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Strahm AM, Hilmert CJ, Campos B, Dvorak R, Schenker M. Maternal blood pressure and birth weight associations in U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinas. CULTURAL DIVERSITY & ETHNIC MINORITY PSYCHOLOGY 2024:2024-52698-001. [PMID: 38330371 PMCID: PMC11306409 DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Research suggests that acculturating to the United States is detrimental for immigrants' health. Consistent with this pattern, higher levels of U.S. acculturation among Latina-American women have been associated with giving birth to lower birth weight babies. The mechanisms that shape this shift in pregnancy health are not clear, but researchers have begun to consider the role of physiological systems that are sensitive to social experience. The present study examined the association of cultural orientation with blood pressure (BP) trajectories over the course of pregnancy. METHOD In a study of 1,011 U.S.- and foreign-born Latina-American women, cultural orientation was assessed and multiple BP measures were collected throughout pregnancy. Postpregnancy data, including gestational age-adjusted birth weight, were extracted from medical records. Bayesian structural equation models examined average BP and slopes of BP change during pregnancy while accounting for psychosocial stress, support, and pregnancy health-related factors (e.g., maternal age, smoking). RESULTS We found evidence that greater U.S. orientation was associated with higher diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and steeper increases in DBP, which was associated with less fetal growth. CONCLUSIONS This is the first evidence that BP may mediate the association between cultural orientation and pregnancy outcomes in Latina-American women. These findings advance our understanding of the biopsychosocial pathways through which acculturation to the U.S. links with health. As scholars seek to better understand the influence of U.S. acculturation on health, focusing on the cardiovascular system and other physiological systems that are sensitive to social experience is warranted and likely to prove valuable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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Shayea AMF, Alshatti AA, Alfadhli DH, Ibrahim AF, Almutairi MK, Nadar MS. Health-related factors and dysregulation of epigenetic related genes in metabolic syndrome trigger finger patients and smoker trigger finger patients: preliminary analysis of patient-derived sample. J Orthop Surg Res 2023; 18:785. [PMID: 37853419 PMCID: PMC10585746 DOI: 10.1186/s13018-023-04271-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the health-related factors and analyze the expression of epigenetic related genes and inflammatory genes in metabolic syndrome Trigger Finger (TF) and smoker TF. METHODS Samples from patients' fingers with symptomatic TF were collected. There were seven groups: healthy control group, carpal tunnel syndrome (as a control for gene expression analysis), TF, diabetic TF, hypertensive TF, dyslipidemic TF and smoker TF. The expression levels of epigenetic related genes and inflammatory genes in metabolic syndrome TF and smoker TF were evaluated by the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technique. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaires, disability of the arm, shoulder and hand (DASH) and numeric pain rating scale were given to the participants to fill out. RESULTS There was a significant increase in hand dysfunction in the metabolic TF groups and smoker group compared to the TF group (p < 0.0001). The stress levels of the smoker TF group and TF with hypertension group were significantly increased compared with those in the TF group (p < 0.03) and (p < 0.021), respectively. On the other hand, there was a significant increase in the COL-I, COL-II and TNF-α gene expression of the metabolic TF groups and smoker group (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Health-related factors in the TF tendons was highly associated with the level of inflammation and genetic alteration in TF metabolic syndromes and smoker TF patients. Therefore, further investigation is required to examine the combination of occupational therapy, gene expression, and health-related factors as a promising method of managing TF.
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- Abdulaziz M F Shayea
- Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait.
- Anatomy Msc. in Neuroscience Felid, Departments of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait.
- Departments of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait.
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- Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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- Occupational Therapy Department, Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait
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del Castillo FA. Letter to the Editor: Insights on Health, Religion/Spirituality, and Vulnerable Populations. J Prev Med Public Health 2023; 56:97-98. [PMID: 36746428 PMCID: PMC9925280 DOI: 10.3961/jpmph.22.533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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- Fides A. del Castillo
- Department of Theology and Religious Education, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines,Corresponding author: Fides A. del Castillo, Department of Theology and Religious Education, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila 0922, Philippines E-mail:
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Boyas JF, Moore D, Duran MY, Fuentes J, Woodiwiss J, McCoy L, Cirino A. Exploring the health of child protection workers: A call to action. Health Promot Perspect 2022; 12:381-390. [PMID: 36852203 PMCID: PMC9958233 DOI: 10.34172/hpp.2022.50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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Background: This exploratory study determined if a relationship exists between secondary traumatic stress (STS) related to health status, health outcomes, and health practices among child protection workers in a Southern state. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional survey research design that included a non-probability sample of child protection workers (N=196). Data were collected face-to-face and online between April 2018 and November 2019 from multiple county agencies. A self-administered questionnaire was completed focused on various health behaviors, outcomes, and workplace perceptions. Results: Results of the zero-order correlations suggest that higher levels of STS were significantly associated with not having visited a doctor for a routine checkup (r=-0.17, P=0.04), more trips to see a doctor (r=0.16, P=0.01), and increased number of visits to emergency room (ER) (r=0.20, P=0.01). Lower levels of STS were associated with better self-rated health (SRH) (r=-0.32, P≤0.001), higher perceptions of health promotion at work (r=-0.29, P≤0.001), frequent exercise (r=-0.21, P=0.01), and by avoiding salt (r=-0.20, P≤0.031). T-test results suggest that workers who did not have children (µ=45.85, SD=14.02, P=0.01) and non-Hispanic white workers (µ=51.79, SD=11.62, P≤0.001) reported significantly higher STS levels than workers who had children (µ=39.73, SD=14.58) and self-identified as Black (µ=39.01, SD=14.38). Conclusion: Findings show that increased interpersonal trauma was linked to unhealthy eating, general physical health problems, and health care utilization. If not addressed, both STS and poor health and health outcomes can have unfavorable employee outcomes, such as poor service delivery.
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- Javier F. Boyas
- Troy University, School of Social Work and Human Services, 112A Wright Hall, Troy, AL, 36082, USA,Corresponding Author: Javier F. Boyas,
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- Troy University, School of Social Work and Human Services, 112A Wright Hall, Troy, AL, 36082, USA
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- University of Georgia, School of Social Work, 279 Williams St., Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- University of Georgia, School of Social Work, 279 Williams St., Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- University of Georgia, School of Social Work, 279 Williams St., Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- University of Georgia, School of Social Work, 279 Williams St., Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- University of Georgia, School of Social Work, 279 Williams St., Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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