Depression has been reported as a risk factor for dementia. We compared health and health service use profiles in older people hospitalized with late-life depression and older people hospitalized with other mental illnesses and examined the transition to dementia.

A retrospective population-based study using linked administrative health…[Read more]

03). Additionally, eight genes (rpoA, atpF, cemA, rps4, ccsA, rpoC2, rpl14 and clpP) exhibited elevated pairwise Ka/Ks ratios in alpine species. Phylogenetic analyses based on the CDS sequences and the whole complete genomes showed same topologies with high support, and A. macranthum was closely clustered with A. fasciculatum within the fourteen…[Read more]

Our findings have important implications for DNA biology and nanotechnology. Overrepresentation of sequences able to form PGHs in the evolutionary-conserved regions of the human genome implies their functionally important biological role(s).Genome-wide localization of chromatin and transcription regulators can be detected by a variety of…[Read more]

04; OR 1.39; 95% CI, 1.01-1.91), longer operative time (P < 0.001; WMD 21.68; 95% CI, 11.61 to 31.76), more estimated blood loss (EBL, P = 0.002; WMD 40.94; 95% CI, 14.87 to 67.01), longer length of hospital stay (LOS, P < 0.001; WMD 0.86; 95% CI, 0.35 to 1.37). No obvious publication bias was identified.

RRPN is more favorable than TRPN…[Read more]

This study aimed to identify the effects of basal thumb surgery on the range of dart thrower’s motion. Thirteen fresh-frozen cadaveric specimens were placed in a customized jig. Simulated scaphotrapeziotrapezoid joint fusion was carried out on all specimens. Half the specimens then underwent trapeziectomy and the rest had excision of the distal…[Read more]

ionately affected, becoming ineligible owing to safety concerns. Strategies to open closed CRPs, admission of high-risk/vulnerable populations, and offering of group-based tele-rehabilitation should be a national priority.

Within 2-months of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic, 41.2% of CRPs were closed and almost half of employees redeployed.…[Read more]

BACKGROUND As systematic reviews’ limited coverage of the medical literature necessitates decision-making based on unsystematic review, we investigated a possible advantage of systematic review (aside from dataset size and systematic analysis) does systematic review avoid potential bias in sampling primary studies from high impact factor journals?…[Read more]

This novel chronic myocarditis mouse model may allow the identification of the central pathophysiological and immunological processes involved in the progression to DCM.Biological membranes are not only essential barriers that separate cellular and subcellular structures, but also perform other critical functions such as the initiation and…[Read more]