1.Intervention and intervention of cisplatin combined with gemcitabine or vinorelbine in the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer
Julian WU ; Li SUN ; Lixian WU ; Yan LI ; Qiaoling DING
Chinese Journal of Biochemical Pharmaceutics 2017;37(9):319-321
Objective To investigate the effect of psychological intervention on patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with cisplatin or gemcitabine or Changchun vinorelbine. Methods 64 cases of patients with non-small cell lung cancer after surgery, nursing for patients in the group given basic treatment, routine care control group, the observation group based on routine nursing and psychological nursing effects were compared between the two groups. Results No significant difference of anxiety and depression in the patients of the two groups before nursing, after grouping nursing, the observation group improved significantly; compared two groups of patients with quality of life score, visible two group before the intervention had no significant difference after intervention group was clearly observed after the patients in the observation group were higher than that of the control group, comparison between groups were indicates that the difference is obvious (P<0.05). Conclusion Chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer after surgery for patients with psychological intervention, compared to conventional nursing, can improve the psychological status of patients with better, improve the quality of life of patients, so it is worthy of reference in clinical use.
2.Normative Data for the Singapore English and Chinese SF-36 Version 2 Health Survey.
Wei Ting SOW ; Hwee Lin WEE ; Yi WU ; E-Shyong TAI ; Barbara GANDEK ; Jeannette LEE ; Stefan MA ; Derrick HENG ; Julian THUMBOO
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2014;43(1):15-23
INTRODUCTIONThe aim of this study is to report normative data for the Short-Form 36 version 2 (SF-36v2) for assessing health-related quality of life, in the Singapore general population.
MATERIALS AND METHODSData for English and Chinese-speaking participants of the Singapore Prospective Study Programme were analysed. The SF-36v2 scores were norm-based with the English-speaking Singapore general population as reference and reported by age (in decades), gender and ethnicity as well as for the 5 most prevalent chronic medical conditions. Scores were reported separately for the English and Chinese language versions.
RESULTSA total of 6151 English-speaking (61.5% Chinese and 19.2% Malay) and 1194 Chinese-speaking participants provided complete data. Mean (SD) age of all participants was 49.6 (12.58) years with 52.4% being women. In both languages, women reported lower scores than men on all scales. Among the chronic medical conditions, stroke had the largest impact on all English SF-36v2 scales and on 3 Chinese SF-36v2 scales (role-physical, general health and social functioning).
CONCLUSIONWe have provided detailed normative data for the Singapore English and Chinese SF-36v2, which would be valuable in furthering HRQoL research in Singapore and possibly the region.
Adult ; Female ; Health Surveys ; standards ; statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Language ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Prospective Studies ; Quality of Life ; Singapore ; Young Adult
3.Genomic Shift in Population Dynamics of mcr-1-positive Escherichia coli in Human Carriage
Shen YINGBO ; Zhang RONG ; Shao DONGYAN ; Yang LU ; Lu JIAYUE ; Liu CONGCONG ; Wang XUEYANG ; Jiang JUNYAO ; Wang BOXUAN ; Wu CONGMING ; Parkhill JULIAN ; Wang YANG ; R.Walsh TIMOTHY ; F.Gao GEORGE ; Shen ZHANGQI
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 2022;(6):1168-1179
Emergence of the colistin resistance gene,mcr-1,has attracted worldwide attention.Despite the prevalence of mcr-1-positive Escherichia coli(MCRPEC)strains in human carriage showing a significant decrease between 2016 and 2019,genetic differences in MCRPEC strains remain largely unknown.We therefore conducted a comparative genomic study on MCRPEC strains from fecal samples of healthy human subjects in 2016 and 2019.We identified three major differences in MCRPEC strains between these two time points.First,the insertion sequenceISApll1 was often deleted and the percentage of mcr-1-carrying IncI2 plasmids was increased in MCRPEC strains in 2019.Second,the antibiotic resistance genes(ARGs),aac(3)-Ⅳa and blaCTX-M-1,emerged and coexisted with mcr-1 in 2019.Third,MCRPEC strains in 2019 contained more viru-lence genes,resulting in an increased proportion of extraintestinal pathogenic E.coli(ExPEC)strains(36.1%)in MCRPEC strains in 2019 compared to that in 2016(10.5%),implying that these strains could occupy intestinal ecological niches by competing with other commensal bacteria.Our results suggest that despite the significant reduction in the prevalence of MCRPEC strains in humans from 2016 to 2019,MCRPEC exhibits increased resistance to other clinically important ARGs and contains more virulence genes,which may pose a potential public health threat.