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Our findings suggest that exposure to high levels of air pollutants can worsen the cognitive performance of older adults without dementia. Efforts to reduce air pollution in LMICs that have similar levels of pollutants to South Korea are necessary to reduce the burden on older adults with cognitive impairment.

NLR is an independent prognostic factor for gastric cancer, especially in patients < 50 years old. A preoperative prediction nomogram using NLR can predict prognosis of gastric cancer as effectively as pTNM and a historical postoperative prediction nomogram.

These findings support the notion that the incidence of OM is associated with ambient air pollution.

Particulate matter (PM) is the main component of air pollution. Children are vulnerable to PM and acute otitis media (AOM), which is one of the most common diseases in children. However, studies on the relationship between AOM in children and PM are rare and their results are inconsistent. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of PM on AOM in children on the basis of the Korea National Health Insurance service (NHIS) claims data. NHIS claim data from 2008 to 2015 was used to identif

Recent studies have reported that cognitive inflexibility associated with impairments in a frontal–striatal circuit and parietal region is a core cognitive deficit of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). However, few studies have examined progressive changes in these regions following clinical improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptoms. To determine if treatment changes the aberrant activation pattern associated with task switching in OCD, we examined the activation patterns in brain areas aft

Although pregnancy around the time of diagnosis of breast cancer is expected to become increasingly common with maternal age at first childbirth on the rise, data on the prognostic impact of pregnancy have been inconsistent and rare from Asian populations. In this investigation of a Korean patient cohort with breast cancer, pregnancy-associated breast cancer was associated with advanced stage, younger age at diagnosis (<35 years), hormone receptor-negative disease, and poorer survival. This adve

Meniere's disease is thought to be a disorder of the inner ear function, affected by genetic and environmental factors. Several recent studies have shown that air pollution could affect middle and inner ear diseases. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the Meniere's disease occurrence and air pollution status in Korea. This study used a time-stratified case-crossover design. Hospital visit data by Meniere's disease were collected from the Korea National Health I

Insulin or statin use before the diagnosis of breast cancer was associated with an increase in all-cause mortality. Subsequent analyses suggested that metformin or statin use may have been protective in patients with ER-negative disease, which warrants further studies.

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Radiotherapy is one of the standard treatments for medulloblastoma. However, therapeutic central nervous system irradiation in children may carry delayed side effects, such as radiation-induced tumor and vasculopathy. Here, we report the first case of coexisting meningioma and moyamoya syndrome, presenting 10 years after radiotherapy for medulloblastoma. A 13-year-old boy presented with an enhancing mass at the cerebral falx on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after surgery, radiotherapy (30.6 G

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to analyze the peer group factor related to adolescent smoking in the social structure(network) of adolescent groups, by applying the theory of social network. Methods: The data was collected from boy students of one high school located in Gun-Po city of Kyonggi Province. The total number of the sample was 605(223 first grade, 198 second grade, 184 third grade). The survey using the questionnaire was carried out in April 2005. Social position is finally c

본 논문은 조사대상자의 경제활동 여부와 종사상지위에 따른 삶의 질 차이와 이에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 '경제활동 상태' 설문에 응답한 한국의 20-69세 경제활동인구 3,429명의 제5기 국민건강영양조사 대상자 자료를 분석하였다. 조사대상자들을 경제활동 여부에 따라 6개의 종사상지위별로 나누고 EQ-5D 5개 영역에서의 문제호소비율을 파악하기 위해 교차분석을 하였고, 삶의 질에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하기 위해 로지스틱 회귀분석과 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과, 무직은 상용직에 비해 운동능력 영역을 제외한 4개 영역에서 EQ-5D 5개 영역에서의 문제호소비율이 높았다. 그리고, 무급가족종사자의 경우, 운동능력, 자기관리 및 일상활동 영역에서, 임시직의 경우, 자기관리 및 일상활동 영역에서 상용직에 비해 문제호소비율이 높았다. 삶의 질 지수(EQ-5D index score)의 경우, 상용직에 비해 임시직(<TEX>${\beta}=-0.034$</T