Reduction of Noise Levels During Caesarean Births Through Audiovisual Feedback is Associated With Lower Stress Levels for Patients.

Objective: Noise reduction during surgical procedures leads to improved surgical performance and results. The caesarean birth (CB) is an exceptional operation and a life changing experience. Through the introduction of staff education and implementation of audiovisual feedback, we intended to reduce noise, and subsequently reduce surgical complications and increase the well-being of patients and staff.

Food insecurity impacts diet quality and adherence to the gluten-free diet in youth with celiac disease.

Objectives: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune gastrointestinal disorder that requires a strict lifelong gluten-free diet (GFD). Gluten-free (GF) foods are more expensive and less readily accessible than gluten-containing foods, contributing to an increased risk for food insecurity (FI). The study aimed to determine associations between GF-FI, sociodemographic risk factors and child dietary adherence and diet quality (DQ).

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in the Repair of Chondral Defects: How Well Do the Scores Relate to Each Other?

Introduction: In the repair of focal chondral defects, there are several patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) that are used to assess the patient's well-being. However, the question remains as to how well one scoring system relates to another, which may restrict the comparison of results from different studies. Therefore, we examined the strength of correlations between the Lysholm and KOOS scores.

DNA methylation controls stemness of astrocytes in health and ischaemia.

Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the mammalian brain and provide structural and metabolic support to neurons, regulate synapses and become reactive after injury and disease. However, a small subset of astrocytes settles in specialized areas of the adult brain where these astrocytes instead actively generate differentiated neuronal and glial progeny and are therefore referred to as neural stem cells. Common parenchymal astrocytes and quiescent neural stem cells share similar transcriptomes despite their very distinct functions.