Publications by authors named "R WeiSSmann"

Juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome (JPFS) is a chronic, musculoskeletal pain syndrome affecting children and adolescents, most commonly adolescent girls. The syndrome has a multifactorial etiology, with altered central pain processing playing an important role. The hallmark symptom is severe, widespread musculoskeletal pain.

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  • Cortisol levels in newborns can be influenced by the type of delivery, with vacuum extraction deliveries showing the highest levels compared to other methods like unplanned cesareans and vaginal births.
  • The study aimed to explore the relationship between umbilical cord cortisol levels and 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) levels in newborns to assess any potential misinterpretations in screening tests.
  • Despite observing higher cortisol levels in stressful deliveries, the findings showed no correlation between umbilical cord cortisol levels and 17-OHP levels in newborns, indicating that stressful deliveries do not lead to false positives in newborn screening tests.
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Background: In 2010, the ICF working group of Faculty II "Applied Social Medicine and Rehabilitation" of the German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention, DGSMP proposed a classification of personal factors (PF) for the German-speaking area. Meanwhile, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and WHO's bio-psycho-social model were increasingly integrated into the German Social Code (Book IX for Rehabilitation and Participation). It was a legislative decision that the needs assessment for the rehabilitation process must be "comprehensive".

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Ionizing radiation is known to induce genomic lesions, such as DNA double strand breaks, whose repair can lead to mutations that can modulate cellular and organismal fate. Soon after radiation exposure, cells induce transcriptional changes and alterations of cell cycle programs to respond to the received DNA damage. Radiation-induced mutations occur through misrepair in a stochastic manner and increase the risk of developing cancers years after the incident, especially after high dose radiation exposures.

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