Effects of Exergaming on Physical Fitness of Youth with Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.

Due to the exponential growth in technology, exergames emerged as a potential tool to foster physical activity (PA) levels. This study provides an overall view of the literature on the effects of exergaming on physical fitness components among overweight and obese children and adolescents. A systematic review and meta-analysis following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines was performed in the PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases.

New-onset gastrointestinal disorders in COVID-19 patients 3.5 years post-infection in the inner-city population in the Bronx.

This study examined the incidence, characteristics, and risk factors of new gastrointestinal disorders (GID) associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection up to 3.5 years post-infection. This retrospective study included 35,102 COVID-19 patients and 682,594 contemporary non-COVID-19 patients without past medical history of GID (controls) from the Montefiore Health System in the Bronx (3/1/2020 to 7/31/2023).

Rapid degradation of pharmaceutical pollutants using poly(1-naphthylamine) decorated BaFeO nanohybrids under microwave irradiation.

Unlabelled: Metformin, a widely used antidiabetic drug, has become a growing concern due to its persistence in the environment. It is one of the most frequently detected pharmaceuticals in wastewater and surface water because it is excreted largely unchanged by patients and is not fully removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants. The present study focuses on the synthesis and characterization of BaFeO/poly(1-naphthylamine) (PNA) nanohybrids and their application as microwave-active catalysts for the degradation of metformin.

Understanding the Effectiveness of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions: A Counterfactual Simulation Approach to Generalizing the Outcomes of Intervention Trials.

Background: While water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions can reduce diarrheal disease, many large-scale trials have not found the expected health gains for young children in low-resource settings. Evidence-based guidance is needed to improve interventions and remove barriers to diarrheal disease reduction.

Objectives: We aimed to estimate how sensitive WASH intervention effectiveness was to underlying contextual and intervention factors in the WASH Benefits (WASH-B) Bangladesh cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Are Bone Expansion Techniques Effective for Implant Placement in Narrow Alveolar Ridges?

Because of the fact that sufficient alveolar ridge bone is essential for the success of implant placement, the authors often face a challenge with augmenting residual maxillary alveolar ridges. The aim of the study was to compare the amount of ridge gain by the Osseodensification method with the manual bone expanders method for healed edentulous sites in the maxilla at different time intervals (immdiate postoperative and 6 mo postoperative). Two groups were equally and randomly divided with a total of 14 implants (Biohorizons) placed in the maxillary arch for 8 patients, osseodensification was used for 1 group (group 1), whereas manual threaded expanders (bone spreaders) was used for the other group (group 2).