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Obesity is currently considered an increasingly more severe social and health related problem. The World Health Organization qualified obesity as a chronic disease along with circulatory diseases, diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases. The principal physiological methods of treatment for this disease are diet and exercise. The aim of the study is assess anhtropometric parameters, metabolic and proteomic profile and respiratory truck function in obese patients reducing body weight during 21 days course of calorie restriction and physical activity.

Failure of Weaning from ECMO is a serious complication, reaching an incidence between 29 and 58%. Inotrops are frequently used to help separating patient from ECMO. Levosimendan is an ino-dilatatory medication and was used in different clinical settings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefit with levosimendan when used in weaning process.

Investigators conducted a pilot study to to evaluate the autonomic function in participants with pectus excavatum before and after Nuss surgery.

Severe Trauma Brain Injury (TBIs) is a public health problem and monitoring of Intracranial Pressure (ICP) is a determinant key of it prognosis. Within the noninvasive methods to estimate the ICP, the measurement of intraocular pressure has been proposed because of its biological plausibility (proximity of the eye to the encephalic contend). Objective. Correlate intraocular pressure with ICP in children with TBIs and obtain their utility values.

Assessment of the quality of follicular fluid and early embryo via chemical markers.

The investigators compare two strata of vaccinated patients: those recently vaccinated and those vaccinated more than two years ago. The primary objective is to compare pneumonia rates between the groups. As exploratory objectives, the investigators will describe the anti-pneumococcal antibody titers in hemodialysis patients as a function of time since vaccination, and determine factors influencing antibody kinetics. Further exploratory objectives investigate the relationship between antibody titers and the incidence of pneumonia in hemodialysis patients and extrapolate a possible cut-off for protection from pneumonia.

More than ninety percent of adults in Taiwan are suspected to carry periodontal disease, which causes bad breath, swollen and bleeding gums, plaque and even tooth loss. Half of the patients, however, are ignorance these clinical syndromes because of no obvious pain. A lot of researches show that periodontal disease is related to diabetes mellitus. Periodontal disease causes rise of blood sugar, and more than 3 times as diabetes mellitus patients as healthy people have serious periodontal disease.In this study, the investigators collect periodontal pocket and saliva samples of participants, and selecting six periodontal disease-associated bacteria strains, including Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg), Fusobacterium nucleatum (Fn), Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (Aa), Treponema denticola (Td), Prevotella intermedia (Pi) and Tannerella forsythia (Tf) as diagnostic markers. Participants will get bacteriostasis mouthwash at mouth 2. The investigators will compare the differences of blood biochemistry value and oral bacteria strains after using the mouthwash.Using real-time PCR and MALDI Biotyper, the investigators will establish the database of oral microorganisms in diabetes mellitus patients, providing periodontal disease clinical markers of high-risk groups and the basis for personal medicine of therapy in the future.

Only one third of patients with schizophrenia are observant to their treatment knowing that the lack of adherence to treatment is one of the most important predictors of relapse. Recent work shows that the erroneous or negative beliefs of patients with schizophrenia regarding antipsychotic treatment are associated with poor compliance. The hypothesis is that negative beliefs about the antipsychotic treatment of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia may be associated with a higher risk of poor compliance compared to caregivers with positive beliefs about treatment. The primary purpose is to explore the correlation between caregiver beliefs about treatment and patient compliance, taking into account the level of caregiver-patient link.

Treatment of precancerous lesions of the cervix by conization has been shown to increase the risk of premature delivery and premature rupture of the membranes. It has now been clearly established that the cervix is a growing organ during adolescence and early adulthood, It has been hypothetized that cervical conization during the growth phase reduced its growth potential, and induced shorter cervix during the upcoming pregnancy. No studies have been conducted investigating the age at which conization no longer had an impact on cervical size during pregnancy. This will help to identify the age at conisation below which patients will be identified as being at risk event, and thus offer increased monitoring and possibly prophylactic management by programmed strapping. We propose to measure the length of the cervix of pregnant patients who have benefited from conization, which is currently recommended by the Collège National des Gynécologues Obstetriciens Français .In addition, the investigators will use a control group consisting of non-con conical, parity-matched pregnant patients in whom a cervical measurement will also be performed.

Numerous studies dealt with the hospital doctors' work but little is known about the work of ICU doctors, especially concerning the medical time spent outside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) which is a significant workload that has never been evaluated to date. The main objective of our study was to evaluate the time spent by ICU doctors outside the unit, for the management of their patients during the IHT and for the care of patients in other departments. Secondary objectives were to describe the organization and distribution of medical time outside the intensive care unit. In this observational study, which took place during 5 years, from January 2012 to December 2016 in the medical ICU of the "Nouvel Hôpital Civil" at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg, every day after the morning medical staff, the anonymized information were collected in a register.