Bands on the Book- Themes Found in a Facebook Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Support Group

Bariatric surgery is a tool used when comorbidities and excess weight negatively impact the health of a patient. While there are several different bariatric procedures, the focus for this study are patients who had the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding [LAGB]. This study examined a group on the social media format Facebook, the “Lapband Support Group� where members use the platform to communicate and offer support throughout their journeys. A literature review revealed common themes seen in this population and these were compared to posts found on the support group page. An IRB was obtained, and permission was given by the administrators of the group to monitor posts for three months. The posts from the members of the group were collected and analyzed for common themes and concepts. The research question that drove this study is, “What are the responses and themes found in a Facebook laparoscopic band support group of bariatric surgery patients�? The analysis was done with a team using Colazzi’s method. The concepts revealed were, “Fill fluctuations and frustrations�, “Life with a band�, and “Community collaboration�. These themes can drive a discussion about the journey bariatric patients face and how it impacts them mentally and physically. These findings can also be used by nurses and providers to offer patient specific care for all bariatric patients. They may be able to promote better use of social media platforms to reach patients and support them post operatively

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Bands on the Book- Themes Found in a Facebook Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Support Group

Bariatric surgery is a tool used when comorbidities and excess weight negatively impact the health of a patient. While there are several different bariatric procedures, the focus for this study are patients who had the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding [LAGB]. This study examined a group on the social media format Facebook, the “Lapband Support Group” where members use the platform to communicate and offer support throughout their journeys. A literature review revealed common themes seen in this population and these were compared to posts found on the support group page. An IRB was obtained, and permission was given by the administrators of the group to monitor posts for three months. The posts from the members of the group were collected and analyzed for common themes and concepts. The research question that drove this study is, “What are the responses and themes found in a Facebook laparoscopic band support group of bariatric surgery patients”? The analysis was done with a team using Colazzi’s method. The concepts revealed were, “Fill fluctuations and frustrations”, “Life with a band”, and “Community collaboration”. These themes can drive a discussion about the journey bariatric patients face and how it impacts them mentally and physically. These findings can also be used by nurses and providers to offer patient specific care for all bariatric patients. They may be able to promote better use of social media platforms to reach patients and support them post operatively

Potentially Heterogeneous Cross-Sectional Associations of Seafood Consumption with Diabetes and Glycemia in Urban South Asia.

Aims: In this study, we aimed to estimate cross-sectional associations of fish or shellfish consumption with diabetes and glycemia in three South Asian mega-cities. Methods: We analyzed baseline data from 2010-2011 of a cohort (n = 16,287) representing the population ≥20 years old that was neither pregnant nor on bedrest from Karachi (unweighted n = 4017), Delhi (unweighted n = 5364), and Chennai (unweighted n = 6906). Diabetes was defined as self-reported physician-diagnosed diabetes, fasting plasma glucose ≥126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L), or glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) ≥6.5% (48 mmol/mol). We estimated adjusted and unadjusted odds ratios for diabetes using survey estimation logistic regression for each city, and differences in glucose and HbA1c using survey estimation linear regression for each city. Adjusted models controlled for age, gender, body mass index, waist-height ratio, sedentary lifestyle, educational attainment, tobacco use, an unhealthy diet index score, income, self-reported physician diagnosis of high blood pressure, and self-reported physician diagnosis of high cholesterol. Results: The prevalence of diabetes was 26.7% (95% confidence interval: 24.8, 28.6) in Chennai, 36.7% (32.9, 40.5) in Delhi, and 24.3% (22.0, 26.6) in Karachi. Fish and shellfish were consumed more frequently in Chennai than in the other two cities. In Chennai, the adjusted odds ratio for diabetes, comparing more than weekly vs. less than weekly fish consumption, was 0.81 (0.61, 1.08); in Delhi, it was 1.18 (0.87, 1.58), and, in Karachi, it was 1.30 (0.94, 1.80). In Chennai, the adjusted odds ratio of prevalent diabetes among persons consuming shellfish more than weekly versus less than weekly was 1.08 (95% CI: 0.90, 1.30); in Delhi, it was 1.35 (0.90, 2.01), and, in Karachi, it was 1.68 (0.98, 2.86). Conclusions: Both the direction and the magnitude of association between seafood consumption and glycemia may vary by city. Further investigation into specific locally consumed seafoods and their prospective associations with incident diabetes and related pathophysiology are warranted