Through analyzing medical personnel's duty under Bio-psycho-social Medical Mode, this paper states that medical personnel's duty should be emphasized not only on preventing and curing diseases, but also on solving patients' psychological problems.Therefore it states that death education, first, to medical professionals themselves,second,to the patients and their family,is very important,at last it also inquires into the mode of death education.

Objective To evaluate the feasibility,reliability and validity of the symptom identification scale for kidney yang deficiency syndrome.Methods The symptom identification scale for kidney yang deficiency syndrome developed in previous research was administered to 200 vascular cognitive impairment patients from September 2020 to September 2022 to assess feasibility through recall rate,completion rate,and completion time;reliability was measured using retest reliability,split-half reliability,homogeneity reliability,and inter-rater reliability;and validity was evaluated based on discriminant and structural validity.Results A total of 200 scales were sent out,and all of them cooperated and were completed and retrieved within 20 min.The results of reliability analysis showed that the retest reliability of the scale was 0.828 for the dimension of yang deficiency and 0.718 for the dimension of kidney qi deficiency;the Spearman-Brown coefficient of split-half reliability was 0.784;the Cronbach coefficient of the dimension of yang deficiency was 0.799,and the Cronbach coefficient of the dimension of kidney qi deficiency in the homogeneity reliability was 0.670.The results of the analysis showed that the differences between the kidney yang deficiency syndrome group and the non-kidney yang deficiency syndrome group in the yang deficiency dimension,kidney qi deficiency dimension scores and total scale scores in the discriminant validity were statistically significant(P<0.001);the KMO value in the structural validity was 0.842,and a total of two factors with eigenvalues greater than 1 were extracted,with a cumulative variance contribution rate of 58.227%.Conclusion The symptom identification scale for kidney yang deficiency syndrome demonstrates adequate reliability and validity,potentially enhancing the prediction of kidney yang deficiency in vascular cognitive impairment.However,the validity of the scale is somewhat limited and requires further refinement for clinical application.

Uncovering the risk factors of pulmonary hypertension and its mechanisms is crucial for the prevention and treatment of the disease.In the current study,we showed that experimental periodontitis,which was established by ligation of molars followed by orally smearing subgingival plaques from patients with periodontitis,exacerbated hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in mice.Mechanistically,periodontitis dysregulated the pulmonary microbiota by promoting ectopic colonization and enrichment of oral bacteria in the lungs,contributing to pulmonary infiltration of interferon gamma positive(IFNγ+)T cells and aggravating the progression of pulmonary hypertension.In addition,we identified Prevotella zoogleoformans as the critical periodontitis-associated bacterium driving the exacerbation of pulmonary hypertension by periodontitis,and the exacerbation was potently ameliorated by both cervical lymph node excision and IFNγ neutralizing antibodies.Our study suggests a proof of concept that the combined prevention and treatment of periodontitis and pulmonary hypertension are necessary.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) for assessing disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with tofacitinib. METHODS: This retrospective study was conducted among 98 RA patients in active stage treated with tofacitinib in Third Xiangya Hospital and 100 healthy control subjects from the Health Management Center of the hospital from 2019 to 2021. We collected blood samples from all the participants for measurement of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and other blood parameters 1 month before and 6 months after tofacitinib treatment. We further evaluated PLR and NLR before and after tofacitinib treatment in the RA patients, and analyzed their correlations with RA disease activity. RESULTS: PLR and NLR increased significantly in RA patients as compared with the healthy controls. In the RA patients, PLR and NLR were positively correlated with the levels of hs- CRP, ESR, IL- 6, Disease Activity Score of 28 joints-ESR (DAS28-ESR), anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP), and rheumatoid factor (RF) before and after tofacitinib treatment. Tofacitinib treatment for 6 months significantly decreased hs-CRP, ESR, IL-6, CCP, RF and DAS28-ESR levels in the RA patients. CONCLUSION NLR and PLR can be useful biomarkers for assessing disease activity in RA patients treated with tofacitinib.
Humans ; Neutrophils ; Retrospective Studies ; C-Reactive Protein/analysis* ; Interleukin-6/metabolism* ; Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Lymphocytes

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of the compo nents of traditional Chinese medicine （TCM）（total ginsenoside，total ketone ester of Ginkgo biloba ，total glucoside of Crocus sativus ）for invigorating qi and activating blood circulation on cognitive function of mice with chronic cerebral ischemia （CCI）and its related mechanisms . METHODS CCI model was established by stimulating bilateral common carotid arteries of C 57BL/6J mice with temperature controlled current . Model mice were randomly divided into model group ，aspirin group （positive control 10 mg/kg）and TCM group （the components of TCM for invigorating qi and activating blood circulation 33 mg/kg），sham operation group was set up additionally ，with 16 mice in each group. Except that the mice in model group and sham operation group were given water intragastrically ，the mice in the other groups were given corresponding medicine liquid intragastrically，once a day ，for 8 weeks. The latency of step down and the number of step -down errors of mice in each group were detected ；the ultrastructure of neurovascular units（NVU）in cerebral cortex and hippocampus was observed ；the protein and mRNA expressions of vascular endothelial growth factor（VEGF）and α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors （α7nAChRs） in cerebral tissue were detected ；the contents of VEGF，angiopoietin 1 （Ang1） and basic fibroblast growth factor（bFGF）were detected . RESULTS Compared with model group ，the latency of step -down was significantly prolonged （P＜ 0.05），and the number of step -down errors was significantly reduced （P＜0.05）in TCM group . The ultrastructural abnormalities of NVU in cerebral cortex and hippocampus were significantly improved ，and the protein and mRNA expressions of VEGF and α7 nAChRs and the contents of VEGF ，Ang1 and bFGF in cerebral tissue were significantly increased （P＜0.05）. CONCLUSIONS The components of TCM for invigorating qi and activating blood circulation can improve CCI -induced cognitive dysfunction in mice，the mechanism of which may be associated with protecting NVU ，recovering ultrastructural abnormalities of injured NVU ， and regulating the expression of proteins closely related to NVU and memory function .