Impact of Internet Hospital Consultations on Outpatient Visits and Expenses: Quasi-Experimental Study.

Background: Internet hospital consultations are emerging in China as a new channel for patients to access health care services. Unlike third-party health care platforms such as Haodf, Teladoc Health, and MDLive, internet hospitals seamlessly integrate patients' offline medical records with online consultations, offering a cohesive online and offline health care experience. However, its impact on outpatient visits remains ambiguous.

Perfusion preparation of the rat bladder decellularized scaffold.

Introduction: Bladder reconstruction is a huge challenge in the field of urology. In recent years, perfusion methods have brought promising results in the field of tissue engineering. We prepared bladder decellularized scaffolds by improved perfusion, which may be suitable for bladder reconstruction.

The association between recent cannabis use and urinary incontinence in women: a population-based analysis of the NHANES from 2009 to 2018.

Introduction: In this study, we investigated the association between recent cannabis use and urinary incontinence(UI) among women using the 2009-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Methods: A total of 7889 women aged 20 years and older were included in the study. Respondents were dichotomized as recent users or non-users if they had used or not used cannabis in the past 30 days, respectively.

Associations Between Bacterial Vaginosis and Urgency Urinary Incontinence in Women: An Analysis of Nhanes 2001 to 2004.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between bacterial vaginosis (BV) and urinary incontinence (UI) in American women.

Materials And Methods: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2001 to 2004 were merged. Self-collected vaginal swabs were used to assess BV.

Main Pathological Changes of Benign Ureteral Strictures.

Objective: To identify the pathological classification of benign ureteral strictures according to the histological features and explore the relationship between various pathological types and inflammatory cells, fibroblasts, and collagen.

Patients And Methods: Thirty one specimens from patients diagnosed with ureteral strictures between 2013 and 2021 were included and classified according to the histopathological characteristics. The number of fibroblasts and inflammatory cells was counted, and the proportion of type I and type III collagen in ureteral stricture tissues was detected by picrosirius red staining.

Teenage Childbearing as an Independent Risk Factor for Stress Urinary Incontinence in American Women.

Purpose: To evaluate the associations among teenage childbearing (Age at first birth<=19 years old) with later-life risk of stress and urgency urinary incontinence (SUI, UUI) in American women using nationally representative data from America.

Materials And Methods: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 2015 to 2018 were merged to include 2673 women. The question, "How old were you at the time of your first live birth?" was used to assess teenage childbearing.

Metformin inhibits MAPK signaling and rescues pancreatic aquaporin 7 expression to induce insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Metformin is the first-line antidiabetic agent for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treatment. Although accumulated evidence has shed light on the consequences of metformin action, the precise mechanisms of its action, especially in the pancreas, are not fully understood. Aquaporin 7 (AQP7) acts as a critical regulator of intraislet glycerol content, which is necessary for insulin production and secretion.

Association between red cell distribution width and the risk of heart events in patients with coronary artery disease.

Red cell distribution width (RDW) has been found to be a novel prognostic biomarker in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD); however, the association between RDW and the risk of heart events in patients with CAD is yet to be fully elucidated. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine whether an elevated RDW was associated with the Framingham risk score (FRS) in patients with CAD. Data were retrospectively collected from Affiliated Dongyang Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University (Dongyang, China).