1.Metabolic outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients with different diabetic durations under the standardized metabolic disease management model
Jiaying YANG ; Yujia GONG ; Mengyu LAI ; Na LI ; Aifang ZHANG ; Liping GU ; Yufan WANG ; Yongde PENG
Chinese Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2021;37(2):106-113
Objective:To explore the metabolic outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients with different durations after 1 year treatment under the standardized metabolic disease management model.Methods:(1)From September 2017 to September 2018, 345 type 2 diabetes patients in the Standardized Metabolic Management Center(MMC) of Shanghai General Hospital were recruited and included in this research. They were divided into newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes(duration≤1 year) and long-term groups(duration>1 year). The general characteristics, blood pressures, glycemic levels, lipids levels, control rates and comprehensive compliance rates(blood glucose, pressure and lipids all reached targets) were compared at baseline between 2 groups.(2)All patients underwent one year standardized management, and metabolic indicators mentioned above and control rates at the time were compared as well.Results:(1) At baseline, compared with long-term group, patients in newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes group were younger ( P<0.01), and 2 h blood glucose level after glucose loading were higher [(15.20±5.26 vs 13.68±4.94) mmol/L, P<0.01]. (2) After one year standardized management, body weight, blood pressure, glucose and lipids metabolism in all patients were significantly improved. Compared with patients in long-term group, newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients achieved better glycemic level [fasting blood glucose(6.27±1.56 vs 7.63±2.08) mmol/L, P<0.01; glycated hemoglobin(6.33±0.96 vs 7.23±1.37) %, P<0.01] , and had higher HOMA-β [(74.01±56.45 vs 40.17±37.07) %, P<0.01]. The glycemic control, blood pressure and blood lipids control rates in both groups increased significantly in one year. Comprehensive compliance rate of the whole patients increased from 5.80% to 24.06%. The metabolism indexes of the newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes group were better than those of the long-term group[comprehensive compliance rate: (24.73% vs 17.18%, P=0.087, glycemic control rate(84.62% vs 53.37%, P<0.01)]. Conclusion:Standardized metabolic disease management promoted the overall improvement in blood glucose, blood pressure, and lipids levels in type 2 diabetes patients, especially in terms of blood glucose and those of the newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes. In the future, we should focus on the early diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes, actively promote the MMC model and stress the integrated management of blood glucose, blood pressure, and blood lipid levels. We should pay more attention to the long-term patients, to improve their awareness and treatment compliance.
2.Regulatory T cells and Kawasaki disease
Jiawen XU ; Yujia WANG ; Fangqi GONG
International Journal of Pediatrics 2022;49(10):663-667
Kawasaki disease is an acute, systemic vasculitis that easily injures coronary arteries and is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children.Although the cause of Kawasaki disease remains unknown, it is widely believed that the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease is an inflammatory cascade caused by a combination of infection and genetic predisposition.Regulatory T cells, which express Foxp3 + , CD4 + and CD25 + , are a T-cell subpopulation specialized in immune suppression.There are some correlations between regulatory T cells and Kawasaki disease in pathophysiology, treatment and prognosis.The dysfunction of regulatory T cells may be involved with the pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease, but there are few researches on it.This article reviews the progress of regulatory T cells in Kawasaki disease in recent years and summarizes the mechanism of regulatory T cells in the occurrence and repair of Kawasaki disease, prospecting the research future of targeted regulatory T cells therapy in the prevention of coronary artery lesions in Kawasaki disease.
3.Characteristics of oral methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from dental plaque.
Boyu TANG ; Tao GONG ; Yujia CUI ; Lingyun WANG ; Chao HE ; Miao LU ; Jiamin CHEN ; Meiling JING ; Anqi ZHANG ; Yuqing LI
International Journal of Oral Science 2020;12(1):15-15
The oral microbial community is widely regarded as a latent reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes. This study assessed the molecular epidemiology, susceptibility profile, and resistance mechanisms of 35 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) strains isolated from the dental plaque of a healthy human population. Broth microdilution minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) revealed that all the isolates were nonsusceptible to oxacillin and penicillin G. Most of them were also resistant to trimethoprim (65.7%) and erythromycin (54.3%). The resistance to multiple antibiotics was found to be largely due to the acquisition of plasmid-borne genes. The mecA and dfrA genes were found in all the isolates, mostly dfrG (80%), aacA-aphD (20%), aadD (28.6%), aphA3 (22.9%), msrA (5.7%), and the ermC gene (14.3%). Classical mutational mechanisms found in these isolates were mainly efflux pumps such as qacA (31.4%), qacC (25.7%), tetK (17.1%), and norA (8.6%). Multilocus sequence type analysis revealed that sequence type 59 (ST59) strains comprised 71.43% of the typed isolates, and the eBURST algorithm clustered STs into the clonal complex 2-II(CC2-II). The staphyloccoccal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) type results showed that 25 (71.43%) were assigned to type IV. Moreover, 88.66% of the isolates were found to harbor six or more biofilm-associated genes. The aap, atlE, embp, sdrF, and IS256 genes were detected in all 35 isolates. This research demonstrates that biofilm-positive multiple-antibiotic-resistant ST59-SCCmec IV S. epidermidis strains exist in the dental plaque of healthy people and may be a potential risk for the transmission of antibiotic resistance.
Anti-Bacterial Agents
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therapeutic use
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Dental Plaque
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microbiology
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Female
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Humans
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Methicillin
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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
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isolation & purification
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Staphylococcal Infections
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diagnosis
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Staphylococcus epidermidis
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isolation & purification