Due to population growth and the shifting age distribution over the next 30 y, the annual societal economic burden for the four vaccine-preventable diseases is projected to increase from approximately $35 billion to $49 billion, resulting in cumulative costs of approximately $1.3 trillion, as well as more than 1 million disease-related deaths. Given such notable burden, further efforts to increase vaccination coverage and effectiveness in older adults are needed.The histological spectrum of the central fibrous body (CFB) of the heart, particularly in humans, is not fully characterized. Herein, we describe the presence of cartilage and bone within the CFB of 2 explanted heart specimens from patients with known mutation-driven cardiomyopathy involving the TNNI3 and TNNT2 genes, review the existing literature on the identified variants particularly TNNI3 (p.Asn185Thrfs*14) and TNNT2 (p.Arg141Trp), and provide insights into the plausible nature of such histopathological observation based on animal studies and the few reported cases in humans.Having accurate data to represent hyperelastic materials that underpin soft robotics would facilitate their analysis, design, and validation. We seek to provide the reader with a useful tool to overcome a mundane but crucially important problem in determining the hyperelastic material properties. We show how to employ first dimensionless and then dimensional comparisons between experimental data and the classic theoretical model representing this system to produce C1 and C2 for the Mooney-Rivlin model, closely representing a variety of soft polymers.Care management programs that facilitate collaboration between care managers and primary care clinicians are more likely to be successful in improving chronic disease metrics than programs that do not facilitate such collaboration. The authors sought to understand care managers' perspectives on interacting with primary care clinicians. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with care managers (n = 29) from 3 health systems in and around a large, urban academic center. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and iteratively analyzed using a grounded theory approach. Care managers worked for health plans (14%), outpatient specialty clinics (31%), hospitals and emergency departments (24%), and primary care offices (14%). Care managers identified the primary care clinician as leading patients' care and as essential to avoiding unnecessary utilization. Care managers described variability in and barriers to interacting with primary care clinicians. When possible, care managers use the electronic medical record to facilitate interaction rather than communicating directly (eg, phone call) with primary care clinicians. The role of the care manager varied across programs, contributing to primary care clinicians' poor understanding of what the care manager could provide. Consequently, primary care clinicians asked the care manager for help with tasks beyond his/her role. Care managers felt inferior to primary care clinicians, a potential result of the traditional medical hierarchy, which also hindered interactions. Although care managers view interactions with the primary care clinician as essential to the health of the patient, communication challenges, variability of the care manager's role, and medical hierarchy limit collaboration.Background To compare the strengths of the associations between total and region-specific body composition and insulin resistance (IR) considering sex and menopausal status and to compare body composition indicators for discriminating high IR. Materials and Methods Among 5380 men, 3652 premenopausal women, and 3207 postmenopausal women in the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, high IR was defined as the sex-specific highest quintiles of homeostasis model assessment IR and metabolic syndrome. Percentages of bone mineral content (BMC%), muscle mass (MM%), and fat mass (FM%) were measured for the whole body, trunk, and upper/lower extremities by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Results After adjusting for body mass, age, education, smoking status, alcohol use, and physical activity, one-standard deviation increases in whole-body FM%, MM%, and BMC% were associated with 50%-63%, 19%-26%, and 14%-22% higher odds of high IR in men and pre- and postmenopausal women, 31%-36%, 12%-17%, and 10%-15% lower odds, and 27%-36%, 31%-40%, and 19%-23% lower odds, respectively. Those associations for FM% in men and BMC% in premenopausal women tended to be stronger in the upper body than in lower extremities. In receiver operating characteristic curve analysis, FM% in men and BMC% in women had superior discriminatory abilities for high IR. Conclusions IR may have a stronger association with FM% in men and BMC% in premenopausal women in upper body, while the association strength in postmenopausal women may be similar across body composition. These findings reveal differences in the strengths of region-, sex, and menopausal status-specific relationships between body composition and IR.
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 The results preliminaryly show that 18F-FIurpiridaz is a promising positron MPI agent with good image quality, ability of accurately evaluating cardiac function, and also convenience for application.