Factors associated with the maintenance in food texture for dependent older people with dysphagia living in nursing home - A retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: Maintaining the texture of the food that nursing home residents eat is critical for maintaining quality of life and preventing malnutrition. The aim of the present study was to identify the conditions necessary for maintaining food texture for this population.

Materials And Methods: The study included 143 people for whom reevaluation 1-year post-baseline was possible from among 256 dependent older people who consumed solid food on admission to a nursing home (baseline).

Usefulness of Telemedicine for Disabled Children Receiving Feeding Therapy.

We performed a retrospective cohort study using medical records of 374 pediatric patients who visited a university dental clinic specializing in dysphagia rehabilitation in Japan between 2019 and 2020 to clarify the usefulness of telemedicine among disabled children receiving feeding therapy. The primary outcome was the feeding developmental stage confirmed at the final evaluation. Propensity score matching was performed between individuals in two treatment groups (in-person and telemedicine) before the final analysis using patients' age, sex, primary disease, gross motor function, and feeding developmental stage as covariates.

Effect of non-surgical interventions on pain relief and symptom improvement in farmers with diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue: an exploratory systematic review based on randomized controlled trials.

There are many observational and clinical studies on pain treatment in farmers; however, little is known about the effects of interventions based only on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue (D-MSCT). This review aimed to summarize evidence on the effects of non-surgical interventions for pain relief and symptom improvement in farmers with D-MSCT. We searched seven databases, including MEDLINE, and three clinical trial registries, including the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, from inception up to February 15, 2021, to identify studies that included at least one treatment group wherein nonsurgical interventions were applied.

Effect of dysphagia rehabilitation in patients receiving enteral nutrition at home nursing care: A retrospective cohort study.

Objective: We considered the effect of dysphagia rehabilitation and investigated parameters associated with the resumption of oral intake in the elderly patients receiving home nursing care who were not eating by mouth.

Methods: The participants were 116 patients aged ≥65 years (66 men and 50 women, mean age 79.7 ± 8.

Feeding therapy for children with food refusal.

Disabled children suffer not only from their primary disease, but also from other complications, including food refusal. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between these conditions and food refusal in disabled children. The effectiveness of feeding therapy in treating food refusal was also examined.

Lip-closing function of elderly people during ingestion: comparison with young adults.

In this study the relationship between the functional vertical labial pressure and aging during ingestion in the elderly is examined. The subjects were 84 community-dwelling elderly (mean: 79.4 years old), 109 elderly needing long term care (mean: 81.

The degree of tongue-coating reflects lingual motor function in the elderly.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relation between the degree of tongue-coating and oral function.

Background: Tongue-coating is a moss-like deposit which forms over the tongue surface, and includes micro-organisms, food residues, and abrasive epithelia. It is considered that motor function of the tongue and lips and saliva secretion decrease in the aged and have some effect on the accumulation of tongue-coating.

The ex vivo production of ammonia predicts L-asparaginase biological activity in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), who develop antiasparaginase antibodies without clinical allergic reactions ("silent inactivation") during L: -asparaginase (L: -Asp) treatment, have poor outcomes. Ammonia is produced by hydrolysis of asparagine by L: -Asp. We postulated that plasma ammonia level might reflect the biological activity of L: -Asp.