Barriers and Factors Affecting Nursing Communication When Providing Patient Care in Jeddah.

Effective communication between nurses and patients plays a crucial role in the delivery of quality healthcare services, especially when caring for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. It fosters trust, understanding, and collaboration and contributes to better health outcomes and satisfactory nurse-patient relationships. The aim of the study is to assess the factors and barriers affecting nurses' communication when providing care for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Retraction: Lymphangioma: A Rare Benign Cystic Pancreatic Lesion.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.7759/cureus.21056.

Lymphangioma: A Rare Benign Cystic Pancreatic Lesion.

Pancreatic lesions are more commonly identified nowadays with the widespread use of imaging investigations. Pancreatic lesions are heterogeneous groups of pathologies with different behavior and prognosis. It is quite difficult to differentiate these lesions because of the shared clinical manifestation and the overlapping imaging features of these lesions.

Association of Alzheimer's Disease with Genetic Variants of Apolipoprotein E, Clusterin, TNF-α, and IL-6 Among Elderly Saudis.

Background: In the wake of the warning by WHO that the prevalence of dementia may have a rise of 125% in the Middle East by 2050, identification of the genetic risk factors in Arab populations is urgent.

Objectives: To investigate the association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in apolipoprotein E (ApoE), clusterin (CLU), tumor necrotic factor- α (TNF-α) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) genes, with risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Saudi Arabian participants.

Methods: A total of 42 Saudi AD patients and 23 age-matched control participants were genotyped for eight SNPs: rs429358, rs7412 (ApoE); rs11136000, rs1532278 (CLU); rs1800629, rs1799724 (TNF-α) and rs1800796, rs1800795(IL-6), by RT-PCR using the TaqMan assay.