BACKGROUND Gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD)is a highly prevalent disease of the upper gastrointestinal tract,and it is associated with environmental and lifestyle *** to an increasing interest in the environment,...
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BACKGROUND Gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD)is a highly prevalent disease of the upper gastrointestinal tract,and it is associated with environmental and lifestyle *** to an increasing interest in the environment,several groups are studying the effects of meteorological factors and air pollutants(MFAPs)on disease *** To identify MFAPs effect on GERD-related medical *** Data on GERD-related medical utilization from 2002 to 2017 were obtained from the National Health Insurance Service of Korea,while those on MFAPs were obtained from eight metropolitan areas and *** total,20071900 instances of GERD-related medical utilizations were identified,and 200000 MFAPs were randomly selected from the eight metropolitan *** were analyzed using a multivariable generalized additive Poisson regression model to control for time trends,seasonality,and day of the *** Five MFAPs were selected for the prediction ***-related medical utilization increased with the levels of particulate matter with a diameter≤2.5μm(PM2.5)and carbon monoxide(CO).S-shaped and inverted U-shaped changes were observed in average temperature and air pollutants,*** time lag of each variable was significant around nine days after *** Using five MFAPs,the final model significantly predicted GERD-related medical *** particular,PM2.5 and CO were identified as risk or aggravating factors for GERD.
Lipid-coated microbubbles are widely used as an ultrasound contrast agent,as well as drug delivery ***,the two main limitations in ultrasound diagnosis and drug delivery using microbubbles are the short half-life in t...
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Lipid-coated microbubbles are widely used as an ultrasound contrast agent,as well as drug delivery ***,the two main limitations in ultrasound diagnosis and drug delivery using microbubbles are the short half-life in the blood system,and the difficulty of surface modification of microbubbles for active *** exosome,a type of extracellular vesicle,has a preferentially targeting ability for its original *** this study,exosome-fused microbubbles(Exo-MBs)were developed by embedding the exosome membrane proteins into *** a result,the stability of Exo-MBs is improved over the conventional *** the same principle that under the exposure of ultrasound,microbubbles are cavitated and self-assembled into nano-sized particles,and Exo-MBs are self-assembled into exosome membrane proteins-embedded nanoparticles(Exo-NPs).The Exo-NPs showed favorable targeting properties to their original cells.A photosensitizer,chlorin e6,was loaded into Exo-MBs to evaluate therapeutic efficacy as a drug *** higher therapeutic efficacy of photodynamic therapy was confirmed,followed by cancer immunotherapy from immunogenic cell *** have therefore developed a novel ultrasound image-guided drug delivery platform that overcomes the shortcomings of the conventional ultrasound contrast agent and is capable of simultaneous photodynamic therapy and cancer immunotherapy.
AIM:To investigate the relationship between chronic viral hepatitis B(CVHB) and insulin resistance(IR) in Korean ***:A total of 7880 adults(3851 men,4029 women) who underwent a comprehensive medical examination were e...
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AIM:To investigate the relationship between chronic viral hepatitis B(CVHB) and insulin resistance(IR) in Korean ***:A total of 7880 adults(3851 men,4029 women) who underwent a comprehensive medical examination were enrolled in this *** diagnosed with either diabetes mellitus,or any other disorder that could influence their insulin sensitivity,were ***,metabolic risk factors,hepatitis B surface antigen,hepatitis B surface antibody,hepatitis B core antibody,fasting plasma glucose and insulin were measured for all *** model assessment(HOMA),quantitative insulin check index(QUICKI),and Mf fm index were used for determining insulin *** participant was categorized into a negative,recovery,or CVHB *** compare variables between groups,a t-test and/or one-way analysis of variance were *** correlation coefficients were computed to present the association between insulin resistance and other *** logistic regression analysis was used to assess the independent association between CVHB and ***:The mean age of men and women were 48.9 and 48.6 years,*** in the CVHB group had significantly higher waist circumference [(86.0 ± 7.7 cm vs 87.3 ± 7.8 cm,P = 0.004 in men),(78.3 ± 8.6 cm vs 80.5 ± 8.5 cm,P < 0.001 in women)],cystatin C [(0.96 ± 0.15 mg/dL vs 1.02 ± 0.22 mg/dL,P < 0.001 in men),(0.84 ± 0.15 mg/dL vs 0.90 ± 0.16 mg/dL,P < 0.001 in women)],fasting insulin [(5.47 ± 3.38 U/mL vs 6.12 ± 4.62 U/mL,P < 0.001 in men),(4.57 ± 2.82 U/mL vs 5.06 ± 3.10 U/mL,P < 0.001 in women)] and HOMA index [(1.24 ± 0.86 vs 1.43 ± 1.24,P < 0.001 in men),(1.02 ± 0.76 vs 1.13 ± 0.87,P = 0.033 in women)] compared to control *** HOMA index revealed a positive correlation with body mass index(BMI)(r = 0.378,P < 0.001),waist circumference(r =0.356,P < 0.001),percent body fat(r = 0.296,P < 0.001),systolic blood pressure(r = 0.202,P < 0.001),total cholesterol(r = 0.134,P < 0.00
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