Background: Even after atrial fibrillation (AF) catheter ablation, many patients still experience relevant symptom burden. The objective of the MENTAL AF trial was to determine whether app-based mental training (MT) during the 3 months following pulmonary vein isolation reduces AF-related symptoms.
Methods And Results: Patients scheduled for pulmonary vein isolation were enrolled and randomized 1:1 to either app-based MT or usual care.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
November 2021
The prevention and treatment of mental disorders and chronic somatic diseases is a core challenge for health care systems of the 21th century. Mental- and behavioral health interventions provide the means for lowering the public health burden. However, structural deficits, reluctance to use existing services, perceived stigma and further personal and environmental reasons restrict the uptake of these evidence-based approaches.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe sterically demanding carbene ITr ('-bis(triphenylmethyl)imidazolylidene) was used as a ligand for the preparation of luminescent copper(I) complexes of the type [(ITr)Cu(R-pyridine/R'-quinoline)]BF (R = H, 4-CN, 4-CHO, 2,6-NH, and R' = 8-Cl, 6-Me). The selective formation of linear, bis(coordinated) complexes was observed for a series of pyridine and quinoline derivatives. Only in the case of 4-cyanopyridine a one-dimensional coordination polymer was formed, in which the cyano group of the cyanopyridine ligand additionally binds to another Cu atom in a bridging manner, thus leading to a trigonal planar coordination environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrect cell division relies on the formation of a bipolar spindle. In animal cells, microtubule nucleation at the spindle poles is facilitated by the pericentriolar material (PCM), which assembles around a pair of centrioles. Although centrioles are essential for PCM assembly, the proteins that anchor the PCM to the centrioles are less known.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInternet- and mobile-based interventions (IMIs) and their integration into routine psychotherapy (i.e., blended therapy) can offer a means of complementing psychotherapy in a flexible and resource optimized way.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConservation of migratory species requires anticipating the potential impacts of extreme climatic events, such as extreme drought. During drought, reduced habitat availability for shorebirds creates the potential for changes in their abundance and distribution, in part because many species are highly mobile and rely on networks of interior and coastal habitats. Understanding how shorebirds responded to a recent drought cycle that peaked from 2013 to 2015 in central California, USA, will help optimize management of wetlands and fresh water for wildlife.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCentrosomes, the major microtubule-organizing centers of animal cells, are essential for the assembly of a bipolar spindle during mitosis. Spindle defective-5 (SPD-5), the main scaffold protein of the centrosome matrix in Caenorhabditis elegans, forms a thin core around non-mitotic centrioles. Upon mitotic entry, the SPD-5-containing centrosome matrix expands in a Polo-like-kinase 1 (PLK-1)-dependent manner and this enables an enhanced microtubule nucleation activity during mitosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis is a cross-sectional analysis of a follow-up study to examine the perceptions of mothers treated at public health centers, regarding their own diets and the diets of their children aged 2-3. Among the 464 participants, 57% (n = 267) reported perceiving their own diets as unhealthy while 72% (n = 334) perceiving their children's diets as healthy. The mothers' perceptions of their own diets as healthy were associated with less maternal schooling and having received health care from professionals who had received special training (p < 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis cross-sectional analysis aimed to analyze the strategies used by mothers of children aged 2-3 to ensure their food consumption as well as to investigate the maternal and family characteristics associated with using these strategies. Data of 463 mothers who use the public health care system in Porto Alegre, Brazil, were analyzed. Among these mothers, 58.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe synthesis of various new structures of a library of 11-substituted 6-amino-11,12-dihydrobenzo[c]phenanthridines (BP) and 11-substituted 6-aminobenzo[c]phenanthridines (BP-D) is presented. These structures, further synthetic modifications, and the preparation of follow-up products which delivered about 40 new derivatives are described. Their potential as antiproliferative drug candidates was investigated by comparison of NCI 60 developmental therapeutics program (DTP) human tumor cell line screening data based on the results of in vitro tumor cell growth inhibition, including about 40 hitherto unpublished compound test results with up to 60 cancer cell lines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe herein describe a facile and versatile synthetic route to the tetracyclic system of 6-substituted 5,6-dihydro-11H-pyrido[3,2-i]-1-azacarbazoles with promising anticancer properties. These derivatives are built up by an elegant one-step base-catalyzed synthetic procedure from commercially available building blocks. One additional step provides the corresponding skeleton hitherto unknown in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify disordered eating behaviors and body image dissatisfaction, as well as their relationship to body fat (BF), among male athletes in high risk sports for eating disorders.
Methods: One hundred and fifty-six male athletes were divided into the following categories: weight-class sports, sports where leanness improves performance, and sports with aesthetic ideals. BF was assessed and three questionnaires were used: the Eating Attitudes Test; the Bulimic Investigatory Test, Edinburgh; the Body Shape Questionnaire.
Z Gesamte Inn Med
October 1986
Clinical data and courses of the disease of 56 patients with non-Hodgkin-lymphomas of high malignancy were demonstrated. The age-depending summit of the frequency was between the 51st and 60th year of age, the age median was about 48 years. The initial remission rate three months after the beginning of the therapy was 66%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZ Gesamte Inn Med
November 1979
A case of 75 year-old man is reported, who died of a tuberculous leptomeningomyeloencephalitis complicating a generalized primary lymph node plasmacytoma. The malignant lymphoma has been diagnosed in a lymph node biopsy from the right supraclavicular region seven years before the death and was treated with cytostatics over a period of four and a half months. Autopsy revealed the neoplastic involvement of supraclavicular and axillary lymph nodes, tumour infiltration of the sternum and diffuse neoplastic plasmacytosis of the bone marrow.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn haematological systemic diseases such as acute and chronic leukoses, malignant lymphomas, lymphogranulomatoses, osteomyelofibroses, polycythaemias and aplastic anaemias with a different proportion changes of the bones in form of osteoporoses, osteolytic processes and deformations of the vertebral bodies are to be found. The proof may be performed radiologically and histologically. In 461 patients with different haematological diseases absorption measurings of monoenergetic rays of a J-125-source were performed at the distal third of radius and ulna.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOf 146 patients with lymphogranulomatosis biochemical parameters were tested for their diagnostic valency concerning the recognition of a liver infiltration. In patients with histologically proved affection of the liver the AP, GGTP, AAP, LAP and LDH show a significant increase in comparison to the enzyme values of the patients without any hepatic manifestation. In an increased result of 4 enzyme values with a probability of 85% muste be reckoned with a participation of the liver.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFolia Haematol Int Mag Klin Morphol Blutforsch
October 1978
In 84 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia receiving a cytostatic monotherapy with busulfan, an aplastic syndrome developed which was confirmed by a biopsy of the pelvis crest and examination of the sternal marrow. The time interval until pancytopenia was detected varied considerably in each case, ranging between 6 and 126 months. There are no correlations to the initial doses of busulfan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFolia Haematol Int Mag Klin Morphol Blutforsch
April 1975
Folia Haematol Int Mag Klin Morphol Blutforsch
August 1973
Haematologia (Budap)
February 1972
Folia Haematol Int Mag Klin Morphol Blutforsch
September 1969