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Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The high incidence rate, drug resistance rate and mortality rate of TB infection cause serious social and economic burden in developing countries. Due to high occupational exposure, medical institutions and healthcare workers take the potential risk of TB infection, which have negative impact on the public health and occupational health. As one of the countries with high burden of TB in the world, the occupational exposure of healthcare workers in China is serious, and the infection rate is far higher than that of developed countries. This article reviews the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among health care workers and the status quo of occupational protection in medical institutions in China.
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Objective:To explore the relationship between different gestational weeks of transvaginal ultrasound-guided fetal reduction and abortion in patients with multiple pregnancies after embryo transfer, and to seek the best gestational age for fetal reduction.Methods:The datas of 486 pregnant women with multiple pregnancies after embryo transfer in the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University from January 2012 to December 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The relationship between gestational weeks of fetal reduction and abortion rate was analyzed by curve fitting, threshold effect and multivariate logistic regression analysis.Results:After adjusting for age, infertility type, infertility years, number of births, abortion times, body mass index(BMI), various infertility and sterility factors, endometrial thickness on the day of transformation, monozygotic twins and reduction methods, when the gestational age was less than 8.43 weeks, the abortion rate increased significantly with the increase of reduction gestational age, and the abortion rate increased by 221% ( OR=3.21, 95% CI=1.47-6.99, P=0.003 3). When the gestational age of reduction ≥8.43 weeks, the abortion rate tended to be stable and did not increase ( OR=0.81, 95% CI=0.54-1.22, P=0.317 7); meanwhile, in stratified analysis, the OR value of the BMI ≥24 kg/m 2 was 12.38, and that of BMI <24kg/m 2 was 1.91, P=0.053 9. Conclusions:There is a non-linear relationship between gestational age and abortion rate of ultrasound-guided multiple pregnancy reduction in patients with embryo transfer. The abortion rate increases significantly with the increase of gestational age before 8.43 weeks of gestation. It is recommended to carry out the operation as early as possible before 8 weeks of pregnancy. The effect of BMI on the abortion rate of patients with fetal reduction needs further study.
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Objective To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of occupational exposure to human immunodeficiency vi-rus (HIV) in Chongqing to provide the scientific basis for avoiding and reducing the HIV occupational exposures in the future . Methods All archival data of the exposed individuals came to our hospital for seeking post-exposure consultation and treatment during 2009-2012 were performed the classification and arrangement for conducting the descriptive analysis on the distribution characteristics of the age ,gender ,occupation ,working region ,exposure mode and severity of exposure .Results During this period , there were 135 cases of occupational exposure ,which ocurred in the medical institutions outside the main urban area (74 .18% ) , dominated by the nurses (57 .04% ) and doctors(33 .33% ) .21-30 years old (51 .85% ) and 31 -40 years old(33 .33% ) were the age groups with more occurrence of occupational exposure .The exposure routes were dominated by the sharp instrument injury (92 .59% ) and the exposure degree was mainly the secondary exposure ( 69 .63% ) .Conclusion The prevalence situation of HIV occupational exposure in Chongqing is stable in the total trend .The medical and health institutions outside main urban area should perfect the management system ,strengthen training ,put the standard prophylaxis principles to practice for reducing the occurrence of occupational exposure .