Natural and anthropogenic factors on China's ecosystem services: Comparison and spillover effect perspective.

With the development of urbanization, ecological space is increasingly disturbed and invaded by human activities. From 2000 to 2020, the value of ecosystem services in China decreased from 28.05 to 27.

Fall risks and the related factors for the homebound older people with dementia: Evidence from East China.

Purpose: Falls are a major public health problem, especially for older people. This research aimed to provide a direct illustration of fall risks among the homebound older people with dementia in China, and to identify the risk factors associated with it.

Methods: In 2020, a questionnaire-based field survey was used to assess 1,042 people aged over 60 years in Ningbo, Eastern China.

CS-CO: A Hybrid Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning Method for H&E-stained Histopathological Images.

Visual representation extraction is a fundamental problem in the field of computational histopathology. Considering the powerful representation capacity of deep learning and the scarcity of annotations, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to extract effective visual representations from unlabeled histopathological images. Although a few self-supervised learning methods have been specifically proposed for histopathological images, most of them suffer from certain defects that may hurt the versatility or representation capacity.

Parenting sense of competence and its predictors among primiparous women: a longitudinal study in China.

Background: Parenting sense of competence significantly affects the quality of parenting behaviours and healthy infant development. However, primiparous women without parenting experience may lack confidence and feel stress. This study aimed to explore the status of parenting sense of competence and identify its predictors among primiparous women.

Dexmedetomidine Combined with Low-Dose Propofol Declines Learning and Memory Impairment and Neural Cell Injury in Developing Rats.

Background: General anesthesia in early childhood may affect all aspects of neurodevelopment, resulting in learning and behavior defects. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find safe anesthetics or put forward more comprehensive anesthesia schemes to solve the negative effects caused by existing anesthetics. The objective of this study is to explore the impact of dexmedetomidine (Dex) incorporated with low-dose propofol (PRO) on learning and memory ability and neural cells in developing rats.

Association between neck circumference and cardiometabolic disease in Chinese adults: a community-based cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Several studies have indicated that neck circumference (NC) was associated with cardiometabolic disease in some Western countries. However, there are limited data regarding this association among Chinese adults.

Design: A community-based cross-sectional study.

Patient Satisfaction with Community Health Service Centers as Gatekeepers and the Influencing Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study in Shenzhen, China.

Purpose: Shenzhen is the first pilot city in China implementing the gatekeeper policy, with community health service (CHS) centers as the gatekeepers. We aim to investigate patient satisfaction with this policy and its influencing factors in Shenzhen.

Methods: 3,848 patients visiting eight CHS centers in Shenzhen of China between May 1 and July 28, 2013 were recruited.

Tea consumption and the risk of depression: a meta-analysis of observational studies.

Objective: Whether tea consumption decreases the risk of depression remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis of findings from observational studies to evaluate the association between tea consumption and depression risk.

Method: Embase, PubMed, and Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were searched from their inception through August 2014 for observational studies that had reported the association between tea consumption and depression risk.

Depression and the risk of coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Background: Several systematic reviews and meta-analyses demonstrated the association between depression and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), but the previous reviews had some limitations. Moreover, a number of additional studies have been published since the publication of these reviews. We conducted an updated meta-analysis of prospective studies to assess the association between depression and the risk of CHD.

Shift work and diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of observational studies.

Background: Observational studies suggest that shift work may be associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). However, the results are inconsistent. No systematic reviews have applied quantitative techniques to compute summary risk estimates.

Focus on vulnerable populations and promoting equity in health service utilization--an analysis of visitor characteristics and service utilization of the Chinese community health service.

Background: Community health service in China is designed to provide a convenient and affordable primary health service for the city residents, and to promote health equity. Based on data from a large national study of 35 cities across China, we examined the characteristics of the patients and the utilization of community health institutions (CHIs), and assessed the role of community health service in promoting equity in health service utilization for community residents.

Methods: Multistage sampling method was applied to select 35 cities in China.

Coffee consumption and risk of prostate cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Observational studies and animal evidence suggest an association between coffee consumption and the risk of prostate cancer. However, the results are inconsistent. We evaluated the association by conducting a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Smoking and risk of erectile dysfunction: systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysis.

Background: There are many recent observational studies on smoking and risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) and whether smoking increases the risk of ED is still inconclusive. The objective of this meta-analysis was to synthesize evidence from studies that evaluated the association between smoking and the risk of ED.

Methods: We searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus in January 2013 to identify cohort and case-control studies that evaluated the association between smoking and ED.

A tailed primers protocol to identify the association of eNOS gene variable number of tandem repeats polymorphism with ischemic stroke in Chinese Han population by capillary electrophoresis.

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays an important role in mediating endothelium-dependent vasodilatation and antithrombotic action and is thus involved in the development of ischemic stroke (IS). Controversial results regarding the association of eNOS gene variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) polymorphism with IS have been reported by conventional PCR-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis methods. We aimed to identify any common association of eNOS gene VNTR polymorphism with IS in Chinese Han population by capillary electrophoresis (CE).

Lack of association between two key SNPs on chromosome 12p13 and ischemic stroke in Chinese Uyghur population.

Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified two key SNPs (rs11833579 and rs12425791) on chromosome 12p13 that were significantly associated with stroke in Caucasians. However, the validity of the association has remained controversial. We performed genetic association analyses in a very unique population which has 60% European ancestry and 40% East Asian ancestry.