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Healthcare (Basel)
December 2024
Hong Chi Winifred Mary Cheung Morninghope School, 220 Lai King Hill Road, Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, China.
Family caregivers of individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) face numerous challenges in long-term planning, which have been exacerbated amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific triggers raise awareness of future planning needs, but barriers like painful emotions and exhaustion often impede the process. This study aimed to explore Hong Kong (HK) caregivers' perspectives on long-term planning for family members with ID at the later period of the pandemic.
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December 2024
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, China; Sau Po Centre on Ageing, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address:
Caregivers' well-being has become a major social concern, given the growing demand for long-term care support to meet the challenges of an aging society. As social media becomes substantially pervasive in daily life, the impacts of social media on caregivers' well-being are increasingly gaining public attention. Although research activities are active, studies on social media and caregivers' well-being lack consolidation and receive limited attention from researchers.
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September 2024
Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, North Point, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Introduction: Gender differences in problem gambling have attracted much attention in recent gambling literature. However, relatively little is known about how gender norms relate to social strain and self-control in predicting gambling disorder within a spousal context. This study aimed to increase knowledge about gambling disorder in Chinese married couples by assessing the three-way interaction effects between social strain, self-control, and gender norms.
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September 2024
Department of Neurology, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Introduction: The apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) is an established central player in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with distinct apoE isoforms exerting diverse effects. apoE influences not only amyloid-beta and tau pathologies but also lipid and energy metabolism, neuroinflammation, cerebral vascular health, and sex-dependent disease manifestations. Furthermore, ancestral background may significantly impact the link between APOE and AD, underscoring the need for more inclusive research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
June 2024
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, 2-12-12, Sumiyoshi, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu-city, Shizuoka 430-8558, Japan. Electronic address:
Introduction: Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma (PSP) is a rare benign tumor classified as a pulmonary adenoma. It presents as a solitary pulmonary nodule without any specific findings, often posing a diagnostic challenge. We herein present a case of a PSP with a short volume doubling time (VDT) comparable to low-grade pulmonary malignancies.
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