Abstract Background Ischemic postconditioning (IPO) has been demonstrated to attenuate ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in the heart and brain, its roles liver remain be defined. The study was undertaken determine if IPO would warm I/R protective mechanism. Methods Mice were divided into sham, I/R, IPO+I/R (occlusing porta hepatis for 60 min, then treated three cycles of 10 sec brief reperfusion consecutively, followed by a persistent reperfusion); L-NAME+ sham (L-NAME, 16 mg/kg, i.v., 5...

The relationship between neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and liver fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty disease remains controversial. aim of this study was to examine the association NLR fibrosis.

Abstract Objective To investigate the oral health status and associated factors among preschool children with special healthcare needs. Subjects methods This was designed as a cross‐sectional study. Dental examination provided to 383 at Special Child Care Centres. Covariates of interest included children's age, developmental profile, health‐related behaviours family social‐economic status. The association between dental caries experiences, plaque deposition gingival were analysed by negative...

Toothbrushing is a routine practice for oral hygiene maintenance. It also challenging task young children with special care needs. In this study, social stories were employed to teach toothbrushing skills preschool Those recruited from the Special Child Care Centers, including 87 autism and 94 without autism. A validated story was used demonstrate procedure all children. Parents encouraged show their before or during daily toothbrushing. Children's performance, status, gingival health status...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated acute-on-chronic liver failure (HBV-ACLF), characterized by an acute deterioration of function in the patients with chronic hepatitis (CHB), is lack predicting biomarkers for prognosis. Plasma ideal sample biomarker discovery due to inexpensive and minimally invasive sampling good reproducibility. In this study, immuno-depletion high-abundance plasma proteins followed iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic approach was employed analyze samples from 20 healthy...

Cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma is associated with complications of pregnancy, including preeclampsia. Determination levels affected by gender and genetic polymorphisms. Unmethylated maspin (u-maspin) present the placenta, placental-specific. The purpose this study was to determine whether u-maspin blood could serve as a marker preeclampsia measuring different trimesters normal pregnancies those complicated preeclampsia.This case-control set tertiary care hospital. population...

Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS), caused by the hantavirus, is a natural infectious disease characterized fever, hemorrhage and renal damage. China most severely endemic area for HFRS in world. In recent years, critical scoring systems based on quantitative classification have become an important clinical tool predicting evaluating prognosis of illness, provide guidelines practice.The sample comprised 384 patients treated Taizhou Hospital from January 2006 to February 2017. The...

Abstract Objectives This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of social story‐based intervention in promoting oral health status among preschool children with special healthcare needs. Methods The 24‐month randomized controlled trial recruited 306 from centres that provided educational training for 2‐ 6‐year‐old who had participants received standardized toothbrushing and education materials. materials test group were validated stories, while control standard leaflets. Those introduced...

Abstract Rampant caries is identified by rapid onset, severe decay affecting multiple surfaces, and early pulp infection. This case–control study was conducted to investigate the disparities in oral microbiota between children affected rampant their caries-free counterparts. A total of 88 preschool children, with matched distribution sex age both case control groups, participated this study. Children’s health–related behaviors were reported parents, salivary pH levels assessed using a...

A visual-verbal integration model (VVIM) was used to train parents and their children with intellectual developmental disabilities (IDD) dispense a pea-sized amount of fluoridated toothpaste, aiming balance the occurrence dental caries fluorosis.Participants were 370 pairs IDD preschool parents. two-phase pre-post-intervention study performed. The weight toothpaste calculated by portable electronic compact balance.A quarter <20% dispensed appropriate at baseline. Almost 85% 50% achieved...

Abstract Background Biting objects was a parafunctional oral habit among children with special care needs. Chewing or biting toothbrushes could expedite the process of toothbrush wear. However, few studies evaluated deterioration levels used by This study aimed to assess level needs, and collect parents’ feedbacks improve design children’s toothbrushes. Methods The cross-sectional recruited 277 who had Children’s toothbrushing behaviors, background information, comments on were obtained....

Abstract Background Children with special education needs (SEN) require additional supports in settings, as well extra healthcare services. Aim To investigate dental visit experience and care barriers among Hong Kong preschoolers SEN. Design This was designed a cross‐sectional study. A structured questionnaire employed to attendance Binary logistic regression multi‐factor ANOVA were performed identify factors associated children's experience. Results total of 383 children included the final...

Background: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the oral health status Hani 12-year-old children in Yunnan, a province Southwest China. Method: This employed multistage sampling method recruit from local primary schools. Two calibrated dentists examined dental caries, gingival bleeding and fluorosis by adopting diagnosis criteria recommended World Health Organization. A self-administrated questionnaire distributed. chi-square test multivariate logistic regression were...

The Yi ethnic group is the sixth largest minority in China. aim of this study was to investigate dental caries status among preschool children Yunnan province, China.This cross-sectional invited 5-year-old using multistage cluster sampling. Two trained and calibrated dentists examined kindergartens. children's experience assessed decayed, missing, filled teeth (dmft) index. Visual plaque on an indexed tooth each six sextants recorded oral hygiene Visible Plaque Index. Parents completed...

Background: Young children with special needs greatly rely on their parents to support daily living activities; parental compliance may have great impact the implementation of health promotion activities among those children. This study aimed investigate towards oral education (OHE) healthcare (SHCN). Method: The participants were 306 whose had participated in a 24-month OHE program for preschool SHCN. primary outcome this cross-sectional was program. Parents’ literacy (OHL) assessed by...