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Objective To investigate the methylation situation of let‐7a‐3 promoter in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and its clinical significance .Methods The methylation level of let‐7a‐3 promoter in the bone marrow mononuclear cells of 52 CML patients and 25 controls was detected by using the real‐time quantitative methylation‐specific PCR (RQ‐PCR) .Results The non-hypomethylation of let‐7a‐3 promoter was positive in 31 cases(59 .6% ) of 52 CML patients ,while only 1 case(4% ,1/25) in the control group ,the difference between the two groups were statistically significant (P0 .05) .The non-hypomethylation level of let‐7a‐3 in chronic phase and accel‐erate phase was significantly higher than that in blastic crisis of CML .Conclusion The hypomethylation level of let‐7a‐3 promoter is decreased with disease progression .
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Objective To evaluate the application effect of clinical pathways (CP) in children with bronchopneumonia.Methods The literature of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in children with bronchopneumonia were retrieved by searching PubMed,Cochrane Library,Web of Knowledge,Wanfang database,VIP,and CNKI from their inception date to March 2014.Meta-analysis was performed by Revman 5.2software.Results Six RCTs involving 24 559 patients were finally selected,with 12 269 cases in the CP group and 12 290 cases in the traditional treatment group.The results of Meta-analysis showed that there were significant differences between the CP group and the traditional treatment group in the cure rate [OR =1.67,95 % CI (1.03,2.77),P =0.04],length of hospital stay [MD =-1.21,95 % CI (-1.95,-0.48),P =0.001],hospitalization expenses [SMD =-3.68,95 % CI (-5.04,-2.32),P < 0.000 1],days of antibiotic using [MD =-1.20,95 % CI (-1.51,-0.89),P < 0.000 01] and patient satisfaction [OR =6.12,95 % CI(3.12,12.04),P < 0.000 01].Conclusion CP is superior compared with the traditional treatment for bronchopneumonia,and is worthy of spread in clinical.
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Objective To assess the CSCD-covered 7 journals of pediactrics.Methods The average number of refe rences,cited half life, H index, citation half life, self citation, IF, immediate index, self-cited rate of each paper pub-lished in 2013 in 7 journals of pediactric, covered in China Science and Technology Journal Citation Index Database, were divided into positive correlation group and negative correlation group.Their Spider Web maps were plotted.The papers published in the 7 journals of pediactrics were assessed.Results The top 3 journals, assessed according to the average number of references, IF, and immediate index, were Chinese Journal of Pediatrics,Chinese Journal of Prac-tical Pediatrics, and Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Pediatrics while the top 3 journals, assessed according to their citation half life , self citation, cited half life, and self cited rate, were Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Pe-diatrics,Chinese Journal of Pediatrics, and Journal of Clinical Pediatrics.Conclusion The academic level of the 7 journals of pediatrics is rather high.Chinese Journal of Evidence-based Pediatrics and Chinese Journal of Pediatrics have the highest assessment score.There is a large room for the other 4 journals to improve their academic level.
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Objective To investigate the expression level and promoter methylation of SOX17 gene and the clinical correlations in Chinese patients with chronic myeloid leukemia ( CML ) . Methods The levels of SOX17 expression and methylation were detected by RQ-PCR and RQ-MSP. Results SOX17 expression level was significantly lower in CML compared with 30 controls (P=0.001). The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was 0.748 to differentiate CML from control (P=0.001). There was a trend of correlation between SOX17 expression and bcr/abl transcript (r = 0.439,P = 0.068) in CML patients. Hypermethylation of SOX17 promoter was detected in 3 (4%) CML patients, however, there was no difference as compared with 32 controls. In our study, SOX17 hypermethylation was not corrected with its expression. Conclusion Decreased SOX17 expression is a common molecular event in CML and may be considered as an available biomarker to diagnose CML. Dysregulated SOX17 is not caused by promoter hypermethylation in CML.
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Objective To assess the methodology of papers on systematic reviews and meta-analysis of interventions published in Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine .Methods Basic data were extracted from 70 papers on systematic reviews and meta-analysis of interventions published in Journal of Evidence-Based Medicinefrom 2001 to 2011 .Methodology used in these papers was assessed according to the AMSTAR Scale.The data were input into the Excelland analyzed using the SPSS7.0 and Meta-Analyst software.Results The methodology used in 34 papers (48.6%) was assessed using the Cochrane bias risk assessment tools.Fund support, number of authors and their affiliated institutions did not sig-nificantly affect the total score of methodology used in the 70 papers .Conclusion The methodology used in papers on systematic reviews and meta-analysis of interventions published in Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine is not quite valid as its early design program and retrieval strategies are imperfect , and it does not provide the excluded literature list and the interest conflict.