Limited role of biological aging in unhealthy aging: A cross-sectional analysis of global life expectancy and disability data.

Background: Biological aging is known to impact quality of life, but its precise role is debated.

Objective: This study explores how biological aging, measured by life expectancy at birth (e0), affects unhealthy aging as indicated by years lost due to disability (YLD).

Methods: Data from international organizations, including e0, YLD, and confounding factors like income, obesity, and urbanization, were analyzed.

Hospital nurses perceived challenges and opportunities in the care of people with dementia: A mixed-methods systematic review.

Aim: To synthesise evidence from the literature on hospital nurses' perceived challenges and opportunities in the care of people with dementia.

Background: People with dementia often have longer lengths of hospital stay and poorer health outcomes compared to those without dementia. Nurses play a pivotal role in the care of people with dementia.

Cultural adaptation of World Health Organization iSupport for Dementia program for Chinese-Australian caregivers.

Background: Home-based dementia care is common in the Chinese-Australian community. However, dementia education programs for Chinese-Australians in the language of their choice are scarce. The World Health Organization has developed iSupport for Dementia, an online education program for informal caregivers.

Rose Bengal-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy to Inhibit Candida albicans.

Invasive Candida albicans infection is a significant opportunistic fungal infection in humans because it is one of the most common colonizers of the gut, mouth, vagina, and skin. Despite the availability of antifungal medication, the mortality rate of invasive candidiasis remains ~50%. Unfortunately, the incidence of drug-resistant C.

Application of the Integrated Behavioral Model to oral self-care behavior of community-dwelling middle-aged and older people in Taiwan.

Objectives: This study evaluated the Integrated Behavioral Model and examined oral self-care behavior of community-dwelling middle-aged and older people.

Design: A cross-sectional design was used.

Sample: Purposive sampling was employed to recruit middle and older age community-dwelling individuals, with research locations in public health centers in northern Taiwan.

Effectiveness of group reminiscence therapy for people living with dementia in a day care centers in Taiwan.

Objective To explore as a pilot study the effects of group reminiscence therapy upon depression of people living with dementia within dementia-specific day care centers. Method A unique pre-test-post-test, quasi-experimental design counterbalanced with a qualitative grounded theory video analysis of facial expression and behavior was used to measure the effects of group reminiscence therapy. The study recruited 21 participants in total from two dementia-specific day care centers.

Evaluation of the association between quantitative mammographic density and breast cancer occurred in different quadrants.

Background: To investigate the relationship between mammographic density measured in four quadrants of a breast with the location of the occurred cancer.

Methods: One hundred and ten women diagnosed with unilateral breast cancer that could be determined in one specific breast quadrant were retrospectively studied. Women with previous cancer/breast surgery were excluded.

Nipple Preservation in Breast Cancer Associated with Nipple Discharge.

Background: Breast carcinoma presented with nipple discharge is a rare condition. There is theoretical concern about preserving nipple in these patients since the risk of nipple-areolar complex involvement may be greater, but not many studies in the literature have addressed on this issue. The aim of the current study was to determine the incidence and outcome of nipple preservation in breast cancer associated with nipple discharge.

Valvulopathy consistent with endocarditis in an Argentine boa (Boa constrictor occidentalis).

An Argentine boa (Boa constrictor occidentalis) of 5 yr 7 mo of age was presented for respiratory problems and regurgitation. Radiographs revealed evidence of cardiomegaly and pneumonia. Blood smear examination revealed the presence of intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies in peripheral lymphocytes, consistent with inclusion body disease.

Evaluating the efficacy of primary treatment for graves' disease complicated by thyrotoxic periodic paralysis.

Objective. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is a potentially life-threatening complication of Graves' disease (GD). The present study compared the long-term efficacy of antithyroid drugs (ATD), radioactive iodine (RAI), and surgery in GD/TPP.

High pre-operative urinary norepinephrine is an independent determinant of peri-operative hemodynamic instability in unilateral pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma removal.

Background: Peri-operative hemodynamic instability (HDI) may increase peri-operative morbidity in pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma (PPGL) patients.

Objective: This study aimed to determine which tumor-related risk factors could lead to peri-operative HDI in unilateral or single PPGL removal.

Methods: Before surgery, 66 PPGL patients had at least two sets of 24 h urine collected for fractionated catecholamine analysis.

Introducing the concept of modern depression in Japan; an international case vignette survey.

Aim: Japanese psychiatrists have increasingly reported patients with depression that does not seem to fit the criteria of the ICD-10 and the DSM-IV, and which has recently been called modern type depression (MTD). We explored whether MTD is frequently seen in Japan and also in other countries, and if so, how patients with MTD are diagnosed and treated.

Methods: The questionnaires, with two case vignettes (traditional type depression (TTD) and MTD), were sent to psychiatrists in Australia, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the USA.

A preliminary look at loneliness as a moderator of the link between perfectionism and depressive and anxious symptoms in college students: does being lonely make perfectionistic strivings more distressing?

An integrative model involving perfectionism [Hewitt, P. L., & Flett, G.