糖尿病患者饥饿感中医病机浅识

糖尿病患者饥饿感病机有胃火炽盛、胃强脾弱、脾胃虚弱、瘀热消谷、痰热消谷等。糖尿病初期,痰热、火热之证常见,患者出现多食易饥表现,应考虑痰热消谷、火热消谷,选用白虎汤、玉女煎、消渴方等加减治疗;病程日久,火热伤阴,壮火食气,出现气阴两虚等表现,此时出现多食易饥症状,则需考虑胃强脾弱、脾胃虚弱等病机,采用半夏泻心汤、附子理中丸、参苓白术散等治疗;瘀血贯穿糖尿病始终,故在使用以上方法治疗糖尿病患者消谷易饥效果欠佳时,可考虑瘀热消谷的因素,采用桃核承气汤、白虎汤合桂枝茯苓丸治疗。糖尿病与痰湿关系密切,针对该病机引起的饥饿感,在清热的同时,还应化痰除湿。糖尿病病程日久患者,饥饿感病机复杂,宜"观其脉证,知犯何逆,随证治之"。     

The Dangerous Middle: Situational Awareness and Worker Perception of Beetle Kill

ABSTRACT

Forest workers, including loggers, foresters, and wildland firefighters, are regularly exposed to some of the most fatal occupational environments in the United States. These hazardous work environments may become even more complex and dynamic when subject to bark beetle outbreaks that have resulted in significant tree mortality. The impacts of tree death from bark beetles are significant, with the cumulative 17-year (2000–2016) footprint for bark beetle caused tree mortality estimated at 54 million acres. However, how workers think about and act in these environments is understudied. This study, therefore, approaches the issue of beetle kill and forest worker safety by examining the perspectives or workers themselves. Its contribution is to leverage ethnographic research to provide insights that can generate new research questions, better inform outreach, and ultimately improve worker safety outcomes. The resulting insights show that beetle kill was understood by workers as a hazard that increased the complexity and dynamism of the work environment, making situational awareness both more necessary and more difficult to maintain. While much research about situational awareness focuses on hazardous situations, it is suggested that building adequate situational awareness should also include broader considerations of organizational communication, as well as training and experience considered over the course of entire careers.     

林国华针灸治疗难治性突发性耳聋经验撷要

总结林国华教授针灸治疗难治性突发性耳聋经验,并对典型医案进行介绍。林国华教授认为本病多因少阳经气厥塞所致,提倡尽早针灸干预,治病求本,谨守"少阳暴厥"之病机,谨遵"疏解少阳,通耳开窍"之法,临证必用听宫,主取少阳经穴,辅予辨经取穴,巧施发蒙针法与气流灌耳法,妙用岭南火针疗法,必要时调气调神、加取募穴,共奏通耳复聪之效。     

疱疹病毒治疗性疫苗研究进展

疱疹病毒感染极为普遍,可表现为原发性、潜伏性或复发性感染,几乎能在所有的动物中建立潜伏感染,且潜伏感染期间病毒保持休眠状态,宿主不表现出任何临床症状,机体在受到一些应激后,潜伏的病毒被重新激活,使机体引起复发性感染。目前预防性疫苗免疫接种仍是预防疱疹病毒感染和控制其相应疾病流行的有效手段,然而免疫接种后机体免疫系统虽能够控制感染,但却未能防止机体发生复发性感染并不能提供全面的保护。治疗性疫苗能清除潜伏感染或阻止复发性感染,可以有效地控制此类疾病的复发。因此,接种治疗性疫苗是未来防控和净化疱疹病毒的一种可行策略。本文针对在研的疱疹病毒HSV、EBV治疗性疫苗的研究进展进行综述,旨在为其余疱疹病毒治疗性疫苗的研发拓展思路。     

约束隐结构研究冠心病痰湿证的定量化辨证规则＊

目前在中医界已发布的冠心病痰湿证辨证标准是以主症、次症形式定性地给出，存在主观性较强的问题。本文引入约束隐结构分析，该方法将主症、次症的语义作为约束条件加入隐结构分析过程，得到含有主症、次症语义约束的定量化中医证候辨证规则。使用该方法对冠心病痰湿证患者556条无标签数据的分析，得到其约束隐结构模型，最后建立定量化痰湿证辨证规则，舌胖边有齿痕（3.16）、苔腻（3.12）、苔白滑（4.72）、胸闷（1.73）、脉濡或滑（6.04）；次症：肢体困重（0.48）、口黏（0.63）、体胖（0.49）、大便粘滞（1.38）、脘腹痞满（0.97）、面色晦浊（0.79）、嗜睡（1.18）、纳差（1.07）。与经典隐结构模型得到规则和中医界已发布的定性化辨证规则相比，约束隐结构得到的规则客观性强，具有可重复性。在证候类大小、规则的量化合理度上较好地反映了主症、次症的特点，得到的规则切合中医实际，为冠心病痰湿证辨证标准的定量化研究提供帮助和参考。     

火针膝周密刺对膝关节骨性关节炎鼠关节形态及软骨LOXL2的影响

目的:探讨火针膝周密刺对膝关节骨性关节炎(Knee Osteoarthritis,KOA)大鼠行为学、关节形态及软骨中赖氨酰氧化酶相关蛋白2(LOXL2)影响性。方法:选择30只健康雄性大鼠,10只作为对照不作任何处理。20只大鼠建立KOA模型,成模后随机分成2组,分别予普通针刺和火针膝周密刺,1次/3 d,连续6次。观察各组大鼠Leauesne MG评分、关节软骨细胞情况,外周血及关节软骨转化生长因子-β1(TGF-β1)、肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)、基质金属蛋白酶3(MMP-3)、LOXL2水平变化。结果:治疗后火针组Leauesne MG评分中的局部疼痛刺激反应、步态、关节活动范围、关节肿胀度较对照组、模型组差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。血清及关节软骨MMP-3、TGF-β1、TNF-α含量水平显著低于模型组(P<0.05),LOXL2显著高于模型组(P<0.05)。火针组电镜下软骨细胞形状规则、细胞核完整且饱满,微绒毛少量存在,内质网丰富,有散在的染色质。结论:火针膝周密刺能减轻K0A关节软骨损伤,降低炎性反应,改善软骨LOXL2水平,这可能是火针治疗KOA一个作用机制。     

Factor analysis for survival time prediction with informative censoring and diverse covariates

Fulfilling the promise of precision medicine requires accurately and precisely classifying disease states. For cancer, this includes prediction of survival time from a surfeit of covariates. Such data presents an opportunity for improved prediction, but also a challenge due to high dimensionality. Furthermore, disease populations can be heterogeneous. Integrative modeling is sensible, as the underlying hypothesis is that joint analysis of multiple covariates provides greater explanatory power than separate analyses. We propose an integrative latent variable model that combines factor analysis for various data types and an exponential proportional hazards (EPH) model for continuous survival time with informative censoring. The factor and EPH models are connected through low-dimensional latent variables that can be interpreted and visualized to identify subpopulations. We use this model to predict survival time. We demonstrate this model's utility in simulation and on four Cancer Genome Atlas datasets: diffuse lower-grade glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, lung adenocarcinoma, and lung squamous cell carcinoma. These datasets have small sample sizes, high-dimensional diverse covariates, and high censorship rates. We compare the predictions from our model to three alternative models. Our model outperforms in simulation and is competitive on real datasets. Furthermore, the low-dimensional visualization for diffuse lower-grade glioma displays known subpopulations.     

Latent profile analysis of regression-based norms demonstrates relationship of compounding MS symptom burden and negative work events

Objective: We endeavored to clarify how distinct co-occurring symptoms relate to the presence of negative work events in employed multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was utilized to elucidate common disability patterns by isolating patient subpopulations. Method: Samples of 272 employed MS patients and 209 healthy controls (HC) were administered neuroperformance tests of ambulation, hand dexterity, processing speed, and memory. Regression-based norms were created from the HC sample. LPA identified latent profiles using the regression-based z-scores. Finally, multinomial logistic regression tested for negative work event differences among the latent profiles. Results: Four profiles were identified via LPA: a common profile (55%) characterized by slightly below average performance in all domains, a broadly low-performing profile (18%), a poor motor abilities profile with average cognition (17%), and a generally high-functioning profile (9%). Multinomial regression analysis revealed that the uniformly low-performing profile demonstrated a higher likelihood of reported negative work events. Conclusions: Employed MS patients with co-occurring motor, memory and processing speed impairments were most likely to report a negative work event, classifying them as uniquely at risk for job loss.