Effects of two standards on the overweight trend of infants and toddlers in urban Shanghai / 中华儿科杂志

Objective@#To observe and compare the effects of two standards on the overweight trend in urban Shanghai infants and young children.@*Methods@#A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 19 communities in two districts of Shanghai, and the subjects (n=15 019) were divided into S-group and W-group by sealed envelope randomization. The subjects were newborns born between November 2013 and December 2014. The 2005 Shanghai growth standard was applied in the S-group and the 2006 WHO growth standard was used in the W-group. At each follow-up time point age of 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 and 18 months, the outpatient physician assessed the length and weight of the infants according to the standard adopted by each group and provided feeding guidance. The weight-for-age Z scores (WAZ), length-for-age Z scores (LAZ) and weight-for-length Z scores (WLZ) were calculated according to the WHO standard. Weight, length, WAZ, LAZ, WLZ and overweight ratio (WLZ≥2) were compared between the two groups using t test, Wilcoxon test and χ2 test.@*Results@#A total of 6 509 infants (3 391 were boys, 3 118 were girls) were in the W-group, and 8 510 infants (4 374 were boys, 4 136 were girls) were in the S-group. Among the boys, the weight values at the age of 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 months in the W-group were all lower than those in the S-group ((7.5±0.8) vs. (7.7±0.8) kg, (8.6±0.8) vs. (8.7±0.8) kg, (9.6±0.9) vs. (9.7±0.9) kg, (10.4±1.0) vs. (10.5±1.0) kg, (11.5±1.1) vs.(11.7±1.1) kg; t=4.329, 2.422, 3.739, 2.451, 2.736; P<0.01, 0.015,<0.01, 0.014, 0.009). The length had no significant difference between two groups at all months of age(all P>0.05). The overweight ratio in the W-group was lower than that in the S-group at the age of 9, 12, 18 months(3.3% (71/2 170) vs. 4.9% (143/2 927), 2.5% (51/2 037) vs. 4.5% (126/2 818), 0.8% (7/832) vs. 3.1% (39/1 266); χ2=6.520, 14.209, 12.350; P=0.011,<0.01,<0.01).Among the girls, except at the age of 2 months (W-group (5.6±0.6) vs. S-group (5.7±0.6), t=2.935, P=0.003), weight values had no significant difference between the two groups at other age months (all P>0.05).The length in the W-group was higher than that in the S-group at 12 and 18 months of age ((75.6±2.4) vs.(75.5±2.3)cm, (82.4±2.9) vs.(82.2±2.7) cm; t=2.351, 2.197; P=0.019, 0.028). The ratio of overweight in the W-group was lower than that of S-group at the age of 12 and 18 months (1.8% (33/1 871) vs.3.0% (80/2 658), 0.6% (5/790) vs.1.7% (20/1 178); χ2=6.764,4.276; P=0.009, 0.039).@*Conclusions@#The application of WHO growth standard can help to reduce the weight gain rate of boys, promote the linear growth of girls, and thus alleviate the overweight trend of infants within 18 months. It suggested that 2006 WHO growth standard should be applied to infants within 1 year of age in Shanghai.

Clinical Application of Chromosome Microarray Analysis in Han Chinese Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders / 神经科学通报·英文版

Chromosome microarray analysis (CMA) is a cost-effective molecular cytogenetic technique that has been used as a first-line diagnostic test in neurodevelopmental disorders in the USA since 2011. The impact of CMA results on clinical practice in China is not yet well studied, so we aimed to better evaluate this phenomenon. We analyzed the CMA results from 434 patients in our clinic, and characterized their molecular diagnoses, clinical features, and follow-up clinical actions based on these results. The overall diagnostic yield for our patients was 13.6% (59 out of 434). This gave a detection rate of 14.7% for developmental delay/intellectual disability (DD/ID, 38/259) and 12% for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs, 21/175). Thirty-three recurrent (n ≥ 2) variants were found, distributed at six chromosomal loci involving known chromosome syndromes (such as DiGeorge, Williams Beuren, and Angelman/Prader-Willi syndromes). The spectrum of positive copy number variants in our study was comparable to that reported in Caucasian populations, but with specific characteristics. Parental origin tests indicated an effect involving a significant maternal transmission bias to sons. The majority of patients with positive results (94.9%) had benefits, allowing earlier diagnosis (36/59), prioritized full clinical management (28/59), medication changes (7/59), a changed prognosis (30/59), and prenatal genetic counseling (15/59). Our results provide information on de novo mutations in Chinese children with DD/ID and/or ASDs. Our data showed that microarray testing provides immediate clinical utility for patients. It is expected that the personalized medical care of children with developmental disabilities will lead to improved outcomes in long-term developmental potential. We advocate using the diagnostic yield of clinically actionable results to evaluate CMA as it provides information of both clinical validity and clinical utility.

SWOT analysis on the development and utilization of Li medicine resources in Hainan Province / 药学实践杂志

Objective To study the development and utilization of Li medicine resources in Hainan Province, analyze the existing problems and present specific suggestions for the rational exploitation and utilization of Li medicine resources.Methods SWOT analysis was carried out on the development and utilization of Li medicine in Hainan by means of literature analysis and field survey.Results The advantage of Li medicine lies in its long history and sufficient resources.The complicated ethnic factors within Li nationality hindered the development of Li medicine and resulted in the lack of basic research.Although the relevant policies and market demands have brought opportunities for the development of Li medicine, the rapid development of society may pose a potential threat to the development and protection of Li medicine resources.Conclusion The unique advantages of Li medicine ought to be used to create Li medicine brand.While Hainan is building its international tourism island, the health benefits of Li medicine should be promoted.Through the creation of Li medicine schools or departments, new professionals need to be trained to continue the development and utilization of Li medicine.

Effect of ultrafiltration by different membranes on HPLC fingerprint of huanglian jiedu decorction after being / 中国中药杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the change of HPLC fingerprint of Huanglian Jiedu decroction. Huanglian Jiedu decorction was ultrafiltrated by different membranes.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Different relative molecular weight cutoff membranes were used (pes-5w, pes-3w, pes-2w, pes-1w, pes-6k) to explore its effects on content differences among all samples in HPLC. The turbidity, viscosity and other physical and chemical parameters were measured.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Berberine, baicalein and jatrorrhizine became smaller while geniposide increased. Physicall and chemical parameters also showed regular changes. Taking centrifugate as reference, the similarities of the samples treated with high to low molecular weight cutoff membranes were 0.993, 0.992, 0.984, 0.982, 0.975, respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>In this study, the ultrafiltration was used, HPLC fingerprint showed the differences of the samples, and the change of the physical and chemical parameters was explored.</p>

Some adaptation ways of creature in liquid environment / 国际生物医学工程杂志

Creatures living in liquid environment can form special exterior structure, internal framework, movement and substance distribution according to their respective living condition. This paper focused on the analysis via examples of macroscopic and microscopic organism. Quantitative analysis is used to make the description more exact and internal features of the organism easier to be examed.

The application and development of artificial intelligence in medical diagnosis systems / 生物医学工程学杂志

This paper has reviewed the development of artificial intelligence in medical practice and medical diagnostic expert systems, and has summarized the application of artificial neural network. It explains that a source of difficulty in medical diagnostic system is the co-existence of multiple diseases--the potentially inter-related diseases. However, the difficulty of image expert systems is inherent in high-level vision. And it increases the complexity of expert system in medical image. At last, the prospect for the development of artificial intelligence in medical image expert systems is made.

Evaluation of tumor drug resistance with Ku80 mRNA expression in human lung cancer / 中国免疫学杂志

Objective:To study the different Ku80 mRNA expression in normal lung tissue group, lung cancer group(non small cell lung cancer) without chemotherapy, lung cancer group with multiple chemotherapy(n≥2),to evaluate the relationship of tumor drug resistance with Ku80 mRNA expression in human lung cancer.Methods:The lung tissue gene level of Ku80 mRNA was measured by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) in 25 normal lung tissues, 51 lung cancer tissue,taking ?-actin as inner reference.The data were analyzed by SPSS software.Results:Ku80 mRNA expression in normal lung tissue compared to lung cancer group without chemotherapy, lung cancer group with multiple chemotherapy(n≥2) had statistic significant meaning,respectively P