1.Influence factors of depression in patients with diabetic foot
Xiaoxiao ZHU ; Yiwei LIU ; Ruiting HUO ; Xiaohong GUAN
The Journal of Practical Medicine 2016;32(5):761-764
Objective To investigate the prevalence of depression among the patients with diabetic foot and analyze the influence factors. Methods One hundred and ten patients with diabetic foot were inquired and assessed with patient health questionnaire for self-administered measurement (PHQ-9), meanwhile, the demo-graphic data, metabolic data and diabetes behaviors were also investigated. Results Prevalence of depression was 47.3%. Logistic regression analysis showed that alternation of diarrhea and astriction (OR = 6.901, P =0.017) and formication (OR = 23.401, P = 0.009) were risk factors, and medical insurance (OR = 0.217, P =0.007) was a protective factor. Conclusions Depression is a frequent mental disorder in patients with diabet-ic foot and its influence factors include alternation of diarrhea and astriction , formication and medical insur-ance .
2.Microbial degradation of polyurethane plastics.
Ruiting PENG ; Mengli XIA ; Jiakang RU ; Yixin HUO ; Yu YANG
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2018;34(9):1398-1409
Plastic pollution has become a global environmental issue, making it necessary to explore the environmental disposal technology for plastic waste. Recently, we and other researchers have individually found microorganisms or enzymes from nature that can degrade synthetic plastic. These findings indicated that the capability of these microorganisms or enzymes to degrade plastic could be used for the disposal of plastic waste. Polyurethane (PUR) was one of the most used general plastic and its plastic waste occupied 30% of the total volume of different plastic waste. This review tried to provide a comprehensive summary of the researches on microbial degradation of PUR plastic in the past 70 years since its invention, and focused on the PUR-degrading fungi, bacteria, genes or enzymes, degradation products and the corresponding biological disposal technologies. We finally proposed the key scientific challenges on the development of high efficient biological disposal for PUR waste in the perspective researches.