Impact of a transitional care program for heart failure patients at Baylor Scott & White Health: a pilot study.

Heart failure is a chronic health condition characterized by complex symptom management and costly hospitalizations. Hospitalization for the treatment of heart failure symptoms is common; however, many hospitalizations are thought to be preventable with effective self-management. This study describes the small, pilot implementation of a new, interventional, self-management heart failure program, "Engagement in Heart Failure Care" (EHFC), developed to assist heart failure patients with the management of disease symptoms following discharge from an inpatient hospital stay.

Understanding Libraries as Part of the Rural Active Living Environment: Evidence From a Content Analysis of Library Facebook Posts Made in Summer 2022.

As both public health and public libraries continue to evolve, there are opportunities for collaboration focused on building policies, systems, and environments that support communities making healthy choices easy choices. Given the health disparities related to physical inactivity, such as diabetes and heart disease in rural America, public libraries within rural communities are emerging as important settings for health promotion and disease prevention. This study sought to better understand how rural libraries promote physical activity opportunities on Facebook.

Urban-rural disparities in childhood obesogenic environments in the United States: Application of differing rural definitions.

Background: Research is needed that identifies environmental resource disparities and applies multiple rural definitions. Therefore, this study aims to examine urban-rural differences in food and physical activity (PA) environment resource availability by applying several commonly used rural definitions. We also examine differences in resource availability within urban-rural categories that are typically aggregated.

Environmental Factors Associated with Physical Activity in Rural U.S. Counties.

Background: Rural U.S. adults' prevalence of meeting physical activity (PA) guidelines is lower than urban adults, yet rural-urban differences in environmental influences of adults' PA are largely unknown.

Perceived Physical Activity Barriers of Mexican-Heritage Sibling Dyads.

Physical activity (PA) has been linked to many health benefits. Personal, social, and environmental factors can be barriers to PA and reduce odds of meeting PA recommendations. Sibling relationships have been shown to influence PA.

Examining the Implementation of Play Streets: A Systematic Review of the Grey Literature.

Context: Outdoor play has been described as essential for healthy childhood development. Lack of safety is one barrier to children participating in outdoor play. Play Streets are an intervention to help increase outdoor play by temporarily closing public streets (closures are recurring or episodic) to traffic, creating a safe place for active play.

Sibship, physical activity, and sedentary behavior: a longitudinal, observational study among Mexican-heritage sibling dyads.

Background: Shared genetic and environmental factors suggest that family relationships are important predictors of obesity-related behaviors, yet little is known about how siblings influence physical activity and sedentary behaviors. This study examined physical activity and sedentary behavior between sibling dyads across summer and fall time points and determined if birth order and gender modify the relationship between sibling behaviors.

Methods: Mexican-heritage families residing in colonias along the United States-Mexico border were recruited using promotoras de salud to participate in summer and school year surveys.

Reduction of the frequency of recurrent diverticulitis episodes under treatment with the integrative medicine therapies Carpellum Mali comp. and Kalium aceticum comp.-A case report.

Background: Colonic diverticula develop in at least 60% of elderly patients. Less than 25% of these develop diverticulitis. Recurrent episodes are experienced by about 13% of the symptomatic patients.

A Systematic Review of Rural, Theory-based Physical Activity Interventions.

Objectives: This systematic review synthesized the scientific literature on theory-based physical activity (PA) interventions in rural populations.

Methods: PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases were searched to identify studies with a rural study sample, PA as a primary outcome, use of a behavioral theory or model, randomized or quasi-experimental research design, and application at the primary and/or secondary level of prevention.

Results: Thirty-one studies met our inclusion criteria.

Internal consistency, convergent validity, and structural validity of the Japanese version of the Physical Activity Self-Regulation scale (PASR-12) among Japanese workers: A validation study.

Objectives: Self-regulation for physical activity is considered as one of the most effective factors in promoting physical activity. However, there is no reliable and valid scale to measure it in Japanese. The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal consistency, convergent validity, and structural validity of the newly developed Japanese version of the 12-item Physical Activity Self-Regulation scale (PASR-12) among Japanese workers.

Theoretical Antecedents of Standing at Work: An Experience Sampling Approach Using the Theory of Planned Behavior.

Time spent sitting has been associated with an increased risk of diabetes, cancer, obesity, and mental health impairments. However, 75% of Americans spend most of their days sitting, with work-sitting accounting for 63% of total daily sitting time. Little research examining theory-based antecedents of standing or sitting has been conducted.

Gender differences in college leisure time physical activity: application of the theory of planned behavior and integrated behavioral model.

Objective: National data consistently report that males participate in leisure time physical activity (LTPA) at higher rates than females. This study expanded previous research to examine gender differences in LTPA of college students using the theory of planned behavior (TPB) by including 2 additional constructs, descriptive norm and self-efficacy, from the integrated behavioral model.

Participants: Participants were college students (N = 621) from a large public university in the southeastern United States.

Walk@Work: An automated intervention to increase walking in university employees not achieving 10,000 daily steps.

Objective: This study assessed the workday step counts of lower active (<10,000 daily steps) university employees using an automated, web-based walking intervention (Walk@Work).

Methods: Academic and administrative staff (n=390; 45.6±10.

Consider medical care at home.

As the enormous task of finding good and affordable care for the aging population looms in our society's immediate future, home-health and medical-care-at-home research may help to allocate resources for the elderly and the disabled. Home health care continues to be one of Medicare's most popular services. Study results support that home health care services preserve function for homebound patients with disabilities.

Using risperidone for Alzheimer's dementia-associated psychosis.

Background: Alzheimer's dementia (AD) occurs in 6 - 8% of persons older than 65 years. The prevalence increases to 30% among those 85 years or older. Among AD patients, the incidence of psychosis is 30 - 50%.

Immunohistochemical validation of a novel epithelial and a novel stromal marker of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma identified by global expression microarrays: sea urchin fascin homolog and heat shock protein 47.

We extended the results of a previous microarray analysis by immunohistochemical validation of differential protein expression in a series of 57 surgically resected infiltrating ductal pancreatic adenocarcinomas. Two representative genes were examined: sea urchin fascin homolog (overexpressed in both cell lines and primary tumors) and heat shock protein 47 (HSP47; overexpressed in primary tumors only). Protein expression also was evaluated in the precursor lesions of pancreatic cancer pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN), and normal ductal epithelium.

Discovery of novel tumor markers of pancreatic cancer using global gene expression technology.

Despite several advances in our basic understanding and in the clinical management of pancreatic cancer, virtually all patients who will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will die from this disease. The high mortality of pancreatic cancer is predominantly because of diagnosis at an advanced stage of disease and a lack of effective treatments. We used the Gene Logic Inc.