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Agreement and intra-rater reliability between static balance test using Nintendo Wii Balance Board and gait test under dual-task conditions in community-dwelling older adults.

There is still an ongoing lack of awareness about thalassemia among Indonesians despite high disease prevalence, and this is associated with poor implementation of preventive and promotive measures. Thalassemia experts argue that education and raising awareness about thalassemia must be done from an early age in order to relieve the heavy disease burden of thalassemia, especially in Indonesia as it is geographically located in the thalassemia belt. In spite of this, there has been limited research on public perception towards thalassemia in Indonesia, particularly among young people. In this study, the researcher will ask young people in Indonesia between the age of 15-24 who are currently attending high school or university-level education to fill in an online survey. The survey consists of questions about the participants' demographic information as well as their knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) scores towards thalassemia. The study is expected to run from December 2020 to March 2021, with the online survey distributed in January 2021. Data collection will immediately follow, and it will be analyzed using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis using the appropriate statistical tests. The findings gathered from this study will be vital in providing new insight into how the youth sees thalassemia in Indonesia. Such public health information will prove to be important in designing successful thalassemia intervention and education programs for Indonesian youth.

Tigecycline is a commonly used antibiotic in critically ill patients. The pharmacokinetics (PK) of tigecycline in intensive care unit (ICU) patients can be affected by severe pathophysiological changes so that standard dosing might not be adequate. At present, a number of studies have reported that ECMO will affect the PK of anti-infective drugs and lead to treatment failure. The purpose of this study was to describe the population PK of tigecycline in patients treated with ECMO and to evaluate the relationship between individual PK parameters and patient covariates.

The aim of this work is evaluation of electrolytes and minerals homeostasis and occurrence of complications among preterm babies receiving total parenteral nutrition, and admitted to the neonatal intensive care units of Cairo University Children hospitals.

This study will collect genetic and clinical information of junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) patients. Computer analysis will be performed on genetic mutations found in these patients and this will be correlated with their clinical characteristics.

Analysis of clinical and functional outcomes after a total elbow arthrosplasty, all indications combined, with a minimum follow up of 24 months The hypothesis is that there a significant improvement after an elbow replacement, no matter what the surgery indication is

Stroke is the leading cause of premature death and disability, and early recognition and treatment of dysphagia is fundamental to stroke management. Early and full tube feeding in the acute phase of stroke helps to address nutritional problems resulting from dysphagia and impaired consciousness and helps to reduce morbidity and mortality and poor outcomes. Current guidelines for acute stroke management do not address the goal of tube feeding of enteral nutrition for energy and protein. In the treatment of acute stroke, there is a strong global focus on pharmacological thrombolysis or mechanical thrombolysis, with nutritional interventions being a less explored topic. Real-world evidence on large samples, feeding attainment and outcomes, and nutrition in the acute phase of stroke is lacking in China . The aim of this study was to understand the current status of nutritional therapy in stroke hospitalization in neurology and its impact on prognosis nationwide, and to improve the standardized management process of enteral nutrition therapy in the acute phase of stroke.

Migraine is a neurological disease associated with an altered cortical excitability level . The prevalence of migraine is10.5% of adults in Assiut governorate, and is more frequent in women and in individuals with higher education level . There is evidence that migraine patients could present cognitive deficits, being the affected functions memory, processing information speed and attention. It was found that the prevalence of migraine in AlQuseir was 4.8/100 and the highest figures found during early adult life(18-40) years old .Patients with migraine found to perform significantly worse in duration pattern test(DPT),non-verbal dichotic test ,speech in noise (SPIN)test and found to have longer p300 frequency stimulus latency which indicate presence of cognitive and central auditory processing dysfunction

We seek to study the behaviour of Coronavirus infection in patients with rheumatological and/or autoimmune comorbidities, understood as a particular pathophysiological universe with its own risks and eventual benefits, until now fully hypothetical to be confirmed by means of real and recent evidence. On March 12, 2020, an initiative called the Global Alliance for COVID-19 in Rheumatology (The COVID-19 Rheumatology Alliance) arises, as a rapid response of international coordination whose ultimate goal is to serve as help or guideline for all those doctors who seek be faced with receiving, evaluating, understanding and caring for a patient with rheumatological and / or autoimmune diseases in relation to the imminent risk of COVID-19.

Diabetic kidney disease is one of the most severe and frequent complications of diabetes. Few preclinical markers are available apart from plasma creatinine and microalbuminuria. These markers are imperfect (some patients with advanced renal disease do not have an increase in markers) and late. Therefor there is an uncovered need to identify complementary biomarkers. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) is a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique that allows the physiology and biochemistry of human body tissues to be studied in a non-invasive and non-irradiating manner.