Sexual Dysfunction among Chinese Nurses: Prevalence and Predictors.

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of and identify the factors influencing female sexual dysfunction (FSD) among Chinese nurses. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from March 2013 to May 2014 among 6 hospitals in Suzhou, China. In total, 2,030 married female nurses were included in the analysis.

[Association between concentrations of serum magnesium and the short-term outcome of patients with acute ischemic stroke].

Objective: To explore the relationship between the concentration of serum magnesium and the short-term outcome of patients with acute ischemic stroke, in order to provide evidence for improving the outcomes.

Methods: Patients with acute ischemic stroke under study, were from four hospitals in Shandong province. Data on demographic characteristics, life style related risk factors, history of cardiovascular disease, blood pressure at admission and other clinical characteristics were collected for all the participants.

[Partial canonical correlation analysis on the association between quality of sleep and quality of life among residents in Suzhou city].

Objective: To explore the association between quality of sleep and quality of life among residents of Suzhou city.

Methods: A total of 3225 residents at the age of 18 - 55 years old in Suzhou city were selected through a clustered sampling method. All the participants were comprehensively evaluated on their quality of sleep by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and on their quality of life (QOL) by SF-36 quality of life scale.

[Trends of overweight and obesity in aged 7 to 18 Mongolian ethnic children and adolescents from 1985-2010].

Objective: To study the overweight and obesity situation among Mongolian ethnic children and adolescents in the last 25 years and to provide a basis on related prevention and control measures.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was used, with 18 366 aged 7 to 18 Mongolian ethnic children and adolescents involved. Surveys on their physical health, in 1985, 2000 and 2010 were carried out.

[Association of aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene -344T/C polymorphism with essential hypertension in Mongolian nationality].

Objective: To explore the relationship between the -344T/C polymorphism of aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene and essential hypertension in Chinese Mongolian population.

Methods: By cluster-sampling method, a total of 1575 Mongolian people in Tongliao city of Inner Mongolia were included in this study. And 417 subjects were normotension, 596 subjects were prehypertension and 562 subjects were essential hypertension.

Interaction between the C(-344)T polymorphism of CYP11B2 and alcohol consumption on the risk of essential hypertension in a Chinese Mongolian population.

The present study aimed to explore gene-gene and gene-environment interactions among three candidate genes and several environmental risk factors, and their impacts on hypertension in Chinese Mongolian population. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2003-2004 among 1,575 Mongolian people in Tongliao City of Inner Mongolia, China. Epidemiologic and clinical data and blood samples were obtained from subjects.

[Impact of gene-environment interaction between the C (-344) T polymorphism of CYP11B2 and drinking index on the risk of hypertension under multifactor dimensionality reduction model in Chinese Mongolian population].

Objective: To explore the interaction between C (-344) T polymorphism of CYP11B2 and drinking index (DI) as well as their impact on the risk of hypertension in Chinese Mongolian population.

Methods: A total of 1575 Mongolian people aged 20 and older including 562 hypertensive and 1013 normal-tensive from agricultural and pastoral areas in Tongliao city of Inner Mongolia, were included in this study. A cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data by personal interview with local residents, using a standard questionnaire.

Multiple risk factor clustering and risk of hypertension in the Mongolian ethnic population of China.

Objective: To evaluate whether the clustering of risk factors, both environmental and genetic, increases the risk of essential hypertension (EH) and the accumulation of risk factors influences the blood pressure level in normotensives.

Methods: On the basis of a prevalence survey, 501 subjects of Mongolian ethnicity (243 hypertensives and 258 normotensives) who were not related to each other were selected to conduct a case-control study. All subjects were interviewed with questionnaires and their blood specimens were collected.

Comparison of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and hyperglycaemia between buckwheat seed-consuming and non-consuming Mongolian-Chinese populations in Inner Mongolia, China.

1. In the present study, a total of 3542 Mongolians in two adjacent counties of Inner Mongolia, China, were randomly sampled in a cross-sectional study to assess the association of hypertension, dyslipidaemia and hyperglycaemia with lifetime consumption of buckwheat seed as a staple food. A sample group of 961 participants was also examined for fasting serum concentrations of lipids and glucose.

Interaction and relationship between angiotensin converting enzyme gene and environmental factors predisposing to essential hypertension in Mongolian population of China.

Objective: To investigate the association of specific functional gene ACE (I/D) variants of the renin-angiotensin system with essential hypertension (EH) and interaction between ACE (I/D) gene and risk factors for EH in a genetically homogenous Mongolia rural population of China.

Methods: Individuals (n=1099) were recruited from general population of Kezuohouqi Banner in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.

Results: The association was found between ACE genotype DD plus ID and EH, with an interaction between ACE genotype DD plus ID and cigarette smoking in an additive model.