Undergraduate food insecurity, mental health, and substance use behaviors.

Recent epidemiological research has found food insecurity to be a growing public health concern among college students. This study investigated food insecurity, mental health, and substance use behaviors among state university undergraduate students. Cross-sectional survey.

Thromboelastography-Based Evaluation of Gender-Associated Hypercoagulability.

Background: Age, race, and gender differences in coagulation status of healthy volunteers have been reported in previous case series; however, rigorous multivariate analysis adjusting for these factors is lacking. We aimed to investigate the effects of age, race, and gender on baseline coagulation status in healthy volunteers.

Methods: Thirty healthy volunteer controls with no history of bleeding or thrombotic events and no previous anticoagulant or antiplatelet use were recruited.

Acquired Factor XIII Deficiency in a 19-year-Old Male Following Ballistic Injury.

Factor XIII deficiency is a rare cause of post-operative bleeding. It poses a diagnostic challenge as standard coagulation tests including prothrombin time, international normalized ratio, and activated partial thromboplastin time are usually normal in factor XIII deficiency. We present the case of our patient, a 19-year-old male with acquired factor XIII deficiency diagnosed after ballistic injury with a post-operative course complicated by hemorrhage.

Transitions to Family Caregiving and Latent Variables of Systemic Inflammation Over Time.

Circulating levels of inflammatory biomarkers may be influenced by chronic psychological stressors such as those experienced by family caregivers. However, previous studies have found mostly small and inconsistent differences between caregivers and control samples on individual measures of systemic inflammation. Latent variables of inflammation were extracted from six biomarkers collected from two blood samples over 9 years apart for 502 participants in a national cohort study.

Traumatic Spigelian Hernia in a Pediatric Patient Following a Bicycle Injury.

Blunt abdominal trauma due to bicycle accident is a common occurrence in the pediatric population; however, traumatic abdominal wall hernia as the result of blunt trauma is a rare presentation. Abdominal wall injuries can be isolated or associated with multiple intra-abdominal pathologies. A high index of suspicion is essential for prompt intervention, especially when there is concurrent intra-abdominal pathology.

Impedance Planimetry and the Changing Paradigm of Esophageal Dysphagia.

Objectives: Patients presenting with dysphagia can encounter a pathway to therapy and relief that is expensive and frustrating. High resolution impedance planimetry (HRIP) is a new mechanism for enhancing and possibly hastening that process. A balloon with integrated pressure sensors is utilized to measure luminal geometry and pressure by volume-controlled distention.

Myricetin (3,3,4,5,5,7-hexahydroxyflavone) prevents ethanol-induced biochemical and inflammatory damage in the liver of Wistar rats.

 The current investigation was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of myricetin in ethanol-induced liver toxicity in Wistar rats.  Twenty-four rats were randomly divided into four groups with six animals per group. Group-I animals were administered with vehicle (distilled water), Group II, III, and IV were treated orally with sequential (per week) increase in the dose of ethanol (5, 8, 10, and 12 g/kg b wt per week in each group) for 28 days.