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Brain Behav Immun Health
February 2025
School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
The assessment of salivary cortisol in community settings has gained popularity in biobehavioral research due to its noninvasive sampling, ease of handling and storage, and suitability for repeated sampling in short intervals. Ensuring consistent methodological practices for salivary cortisol is essential. This systematic review critically examines salivary cortisol collection procedures, data cleaning, and analysis to better understand its role in biobehavioral research within community populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTher Adv Infect Dis
January 2025
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Background: Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV8) can present with cutaneous or extracutaneous manifestations. While violaceous skin lesions characterize cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma, extracutaneous HHV8 is challenging to diagnose due to nonspecific symptoms.
Objectives: We evaluated the role of microbial cell-free DNA next-generation sequencing (mcfDNA NGS) in diagnosing HHV8-related illness.
J Vasc Bras
January 2025
Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Botucatu, SP, Brasil.
Intervention studies require all participants to originate from the same population, with random allocation to intervention groups to ensure comparability. Randomization is crucial for minimizing confounding factors, allowing differences in outcomes to be attributed to the intervention. Simple randomization performs well for large samples (>100 per group), but smaller samples may require block or stratified randomization to balance group sizes and covariates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Colorectal cancer is increasingly diagnosed in people aged <50 years. New U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Res Adolesc
March 2025
Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Autonomy support (AS) and psychological control (PC) are important parenting behaviors in adolescence, with low AS and high PC relating to adolescent depression. Studies on observed levels of AS and PC in a clinical sample are lacking. The current study aimed to (1) develop a reliable coding system for parental AS and PC in parent-adolescent interactions and gain insights into its ecological validity in a healthy control (HC) sample, and (2) disentangle observed and adolescent-perceived parenting behaviors in relation to adolescent depression.
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