Relationship between the risk of intestinal mucosal Epstein-Barr virus and/or cytomegalovirus infection and peripheral blood NK cells numbers in patients with ulcerative colitis: a cross-sectional study in Chinese population.

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the relationship between the risk of common opportunistic pathogens Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in intestinal mucosal tissues of Ulcerative Colitis (UC) patients and the number of peripheral blood NK cells.

Methods: UC patients admitted to a third-grade class-A hospital from January 2018 to December 2023 were selected as research population. Clinical data of the patients were collected from the electronic medical record system.

Facilitating Oriented Electron Transfer from Cu to MoC MXene for Weakened Mo─H Bond Toward Enhanced Photocatalytic H Generation.

MoC MXene (MoCT) is recognized as an excellent cocatalyst due to unique physicochemical properties and platinum-like d-band of Mo active sites. However, Mo sites of MoCT with high-density empty d-orbitals exhibit strong Mo─H bonds during photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, leading to easy adsorption of hydrogen ions from solution and unfavorable desorption of H from Mo sites. To weaken the Mo─H bond, a strategy of oriented electron transfer from Cu to MoCT to increase the antibonding orbital occupancy of Mo─H hybrid orbitals is implemented by introducing Cu into MoCT interlayers to form Cu-MoCT.

Associations between sleep disorders and clinical outcomes of patients with primary biliary cholangitis.

Purpose: Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a chronic autoimmune liver disease characterized by a range of symptoms, including sleep disturbances. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of sleep disorders and the associations between sleep disorders and clinical outcomes in PBC.

Patients And Methods: We enrolled 177 patients with PBC and 165 healthy controls (age- and sex-matched).

Rural-urban disparities in the utilization of mental health inpatient services in China: the role of health insurance.

Reducing rural-urban disparities in health and health care has been a key policy goal for the Chinese government. With mental health becoming an increasingly significant public health issue in China, empirical evidence of disparities in the use of mental health services can guide steps to reduce them. We conducted this study to inform China's on-going health-care reform through examining how health insurance might reduce rural-urban disparities in the utilization of mental health inpatient services in China.

Mental health inpatient treatment expenditure trends in China, 2005-2012: evidence from Shandong.

Background: Mental health is increasingly becoming a huge public health issue in China. Yet for various cultural, healthcare system, and social economic reasons, people with mental health need have long been under-served in China. In order to inform the current on-going health care reform, empirical evidences on the economic burden of mental illnesses in China are urgently needed to contribute to health policy makers' understanding of the potential benefits to society from allocating more resources to preventing and treating mental illness.

[Types and risk factors of arrhythmia on young patients with acute coronary syndrome in Henan province].

Objective: The types and risk factors of arrhythmia were analyzed on acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients under the age of 44 years who were hospitalized in Henan province between September 2009 to June 2012.

Methods: Medical records of eligible patients were obtained from the information system of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University teleconsultation information center. Middle aged and elderly ACS patients who were hospitalized at the same period served as controls.

[Population characteristics and impact on heart rate variability, heart rate and blood pressure of passive smoking].

Objective: To investigate the basic characteristics of passive smoking population, and the impact of passive smoking on heart rate variability, heart rate and blood pressure.

Methods: Eighty-six passive smokers [mean age: (52.4 ± 7.

Atorvastatin prevents left ventricular remodeling in spontaneously hypertensive rats.

Statins improve left ventricular (LV) remodeling in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). This study was designed to investigate the effects of atorvastatin administered in the early stage on LV remodeling in SHRs, and to explore the underlying mechanisms.Sixteen male 8-week-old SHRs were randomized to receive distilled water (SHR-DW) or atorvastatin (SHR-ATV) for 12 weeks.

[Assessment of left ventricular systolic synchronicity by quantitative tissue velocity imaging in patients with left ventricular noncompaction].

Objective: To assess left ventricular systolic synchronicity by quantitative tissue velocity imaging (QTVI) in patients with left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC).

Methods: Eighteen LVNC patients and 30 healthy controls were included. Two-dimensional echocardiography, QTVI was applied on parasternal long axis view, apical two-chamber and four-chamber view.