death from uremia for months or even years. In contrast, dialysis will not prevent a rapid death from AIDS, per se, and thus may be futile. While there may be competing interests regarding the survival of AIDS patients in renal failure versus risks to HCWs, current information does not support restricting the health care of AIDS patients on such grounds.

Student evaluation of accelerated program at the University of Miami.

The University of Miami School of Medicine has an accelerated, six-year B.S.-M.

Endotoxemic acute renal failure in awake rats.

The sequence of changes in renal function in endotoxemic acute renal failure (ARF) and the role of hypotension and systemic hemodynamics were evaluated in awake female Sprague-Dawley rats given an intravenous bolus of Escherichia coli endotoxin (20-40 mg/kg). After endotoxin ARF was abrupt in onset as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) fell promptly and progressively by 53% within 3.5 h, whereas renal blood flow decreased by 42% and renal vascular resistance nearly doubled.

Water reabsorption by papillary collecting ducts in the remnant kidney.

Water transport by terminal papillary collecting ducts was examined by micropuncture of the renal papilla in 15 rats with a solitary remnant kidney (RK) and in 27 normal rats, 10 of which had undergone sham operation. Before papillary exposure, urinary osmolality was significantly (P less than 0.001) lower in RK rats (685 vs.

Proteinuria in the acutely diabetic rat and its response to insulin treatment.

The development of proteinuria and its response to insulin therapy in acute experimental diabetes was examined in 11 female rats by sequentially measuring 24 h excretion of glucose and total protein before diabetes, during 5-37 days of acute streptozotocin diabetes, during and after 7-14 days of continuous subcutaneous insulin administration. Induction of diabetes promptly resulted in marked polyuria (78 +/- 9 ml/24 h), and glycosuria (6.6 +/- 0.

Glomerular selective permeability to macromolecular neutral dextrans in experimental diabetes.

Rats with streptozotocin-induced chronic diabetes mellitus develop a glomerulopathy functionally manifested by proteinuria. The ability of the glomerular capillary wall to retard filtration of macromolecules was examined in 5 chronically diabetic Munich-Wistar rats exhibiting excessive proteinuria (39 +/- 7 mg/24 h, mean +/- SEM) and 5 age-matched normal Munich-Wistar rats without increased proteinuria (4.7 +/- 0.

Adaptive changes of juxtamedullary glomerular filtration in the remnant kidney.

The participation of surviving juxtamedullary nephrons in the adaptive changes of glomerular filtration that occur in response to loss of functioning nephron mass was examined by direct micropuncture of the rat renal papilla. The solitary remnant kidney (RK) in rats with an 85% reduction of renal mass demonstrated strikingly elevated values for single nephron glomerular filtration rate (SNGFR) in both superficial (46.1 +/- 3.