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Background and Aims: The last decade has witnessed unprecedented growth in mobile phone use. It links millions of previously unconnected people. The ubiquity of mobile phones, which allows for use of the short message service (SMS), offers new and innovative opportunities for disease prevention and health education. SMS usage appears to be a feasible, popular, and effective way of improving health literacy. This study measured the effect of SMS health education on the improvement of health management in Shenzhen, China. Methods: This was a community-based randomized controlled study. A total of 32 communities were randomly chosen out of 320, then about 200 participants were randomly sampled from each selected community. The subjects were equally divided into two groups at random. About half of the participants received health intervention messages via Internet-based SMS for almost a year. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Results: The proportion of participants involved in self-health management increased from 30.92% to 38.68% over the year (χ 2 = 42.49, p < 0.001) in the intervention group. People with marginal health literacy reported the highest increase (10.92%), while people with low health literacy reported the smallest (5.25%). The control group showed no difference in baseline and final health management proportions (28.02% and 29.64%, p > 0.05). No statistical difference in the prevalence of chronic disease (15.16% and 13.89%, p > 0.05) was found before and after the intervention in the intervention group. The prevalence in the intervention group was lower after the intervention than it was in the control group (17.33%, χ 2 = 14.45, p < 0.001). Conclusions: SMS may be a powerful tool for improving the public's health literacy and health management because it is widely available, popular, affordable, and instant.
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Objective To investigate the association between matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) -2 C735T and MMP-9 C1562T polymorphisms and TOAST subtypes, the outcome in patients with stroke. Methods A total of 232 patients with ischemic stroke were divided into large artery atherosclerosis (LAA, n =37), cardioembolism (CE, n =31), small artery occlusion (SAO, n =65) stroke, stroke of other demonstrated etiology (SOE, n =2), and stroke of undemonstrated etiology (SUE, n =97) according to TOAST criteria. A total of 235 healthy subjects in the outpatient served as control. Genetic polymorphisms of MMP-2 C735T and MMP-9 C1562T were identified by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism.The outcome of patients was evaluated with Barthel Index (BI) at day 21 and 90 after stroke.Results The frequencies of MMp-2 735CC genotype and C allele in the ischemic stroke group (CC genotype: 63.36％ vs. 54.04％,x2 =4. 182, P=0.014; C allele: 79.31％vs. 74.04％,x2 =3. 936, P =0. 047 ) and its LAA subtype ( CC genotype: 78. 37％ vs. 54. 04％, x2 =7. 740, P =0. 005; C allele: 87. 83％ vs. 74. 04％, x2 =6. 655, P =0. 01 ) were significantly higher than those in the control group. The frequencies of MMP-9 1562CT +TT genotype and T allele in the ischemic stroke group (CT +TT genotypes: 21.98％ vs. 13. 19％,x2 =6. 233, P=0.013; T allele: 11.64％ vs. 7. 02％ ,x2 =5. 891, P =0. 015)and its LAA subtype(CT +TT genotypes: 32. 43％ vs. 13. 19％ ,x2 =8. 892, P =0. 003; T allele: 20. 27％ vs. 13.19％ ,x2 =13. 950, P =0. 000). Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that risk of ischemic stroke and its LAA subtype with MMP-2 735CC genotype (ischemic stroke: odds ratio [OR]1.099, 95％ confidence interval [CI] 1.038-1.260, P =0.028; LAA: OR 1.360, 95％ CI 1. 167-5. 774, P =0. 009) and with MMP-9 1562TT genotype (ischemic stroke: OR 9. 409,95％ CI 1. 154-76. 722, P =0. 036; LAA: OR 8. 962, 95％ CI 1. 380-58. 218, P =0. 022)increased significantly. There were no significant correlation between the different genotypes of MMP-2 and MMP-9 and the outcome of ischemic stroke. Conclusions Polymorphisms of MMP-2 C735T and -9 C1562Tare associated with ischemic stroke and its subtype large artery atherosclerotic stroke, but not associated with the outcome in patients with ischemic stroke
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Objective To explore the relationship between angiotensin Ⅱ type 1 receptor (AT1R) gene polymorphisms and cerebrovascular disease (CVD).Methods The 104 patients with CVD and 98 healthy individuals were detected the AT1R genotypes polymorphisms by restriction fragment length polymorphism in order to analysis.Results CC genotype was not found both in CVD and control group. In CVD group, genotypic frequency of AA was 40.4% and AC was 59.6%. The allele frequency of A was 70.1% and C was 29.9%. In control group, genotypic frequency of AA was 91.8% and AC was 8.1%. The allele frequency of A was 95.9% and C was 4.1%. AT1R polymorphism revealed there was significant difference between the genotype and allelic distribution in CVD patients and those of in controls (all P
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Objective To investigate the relationship between polymorphisms of angiotensinogen(AGT) gene T704C and cerebrovascular disease(CVD).Methods AGT T704C genotype and allele were examined by PCR-RLFP in 82 patients with cerebral infarction(CI group),70 patients with intracerebral hemorrhage(ICH group) and 89 age-matched normal controls(NC group).The AGT T704C genotype and allele frequencies among the 3 groups were compared and analyzed.The effectes of AGT T704C genotype and the risk factors of stroke to induce CI snd ICH were analyzed by Logistic regression. Results The frequencies of AGT 704CC genotype and C allelic in CI group(63.4%,79.9%) were significantly higher than those in NC group(34.8%,61.2%)(allP