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The patients with sarcopenia (n=48, 39%) and those with myosteatosis (n=101, 82%) had significantly lower overall survival and cancer-specific survival rates than those without sarcopenia and those without myosteatosis, respectively. In multivariable analysis, in addition to the number of pathological risk factors, both sarcopenia (P<0.01) and myosteatosis (P=0.04) were independent significant predictors of poor cancer-specific survival.

In our experience, sarcopenia and myosteatosis are independent predictors of poor cancer-specific survival in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Sarcopenia is also associated with poor overall survival.

In our experience, sarcopenia and myosteatosis are independent predictors of poor cancer-specific survival in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Sarcopenia is also associated with poor overall survival.

In rural communities, understanding and improving school climate may benefit youth facing unique contextual challenges to well-being. As education research rarely focuses on rural schools, we aimed to examine school climate and student well-being with a particular focus on rural schools, compared to suburban schools.

Cross-sectional survey data were collected from 62,265 students in 22 rural and 78 suburban Maryland middle and high schools. Student self-report data were collected on school climate (safety, engagement, and environment) as well as internalizing problems, behavior problems, stress, substance abuse, and future orientation. Multiple-group, multilevel models were fit to compare between rural and suburban schools.

On average, rural students reported significantly lower perceptions of safety and engagement than suburban students. check details Safety and engagement were generally associated with higher youth well-being. A number of moderated effects were observed, which generally suggested stronger associations between school-level climate-particularly engagement-and more positive outcomes for rural compared to suburban students.

Students' perceptions of safety and engagement were associated with student well-being, in some cases with stronger associations for rural students. These findings suggest that efforts to improve school climate may be particularly impactful for rural students.

Students' perceptions of safety and engagement were associated with student well-being, in some cases with stronger associations for rural students. These findings suggest that efforts to improve school climate may be particularly impactful for rural students.Feline chronic enteropathy is a common disorder, especially in the senior cat population, with rising incidence over the past decade. Feline chronic enteropathy is considered an umbrella term comprising different diseases including food-responsive enteropathy, idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease and alimentary small cell lymphoma. However, differentiation between those diseases is often difficult in practice. This review will discuss the clinical approach to cats with chronic enteropathy, state-of-the-art diagnostic tests and pitfalls thereof as well as current therapeutic approaches. Although, much of the etiopathogenesis is still unknown, increased research efforts in this field have brought new insights into diagnostic and therapeutic options for these cats.

Confronting stigma early in life could enhance receptivity to seeking treatment. We evaluated the efficacy of social contact interventions to reduce stigma toward depression and to enhance treatment-seeking intentions among adolescents. We hypothesized that the brief video-based interventions would be more effective than their matched controls.

Using crowdsourcing, we recruited and randomly assigned 1,183 participants aged 14-18 to one of four video-based stimuli on a 4411 ratio (a) adolescent girl with depression; (b) adolescent boy with depression; (c) same girl, without depression; or (d) same boy, without depression. In each of the ~100-second-long videos, two simulated patients (SPs) depicted empowered presenters sharing their personal stories. In the depression conditions, SPs described how social support from family, friends, and professionals helped them overcome their symptoms and recover.

We found a significant effect for the Depression Stigma Scale (DSS) between active and control groups (F=2congruent between protagonists and participants. Future studies should explore how to optimize brief contact-based interventions according to adolescents' race and ethnicity and how to scale such interventions to novel online platforms of dissemination.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Group (DBT-ST) component of DBT.

Participants (N = 114) attended an 18-20-week DBT-ST. The study utilized a quasi-experimental design with a within-persons control group for a measure of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms (at referral), and emergency department (ED) presentations, and psychiatric bed-days (both assessed for 6 months pre- and post-intervention). Primary outcomes were the number of BPD symptoms, psychological distress, depression, rate of ED presentations, and psychiatric inpatient bed-days.

After completing DBT-ST, participants had reduced BPD symptoms, psychological distress, and depression (p < 0.001). The waitlist control group showed no improvement in BPD symptoms (p = 0.085). The rate of ED presentations was reduced (p = 0.001). There was no reduction in psychiatric inpatient bed-days (p = 0.160), likely due to insufficient power.

DBT-ST participation in addition to treatment-as-usual is an effective treatment for people with BPD.

DBT-ST participation in addition to treatment-as-usual is an effective treatment for people with BPD.Interactions between hosts and pathogens are dynamic at both ecological and evolutionary levels. In the resultant 'eco-evolutionary dynamics' ecological and evolutionary processes affect each other. For example, the house finch Haemorhous mexicanus and its recently emerged pathogen, the bacterium Mycoplasma gallisepticum, form a system in which evidence suggests that changes in bacterial virulence through time enhance levels of host immunity in ways that drive the evolution of virulence in an arms race. We use data from two associated citizen science projects in order to determine whether this arms race has had any detectable effect at the population level in the north-eastern United States. We used data from two citizen science projects, based on observations of birds at bird feeders, which provide information on the long-term changes in sizes of aggregations of house finches (host population density), and the probabilities that these house finches have observable disease (disease prevalence). The initial emergence of M.