1.Multi-criteria decision analysis of four first-line combination immunotherapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
Rongrong ZHANG ; Yu FU ; Ruixia ZHAO ; Yuxuan FANG ; Jingwen WANG ; Mingyi SHAO
China Pharmacy 2024;35(15):1876-1881
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the comprehensive value of four first-line combination immunotherapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, and provide a reference for determining the optimal clinical treatment decision for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS R4.2 software was used for network meta-analysis to obtain the effect values of the efficacy and safety indicators of four combination therapies [atezolizumab combined with bevacizumab (AB), sintilimab combined with bevacizumab biosimilars (SB), camrelizumab combined with apatinib (CA), durvalumab combined with tremelimumab (DT)]. Combined with the efficacy, safety and economic indicators, the categorical based evaluation technique (M-MACBETH) was used to establish the value tree. At the same time, the comprehensive value scores of four therapies were calculated, and sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate the robustness. RESULTS In terms of prolonging median overall survival, the advantage order of the four therapies was ranked as SB, CA, AB and DT. In terms of extending median progression-free survival, the advantage order of the four therapies was CA, SB, AB and DT. In terms of safety, the order of advantages was DT, AB, SB and CA. In terms of economy, the order of advantages was CA, SB, AB and DT. The comprehensive scores of SB, CA, AB and DT were 67.11, 57.77, 52.53 and 42.59 points, respectively. The results of the sensitivity analysis showed that the ranking results of comprehensive value for four regimens were robust. CONCLUSIONS Among the four first-line immune combination therapies for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, SB is the optimal treatment regimen, followed by CA, AB and DT.
2.Characteristics and trend analysis of injury causes of death in Qingpu District of Shanghai,2002‒2020
Wu WANG ; Liping FANG ; Shan JIN ; Rongrong HAN ; Jieyu ZHANG ; Xingxing XU
Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine 2024;36(6):606-610
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics and changing trend of injury cause of mortality of residents in Qingpu District from 2002 to 2020, and to provide scientific reference for formulating regional prevention and control measures. MethodsThe injury mortality data of the registered residents in Qingpu District from 2002 to 2020 were collected. The indicators such as crude mortality rate, standardized mortality rate, and the ranking of causes of death were calculated. ResultsFrom 2002 to 2020, the average annual crude mortality rate was 50.27/100 000, the age-standardized mortality rate based on the world standard population(ASRW) was 30.08/100 000, and the age-standardized mortality rate based on the 2010 Chinese census(ASMRC) was 35.58/100 000. The average annual crude mortality rate of males was higher than that of females [Z=54.402, Mantel-Hanszel χ2=1 742.509, P<0.01). The overall injury mortality rate showed a downward trend with an average annual percent change(AAPC)of -4.07% (95%CI: -5.23%‒-2.90%), P<0.001]. The top four causes of injury death were transportation accident, indeliberate fall, drowning, and suicide. The leading causes of death in 0‒ years old, 15‒ years old and ≥65 years old were drowning, transportation accident and indeliberate fall, respectively. The ASRW of transportation accident, drowning and suicide all showed a decreasing trend, and the AAPC were -8.22% (95%CI: -10.16%‒-6.24%), -6.99% (95%CI: -9.68%‒-4.22%) and -6.21% (95%CI: -9.38%‒-2.94%), respectively. ConclusionThe injury death rate of residents in Qingpu District shows a decreasing trend, and the distribution characteristics of injury death are different among different genders and age groups. Corresponding prevention and control strategies should be adopted for different populations.
3.LI Wenrong's Ten Methods for Treating Liver Diseases: Insights from a Physician in the Qing Dynasty
Yuxuan FANG ; Xuan ZHOU ; Mingyi SHAO ; Rongrong ZHANG ; Yang XU ; Liujie ZHANG ; Shoucheng WANG
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(3):332-336
By organizing and studying on the original works of LI Wenrong, this paper aimed to explore his theories and methods for treating liver diseases. LI Wenrong believes that the liver is easily prone to physiological disturbances, difficult to pacify, and can be compared to a “chariot” that moves horizontally and vertically, acting as a “general” for both civil and military affairs. Pathologically, liver diseases tend to spread to other organs, resulting in ever-changing pathological changes, often affecting emotional health. In terms of therapeutic methods, LI Wenrong proposes ten methods including draining fire to calm the liver, nourishing water to moisten wood, clearing metal to calm the liver, calming gallbladder and harmonizing liver, subduing yang with shell-drug, treating liver diseases by supplementing spleen, soothing the liver with sweetness, astringing the liver with sourness, relieving the liver with spiciness, and draining the liver with excess-fire. These methods have great guidance and reference value for contemporary clinical practice in traditional Chinese medicine.
4.Research progress on drug resistance mechanism and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Shanshan ZHONG ; Yu PENG ; Rongrong MAO ; Fang WANG ; Sitong FAN ; Jiajia CHEN
China Pharmacist 2024;28(10):341-349
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis,and the problem of its drug resistance has become increasingly prominent in recent years,attracting widespread attention globally.Currently,the situation of drug-resistant tuberculosis is grim,and effective strategies are urgently needed to deal with it.Understanding the drug resistance mechanism and treatment status of drug-resistant tuberculosis can provide an important basis for clinical prevention and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis.This paper reviews the progress of drug resistance mechanism and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis,in order to provide a reference for clinical intervention.
5.Analysis of life expectancy and cause-eliminated life expectancy of the registered residents in Qingpu District, Shanghai, 2002‒2021
Rongrong HAN ; Shan JIN ; Liping FANG ; Wu WANG ; Jieyu ZHANG ; Bo CAO ; Xingxing XU
Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine 2024;36(9):878-882
ObjectiveTo analyze the trends in life expectancy and cause-eliminated life expectancy of the registered residents in Qingpu District, Shanghai from 2002 to 2021, and to identify the major diseases causing life expectancy loss in the area, so as to provide a theoretical basis for strengthening disease prevention and interventions and optimizing health resources allocation. MethodsUsing the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 classification of death causes, average life expectancy and cause-eliminated life expectancy were calculated with the abbreviated life table and the cause-eliminated life expectancy table. A trend forecast of life expectancy from 2022 to 2029 was made. ResultsFrom 2002 to 2021, the life expectancy of Qingpu District residents showed an increasing trend, with an average annual growth of 0.32 years (AAPC=0.39%, P<0.001). Among the seven major causes of death, the cause-eliminated expected life expectancy for circulatory system diseases showed the most significant upward trend (AAPC=0.53%, P<0.001), rising from the third leading cause of death in 2002 to the first in 2021. The life expectancy loss rate due to circulatory system diseases increased from 3.79% to 7.97%. Respiratory system diseases showed the largest decline, decreasing from the first leading cause of death in 2002 to the fourth in 2021, with the life expectancy loss rate decreasing from 6.83% to 0.99%. ConclusionLife expectancy of the registered residents in Qingpu District has reached a leading level in China. Future efforts should focus on effectively increasing the life expectancy of male residents, strengthening the comprehensive prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and malignant tumors, and improving health promotion policies for residents to achieve a steady long-term increase in regional life expectancy.
6.Research Ideas on Human Experience in Medical Cases of Classic Formulas Based on Evidence-Based Concept
Hongyan CUI ; Mingyi SHAO ; Ruixia ZHAO ; Rongrong ZHANG ; Lanqing LYU ; Yuxuan FANG
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2024;65(22):2310-2315
The amount of data generated by the human experience in medical cases of classic formulas is large and the research value is high, but how to extract valuable information from these massive data is an important problem of researches on classical formulas. It is concluded that there are many problems in the current study of human experience in classical formulas, such as large amount of data, uneven quality, weak extrapolation and clinical application, which seriously affected the evidence strength of human experience in classical formulas and the contribution to experience accumulation and theoretical support. Therefore, from the structural perspective of the research questions, this paper proposed the research ideas of human experience in medical cases of classic formulas: firstly, according to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) cases, based on the PICO model, which refers parti-cipants (P), intervention (I), comparisons (C), and outcomes (O), a TCM medical record evaluation tool in line with the evidence-based concept was constructed to evaluate the quality of medical cases; secondly, constructing a standardized database of human experience in classical formulas and using data mining algorithms to explore the deep relationship hidden in human experience; finally, the clinical value evaluation is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the diagnosis and treatment rules of classical formulas to achieve clinical transformation.
7.Meta-analysis on correlations between short-term exposures to 6 common air pollutants and incidence of ischemic stroke
Ran HUO ; Rongrong YE ; Fang ZHANG ; Zhengli DI
Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine 2023;40(2):184-189
Background Previous studies using meta-analysis to explore the relationship between air pollution exposure and ischemic stroke (IS) mostly focus on particulate matter-related themes, few include gaseous pollutants in the study, and subgroup analyses of factors such as different lag days, seasons, and genders are rarely been reported. Objective To quantitatively evaluate the relationships between short-term exposures to 6 common air pollutants, including fine particulate matter (PM2.5), inhalable particulate matter (PM10), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and ozone (O3), and the incidence of IS. Methods A systematic search was conducted to collect literature studying the 6 common air pollutants and IS published up to May 1, 2022 in 6 databases (China Journal Full-text Database, China Biology Medicine Disc, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and Embase). Literature quality evaluation was performed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Stata 16.0 software was used to conduct meta-analysis including heterogeneity test, combined effect size, meta-regression, subgroup analysis, sensitivity analysis, and publication bias test. Results A total of 33 articles were qualified for inclusion. The total number of samples included in the literature was 7195631. The meta-analysis results showed that short-term exposures to PM2.5 (OR=1.0082, 95%CI: 1.0049−1.0116), PM10 (OR=1.0017, 95%CI: 1.0008−1.0026), CO (OR=1.0328, 95%CI: 1.0231−1.0426), NO2 (OR=1.0150, 95%CI: 1.0079−1.0222), SO2 (OR=1.0158, 95%CI: 1.0078-1.0238), and O3 (OR=1.0017, 95%CI: 1.0003−1.0032) were associated with an increased risk of IS. PM10 and O3 increased the risk of IS in both lag0 and lag1, while PM2.5, CO, NO2, and SO2 all showed an associated increased risk of IS only in lag0. The results of sensitivity analysis showed stable results for all pollutants studied, and there was no publication bias in the literature on the association of the remaining five pollutants with IS incidence except for the PM2.5-related literature. Conclusion Short-term exposures to PM2.5, PM10, CO, NO2, SO2, and O3 may increase the incidence of IS, with this risk showing the most significant level on the day of IS onset.
8.The establishment and validation of the Chinese version of SARC-F scale for sarcopenia screening among elderly population: a multicenter study
Jiayu GUO ; Kang YU ; Chunwei LI ; Yuanyuan BAO ; Yu ZHANG ; Fang WANG ; Rongrong LI ; Haiyan XIE
Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2023;31(2):74-81
Objective:To establish the Chinese version of (strength, assistance with walking, rise from a chair, climb stairs and falls, SARC-F) scale using the standardized methods and to validate the reliability and validity for sarcopenia screening among elderly population.Methods:Following the recommended procedure by World Health Organization and European Union Geriatric Medicine Society Sarcopenia Special Interest Group, the translation process included forward translation, expert panel, back-translation, pre-testing and cognitive interviewing to generate the final version. In the pilot study, the test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability, and internal consistency of the Chinese version of SARC-F scale were assessed. In the diagnostic test for clinical validation, the participants were consecutively recruited from communities and hospitals in Beijing and Tianjin between December 2021 and October 2022. The scale administration, anthropometry, and body composition measurement were conducted by trained investigators. Participants with the SARC-F score ≥ 4 were considered at risk of sarcopenia. Diagnostic tests and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis were performed against the definitions of sarcopenia according to European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP2) and Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS2019), and the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and the area under curve were displayed.Results:The Chinese version of SARC-F scale was approved by the author that the translation has expressed the original meaning correctly. The Chinese version of SARC-F had good test-retest reliability (ICC = 0.914), inter-rater reliability ( r = 0.726), and internal consistency ( α = 0.729). There were altogether 1 882 participants included in the clinical validation. According to the diagnostic criteria of EWGSOP2 and AWGS2019, the Chinese version of SARC-F scale had low sensitivity (13.6% and 16.0%) and positive predictive value (44.6% and 35.4%), high specificity (95.1% and 94.7%) and negative predictive value (79.0% and 86.2%), and moderate AUC of 0.619 and 0.616 (all P < 0.001) for sarcopenia screening. Conclusions:The Chinese version of SARC-F scale was of good reliability and validity. The application of SARC-F in the primary healthcare settings would contribute to the early diagnosis of sarcopenia.
9.Changes in the fertility level of the registered population in Qingpu District, Shanghai from 2012 to 2020
Rongrong HAN ; Liping FANG ; Bo CAO ; Jianguo TIAN
Shanghai Journal of Preventive Medicine 2022;34(8):761-764
ObjectiveTo learn about the fertility level and gender changes of household registration in Qingpu District from 2012 to 2020, and to provide a theoretical basis for the population development planning. MethodsBirth information of newborns with household registration in Qingpu District from 2012 to 2020 was collected through the Shanghai birth medical certificate information system and the public security department. Access 2003 software was used to combine the data,and Excel 2010 software for statistical analysis. ResultsThere were 28 284 live births in household registered in Qingpu District from 2012 to 2020. The crude birth rate was 6.57‰,and the total fertility rate was 30.29‰. Comprehensive fertility rate was 1.12. The sex ratio at birth was 105.49. ConclusionThere is a low fertility level in Qingpu District. The proportion of the second child increased year by year but decreased after 2017. Negative population growth is intensified year by year.
10.Prognostic value of maximum standardized uptake value reduction proportion, Deauville score combined with C-myc gene rearrangement for the prediction of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in early chemotherapy
Ling YUAN ; Ming ZHAO ; Liping SU ; Rongrong TIAN ; Yunfeng BO ; Yanmei LIN ; Fang GUO
Chinese Journal of Oncology 2022;44(8):858-864
Objective:To explore the prognostic value of the maximum standardized uptake value reduction proportion (ΔSUVmax%) on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging, Deauville scores and C-myc gene rearrangement for the prediction of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in early chemotherapy. Methods:A total of 83 primary patients with pathologically confirmed DLBCL admitted in Shanxi Provincial Cancer Hospital from September 2010 to December 2016 underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT 1 week before and after early chemotherapy. The patients underwent post-chemotherapy examinations between 17 to 21 days after one cycle ( n=34) or two cycles ( n=49). The region of interest (ROI) was drawn and the ΔSUVmax% was calculated. Deauville 5-point scale was used to score the PET/CT imaging in early chemotherapy. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to detect C-myc gene rearrangement. The follow-up time was from 36 to 111 months. The primary end-point of the study was progression-free survival (PFS). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, χ2 test, Spearman correlation analysis, Log rank test, and Cox regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Results:Of 83 DLBCL patients, 19 progressed during the follow-up period. The optimal cut-off value of ΔSUVmax% for predicting tumor progression in early chemotherapy was 62.59%, and the Deauville score was taken as 5. The differences in sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy between the two methods were not statistically significant ( P>0.05). The ΔSUVmax% were negatively correlated with C-myc gene rearrangement and the Deauville scores ( rs= -0.889, -0.862, P<0.001). However, the Deauville scores was positively correlated with the C-myc gene rearrangement ( rs=0.781, P<0.001). The median PFS were 59 months and 16 months in ΔSUVmax%≥62.59% ( n=57) and ΔSUVmax%<62.59% ( n=26), respectively, with significant difference ( P<0.001). The median PFS for the Deauville score <5 subgroup (61 cases) and =5 subgroup (22 cases) was 59.0 and 15.0 months, respectively, with statistically significant differences ( P<0.001). The median PFS for patients with C-myc rearrangement subgroup (62 cases) and without rearrangement subgroup (21 cases) was 59.0 and 15.0 months, respectively, with statistically significant differences ( P<0.001). The median PFS for ΔSUVmax%<62.59% and Deauville score=5 subgroup, ΔSUVmax%<62.59% and C-myc rearrangement subgroup, Deauville score=5 and C-myc rearrangement subgroup were 15.5 months, 15 months and 13.5 months, respectively, with statistically significant differences ( P<0.001). Conclusion:ΔSUVmax%, Deauville score and C-myc gene rearrangement in early chemotherapy are all associated with PFS in DLBCL patients, and the combination of the two has a good predictive value for the prognosis of DLBCL

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