Obesity and COVID-19 mortality are correlated.

In view of a conspicuous absence of any cross-country study linking obesity and COVID-19 mortality, we conduct an empirical analysis of plausible associations between COVID-19 mortality and the proportion of obese in the adult population distributed across 142 countries around the globe. We observe a statistically significant positive association between COVID-19 mortality and the proportion of obese in adult populations spanning 142 countries. This association holds across countries belonging to different income groups and is not sensitive to a population's median age, proportion of the elderly, and/or proportion of females.

Design and development of a sensored glove for home-based rehabilitation.

Study Design: Descriptive.

Introduction: Rehabilitation programs that focus on motor recovery of the upper limb require long-term commitment from the clinicians/therapists, require one-to-one caring, and are usually labor-intensive.

Purpose Of The Study: To contribute to this area, we have developed a sensored hand glove integrated with a computer game (Flappy Bird) to engage patients playing a game where the subject's single/multiple fingers are involved, representing fine motor skill occupational therapeutic exercises.

Skin changes in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

Diabetes can cause serious health complications, which can affect every organ of the body, including the skin. The molecular etiology has not yet been clarified for all diabetic skin conditions. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the changes of diabetes in skin compared to non-diabetic skin in rats.

Research Needs for Effective Transition in Lifelong Care of Congenital Genitourinary Conditions: A Workshop Sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Over the last 5 decades, health-care advances have yielded quantum improvements in the life expectancy of individuals with congenital genitourinary conditions (CGCs), leading to a crisis of care. Many individuals with CGC enter adulthood unprepared to manage their condition. Pediatric CGC specialists lack training to manage adulthood-related health-care issues, whereas adult genitourinary specialists lack training within the context of CGCs.

Familiar and novel reproductive endocrine disruptors: xenoestrogens, dioxins and nanoparticles.

Environmental contaminants are known to exert endocrine-disrupting effects on the reproductive axis of animals. Many of these molecules can affect steroid biosynthesis or estrogen-receptor signaling by behaving as estrogen-like molecules ("xenoestrogens"), or by exerting estrogenmodulatory effects. Exposure to some compounds has been correlated with the skewing of sex ratios in aquatic species, feminization and demasculinization of male animals, declines in human sperm counts, and overall diminution in fertility of birds, fish, and mammals.