The influence of female hormones on periodontal tissue is well documented for a number of conditions, such as puberty and pregnancy...Low oestrogen levels following the decrease or cessation of ovarian function may also, to show relationship between menopause and periodontal disease. The menopause is one period during which various symptoms will be declared. Some can relate to the oral cavity, they are mainly the symptoms of oral discomfort, gingivitis and periodontitis.

Physiology  Gynecology & Obstetrics  Dentistry 

Risk Management in blood transfusion is a crucial process aimed at ensuring the safety and efficacy of transfusion services and processes. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic approach used for identifying and mitigating the potential failures in the process of blood transfusion. In this paper, FMEA is used to rank risks and implement corrective actions to enhance patient safety. The aim of this work is to identify the risks and their management before they can cause harm, th...

Rehabilitation Medicine  Physiology 

Introduction: It is revealed by biomedical studies that the autonomous nervous system mediates most clinical effects of acupuncture/moxibustion. Whereas, it is advantageous for the classical meridian system to instruct acupuncture/moxibustion by classifying the various acupoints into related meridians. Purpose: It was aimed to replace the classical meridian system with the consistent classification of both autonomous nervous functions and acupoint character

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Rehabilitation Medicine  Anaesthesiology & Pain Management  Physiology  Neuroscience  Anatomy & Physiology  Clinical Medicine 

Introduction: It is complicated for regulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion. Herein, it is considered the effects of slow-wave sleep (SWS) on GH secretion and related homeostatic aging, and their implications to other complicated GH secretions. Methods: It was best and most convincing to integratively review the literatures in various fields, especially the relationship among GH, SWS, aging, evolution, etc., and then discuss and summarize to deal with such a...

Zoology  Physiology  Neuroscience  Evolutionary Studies  Geriatrics 

The mental health of university students was already a public health problem even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It was the subject of several international studies before and during the Pandemic which revealed worrying prevalence of disorders. In Morocco few studies have been conducted on university students. The main objective of our study was to help improve the prevention and management of mental disorders in students during a pandemic. A cross-sectional study with an analytic...

Physiology  Psychology  Global Health  Statistics  Psychiatry & Psychology  Public Health 

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a digitally assisted psychotherapy that has potential evidence to suggest that VRET may be effective to reduce posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Meanwhile, empirical studies have indicated that LGBTQ individuals are at higher risk of developing PTSD, with the prevalence estimates of up to 48%, which is much higher than the general population. This current study therefore sought to investigate whether VRET will be efficacious to treat PTSD ...

Physiology