Coronavirus disease 2019 epidemic in impoverished area: Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture as an example.

Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) had spread worldwide. Although the world has intensively focused on the epidemic center during this period of time, it is imperative to emphasize that more attention should also be paid to some impoverished areas in China since they are more vulnerable to disease outbreak due to their weak health service capacities. Therefore, this study took Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture as an example to analyze the COVID-19 epidemic in the impoverished area, evaluate the control effect and explore future control strategies.

[The impact of glutamine-enhanced enteral nutrition on clinical outcome of patients with critical illness: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials].

Objective: To systematically evaluate the influence of glutamine-enhanced enteral nutrition on clinical prognosis and treatment cost of patients with critical illness.

Methods: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) since 1976 were searched in 8 biomedical databases, such as MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCI, Cochran Library, and Chinese Biomedicine Database. Bibliography of retrieved papers and personal files were searched as well.