Imported malaria from land bordering countries in China: A challenge in preventing the reestablishment of malaria transmission.

Objective: No indigenous malaria cases have been reported since 2017 in China, but a large number of imported cases are still reported every year, including those from the land bordering countries. To characterize their epidemiological profiles will provide evidence for the development of appropriate strategies to effectively address the challenges of border malaria in the post-elimination phase.

Methods: Individual-level data of imported malaria cases from the land bordering countries were collected from 2017 to 2021 in China via the web-based surveillance systems, and analyzed by SPSS, ArcGIS and WPS software, to explore their epidemiological profiles.

Comparison of dabigatran and warfarin used in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation: Meta-analysis of random control trial.

Background: Dabigatran is a kind of oral anticoagulant and there was little review only about dabigatran and warfarin used in patients with atrial fibrillation. This meta-analysis only assesses the dabigatran and warfarin used in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Design: Cochrane Library, PubMed, Clinical Trials.

A novel approach to select differential pathways associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy based on gene co‑expression analysis.

The present study was designed to develop a novel method for identifying significant pathways associated with human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), based on gene co‑expression analysis. The microarray dataset associated with HCM (E‑GEOD‑36961) was obtained from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory‑European Bioinformatics Institute database. Informative pathways were selected based on the Reactome pathway database and screening treatments.

Attractors of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using maximal cliques and attract methods.

Background: Our study was designed to identify the differential attractor modules related with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) by integrating clustering-based on maximal cliques algorithm and Attract method.

Methods: We firstly recruited the HCM-related microarray data from ArrayExpress database. Next, protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks of normal and HCM were constructed and re-weighted using spearman correlation coefficient (SCC).

A comparable study of clinical and optical outcomes after 1.8, 2.0 mm microcoaxial and 3.0 mm coaxial cataract surgery.

Aim: To evaluate the clinical and optical outcomes after clear corneal incision cataract surgery (CICS) with three different incision sizes (1.8, 2.0 and 3.

Polymorphisms but not mutations of the KCNQ1 gene are associated with lone atrial fibrillation in the Chinese Han population.

Background: Recent studies suggest that mutation of the slow delayed rectifier potassium channel (IKs) contributes to familial atrial fibrillation (FAF). In the current study, we identified common genetic variants of KCNQ1 and explored the potential association between KCNQ1 polymorphism with lone AF (LAF).

Methods: Clinical data and blood samples were collected from 190 Han Chinese patients with sporadic AF and matched healthy controls.

[KCNQ1 mutation in patients with lone atrial fibrillation].

Objective: Recent studies suggest that mutation of the slow delayed rectifier potassium channel [I(Ks)] contributes to familial atrial fibrillation (FAF). In the current study, we explored the potential association between KCNQ1 polymorphism with lone AF (LAF).

Methods: Clinical data and blood samples were collected from 95 Han Chinese patients with LAF and matched healthy controls.

[Binocular clinical comparison study of Tecnis multifocal aspheric and monofocal spherical intraocular lenses].

Purpose: To compare visual function in pseudophakic patients with bilateral implantation of Tecnis multifocal aspheric and conventional monofocal spherical intraocular lenses (IOL).

Methods: A prospective study of 100 consecutive cases (200 eyes) was conducted. All cataract patients underwent phacoemulsification were randomized to receive multifocal aspheric IOL (Tecnis ZM900, AMO, multifocal aspheric group) or conventional spherical IOL (Akreos Adapt, Bausch & Lomb, monofocal spherical group).

Electromagnetic noise inhibits radiofrequency radiation-induced DNA damage and reactive oxygen species increase in human lens epithelial cells.

Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate whether superposing of electromagnetic noise could block or attenuate DNA damage and intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) increase of cultured human lens epithelial cells (HLECs) induced by acute exposure to 1.8 GHz radiofrequency field (RF) of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM).

Methods: An sXc-1800 RF exposure system was used to produce a GSM signal at 1.

Proteomic analysis of human lens epithelial cells exposed to microwaves.

Purpose: To study proteomic changes in human lens epithelial cells (HLECs) exposed to 1800-MHz Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM)-like microwaves.

Methods: In three separate experiments, HLECs were exposed and sham-exposed (six dishes each) to 1800-MHz GSM-like radiation for 2 h. The specific absorption rates were 1.

Absence of effect of power-frequency magnetic fields exposure on mouse embryonic lens development.

There are no reports in the literature investigating the biological effect of power-frequency (50/60 Hz) magnetic fields on embryonic lens development. We investigated whether power-frequency magnetic fields act as an environmental insult and induce changes in morphology or protein and/or transcription factor mRNA expression levels in developing mouse embryonic lenses. Three groups of pregnant mice were exposed to magnetic fields (50 Hz) of varying intensities (0.

[The autonomic pupillary dysfunction in type II diabetes mellitus].

Objective: To evaluate the pupillary disorder associated with autonomic neuropathy of type II diabetes mellitus by investigating pupil diameters under mesopic, photopic and pharmacologically dilated conditions.

Methods: Forty of type II diabetic patients were divided into two groups based on the results of fundus fluorescein angiography, one group was the subclinic diabetic retinopathy and another was the NPDR (nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy), 20 age-matched healthy subjects were selected as control. High-resolution images of the pupil in 60 subjects were taken using an infrared-sensitive camera under mesopic, photopic and pharmacologically dilated conditions, respectively.

[Clinical observation on effect and safety of combined use of wenxin granule and amiodarone for conversion of auricular fibrillation].

Objective: To observe the clinical effect of the combined use of amiodarone and Wenxin Granule (WXG) in auricular fibrillation (AF) conversion and its safety.

Methods: Two hundred and twenty-four patients, in whom AF lasted for less than 1 year, were enrolled and randomly assigned into two groups, 112 in each group. Patients in the treated group were treated with WXG and amiodorane and the others in the control group were orally administered with amiodarone alone.