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Am J Gastroenterol 2022 Jun 17. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

Unit of Gastroenterology, Borgo Trento University Hospital of Verona; P.le Aristide Stefani 1, 37126, Verona, Italy.

Background Aims: Non-invasive diagnosis of clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH) has important prognostic and therapeutic implications for patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD). We aimed to validate and improve the available algorithms for the CSPH diagnosis by evaluating spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) in patients with cACLD.

Methods: This is a retrospective study including patients with liver stiffness measurement (LSM)≥10 kPa, no previous decompensation, and available measurements of hepatic venous pressure gradient, LSM and SSM by transient elastography referring to our center in Bologna. Read More

J Healthc Leadersh 2022 6;14:119-130. Epub 2022 Aug 6.

Department of Health Policy and Management, Jimma University, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia.

Background: Counterproductive behavior costs organizations and their members which will ultimately affect work-related outcomes and organizational success. Organizational justice has the potential to affect the level of counter productive behavior. However, there is a paucity of studies to show the link between counterproductive behavior and organizational justice dimensions in the Ethiopian health care system context. Read More

Environ Epigenet 2022 5;8(1):dvac015. Epub 2022 Jul 5.

Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

As prenatal and community cannabis exposures have recently been linked with congenital heart disease (CHD), it was of interest to explore these associations in Europe in a causal framework and space-time context. Congenital anomaly data from Eurocat, drug-use data from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, and income from the World Bank. Countries with rising daily cannabis use had in general higher congenital anomaly rates over time than those without (time: status interaction: β-Est. Read More

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2022 4;2022:1518511. Epub 2022 Aug 4.

Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Hail, P.O. Box 2440, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia.

In consideration of the emergence of novel drug-resistant microbial strains and the increase in the incidences of various cancers throughout the world, honey could be utilized as a great alternative source of potent bioactive compounds. In this context, this study pioneers in reporting the phytochemical profiling and the antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anticancer properties of honey (AH) from the Hail region of Saudi Arabia, assessed using and molecular docking approaches. The phytochemical profiling based on high-resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HR-LCMS) revealed eight compounds and three small peptide-like proteins as the constituents. Read More

Plant Physiol Biochem 2022 Aug 8;188:21-30. Epub 2022 Aug 8.

Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Greece.

The increasing interest in natural health-promoting compounds, which are mostly plant secondary metabolites, inspired attempts to stimulate mechanisms strengthening their bioaccumulation in crop plants via abiotic stress while maintaining the yield potential. This study investigates the long-term effects of limiting nitrogen (N) supply on the concentration of total phenolics, free radical activity of natural antioxidants, betacyanin content, biomass production, net photosynthetic rate, total chlorophyll content, and plant water relations in red beetroot plants (Beta vulgaris L.) grown hydroponically. Read More