Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Efficacy of the traditional Chinese medicine, Buyang Huanwu Decoction, at preventing taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy in breast cancer patients: A prospective, randomized, controlled study.
Buyang Huanwu Decoction (BYHWD) is a traditional Chinese prescription, originally derived from Yi Lin Gai Cuo during the Qing Dynasty. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of BYHWD in the prevention of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy (TIPN) in patients with breast cancer. ⋯ Buyang Huanwu decoction (BYHWD) can effectively prevent TIPN and improve the quality of life in patients with breast cancer.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Effect of psychological intervention in cushioning work-induced stress among secondary school home economics teachers: Implications for policy and administration.
Work demands in the contemporary Nigerian work environment are a critical concern to many including occupational stress researchers. This informed the current study to investigate the effect of psychological intervention in cushioning teachers' stress in public secondary schools in Nigeria. ⋯ This study suggests that cognitive behavior intervention can decrease work-induced stress among secondary school home economics teachers. Therefore, the management of schools is enjoined to deploy the services of cognitive behavior therapists to monitor the mood and mental health of teachers.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disease. Immune system cells have an important role in RA. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between disease activity, systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), and pan-immune-inflammation value (PIV) levels in RA patients. ⋯ Our findings show that PIV, and SII are easy, inexpensive and reliable markers predicting remission in RA patients. CRP was not significant compared to remission RA and control group, PIV and SII was significant and PIV has higher sensitivity and specificity than SII in the remission group in RA. Patients with high disease activity, PIV, SII, and CRP levels were effective in showing disease activity compared to RA remission group and healthy controls.
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Splenic ischemia (SI) is a common finding during sleeve gastrectomy (SG) procedures; however, reports are still lacking. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed our SG patients to understand better the incidence rate and implications of SI. Patients' data from the beginning of the year 2021 until December 2022 that underwent bariatric surgery at our university hospital were retrospectively analyzed. ⋯ The incidence of SI during sleeve gastrectomy-related procedures is a common finding in our study. We did not observe significant differences postoperatively between the patients with and without SI before discharge. Further study is needed to understand the mechanism for the incidence of SI during SG.
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Patient delay increases the morbidity and mortality due to tuberculosis (TB). This study aimed to assess patient delay among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Yantai from 2013 to 2022, and to analyze factors related to patient delay. Data of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Yantai City from 2013 to 2022 were obtained from the Tuberculosis Management Information System of the Chinese Disease Prevention and Control System. ⋯ Univariate analyses revealed statistically significant differences in patient delay in terms of age, occupation, patient source, domicile, pathogenetic results, and the presence of comorbidities (all P < .05). The results of logistic regression analysis showed that the age was 20 to 39, 40 to 59, and ≥ 60 years (OR = 1.365, 95%CI: 1.156-1.612; OR = 1.978, 95%CI: 1.660-2.356; OR = 1.767, 95%CI: 1.480-2.110), occupation was domestic and un-employed (OR = 1.188, 95%CI: 1.071-1.317), domicile as mobile population (OR = 1.212, 95%CI: 1.099-1.337), and positive pathogenic results (OR = 1.242, 95%CI: 1.015-1.520) were risk factors for patient delay. Patient delays were serious among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Yantai City, 2013 to 2022, and patient delay was related to factors such as age, occupation, domicile, patient source, and pathogenetic results.