Irish journal of medical science
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It is known that balance is affected in hearing-impaired athletes and its effects on performance. However, studies on the reliability and validity of scales evaluating balance are insufficient. ⋯ It was revealed that the balance of hearing-impaired athletes was comparable to the balance of healthy athletes in test conditions in which visual information could be used effectively. For this reason, it is important to consider the visual information factor when evaluating the balance of hearing-impaired athletes. Additionally, taking into account time and tiredness, FT for static balance and FSST for dynamic balance may be helpful to evaluate hearing-impaired athletes.
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Seven per cent of general waste and 20% of healthcare risk waste produced in acute hospitals in Ireland comes from operating theatres. Surgical wrap comprises 11% of operating theatre waste. ⋯ Diversion of surgical wrap from general waste and clinical waste streams to the recycling stream is achievable in every operating theatre. Small changes to operating theatre waste disposal practices have the potential to yield significant reductions to theatre waste outputs and to hospital carbon emissions.
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This first cross-sectional study examined whether vitamin D status and proinflammatory cytokines may be associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) in Algerian women regarding their menopausal status. ⋯ This study highlighted that severe vitamin D deficiency increases MetS score and was closely associated with four components of MetS, more potently in postmenopausal women, probably related with estrogens. Abdominal obesity, as influential component of MetS, may be involved in enhancing vitamin D deficiency, and dysregulating some metabolic hormones such as adiponectin, resistin and insulin, that contributes in onset an inflammatory state, through the increase in IL-6 and TNFα levels. These findings need to be improved by expanding investigation to a large cohort of participants.
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To investigate the differential expression of vascular related ceRNA regulatory genes in LGG with different mutations of IDH1 and MGMT, and to verify imaging gene markers that can be closely associated with vascular related ceRNA regulatory genes. ⋯ Under different IDH1 mutations, lncRNA-dominated vascular-related ceRNA regulatory genes were the first differentially expressed subset of each group, and could be used as an effective risk factor affecting the survival of LGG. The image characteristics of LGG was an ideal image gene marker. It was a reliable imaging biological marker which can truly reflect the pathophysiological characteristics of glioma.
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Treatment for bladder cancer includes radical cystectomy (RC) and urinary diversion; RC is associated with long-term morbidity, kidney impairment and mortality. ⋯ Patients with RC are at risk of progressive kidney function deterioration and elevated mortality and the main risk factors associated were age and preoperative eGFR. Regular monitoring of kidney function will permit early diagnosis and treatment.