BACKGROUND: Worldwide, the Coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on people's health, lives, and livelihoods. However, this impact has not been felt equally across various population groups. People from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK have been more adversely affected by the pandemic, especially in terms of their physical health. Their m...
BackgroundThe homeless population is aging, with early onset of cognitive and functional impairments. It is unclear whether older homeless adults receive caregiving assistance that could prevent long-term disability.ObjectiveWe describe characteristics of older homeless-experienced adults with caregiving need and determine factors associated with h...
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The prevalence of essential hypertension increases consistently among middle-aged and older adults in China. Aims of this study are to explore the impact of Tai Chi and square dance, which are popular in China, on antihypertensive effects and cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with essential hypertension.Methods
Patients with ...
It is challenging to synthesize findings across studies of pain impact. This study develops a link to estimate the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) global health measure from the 3-item Pain intensity, interference with Enjoyment of life, interference with General activity (PEG) scale. The PROMIS and PEG items were ...
ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to evaluate whether patients with invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) are more likely to have discordant clinical and genomic risk than those with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) when using the 21-gene recurrence score (RS), and to assess overall survival outcomes of patients with 1-3 positive nodes and RS ≤25 with a...
Emotion lexicons became a popular method for quantifying affect in large amounts of textual data (e.g., social media posts). There are multiple independently developed emotion lexicons which tend to correlate positively with one another but not entirely. Such differences between lexicons may not matter if they are just unsystematic noise, but if th...
PurposeTo evaluate the association between lifetime personal cigarette smoking and young-onset breast cancer (YOBC; diagnosed
BackgroundThe number of Californians covered by Medi-Cal increased more than 50% between 2013 and 2018, largely due to expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This rapid expansion of Medicaid rolls prompted concerns that Medi-Cal enrollees would face greater difficulty accessing health care.ObjectiveExamine whether gaps in access to care bet...
BackgroundLittle is known about the experience of the male breast cancer patient. Mastectomy is often offered despite evidence that breast-conserving surgery (BCS) provides similar outcomes.MethodsTwo concurrent online surveys were distributed from August to October 2020 via social media to male breast cancer (MBC) patients and by email to American...
Male fertility, as manifest by the quantity and progressive motility of spermatozoa, is negatively impacted by obesity, dyslipidaemia and metabolic disease. However, the relative distribution of lipids in spermatozoa and the two compartments which supply lipids for spermatogenesis (seminal fluid and blood serum) has not been studied. We hypothesise...
