Named after the Greek term for "hard fat", stearic acid has gradually entered people's field of vision. As an important component of various physiological cellular functions, stearic acid plays a regulatory role in diverse aspects of energy metabolism and signal transduction. Its applications range from serving as a bodily energy source to participating in endogenous biosynthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We aim to explore the impact of excessive glutathione (GSH) intake on chemotherapy sensitivity in breast cancer.
Methods: Clinicopathological data were collected from 460 breast cancer patients who underwent adjuvant chemotherapy from January 2016 to December 2019 from Zhengzhou University People's Hospital. The clinicopathological characteristics following GSH treatment were collected and compared with those in Non-GSH group after 1:2 propensity score matching (PSM).
Objectives: This study explored the suitability of local anaesthesia with conscious sedation for parotid gland tumour surgery.
Methods: Three hundred sixty-four medical records were reviewed to gather data on several key aspects for retrospective analysis. These included age, incision length, operation time, tumour size, NNIS score, ASA score, and pathology.
Background: Many countries have developed their country/nation-wide multidimensional area-based index on deprivation or socioeconomic status for resource allocation, service planning and research. However, whether each geographical unit proxied by a single index is sufficiently small to contain a relatively homogeneous population remains questionable. Globally, this is the first study that presents the distribution of domestic households by the territory-wide economic status index decile groups within each of the 2,252 small subunit groups (SSUGs) throughout Hong Kong, with a median study population of 1,300 and a median area of 42,400 m.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To examine transitions to a nursing home among residents of assisted living relative to community-dwelling home care recipients.
Design: Population-based retrospective cohort study emulating a target trial.
Setting And Participants: Linked, individual-level health system data were obtained from older adults (≥65 years of age) who made an incident application for a bed in a nursing home in Ontario, Canada, between April 1, 2014, and March 31, 2019, and were followed until December 31, 2019.