Objective To develop a home skin care guidance scheme for newborns,and initially implement it to reducing the risk of skin-related issues.Methods Searching both domestic and international databases,we identified relevant literature.Following a quality evaluation,evidence integration,and group discussions,we developed the con-tent of the home skin care guidance for newborns.Subsequently,we refined this content through 2 rounds of expert consultations to finalize the scheme.To initially implement the scheme,we conveniently selected 20 healthy new-borns born between August 1st and 15th,2024,at a tertiary-level comprehensive hospital in Fujian Province as an experimental group.Their parents received skin care guidance based on our scheme via a WeChat platform.In contrast,we selected another group of 20 healthy newborns delivered between July 1st and 15th,2024,at the same hospital as a control group;their parents were provided with conventional skin care guidance.We compared the in-cidence rates of diaper dermatitis and eczema between these 2 groups of newborns at a month of age.Results A total of 33 experts from 30 tertiary hospitals across 19 provinces(including autonomous regions and municipalities)were invited to participate in a questionnaire survey.The response rates for both rounds of expert questionnaires reached 100％.The authority coefficients for the experts were recorded at 0.78 and 0.83,while the Kendall concor-dance coefficients were found to be 0.188 and 0.142(all P＜0.001).The final newborn home skin care guidance scheme consists of 6 first-level items,41 second-level items,such as the selection of newborn care products,methods for neonatal bathing and prevention of neonatal diaper dermatitis,and so on.Preliminary application results indicated that the incidence of diaper dermatitis in the experimental group was significantly lower than that observed in the control group,with a statistically significant difference noted(P=0.047).There was no significant difference in the incidence of eczema between the 2 groups at the age of a month(P=0.201).Conclusion The Neonatal Home Skin Care Guidance Scheme for newborns has been demonstrated to be scientific,reliable and feasible.The implementa-tion of this scheme has proven beneficial in reducing the incidence of diaper dermatitis at a month of age.Howev-er,the sample size needs to be expanded to further verify its implementation effect.

Aplastic anemia is a rare and life-threatening bone marrow failure that is becoming more common and tends to affect younger individuals.Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of preventing and treating asthenia and blood syndrome.Its treatment of aplastic anemia involves coordinated regulation through multiple components,targets,and channels.The article classifies and elaborates on the therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine compounds and their components on aplastic anemia.As well as the expression of related factors from three aspects:hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells,the immune system,and bone marrow microenvironmental abnormalities.It also analyzes the frequency and meridian of commonly used drugs in traditional Chinese medicine compounds.Deficiency tonifying drugs were found to be the most frequently used treatment for aplastic anemia,which is consistent with the deficiency-based nature of the disease.The related organs affected are the liver,spleen,and kidney.This paper reviews the mechanism of aplastic anemia and the preventive and therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine.The study is of great significance for the follow-up research on traditional Chinese medicine in improving aplastic anemia.

Objective To develop a home skin care guidance scheme for newborns,and initially implement it to reducing the risk of skin-related issues.Methods Searching both domestic and international databases,we identified relevant literature.Following a quality evaluation,evidence integration,and group discussions,we developed the con-tent of the home skin care guidance for newborns.Subsequently,we refined this content through 2 rounds of expert consultations to finalize the scheme.To initially implement the scheme,we conveniently selected 20 healthy new-borns born between August 1st and 15th,2024,at a tertiary-level comprehensive hospital in Fujian Province as an experimental group.Their parents received skin care guidance based on our scheme via a WeChat platform.In contrast,we selected another group of 20 healthy newborns delivered between July 1st and 15th,2024,at the same hospital as a control group;their parents were provided with conventional skin care guidance.We compared the in-cidence rates of diaper dermatitis and eczema between these 2 groups of newborns at a month of age.Results A total of 33 experts from 30 tertiary hospitals across 19 provinces(including autonomous regions and municipalities)were invited to participate in a questionnaire survey.The response rates for both rounds of expert questionnaires reached 100％.The authority coefficients for the experts were recorded at 0.78 and 0.83,while the Kendall concor-dance coefficients were found to be 0.188 and 0.142(all P＜0.001).The final newborn home skin care guidance scheme consists of 6 first-level items,41 second-level items,such as the selection of newborn care products,methods for neonatal bathing and prevention of neonatal diaper dermatitis,and so on.Preliminary application results indicated that the incidence of diaper dermatitis in the experimental group was significantly lower than that observed in the control group,with a statistically significant difference noted(P=0.047).There was no significant difference in the incidence of eczema between the 2 groups at the age of a month(P=0.201).Conclusion The Neonatal Home Skin Care Guidance Scheme for newborns has been demonstrated to be scientific,reliable and feasible.The implementa-tion of this scheme has proven beneficial in reducing the incidence of diaper dermatitis at a month of age.Howev-er,the sample size needs to be expanded to further verify its implementation effect.

Aplastic anemia is a rare and life-threatening bone marrow failure that is becoming more common and tends to affect younger individuals.Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of preventing and treating asthenia and blood syndrome.Its treatment of aplastic anemia involves coordinated regulation through multiple components,targets,and channels.The article classifies and elaborates on the therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine compounds and their components on aplastic anemia.As well as the expression of related factors from three aspects:hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells,the immune system,and bone marrow microenvironmental abnormalities.It also analyzes the frequency and meridian of commonly used drugs in traditional Chinese medicine compounds.Deficiency tonifying drugs were found to be the most frequently used treatment for aplastic anemia,which is consistent with the deficiency-based nature of the disease.The related organs affected are the liver,spleen,and kidney.This paper reviews the mechanism of aplastic anemia and the preventive and therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine.The study is of great significance for the follow-up research on traditional Chinese medicine in improving aplastic anemia.

Objective To analyze the influencing factors of postoperative urinary tract infection in patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate with plasmakinetic energy(PKRP)and establish a risk prediction nomogram model.Methods The data of PKRP patients in Department of Urology,the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University from December 2020 to September 2021 were selected as the modeling set,and the high-risk factors were screened by univariate analysis and Logistic regression analysis.The risk prediction nomogram model was constructed and verified internally and externally.Results The incidence of urinary tract infection after PKRP surgery was 15.38%.Multivariate analysis showed that age,other location infection,diabetes,preoperative catheterization,urethral injury,indwelling catheter material,hair coloring catheter replacement times and number of indwelling catheterization were risk factors for urinary tract infection(P<0.05).Internal verification(area under the curve was 0.875)and external verification(area under the curve was 0.869)show that the risk prediction nomogram model has good discrimination and accuracy.Conclusion The influencing factors of urinary tract infection after PKRP are complex.The risk prediction nomogram model has good prediction performance,which can provide a basis for the prevention and treatment of urinary tract infection after PKRP.

BACKGROUND: The association between sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and renal function has rarely been reported in men. We aimed to investigate the above association in a community-based Chinese population. METHODS: A total of 5027 men were included from the survey on prevalence for metabolic diseases and risk factors, which is a population-based study conducted from 2014 to 2016 in Eastern China. The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated according to the chronic kidney disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation. Low eGFR was defined as eGFR <60 mL·min -1 ·1.73 m -2 . RESULTS: After adjusting for age, smoking, metabolic factors, and testosterone, through increasing quartiles of SHBG, a significantly positive association between SHBG quartiles and eGFR was detected in men (Q1 vs. Q4, β -2.53, 95% confidence interval -3.89, -1.17, Ptrend < 0.001). Compared with the highest quartile of SHBG, SHBG in the lowest quartile was associated with 96% higher odds of low eGFR (odds ratio 1.96, 95% confidence interval 1.10, 3.48) in the model after full adjustment. According to the stratified analyses, the associations between a 1-standard deviation increase in serum SHBG and the prevalence of low eGFR were significant in men aged ≥60 years old, waist circumference <90 cm, diabetes (no), hypertension (yes), dyslipidemia (no), and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (no). CONCLUSIONS Lower serum SHBG levels were significantly associated with lower eGFR and a higher prevalence of low eGFR in Chinese men independent of demographics, lifestyle, metabolic-related risk factors, and testosterone. Large prospective cohort and basic mechanistic studies are warranted in the future.
Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; China/epidemiology* ; Kidney/metabolism* ; Prospective Studies ; Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin/physiology* ; Testosterone ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon ; Glomerular Filtration Rate

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary fibrosis is a respiratory disease caused by the proliferation of fibroblasts and accumulation of the extracellular matrix (ECM). It is known that the lung ECM is mainly composed of a three-dimensional fiber mesh filled with various high-molecular-weight proteins. However, the small-molecular-weight proteins in the lung ECM and their differences between normal and fibrotic lung ECM are largely unknown. METHODS: Healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats (Rattus norvegicus) weighing about 150 to 200 g were randomly divided into three groups using random number table: A, B, and C and each group contained five rats. The rats in Group A were administered a single intragastric (i.g.) dose of 500 μL of saline as control, and those in Groups B and C were administered a single i.g. dose of paraquat (PQ) dissolved in 500 μL of saline (20 mg/kg). After 2 weeks, the lungs of rats in Group B were harvested for histological observation, preparation of de-cellularized lung scaffolds, and proteomic analysis for small-molecular-weight proteins, and similar procedures were performed on Group C and A after 4 weeks. The differentially expressed small-molecular-weight proteins (DESMPs) between different groups and the subcellular locations were analyzed. RESULTS: Of the 1626 small-molecular-weight proteins identified, 1047 were quantifiable. There were 97 up-regulated and 45 down-regulated proteins in B vs. A, 274 up-regulated and 31 down-regulated proteins in C vs. A, and 237 up-regulated and 28 down-regulated proteins identified in C vs. B. Both the up-regulated and down-regulated proteins in the three comparisons were mainly distributed in single-organism processes and cellular processes within biological process, cell and organelle within cellular component, and binding within molecular function. Further, more up-regulated than down-regulated proteins were identified in most sub-cellular locations. The interactions of DESMPs identified in extracellular location in all comparisons showed that serum albumin (Alb) harbored the highest degree of node (25), followed by prolyl 4-hydroxylase beta polypeptide (12), integrin β1 (10), apolipoprotein A1 (9), and fibrinogen gamma chain (9). CONCLUSIONS Numerous PQ-induced DESMPs were identified in de-cellularized lungs of rats by high throughput proteomics analysis. The DESMPs between the control and treatment groups showed diversity in molecular functions, biological processes, and pathways. In addition, the interactions of extracellular DESMPs suggested that the extracellular proteins Alb, Itgb1, Apoa1, P4hb, and Fgg in ECM could be potentially used as biomarker candidates for pulmonary fibrosis. These results provided useful information and new insights regarding pulmonary fibrosis.

OBJECTIVE：To establish a method for th e content determination of 7 kinds of triterpenoids in Poria cocos ，and to compare the differences of the above components in P. cocos from different habitats ，so as to provide reference for the quality control of P. cocos . METHODS ：Using 36 batches of P. cocos from different habitats as samples ，HPLC method was used for content determination of dehydrotomorphic acid ， polyporhinic acid C ， 3-epidehydrotomorphic acid ， 3-O-acetyl-16 α-hydroxy-hydrogenolysaccharic acid ，dehydrotomorphic acid ，pachymic acid and dehydrotrametenolic acid. The column was performed on Thermo Acclaim 120 C18 with mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-phosphoric acid water （gradient elution ）at the flow rate of 1 mL/min. The detection wavelength was set at 210 nm. The column temperature was 30 ℃，and the injection volume was 20 μL. SPSS 21.0 statistical software was used for cluster analysis of 36 batches of P. cocos from different habitats. RESULTS ： The linearity of 7 triterpenoids was good in the range of their mass concentration （all r≥0.999 0）；average recoveries were 96.74％-104.04％（RSD＝0.54％-1.55％，n＝6）. RSDs of precision ，and reproducibility stability （24 h）tests were all lower than 3.0％（n＝6）. RSD of durability test was lower than 5.0％（n＝2）. There were some differences in the single content of 7 indicator components among samples from different habitats ，but the total content difference was not obvious （the total content of most samples was in the range of 1.3-1.9 mg/g）. After cluster analysis ，36 batches of sample were clustered into 5 categories，i.e. S 27 was clustered into class Ⅰ；S30 and S 34 were clustered into class Ⅱ；S2，S8 and S 9 were clustered into class Ⅲ；S10，S11，S12 and S 14 were clustered into class Ⅳ；and the remaining 26 batches of samples were clustered into class Ⅴ. CONCLUSIONS ：The method is simple ，and has good precision ，repeatability and durability. It can be used for the simultaneous determination of above 7 components in P. cocos . There has no significant difference in the quality of P. cocos from different habitats. The content of P. cocos in most producing areas is uniform in content and stable in quality ，only a few of them are different. Δ 基金项目 ：国家重点研发计划中医药现代化研究重点专项

Objective We aimed to investigate whether sex hormone levels including total testosterone, estradiol, estradiol/total testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone ( DHEA ) were associated with macrovascular complications among Shanghai community-dwelling diabetic men. Methods Relying on the Environmental Pollutant Exposure and Metabolic Diseases in Shanghai (METAL) study (ChiCTR1800017573, www.chictr.org.cn), 2147 male diabetic participants were recruited from 10 communities. Carotid plaques and common carotid artery ( CCA) diameters were detected by carotid ultrasound. Cardiovascular disease ( CVD) was defined as a self-reported diagnosis of CVD, including coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, or stroke. Results ( 1) The prevalence of CVD in this study was 36. 0％, and patients with CVD had higher rates of hypertension and dyslipidemia than those without CVD. ( 2) After controlling for multiple factors, serum DHEA levels were negatively correlated with the prevalence of CVD while estradiol levels were positively correlated with both the prevalences of CVD and carotid plaque, estradiol/total testosterone ratio was also positively correlated with the prevalence of CVD. ( 3) In subgroup with unilateral/bilateral CCA plaque, and after controlling for multiple factors, total serum testosterone was negatively associated with the mean CCA diameter. Conclusion The incidence of macrovascular complications was lower in male diabetic patients with higher serum total testosterone and DHEA levels and lower estradiol levels, suggesting that sex hormone levels may be a window for the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic macrovascular complications.

Objective To determine the expression of cathepsin D and advanced glycation end products (AGEs)in skin tissues from patients of different ages or skin tissues with different degrees of sun exposure,to evaluate their correlation,and to preliminarily investigate the role of cathepsin D in the degradation and accumulation of AGEs in photoaged skin.Methods Skin tissues were collected from sunexposed and sun-protected body sites in patients aged 15-20 years,35-40 years,55-60 years or 75-80 years.These skin tissues were divided into 8 groups according to age of patients and degrees of sun exposure,and there were 6 specimens in each group.Immunohistochemical and immunofluorescent methods were used to measure the expression of cathepsin D and AGEs in the skin tissues.Statistical analysis was carried out by factorial design analysis of variance,Wilcoxon rank sum test and Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test for analyzing associations of the expression of cathepsin D and AGEs with age and sun exposure,as well as by Pearson correlation analysis for assessing the correlation between cathepsin D expression and AGEs expression.Results Immunohistochemical study showed that the expression of cathepsin D markedly decreased along with the increase of age,but the accumulation of AGEs gradually increased along with the increase of age.In the same age group,the cathepsin D expression was lower in the sun-exposed skin tissues than in the sun-protected skin tissues,while the accumulation of AGEs was more in the sun-exposed skin tissues than in the sun-protected skin tissues.Factorial design analysis of variance showed that sun exposure could decrease the expression of cathepsin D (F =58.70,P ＜ 0.001),but increase the accumulation of AGEs (F =158.18,P ＜ 0.001).Moreover,the increase of age could lead to decreased expression of cathepsin D (F =79.49,P ＜ 0.001),and increased expression of AGEs (F =106.06,P ＜0.001).Compared with the sun-protected skin tissues,the sun-exposed skin tissues in all the age groups showed significantly lower absorbance value of cathepsin D (35-40 years:0.020 ± 0.005 vs.0.032 ± 0.005;55-60 years:0.012 ± 0.004 vs.0.026 ± 0.002;75-80 years:0.002 ± 0.001 vs.0.013 ± 0.004;all P ＜0.001),but higher absorbance value of AGEs (35-40 years:0.030 ± 0.008 vs.0.010 ± 0.003;55-60years:0.066 ± 0.010 vs.0.021 ± 0.004;75-80 years:0.085 ± 0.015 vs.0.035 ± 0.009;all P ＜ 0.001)except the age group of 15-20 years.No matter whether the skin tissues were sun-exposed or sunprotected,there were significant differences in the expression of cathepsin D and AGEs among different age groups (all P ＜ 0.001).The results of double immunofluorescence staining were similar to those of immunohistochemical study.Pearson correlation analysis showed that the expression of cathepsin D in the sun-exposed skin tissues was highly negatively correlated with the accumulation of AGEs (r =-0.915,P ＜0.05),while they were moderately negatively correlated in the sun-protected skin tissues (r =-0.730,P ＜0.05).Conclusions Along with the increase of age,the expression of cathepsin D in skin tissues decreased,but the expression of AGEs increased.In the sun-protected skin tissues,the expression of cathepsin D was moderately negatively correlated with the expression of AGEs,while they were highly negatively correlated in the sun-exposed skin tissues,suggesting that cathepsin D may play an important role in the degradation and accumulation of AGEs in photoaged skin.