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To introduce the status and development of acupuncture in Thailand, and elaborate on the development of acupuncture education and acupuncture clinics in northern Thailand. It is pointed out that there are still a small number of Chinese medicine clinics in northern Thailand, a shortage of college acupuncturists, and there is no traditional Chinese medicine themes Confucius Institute and other issues. The author considered that through the cultivation of acupuncture skills and diagnosis and treatment ability, the development of Chinese medicine graduate education, the establishment of Confucius Institute of traditional Chinese medicine, to expand the influence of acupuncture in northern Thailand, hoping to provide references for the cooperation and exchanges between China and Thailand in acupuncture .
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Acupuncture Therapy , Medicine, Chinese Traditional , ThailandABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the status of Chlamydia trachomatis(CT) infection in pregnant women in Wuxi ,and to ex‐plore the relationship between CT and abortion .Methods A total of 3 199 cases of pregnant women visiting this hospital from Jan‐uary 2013 to December 2014 were enrolled in this study and divided into the missed abortion group(2 633 cases) ,incomplete abor‐tion group(265 cases) ,the inevitable abortion group(137 cases) ,threatened abortion group(104 cases) and control group(60 cases , all women undergoing induced abortion) .The CT infection was detected by using the fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reac‐tion(FQ‐PCR) .Results The positive rate of CT in missed abortion group ,incomplete abortion group ,the inevitable abortion group and threatened abortion group were 5 .62% ,4 .53% ,5 .11% and 4 .81% ,respectively ,all were higher than that in the control group (3 .33% ) ,without statistically significant differences (P>0 .05) .The positive rate of CT in women in 16- 0 .05) .Conclusion The posi‐tive rate in women undergoing spontaneous abortion is higher than that in women undergoing induced abortion ,and young women has a higher infection rate of CT .
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Objective A previously reported female diagnosed with type A insulin resistance syndrome bearing a heterozygous missense mutation of R1174W in the insulin receptor gene was followed for 7 years since the age of 16 years. Methods Five-hour oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) were done on baseline, the 3rd, 6th and 7th year respectively, with serum insulin and C-peptide measured at the same time points. Areas under of curve (AUC) of glucose, insulin and C-peptide were compared between the years.Acute insulin response (AIR) was determined at baseline and the 7th year. The dose response were insulin secretion rates at each time point during OGTT being plotted over the corresponding glucose levels, and the slopes of which quantified the insulin secretion responding to glucose. Results The follow up data showed that the glucose metabolism of the subject did not deteriorate over time with yearly glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbAlc) being normal (4.6%-5.5%), and hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia was a persistent phenomenon observed at 4-5 hours post-load. The fasting and AUCs of serum insulin and C-peptide tended to decline without simultaneously increase of those of plasma glucose. The AIR decreased by 56% as compared to baseline. The dose response curves shifted downward as years went by. Conclusions It supports that with the alleviation of physiological insulin resistance after puberty, the gross hyperinsulinemia tends to ameliorate, and β-cell secretion does not deteriorate over time as glucose homeostasis maintains.
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Objective To identify the sounces of occupational stress and explore the relationship between occupational slreas and social support for nurses in ICU.Methods A descriptive and correlation design was used in this study.From July to October in 2007,159 nurses from 8 ICU and 160 nurses from common wards completed the questionnaires.Statistical analysis was performed for the investigation results.Results The ayes age score of occupational stress for nurses in ICU was (3.41±0.73),which was in a moderate to high level.The main stress was that they regarded nursing as a high risk career,maximums working intensity,always overload work and frequent night-shift.While the average score of occupational stress for nurses in common wards was (3.29±1.05).The main stress was that they regarded nursing as a high risk career,Score of occupational stress between nurses in ICU and com wards had no statistical difference(P＞0.05).There was a significant negative correlation between occupational stress and social support for nurses in ICU(r=-0.159,P＜0.05).And the sup port by friends was into the equalion by multi-linear regression.Conclusions The level of occupational stress for murses in ICU was fairly hish.Scientific management of human resource,reducing work pressure of nurses and workloed,exerting various social support will benefit for reducing the stress of nurses in ICU.
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Objective To explore the relationship between work-family conflict and turnover inten-tions in nurses and find out the key points to reducing turnover intentions by releasing individuals' work-family conflict. Methods Cross-sectional study method was used in this investigation. By using cluster sampling method, 1287 nurses from some top-level and third-class general hospital were investigated. The questionnaire of work-family conflict and turnover intentions scale were used in this research and the re-suits underwent analysis. Results The score of turnover intentions in nurses was positively correlated with the level of their work-family conflict (r=0.233,P<0.01). Stress,behavior and time dimension were related factors of turnover intentions(r=0.243,0.191,0.176,P<0.01 ).After control of demographic factors, the turnover intentions deviation that can be explained increased by 7%. Conclusions The score of work-family conflict is one of the predicators of turnover intentions. A developing measure should be taken to reduce turnover intentions by releasing work-family conflict in nurses.