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Furthermore, OXT pre-treated DCs prevent CD4+ T cells differentiation to T helper 1 (Th1) and Th17.

Our results suggest that OXT-induced tolerogenic DCs efficiently protect against experimental colitis via Pi3K/AKT pathway. Our work provides evidence that the nervous system participates in the immune regulation of colitis by modulating DCs. Our findings suggest that generating ex vivo DCs pretreated with OXT opens new therapeutic perspectives for the treatment of UC in humans.
Our results suggest that OXT-induced tolerogenic DCs efficiently protect against experimental colitis via Pi3K/AKT pathway. Our work provides evidence that the nervous system participates in the immune regulation of colitis by modulating DCs. Our findings suggest that generating ex vivo DCs pretreated with OXT opens new therapeutic perspectives for the treatment of UC in humans.Major thermal burn injuries result in approximately 40,000 hospitalizations in the United States each year. Chronic pain affects up to 60% of burn survivors, Black Americans have worse chronic pain outcomes than White Americans. Mechanisms of chronic pain pathogenesis after burn injury, and accounting for these racial differences, remain poorly understood. Due to socioeconomic disadvantage and differences in skin absorption, Black Americans have an increased prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency. We hypothesized that peritraumatic Vitamin D levels predict chronic pain outcomes after burn injury and contribute to racial differences in pain outcomes. Among burn survivors (n=77, 52% White, 48% Black, 77% male), peritraumatic Vitamin D levels were more likely to be deficient in Blacks vs. Whites (27/37 (73%) vs. 14/40 (35%), p less then .001). Peritraumatic Vitamin D levels were inversely associated with chronic post-burn pain outcomes across all burn injury survivors, including those who were and were not Vitamin D deficient, and accounted for approximately 1/3 of racial differences in post-burn pain outcome. Future studies are needed to evaluate potential mechanisms mediating the effect of Vitamin D on post-burn pain outcomes and the potential efficacy of Vitamin D in improving pain outcomes and reducing racial differences.
The decrease in stunting in Peru is seen as a "success story" in the fight against malnutrition; however, the parallel increase in obesity has often been ignored.

To investigate trends in the double burden of malnutrition (i.e., the coexistence of stunting and overweight/obesity) in Peru compared with trends in household food expenditures by family socioeconomic status and urban/rural residency.

Using Peruvian nationally representative surveys, we analyzed stunting (children aged 0-5 y) and overweight/obesity (women aged 18-49 y) trends between 1992 and 2017, as well as trends in household energy consumption from healthy and unhealthy foods between 2001 and 2017 by education, income, participation in the Juntos cash-transfer program, and urban/rural residency. Joinpoint software was used for all trends analyses.

Overall, stunting decreased and obesity increased among all social groups between 1992 and 2017. Inequities in stunting by income and urban/rural residency widened over time. From 1992 to 2017 high in Peru. The need for multisectoral interventions addressing both ends of the malnutrition spectrum, particularly among disadvantaged groups to avoid further widening of social inequities, is warranted.Researchers increasingly wish to test hypotheses concerning the impact of environmental or disease exposures on telomere length (TL), and use longitudinal study designs to do so. In population studies, TL is usually measured using a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)-based method. This method has been validated by presenting a correlation with a gold standard method such as Southern blotting (SB) in cross-sectional datasets. However, in a cross-section, the range of true variation in TL is large, and measurement error is introduced only once. In a longitudinal study, the target variation of interest is small, and measurement error is introduced both at baseline and follow-up. We present a small dataset (n = 20) where leukocyte TL was measured 6.6 years apart by both qPCR and SB. The cross-sectional correlations between qPCR and SB were high both at baseline (r = 0.90) and follow-up (r = 0.85), yet their correlation for TL change was poor (r = 0.48). Moreover, the qPCR but not SB data showed strong signatures of measurement error. Through simulation, we show that the statistical power gain from performing a longitudinal analysis is much greater for SB than qPCR. We discuss implications for optimal study design and analysis.In the recent decade, deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence and machine learning, has been used to identify patterns in big healthcare datasets for disease phenotyping, event predictions, and complex decision making. Public datasets for electrocardiograms (ECGs) have existed since the 1980s and have been used for very specific tasks in cardiology, such as arrhythmia, ischemia, and cardiomyopathy detection. Recently, private institutions have begun curating large ECG databases that are orders of magnitude larger than the public databases for ingestion by deep learning models. These efforts have demonstrated not only improved performance and generalizability in these aforementioned tasks but also application to novel clinical scenarios. This review focuses on orienting the clinician towards fundamental tenets of deep learning, state-of-the-art prior to its use for ECG analysis, and current applications of deep learning on ECGs, as well as their limitations and future areas of improvement.
Omega-3 (n-3) fatty acid (FA) supplements increase blood concentrations of EPA and DHA. Most of the supplements on the market are esterified in triglycerides (TGs) or ethyl esters (EEs), which limits their absorption and may cause gastrointestinal side effects.

The objective of this study was to compare the 24-h AUC of the plasma concentrations of EPA, DHA, and EPA+DHA when provided esterified in monoglycerides (MAGs), EEs, or TGs, (primary outcomes) and evaluate their side effects over 24 h (secondary outcome).

This was a randomized, triple-blind, crossover, controlled clinical trial. Eleven women and 11 men between 18 and 50 y of age ingested, in random order, a single oral dose of ∼1.2g of EPA and DHA esterified in MAGs, EEs, and TGs with low-fat meals provided during the 24-h follow-up. Eleven blood samples over 24 h were collected from each participant, and the plasma n-3 FAs were quantified. Friedman's paired ANOVA statistical rank test was used for the pharmacokinetic parameters and a chi-square ied in EEs or TGs. This trial is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03897660.
Discriminating viral from bacterial lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in children is challenging thus commonly resulting in antibiotic overuse. The Feverkidstool, a validated clinical decision rule including clinical symptoms and C-reactive protein, safely reduced antibiotic use in children at low/intermediate risk for bacterial LRTIs in a multicentre trial at emergency departments (EDs) in the Netherlands.

Using routine data from an observational study, we simulated the impact of the Feverkidstool on antibiotic prescriptions compared with observed antibiotic prescriptions in children with suspected LRTIs at 12 EDs in eight European countries.

We selected febrile children aged 1 month to 5 years with respiratory symptoms and excluded upper respiratory tract infections. Using the Feverkidstool, we calculated individual risks for bacterial LRTI retrospectively. We simulated antibiotic prescription rates under different scenarios (1) applying effect estimates on antibiotic prescription from the trial; and (2) varying both usage (50%-100%) and compliance (70%-100%) with the Feverkidstool's advice to withhold antibiotics in children at low/intermediate risk for bacterial LRTI (≤10%).

Of 4938 children, 4209 (85.2%) were at low/intermediate risk for bacterial LRTI. Applying effect estimates from the trial, the Feverkidstool reduced antibiotic prescription from 33.5% to 24.1% [pooled risk difference 9.4% (95% CI 5.7%-13.1%)]. Simulating 50%-100% usage with 90% compliance resulted in risk differences ranging from 8.3% to 15.8%. BMS-935177 in vitro Our simulations suggest that antibiotic prescriptions would be reduced in EDs with high baseline antibiotic prescription rates or predominantly (>85%) low/intermediate-risk children.

Implementation of the Feverkidstool could reduce antibiotic prescriptions in children with suspected LRTIs in European EDs.
Implementation of the Feverkidstool could reduce antibiotic prescriptions in children with suspected LRTIs in European EDs.
Neurocognitive impairment (NCI) is associated with monocyte activation in people with HIV (PWH). Activated monocytes increase glycolysis, reduce oxidative phosphorylation and accumulate citrate and succinate, tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle metabolites that promote inflammation-this metabolic shift may contribute to NCI and slowed gait speed in PWH.

Plasma citrate and succinate were assayed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry from 957 participants upon entry to a multicenter, prospective cohort of older PWH. Logistic, linear, and mixed-effects linear regression models were used to examine associations between entry/baseline TCA cycle metabolites and cross-sectional and longitudinal NCI, neuropsychological test scores (NPZ-4), and gait speed.

Median age was 51 (range 40-78) years. Each 1 standard deviation (SD) citrate increment was associated with 1.18 higher odds of prevalent NCI at baseline (p=0.03), 0.07 SD lower time-updated NPZ-4 score (p=0.01), and 0.02 m/s slower time-updated gait speed (p<0.0001). Age accentuated these effects. In the oldest age-quartile, higher citrate was associated with 1.64 higher odds of prevalent NCI, 0.17 SD lower NPZ-4, and 0.04 m/s slower gait speed (p≤0.01 for each). Similar associations were apparent with succinate in the oldest age-quintile, but not with gait speed. In participants without NCI at entry, higher citrate predicted a faster rate of neurocognitive decline.

Higher plasma citrate and succinate are associated with worse cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of neurocognitive function and gait speed that are age-dependent supporting the importance of altered bioenergetic metabolism in the pathogenesis of NCI in older PWH.
Higher plasma citrate and succinate are associated with worse cross-sectional and longitudinal measures of neurocognitive function and gait speed that are age-dependent supporting the importance of altered bioenergetic metabolism in the pathogenesis of NCI in older PWH.
Epidemiological evidence for the association of soft drink consumption with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is inconsistent, and such association has not been prospectively examined in the general adult population.

We aimed to investigate the prospective association between soft drink consumption and the risk of NAFLD in a Chinese adult population.

This prospective cohort study investigated 14,845 participants [mean age 39.3 y; 6203 (41.8%) men] who were free of liver disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer at baseline. Soft drink consumption (mainly sugar-containing carbonated beverages) was measured at baseline using a validated FFQ. NAFLD was diagnosed based on abdominal ultrasound without significant alcohol consumption and other causes of liver disease. Hepatic steatosis index (HSI) was calculated based on sex, BMI, and blood transaminase levels. Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to examine the association of soft drink consumption with incident NAFLD.

A total of 2888 first-incident cases of NAFLD occurred during 42,048 person-years of follow-up (median follow-up 4.
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