CONCLUSION: The dance therapy mode of intangible cultural heritage has a significant positive impact on children’s emotional adjustment ability and psychological and social development. This intervention will integrate physical activities, emotional release, group participation and cultural identity to enhance children’s mental health, and open up a non-medical intervention path with structure, safety and cultural connotation.… →

CONCLUSIONS: The fixed-dose combination improved BIA-derived body-composition measures and OGTT-derived insulin sensitivity over 12 weeks compared with placebo. Because no single-agent arms were included, individual component contributions and synergy remain undetermined; confirmatory trials using direct metabolic and imaging methods are warranted. →

CONCLUSION: Omeprazole plus standard treatment may represent a cost-effective strategy for adult patients with Zargar grade 2b and 3a corrosive esophageal injuries. However, these findings should be considered preliminary and require confirmation in larger multicenter randomized controlled trials. →

CONCLUSIONS: Participants assigned to a brief sexual-orientation-focused instructional intervention that combined sexual-orientation information with two selected critical-thinking elements reported lower immediate self-reported PALG than participants assigned to a neutral-video control condition. The condition contrast did not isolate either selected element, and the outcome was measured immediately by self-report. The findings should therefore be treated as… →

CONCLUSIONS: In the large-scale ILUMIEN IV trial, patients with diabetes remained at increased risk for adverse events after PCI compared with nondiabetic patients despite the use of OCT procedural guidance. Patients with diabetes and complex lesions were at particularly high risk for adverse outcomes after PCI. →

CONCLUSIONS: In this small exploratory pilot study conducted under supervised laboratory conditions, the 6-week trajectories did not differ significantly between groups. A marginally lower average 2D pose discrepancy was observed in the feedback group across the 6 weeks, but no individual week- or joint-specific comparison remained significant after multiplicity adjustment. Form 3 was the only… →

PPaint/Ikon Images Dry rot. A Potemkin village. The Wizard of Oz. What do those things have in common? In each case, they may look good on the surface, but it’s only an illusion. Wood afflicted with dry rot looks just fine until the tree it’s in topples down. Grigory Potemkin is said to have tried… →
CONCLUSION: GAS is feasible, valid and reliable, so may be a sensitive and clinically meaningful candidate primary outcome for psychosocial dementia trials. Correlations with global quality of life were significant but modest, consistent with GAS capturing personalised rather than generic outcomes. →

CONCLUSION: Adolescents with PTSD continued to maintain treatment gains up to 60-months post-treatment. These data, along with findings from the original RCT, indicate that a brief treatment protocol (averaging 9 sessions of PE-A or SC) in a LMIC, task-shifted to be delivered by nurses without prior psychotherapy experience, led to lasting improvements in PTSD and… →

CONCLUSION: Both carotid revascularization strategies significantly reduce SBP within the first postoperative year. In the long term, CEA with carotid body excision provides a more durable antihypertensive effect and a higher likelihood of achieving target BP compared with CAS. These findings suggest that the type of intervention may influence peripheral baro- and chemoreflex mechanisms of… →
