Byers Rivera

Growing empirical evidence suggests that adolescents have a relatively greater propensity to develop problematic video gaming or gambling habits.

The main objectives of this study are to estimate the prevalence of potential pathological gambling and video game use among adolescent students and to evaluate their risk factors.

This…Read more

In severe cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), viral pneumonia progresses to respiratory failure. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are extracellular webs of chromatin, microbicidal proteins, and oxidant enzymes that are released by neutrophils to contain infections. However, when not properly regulated, NETs have potential to…Read more

ble. Moreover, a ventilator weaning plan should be included as a regular testing and monitoring item. Also, a respirator removal program should be provided on a case-by-case basis. Individualized ventilator weaning programs may reduce the burden on families and medical care providers.

Night-shift work affects the physical and mental health of…Read more

Some researches have shown the associations between air pollution and hospital-based emergency department visits, while the evidence about the acute effects of air pollution on emergency ambulance dispatches for the whole population is rarely available, especially on an hourly time scale. This paper aimed to investigate the effects of hourly…Read more

The epidemiology of Sjögren syndrome (SS) has been extensively studied in America, Europe, and Asia.

To summarize available data on the epidemiology of SS in Africa.

MEDLINE, EMBASE, and African Journals Online were searched from inception up to May 17, 2020, to identify relevant articles. Data gleaned from these reports have been…Read more

The current lead insulation of high-temperature superconductivity equipment is under the combined action of large temperature gradient field and strong electric field. Compared with a uniform temperature field, its electric field distortion is more serious, and it is easy to induce surface discharge to generate high-energy particles, destroy the…Read more

nd functional connectivity improves the classification accuracy among aging participants. Thus, the outcome of this study could be beneficial in formulating interventions for the prevention of age-related brain dysfunction.Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are commonly prescribed with antidepressants that may increase bleeding risk. Here we…Read more

Patients should be referred for further evaluation if the procedure fails or an insufficient sample is obtained. Postmenopausal women and women with persistent or recurrent symptoms should receive further evaluation even when biopsy results are normal because blind sampling may miss focal lesions.Dyspnea is a symptom arising from a complex…Read more

Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) was reintroduced in Switzerland in 2011 and accounts for a third of deceased organ donors today. Controversy persists if DCD transplants are of similar quality to transplants following donation after brain death (DBD), mainly due to warm ischaemia time DCD organs are exposed to. We compared DCD with DBD…Read more

To evaluate the evidence regarding acute migraine treatment optimization to prevent the progression of episodic migraine to chronic migraine. This review also provides a summary of evidence-based acute migraine treatments and how to tailor a regimen based on an individual patient’s needs.

Several acute migraine treatments have been food…Read more