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The relationship between mitochondrial health, telomerase activity and longitudinal telomere attrition, considering the role of chronic stress.
Sci Rep
December 2024
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weill Center for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94107, USA.
Telomere attrition is a hallmark of biological aging, contributing to cellular replicative senescence. However, few studies have examined the determinants of telomere attrition in vivo in humans. Mitochondrial Health Index (MHI), a composite marker integrating mitochondrial energy-transformation capacity and content, may be one important mediator of telomere attrition, as it could impact telomerase activity, a direct regulator of telomere maintenance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"The Heart of the Center": Exploring the Role of the Patient Care Technician in US Dialysis Care.
Kidney Med
January 2025
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Rationale & Objective: Dialysis patient care technicians (PCTs) provide essential, frontline care for patients receiving in-center hemodialysis. We qualitatively explored perceptions of the PCT job role, responsibilities, and training among current PCTs, non-PCT dialysis staff, and patients receiving hemodialysis.
Study Design: Focus group study.
Teaching Preclinical Medical Students Lifestyle Counseling Skills for Patients' Health Behavior Change.
MedEdPORTAL
December 2024
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education, and Assistant Dean, Clinical Skills Education, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine.
Introduction: Physicians face barriers to counseling patients regarding lifestyle, specifically, low perceived importance of and confidence in counseling, leading to underuse. There is a dearth in the literature evaluating educational interventions for counseling skills among preclinical medical students. Closing this gap is crucial to taking advantage of critical opportunities early in training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence and Influencing Factors of Tobacco Use Among Physicians in Madinah City, Saudi Arabia, in 2024.
Cureus
November 2024
Internal Medicine, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Medical City, Madinah, SAU.
Background Smoking is recognized as a major public health issue globally; it is widely distributed among people of various origins and races in the world despite hard efforts on cessation programs. Its health hazards extend to dangerous complications, which mostly end in death according to statistics around the world. Tobacco use is influenced by several factors, which may include social pressures from peers, family influences, and media portrayals of smoking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerceived training needs by tutors of family and community medicine and nursing of specialized health training: a qualitative descriptive study.
Front Med (Lausanne)
December 2024
Unidad Docente de Atención Familiar y Comunitaria Costa Ponent, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain.
Introduction: Specialized Health Training is a postgraduate training pathway in which physicians and nurses can choose to continue their learning and obtain the qualification of specialist professional in a specific field. The training is eminently practical with different clinical tracks in which nurses and physicians are tutored by clinician tutors. Our research aims to describe the experiences and perceptions of clinician tutors related to their own teaching performance and training needs.
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