Publications by authors named "Zixiang Ji"
Background: Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), pose growing global health challenges. Socio-demographic and economic development acts paradoxically, complicating the process that determines how governments worldwide designate policies and allocate resources for healthcare.
Methods: We extracted data on ADRD and PD in 204 countries from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 database.
Background: Hypertension has become increasingly prevalent in Chinese children and adolescents in recent decades, which affects growth and development of children, leads to cognitive decline and multiple target organ damage. Here, we assessed the impact of different body mass index (BMI) trajectories on the occurrence of hypertension in children and adolescents using a cohort study in Northeast China.
Materials And Methods: Children and adolescents aged 5-18 years was extracted for physical examination in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, China during the 2009-2015 period.
Trends in Cause-Specific Injury Mortality in China in 2005-2019: Longitudinal Observational Study.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
September 2023
Background: Over the last few decades, although the age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) of injury has shown a significant declining trend in China, this pattern has dramatically reversed recently.
Objective: We aimed to elucidate the geographical, demographic, and temporal trends of cause-specific injuries, the reversal phenomenon of these trends, and the fluctuations of injury burden from 2005 to 2019 in China.
Methods: A longitudinal observational study was performed using the raw data of injury deaths in the National Cause-of-Death surveillance data provided by the disease surveillance points system in 2005-2019.
Abscess of the ligamentum teres hepatis has been described in the medical literature as an extremely rare clinical entity, which often presents a diagnostic dilemma. A 68-year-old man was hospitalized for upper abdominal pain and obstructive jaundice. The patient presented with low-grade intermittent fever.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute pancreatitis, a rare complication of afferent loop obstruction: A case report.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
February 2022
Article Synopsis
- The patient initially experienced severe upper abdominal symptoms and was treated with antibiotics and gastrointestinal decompression, but his condition worsened, leading to a diagnosis of diffuse peritonitis.
- Following imaging that confirmed A-loop obstruction and related complications, the patient underwent emergency surgery, which resulted in successful recovery over the next month.