Publications by authors named "Shiyue Zou"

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  • * Key findings showed that sarcopenic patients were generally older and had lower physical performance and muscle mass compared to those without sarcopenia, indicating significant body composition changes.
  • * The research highlights important prevention strategies like maintaining a healthy body mass index, improving grip strength, and monitoring body composition to help manage sarcopenia and enhance quality of life for these patients.
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  • The study aimed to determine how common osteosarcopenia is among elderly patients with type 2 diabetes and identify the risk factors associated with its development.
  • It involved 254 hospitalized patients aged 60 and older, assessing their bone density, muscle strength, and overall physical performance to diagnose osteosarcopenia.
  • Results showed that 22.8% of participants had osteosarcopenia, with male gender, low fasting plasma glucose, and low appendicular skeletal muscle mass being significant risk factors.
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Background: With the advent of an ageing society and an increase in the prevalence of chronic diseases, the role of primary health care has become increasingly important and reliant on multidisciplinary collaboration. As members of this interprofessional cooperative team, community nurses play a dominant role. Thus, the post competencies of community nurses study deserve our attention.

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Background: Increased risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) caused by hyperglycemia makes it necessary to follow perioperative glucose lowering strategies to reduce postoperative complications. A meta-analysis was conducted to understand the efficacy of intensive vs. conventional blood glucose lowering regimens on the incidence of SSIs and hypoglycemia from various randomized controlled studies (RCTs).

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused massive casualties, severe economic losses, and poses a threat to the world. This study's primary objective was to analyze the hospital's potential hazards of COVID-19 prevention and control. The second objective was to review the disaster plan and make recommendations to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in hospitals.

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Purpose: Alpha-blockers have been proven as an effective method for increasing the stone expulsion rate of distal ureteral stones. Limited studies have focused on doxazosin; its efficacy remained unclear. We performed this meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and safety of doxazosin for patients diagnosed with distal ureteral stones less than 10mm.

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Human echinococcosis has become a major public health problem in most parts of the world. The objective of this article was to study the demographics of patients with hepatic echinococcosis in Ganzi County to elucidate the main risk factors, as well as to report the concurrent prevalence of cerebral echinococcosis and pulmonary echinococcosis.We recruited 195 patients with hepatic echinococcosis from the Datongma area of Ganzi County from January 2018 to November 2018.

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