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Objective To investigate the overweight status of military officers and soldiers and to analyze the risks of the induction of chronic diseases. Methods Questionnaires and biochemical analysis were used to randomly survey the living and training status of 485 officers and soldiers in a military unit. Blood and urine samples were collected and analyzed using blood biochemical analysis methods and conventional dry chemical methods. Statistical analysis was performed through EXCEL 2007 and SPASS 12.0 software. Results The survey results showed that the proportion of BMI abnormal people in the officers and soldiers was high. Compared to the normal population, the officers and soldiers with abnormal BMI had more bad daily life habits such as smoking and drinking, while their diet balance was relatively poor, and their frequency of daily exercise was significantly less. Biochemical tests showed that the proportion of the officers and soldiers with hyperuricemia and hyperbilirubinemia was high, but there was no significant difference in the officers and soldiers with different BMI. Urine analysis showed that the number of urinary protein and occult blood in the officers and soldiers increased significantly after military training, and the BMI abnormal population was more significant than the normal population. Conclusion There was a relatively low correlation between different BMI and chronic metabolic diseases in military officers and soldiers, but those with abnormal BMI were at high risk for exercise-induced kidney injury. Military officers and soldiers should strengthen health management and actively control the acquired factors that cause BMI abnormalities, to effectively prevent and reduce the BMI abnormality and lower the risk of induced early chronic kidney injury disease, promoting the overall health level.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To analyze the risk factors of the self-health management among Shenzhen's community residents by surveying the status of the self-health management.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Multi-stage cluster random sampling was used in this study. The estimated sample size was 6 400 of the study, and the actual number of the subjects was 6 413, who were from 32 communities in Shenzhen. All the subjects were investigated by using a self-devised questionnaire on July 2012. The contents of the questionnaire included sociodemographic characteristics of genders, age, household register, marriage suatus, degrees of education, income, investment of health, family population, the status of self-health management, self-health assessment, illness and injury in the last two weeks, chronic diseases and in hospital last year. Through binary logistic regression, factors influencing the self-health status were analyzed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The proportion of self-health management among the residents was 29.47% (1 890/6 413), and the proportion was 37.26% (392/1 052) among the first ten chronic disease patients. The proportions of diabetes mellitus, anemia, cardiovascular disease, chronic bronchitis and hypertension patients were higher, which were 46.67% (35/75) , 41.94% (26/62), 38.96% (30/77) , 38.95% (37/95) and 38.93% (102/262) respectively. The binary regression analysis results showed that the effect factors of the self-health management were high age (OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.15-1.30) , females (OR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.07-1.34) , high culture (OR = 1.24, 95% CI: 1.15-1.34) , high monthly income (OR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.00- 1.13) , large family population (OR = 1.23, 95%CI: 1.10-1.38) , household register in Shenzhen (OR = 1.13, 95% CI: 1.00-1.29) , chronic diseases (OR = 1.22, 95% CI: 1.05-1.42).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The proportion of self-health management among the community residents in Shenzhen was not high. We should put more effort on construction of health management system, and take action on intervention of the risk factor of health management status.</p>
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Aged , Female , Humans , Age Factors , Anemia , Bronchitis, Chronic , Cardiovascular Diseases , China , Epidemiology , Chronic Disease , Data Collection , Demography , Diabetes Mellitus , Family Characteristics , Health Status , Hypertension , Income , Logistic Models , Risk Factors , Self Care , Sex Factors , Socioeconomic Factors , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
ObjectiveTo analyzing the psychological status of hospitalized patients of internal medicine and its impact factors.Methods Hospitalized patients of internal medicine underwent a survey by using Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ-12),Social Support Scale and Disease-Cognition Scale.Those with a score of ＞4 received further investigation of Symptom Check-List 90 (SCL-90).Correlation analysis was performed between all factors of SCL-90 and social support or disease-cognition scale score.Results There was no significant difference of psychological status between males and females ( P ＞0.05 ).All SCL90 factors were negatively correlated with social support,of which obsessive,paranoid,and phobic presented stronger negative correlations with social support and objective support (P ＜ 0.05 ).Furthermore,all factors were negatively correlated with disease-cognition scale score.A significantly negative correlation between phobic factor and disease-cognition scale score was identified ( P ＜ 0.05 ).Improvement was found in 26.2％ patients after intervention.Conclusion Patients tend to show unhealthy emotion when they are under the stress of hospitalization.Hospitalization support system may need to be improved and patients' cognition of disease should be increased.
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Objective To detect the prevalence of hyperuricemia and its relationship to chronic kidney disease(CKD) in the residents of Guangxi, and to discuss the risk factors for the hyperuricemia associated renal damage. Methods The residents aged 18-75 years old(n=6 273) in Xiangshan community,Guilin, were screened by means of cross-sectional study. Blood pressure was measured at 8:00-9:00.Fasting blood and urine samples were collected to determine blood glucose, lipid, insulin, creatinine, and urine albumin. Results The prevalence of hyperuricemia in the community residents was 23.5% in all cohort, being significantly higher in male residents than in female(28.4% vs 19.7%,P＜0.01). The prevalence of CKD was 21.6% in all cohort, and was 24.9% in males and 19.0% in females(P＜0.01). The prevalence of CKD was 30.4% and 18.9% respectively in residents with and without hyperuricemia(P＜0.01).The prevalence of CKD in males with hyperuricemia(34.3%) was significantly higher than in males without hyperuricemia(21.2%) and females with hyperuricemia(25.9%, all P＜0.01). CKD was only positively related to low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood glucose, and systolic blood pressure shown by logistic regression analysis. Conclusions The prevalence of hyperuricemia markedly increases in the urban residents, which contribute to the raised prevalence of CKD. Slightly elevated blood uric acid level is associated with raised prevalence of CKD.
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Objective To explore the most convenient and valid tool for screening mental disorders among servicemen. Methods Soldiers and officers stationed at Guilin were enrolled for the study. They were first examined with the Symptom Check-list 90 (SCL-90), Cornell Medicine Index (M-R)[CMI(M-R)], University Student Personality Inventory (UPI) and WHO neurosis screening schedule respectively. Then they were subjected clinical interview and examination individually, and clinical diagnosis of mental disorder was made according to CCMD-3 standard. The validity of each questionnaire was evaluated by using Criterion-related Validity. Results The sensitivity of WHO neurosis screening schedule was found to be 100%, and the specificity was 92.1%. SCL-90 and CMI (M-R) yielded similar results, their sensitivity was found to be 46.9% and 43.4%, and the specificity to be 86.1% and 78.9%, respectively. The sensitivity of UPI was found to be 83.1% and the specificity 46.1%. Conclusion The WHO neurosis screening schedule is the best in both sensitivity and specificity of validity, but its practice is time-consuming and laborious, which limits its application. SCL-90 and CMI (M-R) are imperfect in sensitivity of validity, and they cannot screen out the mental disorder in more than a half of the subjects. In a group test, they can hardly serve as a screening tool. UPI can screen out most of the mental disorder, and its sensitivity of validity reaches 83.1%. Additionally, the UPI questionnaire contains fake-test items, which could retest those who were missed due to untruly or not conscientiously answer the questionnaires. An acceptable way to obtain a true screening test is to give the individuals a propaganda of mental health and explain the questionnaires for 30 minutes before the test, which helps the examinee to understand the procedure and accept the questionnaires, so that the results of the test could be more reliable. In conclusion, UPI is a valuable screening tool to be recommended.
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Otransplantation is a new subject which is developed so rapid that usually over the development of medical ethics.The shortage of organ supplement made organ transplantation face the challenge of medical ethics.Live organ donation has become a focal point of medical ethics in organ transplantation.It is necessary to eliminate all kinds of human organ commercialization and illegal transaction.We need pay more attention in the medical ethics issue about organ transplant,especially about live organ donation.Here is about the survey of medical ethics on live organ donation in People's Liberation Army No.181 Hospital.
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Intra-vital organ transplantation is an advanced medical technique for the treatment of patients with terminal stage organ failures.However,related ethical issues arise with the development and application of the technique.Some research has been done on relevant ethical issues in intra-vital organ transplantation with certain ethical principles and regulations arisen,which are discussed in this article.