Quality of life and related factors in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome / 北京大学学报(医学版)

OBJECTIVE@#To evaluate the quality of life of patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), to compare the difference between IC/BPS and overactive bladder (OAB) pain syndrome, and to explore the related factors affecting the quality of life of IC/BPS patients.@*METHODS@#The demographic data of female outpatients with IC/BPS in Beijing Hospital and other medical centers in China were collected. The quality of life of the patients was investigated by multi-angle questionnaires and compared with the data of OAB patients. According to the influence degree of quality of life, the patients with IC/BPS were divided into mild-moderate group and severe group.@*RESULTS@#In this study, 109 patients with IC/BPS were included. The average age was (46.4±14.3) years and the average course of disease was (39.4±51.6) months. Compared with the OAB patients, the patients in IC/BPS group had a longer average course of disease (P=0.008), a lower proportion of the patients of first visit for the disease (P < 0.001), a higher score of the American Urological Association symptom index (AUA-SI) (P < 0.001), a lower body mass index (BMI) ratio (P=0.016), and a lower incidence of constipation (P=0.006). IC/BPS had the greatest impact on family life, followed by social activity. The score of IC/BPS related symptoms on family life was significantly higher than that of the OAB group (P=0.003). The top three symptoms of the IC/BPS patients were pain (45%), frequency (28%) and urgency (17%). The score of quality of life in the IC/BPS patients was significantly higher than that in the OAB patients (P < 0.001). Caffeine intake (P=0.034) and constipation (P=0.003) might be the factors influencing the quality of life of the patients with IC/BPS.@*CONCLUSION@#IC/BPS has a great influence on the quality of life of patients. Caffeine intake and constipation may be related factors affecting the quality of life of patients with IC/BPS. Urologists should recommend changes in diet and lifestyle to reduce symptoms and improve the patients' quality of life.

Synthesis and anti-hepatocellular carcinoma activity of novel O-vinyl diazeniumdiolate-based nitric oxide-releasing derivatives of oleanolic acid / 中国天然药物

Considering that high levels of nitric oxide (NO) exert anti-cancer effect and the derivatives of oleanolic acid (OA) have shown potent anti-cancer activity, new O-vinyl diazeniumdiolate-based NO releasing derivatives (5a-l, 11a-l) of OA were designed, synthesized, and biologically evaluated in the present study. These derivatives could release different amounts of NO in liver cells. Among them, 5d, 5i, 5j, 11g, 11h, and 11j released more NO in SMMC-7721 cells and displayed stronger proliferative inhibition against SMMC-7721 and HepG2 cells than OA and other tested compounds. The most active compound 5j showed almost 20-fold better solubility than OA in aqueous solution, released larger amounts of NO in liver cancer cells than that in normal ones, and exhibited potent anti-hepatocellular carcinoma activity but little effect on the normal liver cells. The inhibitory activity against the cancer cells was significantly diminished upon addition of an NO scavenger, suggesting that NO may contribute, at least in part, to the activity of 5j.

A prospective study on the association between dynamic change of waist circumference and incident hypertension / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective To study the impact on dynamic change of waist circumference(WC) through follow-up data on the incidence of hypertension in several cohort groups.Methods In this prospective study,2778 free-hypertension subjects were recruited from a program “Prevention of Multiple Metabolic disorders and metabolic syndrome (MS) in Jiangsu province” (PMMJS) to evaluate the risk of hypertension in relation to WC dynamic change on normal WC or abnorminal obesity group.Dynamic change of WC was measured by WC D-value,which was expressed by data on the difference of WC between baseline and the first follow up.Study outcome was defined as incident hypertension during the first to the second follow up period in this study.The association between dynamic change of WC and incident hypertension was analyzed by using Cox proportional hazards regression model.Results There were 2778 participants,660 subjects developed hypertension during the follow-up,regardless of the normality of the baseline WC,the risk of hypertension increased across the tertiles of WC,while the incidence of hypertension was higher in non-control group than that in control group.In populations with abdominal obesity and normal WC at baseline,RRs (95％CI) of hypertension were 1.95 (1.19-3.19) and 2.38 (1.89-2.99) in subjects with abdominal obesity seen at the first follow up period,compared to subjects with normal WC in the same period.After adjustment for gender,age and other hypertension related risk factors,in populations with abdominal obesity and normal WC at baseline survey,RRs (95％ CI) of hypertension were 4.36 (1.69-9.74) and 1.44( 1.03-2.35 ) respectively,for the non-control group.Conclusion WC dynamic change was associated with hypertension,WC control while WC reduction was important for early prevention on hypertension.

Impact of lifestyle and obesity to the risk of type 2 diabetes: a prospective study in Jiangsu province / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the relative contribution of lifestyle and obesity to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>All baseline survey data were based on the program Prevention of Multiple Metabolic Disorders and Metabolic Syndrome in Jiangsu Province (PMMJS) which was conducted during April 1999 to May 2004. In the baseline survey, 8685 participants were selected using multi-stage sampling method. Frem March 2006 to November 2007, 4582 participants who had been in the study for at least 5 years were included in the follow-up survey. A total of 3847 participants were followed and of them 3461 non-diabetic subjects were included in this analysis. High fat diet or not, low fiber diet or not, sedentary or not and occupational physical activity classification were defined as lifestyle variables and the incidence of type 2 diabetes at follow-up survey was defined as outcome variable. It was prospectively examined that the separate and joint association of lifestyle and obesity with the development of type 2 diabetes in subjects recruited from PMMJS, using logistic regression model.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>A total of 162 incident cases of type 2 diabetes during 6.3 years of follow-up in total 3461 participants were documented. The incidence rate was 4.7%. After adjusted for sex, age, family history of diabetes, blood pressure, lipids and fast plasma glucose, risk of type 2 diabetes increased with lighter occupational physical activity (compared with vigorous group, moderate group aRR = 2.15, 95%CI: 1.26 - 3.68; light group aRR = 2.39, 95%CI: 1.12 - 4.87), sedentary lifestyle (aRR = 2.94, 95%CI: 1.90 - 4.54), low fiber diet (aRR = 1.58, 95%CI: 1.01 - 2.53), overweight (aRR = 1.33, 95%CI: 1.01 - 1.90) and obesity (aRR = 1.59, 95%CI: 1.07 - 3.75). In joint analysis of lifestyle and obesity, the impact of sedentary lifestyle (in BMI < 25 group, aRR = 3.42, 95%CI: 1.99 - 5.86; in BMI ≥ 25 group, aRR = 2.41, 95%CI: 1.13 - 5.12) and low fiber diet (in BMI < 25 group, aRR = 1.42, 95%CI: 0.81 - 2.54; in BMI ≥ 25 group, aRR = 2.63, 95%CI: 1.15 - 6.03) on diabetes were independent of overweight and obesity. When stratified by sedentary lifestyle or low fiber diet, there was no association between overweight/obesity and diabetes risk (sedentary aRR = 2.04, 95%CI 0.87 - 4.71, non sedentary aRR = 1.21, 95%CI: 0.82 - 1.78; non low fiber diet aRR = 1.26, 95%CI: 0.87 - 1.84, low fiber diet aRR = 1.88, 95%CI: 0.80 - 4.80).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Unhealthy lifestyle, overweight and obesity independently increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. The magnitude of risk contributed by sedentary lifestyle and low fiber diet are much greater than that imparted by overweight and obesity.</p>

Association of both peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, gene-gene interactions and the body mass index / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective To investigate the association of ten single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor ( α,δ,γ) with obesity and the additional role of a gene-gene interaction among 10 SNPs.Methods Participants were recruited within the framework of the PMMJS (Prevention of Multiple Metabolic Disorders and Metabolic Syndrome in Jiangsu Province)-cohort-population-survey in the urban community of Jiangsu province,China.820 subjects (513 non obese subjects,307 obese subjects ) were randomly selected and no individuals were related to each other.Tea SNPs (rs135539,rs4253778,rs1800206,rs2016520,rs9794,rs10865710,rs1805192,rs709158,rs3856806,rs4684847) were selected from the HapMap database,which covered PPARα,PPARδ and PPARγ.Logistic regression model was used to examine the association between ten SNPs in the PPARs and obesity.Odds ratios (OR) and 95％ confident interval (95％CI) were calculated.Interactions were explored by using the Generalized Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (GMDR).Results A group of 820 participants (mean age was 50.05 ± 9.41) was involved.The frequency of the mutant alleles of rs2016520 in obese populations was less than that in non-obese populations (26％ vs.33％,P＜ 0.0 1 ).The frequency of the mutant alleles of rs 10865710 in obese populations was more than that in non-obese populations (37％ vs.31％,P=0.01 ).C allele carriers had a significantly lower obesity occurrence than TT homozygotes [OR (95％ CI):0.63 (0.47-0.84) ] for rs2016520 but no significant association was observed between other SNP and incident obesity.GMDR analysis showed a significant gene-gene interaction among rs2016520,rs9794 and rs10865710 for the three-dimension models (P=0.0010),in which prediction accuracy was 0.5834 and cross-validation consistency was 9/10.It also showed a significant gene-gene interactions between rs2016520 and rs10865710 in all the two-dimensional models (P=0.0010),in which predictive accuracy was 0.5746 and cross-validation consistency was 9/10.Conclusion Our data showed that rs2016520 was associated with lower obesity risk,as well as interactions among rs2016520,rs9794 and rs 10865710 on incident obesity.

Interaction of both hypertriglyceridemic waist and impaired fasting glucose on the incidence of diabetes mellitus / 中华流行病学杂志

Objective To study the use ofhypertriglyceridemic waist (HTGW) to predict the occurrence of diabetes.Also to independently study whether there was an interaction between HTGW and impaired fasting glucose impaired fasting glucose (IFG) on the cause of diabetes.Methods We undertook a cohort study based on data from the “Prevention of Multiple Metabolic Disorders and Metabolic Syndrome (MS) Study in Jiangsu Province,China”.We used the logistic regression model to analyze the relations between both HTGW,IFG and diabetes mellitus and to evaluate the multiplied interaction between HTGW and IFG to include product terms method.Counting additive interaction was carried out under the Excel Calculation Sheet,compiled by Anderson and his colleagues.Results After adjusted for general risk factors and baseline fasting plasma glucose (FPG),results showed that subjects with HTGW had a 2.10 (95％ CI:1.36-3.25) adjusted relative risk (HR) of developing a diabetes when compared with those individuals without HTGW at the baseline study.When IFG was stratified,participants with HTGW were significantly associated with diabetes,regardless of IFG.The multi-adjusted HRs of diabetes were 3.09 (1.70-5.61) and 2.09 (1.08-4.02),respectively.Compared to the participants with non-HTGW and their FPG level below the threshold,those having HTGW and their FPG level was above the threshold,had the highest adjusted HR values [12.05 (95％CI:6.89-21.07)].Data from the additive interaction analysis showed that RERI as 7.00 (95％ CI:0.49-13.51),AP as 0.57 (95％ CI:0.32-0.82) and SI as 2.66 (95％ CI:1.36-5.21).Conclusion HTGW could predict the occurrence of diabetes,independent from IFG while the presence of HTGW with IFG could have an additive interaction on the cause of diabetes.

Impact of dynamic change of waist circumference or body mass index in hypertension incidence / 中华预防医学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the impact of dynamic change of waist circumference (WC) and body mass index(BMI) in two years on hypertension incidence in cohort populations.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A perspective cohort study was conducted. The participants (5888 subjects) whose follow-time were 2 years or longer from the program Prevention of multiple metabolic disorders and metabolic syndrome (MS) in Jiangsu province were investigated. Amongst 5888 subjects, 4582 participants received the first follow-up investigation in January 2002. Among 4582 subjects who received first follow-up investigation and whose follow-time met 5 years, total 3847 participants received the second follow-up investigation in March 2006. Total 2778 free hypertension subjects were included in this analysis. Subjects with normal WC or BMI at baseline but abnormal WC or BMI at the first follow-up or subjects with abnormal WC or BMI both at baseline and the first follow-up were defined as non-control group. Subjects with abnormal WC or BMI at baseline but normal WC or BMI at the first follow-up or subjects with normal WC or BMI both at baseline and the first follow-up were defined as control group. The incidence of hypertension at second follow-up investigation was defined as the final variable(hypertension = 1, non-hypertension = 0). The association between dynamic change of WC or BMI and incident hypertension was analyzed by using Cox proportional hazards regression model. The OR, RR value and 95%CI were calculated through WC and BMI risk stratification.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Among 2778 participants without hypertension at baseline, 660 subjects developed hypertension. When both BMI difference value (D-value) and WC D-value were included in the regression model, WC D-value was associated with hypertension in both genders (males: OR = 1.04, 95%CI: 1.01 - 1.05; females: OR = 1.04, 95%CI: 1.02 - 1.06), but BMI D-value was not associated with hypertension in both men and women (males: OR = 1.04, 95%CI: 0.97 - 1.11; females: OR = 0.98, 95%CI: 0.93 - 1.03). Hypertension risk of WC non-control group was higher than that in WC control group in baseline normal and abnormal WC groups (normal baseline WC group: RR = 1.41, 95%CI: 1.01 - 2.39, abnormal baseline WC group: RR = 4.41, 95%CI: 1.66 - 9.80). But in baseline abnormal BMI group, there was no significant difference between BMI control and non-control group (RR = 1.33, 95%CI: 0.88 - 2.02). Whether BMI was controlled can not influence hypertension risk if WC was controlled (males: RR = 1.03, 95%CI: 0.36 - 2.96; females: RR = 1.02, 95%CI: 0.70 - 5.85), however, control WC could reduce hypertension risk obviously even though BMI was not controlled (males: RR = 4.03, 95%CI: 1.61 - 10.09; females: RR = 1.55, 95%CI: 1.13 - 3.60).</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Both WC and BMI dynamic change were associated with change of hypertension. But reducing WC can decrease hypertension risk more than reducing BMI.</p>

Growth inhibition of human hepatocellular carcinoma xenograft in nude mice by combined treatment with human cytokine-induced killer cells and chemotherapy / 中华肿瘤杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To compare the inhibitory effects of cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells alone, chemotherapeutic drug alone, and CIK cells combined with chemotherapeutic drug on the growth of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells transplanted in nude mice.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) collected from five healthy donors by blood cell separator were incubated in vitro to induce CIK cells in the presence of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), IL-2 and anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (mAb). The phenotype of CIK cells was characterized by flow cytometric analysis. BEL-7402 HCC cells were inoculated subcutaneously to nude mice. On day 5, at the inoculation site were injected normal saline (group 1), CIK cells (3 x 10(7) and 6 x 10(7), group 2 and 3), mitomycin-C (MMC 80 microg in 0.2 ml, group 4), and CIK cells combined with MMC (group 5), respectively.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The percentage of CD3(+), CD3(+)CD8(+), CD3(+)CD56(+), CD25(+) cells increased from 64.0%, 28.0%, 7.8%, and 9.1% to 94.7%, 67.7%, 61.3%, and 84.0% respectively after cytokine induction. The percentage of CD3(+) and CD3(+)CD8(+) cells remained at high levels during incubation period, but that of CD25(+) and CD3(+)CD56(+) cells peaked respectively on day 7 and 13 and then declined. During the 90-day observation, the tumor formation rates were 100%, 70.0%, 80.0%, 70.0% and 66.7%; and the mouse survival rates were 10.0%, 60.0%, 40.0%, 50.0% and 75.0%, respectively from group 1 to group 5. Compared to the other groups, in the combined therapy group of mice, not only the tumor grew slowly and but also showed more marked tissue necrosis.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The growth inhibitory effect on human HCC transplanted in nude mice of combined CIK cells and MMC treatment is more potent than that of CIK cells or MMC alone.</p>

Frequency and function decrease of circulating type 2 pre-dendritic cells (pDC2) and its clinical significance in liver cirrhotic patients with chronic HBV infection / 中华肝脏病杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To identify the frequency and interferon (IFN)-alpha-producing ability of circulating type 2 pre-dendritic cells (pDC2) and evaluate its role in liver cirrhotic patients with chronic HBV infection.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>27 liver cirrhotic patients were included in our study and 25 patients with chronic hepatitis B and 25 healthy individuals were enrolled as controls. The numbers of circulating pDC2 and lymphocytes including CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, NK cells as well as B cells were analyzed by flow cytometry. The IFN-alpha-producing function of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) representing the circulating pDC2 was determined by ELISA assay after stimulated by ultraviolet-inactivated herpes simplex virus-1 (UV-HSV-1).</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The number of pDC2 were (7.21+/-2.38)*10(6)/L, (4.49+/-3.08) *10(6)/L and (2.89+/-1.17) *10(6)/L for healthy control, chronic hepatitis B and cirrhotic patients respectively. Both the number and IFN-alpha-producing function of circulating pDC2 in liver cirrhotic patients significantly lower than that in healthy subjects. There was a correlated simultaneous decrease numbers of circulating CD8+ T cells, NK cells in HBV-infected cirrhotic patients. Furthermore, cirrhotic patients with opportunistic infections have lower numbers of pDC2, CD8+ T cells and NK cells compared to those without opportunistic infections.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Liver cirrhotic patients with chronic HBV infection have a significant decrease of circulating pDC2 level and IFN-alpha-producing function. The decreased number and function of pDC2, together with the lower number of CD8+ T cells and NK cells may result in the decline of host immune response, which may partially contribute to the disease progression of HBV infection and opportunistic infections.</p>