1  1145 114 CONCURRENT DIAGNOSIS OF ADENOMYOSIS AND CONGENITAL UTERINE ANOMALIES: A REVIEW. BACKGROUND: ADENOMYOSIS AND CONGENITAL UTERINE ANOMALIES (CUAS) CAN COMPROMISE REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL AND MAY COEXIST IN THE SAME PATIENT, ESPECIALLY IN CASES OF INFERTILITY. THIS REVIEW (CRD42022382850) AIMS TO EVALUATE THE PUBLISHED CASES OF CONCURRENT ADENOMYOSIS AND SYNDROMIC AND NONSYNDROMIC CUAS. METHODS: A LITERATURE SEARCH FOR SUITABLE ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WAS PERFORMED USING THE FOLLOWING DATABASES FROM INCEPTION TO 30 NOVEMBER 2022: MEDLINE, EMBASE, GLOBAL HEALTH, THE COCHRANE LIBRARY, HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT DATABASE, AND WEB OF SCIENCE. ARTICLES INCLUDING BOTH CUAS AND ADENOMYOSIS, WITH DATA ABOUT THEIR POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP, WERE INCLUDED. RESULTS: THE LITERATURE SEARCH RETRIEVED 14 ARTICLES THAT MET THE PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW AND SUMMARIZED THE MOST RECENT FINDINGS REGARDING THE CONCURRENT DIAGNOSIS OF ADENOMYOSIS AND CUAS. CONCLUSIONS: ADENOMYOSIS CAN BE FOUND IN BOTH SYNDROMIC AND NONSYNDROMIC CUAS, AND MAY ARISE FROM SEVERAL ETIOLOGIES. THE HYPOTHESIS THAT OBSTRUCTIONS IN CUAS INCREASE UTERINE PRESSURE AND PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADENOMYOSIS REMAINS TO BE FURTHER ELUCIDATED, AND ADDITIONAL FINDINGS MAY ALSO PLAY A ROLE. THE PATIENT'S GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, AND HORMONAL PATTERNS, AS WELL AS NORMAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES, SUCH AS PREGNANCY, MAY INFLUENCE THE GROWTH OF ADENOMYOSIS.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
2  5137  37 POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF NON-SUICIDAL SELF-INJURY (NSSI) IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. BACKGROUND: NON-SUICIDAL SELF-INJURY (NSSI) IS A FREQUENT AND PROMINENT PHENOMENON IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MDD). EVEN THOUGH ITS PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS ARE RELATIVELY WELL UNDERSTOOD, THE POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF NSSI IN MDD REMAIN ELUSIVE. AIMS: TO REVIEW PRESENT EVIDENCE RELATED TO THE POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF NSSI IN MDD. METHODS: ACCORDING TO PREFERRED REPORTING ITEMS FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES 2020 GUIDELINES, ARTICLES FOR THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WERE SEARCHED ON MEDLINE (THROUGH PUBMED), EMBASE (THROUGH ELSEVIER), PSYCINFO (THROUGH OVID) AND WEB OF SCIENCE DATABASES FOR ENGLISH ARTICLES, AS WELL AS CHINA NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURE (CNKI), SINOMED, WANFANG DATA, AND THE CHONGQING VIP CHINESE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PERIODICAL (VIP) DATABASES FOR CHINESE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FROM THE DATE OF INCEPTION TO 2 AUGUST 2022. TWO RESEARCHERS (BW, HZ) INDEPENDENTLY SCREENED STUDIES BASED ON INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION CRITERIA AND ASSESSED THEIR QUALITY. RESULTS: A TOTAL OF 25 157 STUDIES WERE SEARCHED. ONLY 25 OF THEM WERE ULTIMATELY INCLUDED, CONTAINING 3336 SUBJECTS (1535 PATIENTS WITH MDD AND NSSI, 1403 PATIENTS WITH MDD WITHOUT NSSI AND 398 HCS). INCLUDED STUDIES WERE DIVIDED INTO 6 CATEGORIES: PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS (11 STUDIES), NEUROIMAGING (8 STUDIES), STRESS AND HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL (HPA) AXIS (2 STUDIES), PAIN PERCEPTION (1 STUDY), ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG) (2 STUDIES) AND EPIGENETICS (1 STUDY). CONCLUSIONS: THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW INDICATES THAT PATIENTS WITH MDD AND NSSI MIGHT HAVE SPECIFIC PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, ABERRANT BRAIN FUNCTIONS AND NEUROCHEMICAL METABOLISMS, HPA AXIS DYSFUNCTIONS, ABNORMAL PAIN PERCEPTIONS AND EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
3  3146  37 GLOBAL RESEARCH TRENDS ON EPIGENETICS AND NEUROPATHIC PAIN: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS. OBJECTIVE: NEUROPATHIC PAIN (NP) IS A COMMON DISEASE THAT MANIFESTS WITH PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM. IN RECENT YEARS, THE INTERACTIONS OF NP WITH THE EPIGENETIC MECHANISM HAVE BEEN INCREASINGLY ELUCIDATED. HOWEVER, ONLY A FEW STUDIES HAVE USED BIBLIOMETRIC TOOLS TO SYSTEMATICALLY ANALYZE KNOWLEDGE IN THIS FIELD. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS TO VISUALLY ANALYZE THE TRENDS, HOTSPOTS, AND FRONTIERS IN EPIGENETICS AND NP RESEARCH BY USING A BIBLIOMETRIC METHOD. METHODS: STUDIES RELATED TO EPIGENETICS AND NP WERE SEARCHED FROM THE SCIENCE CITATION INDEX-EXPANDED OF THE WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION DATABASE. SEARCH TIME IS FROM INCEPTION TO NOVEMBER 30, 2022. NO RESTRICTIONS WERE PLACED ON LANGUAGE. ONLY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS WERE INCLUDED AS DOCUMENT TYPES. DATA ON INSTITUTIONS, COUNTRIES, AUTHORS, JOURNAL DISTRIBUTION, AND KEYWORDS WERE IMPORTED INTO CITESPACE SOFTWARE FOR VISUAL ANALYSIS. RESULTS: A TOTAL OF 867 PUBLICATIONS MET THE INCLUSION CRITERIA, WHICH SPANNED THE PERIOD FROM 2000 TO 2022. OVER THE YEARS, THE NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS AND THE FREQUENCY OF CITATIONS EXHIBITED A CLEAR UPWARD TREND IN GENERAL, REACHING A PEAK IN 2021. THE MAJOR CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS WERE CHINA, THE UNITED STATES, AND JAPAN. THE TOP THREE INSTITUTIONS WERE RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY, XUZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, AND NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY. MOLECULAR PAIN, PAIN, AND JOURNAL OF NEUROINFLAMMATION CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE VOLUME OF ISSUES. AMONG THE TOP 10 AUTHORS IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS, TAO YUAN-XIANG CONTRIBUTED 30 ENTRIES, FOLLOWED BY ZHANG YI WITH 24 AND WU SHAO-GEN WITH 20. ON THE BASIS OF THE BURST AND CLUSTERS OF KEYWORDS, "DNA METHYLATION," "CIRCULAR RNA," "ACETYLATION," "LONG NON-CODING RNA," AND "MICROGLIA" ARE GLOBAL HOTSPOTS IN THE FIELD. CONCLUSION: THE BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT THE NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO EPIGENETICS AND NP IS EXHIBITING A RAPID INCREASE. KEYWORD ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT "DNA METHYLATION," "CIRCULAR RNA," "ACETYLATION," "LONG NON-CODING RNA" AND "MICROGLIA" ARE THE MOST INTERESTING TERMS FOR RESEARCHERS IN THE FIELD. MORE RIGOROUS CLINICAL TRIALS AND ADDITIONAL STUDIES THAT EXPLORE RELEVANT MECHANISMS ARE REQUIRED IN THE FUTURE.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
4  1760  26 EARLY PREDICTORS OF ASTHMA AND ALLERGY IN CHILDREN: THE ROLE OF EPIGENETICS. PURPOSE OF REVIEW: ASTHMA AND ALLERGIC DISEASES ARE AMONG THE MOST PREVALENT CHRONIC NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD. ALTHOUGH EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES SUGGEST THAT ASTHMA BEGINS IN THE PRESCHOOL YEARS, THE LACK OF FIRM DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA TO DISTINGUISH CHILDREN WHO WILL WHEEZE ONLY TRANSIENTLY DURING EARLY-LIFE LOWER RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES FROM CHILDREN WHO WILL WHEEZE PERSISTENTLY AND DEVELOP ASTHMA PREVENTS PINPOINTING THE TIME AT WHICH DISEASE TRULY BEGINS. EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS LINK GENE REGULATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CUES AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES. THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS, THE SEARCH FOR EPIGENETIC PREDICTORS OF ASTHMA AND/OR ALLERGY THAT CAN BE IDENTIFIED ALREADY AT BIRTH AND/OR IN EARLY LIFE. RECENT FINDINGS: DNA METHYLATION SIGNATURES ASSOCIATED WITH ASTHMA AND/OR ALLERGY AT BIRTH, AND TIME-DEPENDENT DNA METHYLATION SIGNATURES ASSOCIATED WITH ALLERGIC DISEASE PHENOTYPES IN EARLY LIFE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. SUMMARY: THE IDENTIFICATION OF EARLY EPIGENETIC PREDICTORS OF ALLERGIC DISEASES POINTS TO A POTENTIAL ROLE OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN REGULATING THE INCEPTION OF AND THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THESE DISEASES. PREDICTIVE SIGNATURES TO MORE ACCURATELY ESTIMATE A CHILD'S RISK FOR ASTHMA AND ALLERGY MAY IMPROVE CHILDHOOD ASTHMA DIAGNOSIS. MOREOVER, UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THESE SIGNATURES MAY HELP ELUCIDATE NOVEL DISEASE PATHWAYS AND ENDOTYPES.	2015	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
5  1797  41 EFFECT OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI ERADICATION ON GASTRIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. BACKGROUND: THE QUESTION OF WHETHER ERADICATION OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI (HP) CAN REVERSE GASTRIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS, INCLUDING INTESTINAL METAPLASIA, REMAINS UNCERTAIN, LEADING TO ONGOING DEBATE. THEREFORE, A META-ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF HP ERADICATION ON GASTRIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS. MATERIALS AND METHODS: PUBMED, EMBASE, COCHRANE LIBRARY, WEB OF SCIENCE, SCOPUS DATABASE, AND CLINICALTRIALS.GOV WERE SYSTEMATICALLY SEARCHED FROM INCEPTION TO APRIL 2023 FOR STUDIES THAT EXPLORED THE IMPACT OF HP ERADICATION ON GASTRIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS. RISK RATIOS (RRS) AND THEIR 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVALS (95% CIS) WERE SELECTED AS THE EFFECT SIZE. WE USED THE RANDOM-EFFECTS MODEL TO ASSESS POOLED DATA. WE ALSO PERFORMED QUALITY ASSESSMENTS, SUBGROUP ANALYSES, AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSES. RESULTS: FIFTEEN STUDIES WERE INCLUDED. COMPARED WITH PLACEBO, HP ERADICATION COULD SIGNIFICANTLY PREVENT THE PROGRESSION OF GASTRIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS (RR = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.81-0.94, P < 0.01) AND REVERSE THEM (RR = 1.32, 95% CI: 1.17-1.50, P < 0.01). THEN, SPECIFIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS WERE FURTHER EXPLORED. THE PROGRESSION OF INTESTINAL METAPLASIA WAS SIGNIFICANTLY PREVENTED BY HP ERADICATION COMPARED TO PLACEBO OR NO TREATMENT (RR = 0.80, 95% CI: 0.69-0.94, P < 0.01). MOREOVER, COMPARED WITH PLACEBO OR NO TREATMENT, HP ERADICATION ALSO IMPROVED CHRONIC ATROPHIC GASTRITIS (RR = 1.84, 95% CI: 1.30-2.61, P < 0.01) AND INTESTINAL METAPLASIA (RR = 1.41, 95% CI: 1.15-1.73, P < 0.01). HOWEVER, IN TERMS OF PREVENTING DYSPLASIA PROGRESSION (RR = 0.86, 95% CI: 0.37-2.00) AND IMPROVING DYSPLASIA (RR = 0.89, 95% CI: 0.47-1.70), HP ERADICATION HAD NO ADVANTAGE COMPARED TO PLACEBO OR NO TREATMENT. CONCLUSIONS: HP ERADICATION THERAPY COULD PREVENT THE PROGRESSION OF GASTRIC PRECANCEROUS LESIONS AND REVERSE THEM. NOTABLY, INTESTINAL METAPLASIA CAN BE REVERSED, BUT THIS MAY ONLY BE APPROPRIATE FOR PATIENTS WITH EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS AND MILDER LESIONS.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
6   254  21 ADVANCES IN ASTHMA 2015: ACROSS THE LIFESPAN. IN 2015, PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING ASTHMA RANGED FROM INSIGHTS TO ASTHMA INCEPTION, EXACERBATIONS, AND SEVERITY TO ADVANCEMENTS THAT WILL IMPROVE DISEASE MANAGEMENT THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN. 2015'S INSIGHTS TO ASTHMA INCEPTION INCLUDED HOW THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOME AFFECTS ASTHMA EXPRESSION WITH THE IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIFIC GASTROINTESTINAL BACTERIAL TAXA IN EARLY INFANCY ASSOCIATED WITH LESS ASTHMA RISK, POSSIBLY BY PROMOTING REGULATORY IMMUNE DEVELOPMENT AT A CRITICAL EARLY AGE. THE RELEVANCE OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN REGULATING ASTHMA-RELATED GENE EXPRESSION WAS STRENGTHENED. PREDICTING AND PREVENTING EXACERBATIONS THROUGHOUT LIFE MIGHT HELP TO REDUCE PROGRESSIVE LUNG FUNCTION DECREASE AND DISEASE SEVERITY IN ADULTHOOD. ALTHOUGH ALLERGY HAS LONG BEEN LINKED TO ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS, A MECHANISM THROUGH WHICH IGE IMPAIRS RHINOVIRUS IMMUNITY AND UNDERLIES ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS WAS DEMONSTRATED AND IMPROVED BY ANTI-IGE THERAPY (OMALIZUMAB). OTHER KEY MOLECULAR PATHWAYS UNDERLYING ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS, SUCH AS CADHERIN-RELATED FAMILY MEMBER 3 (CDHR3) AND OROSOMUCOID LIKE 3 (ORMDL3), WERE ELUCIDATED. NEW ANTI-IL-5 THERAPEUTICS, MEPOLIZUMAB AND RESLIZUMAB, WERE US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION APPROVED FOR THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH SEVERE EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA. IN A CLINICAL TRIAL THE NOVEL THERAPEUTIC INHALED GATA3 MRNA-SPECIFIC DNAZYME ATTENUATED EARLY- AND LATE-PHASE ALLERGIC RESPONSES TO INHALED ALLERGEN. THESE CURRENT FINDINGS ARE SIGNIFICANT STEPS TOWARD ADDRESSING UNMET NEEDS IN ASTHMA PREVENTION, SEVERITY MODIFICATION, DISPARITIES, AND LIFESPAN OUTCOMES.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
7   639  39 BIOMARKERS FOR MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (ME/CFS): A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. BACKGROUND: MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (ME/CFS) IS A MULTIFACETED CONDITION THAT AFFECTS MOST BODY SYSTEMS. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO KNOWN DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKER; INSTEAD, DIAGNOSIS IS DEPENDENT ON APPLICATION OF SYMPTOM-BASED CASE CRITERIA FOLLOWING EXCLUSION OF ANY OTHER POTENTIAL MEDICAL CONDITIONS. WHILE THERE ARE SOME STUDIES THAT REPORT POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS FOR ME/CFS, THEIR EFFICACY HAS NOT BEEN VALIDATED. THE AIM OF THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW IS TO COLLATE AND APPRAISE LITERATURE PERTAINING TO A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER(S) WHICH MAY EFFECTIVELY DIFFERENTIATE ME/CFS PATIENTS FROM HEALTHY CONTROLS. METHODS: THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WAS CONDUCTED ACCORDING TO THE PREFERRED REPORTING ITEMS FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES AND COCHRANE REVIEW GUIDELINES. PUBMED, EMBASE AND SCOPUS WERE SYSTEMATICALLY SEARCHED FOR ARTICLES CONTAINING "BIOMARKER" AND "ME/CFS" KEYWORDS IN THE ABSTRACT OR TITLE AND IF THEY INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA: (1) WERE OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN DECEMBER 1994 AND APRIL 2022; (2) INVOLVED ADULT HUMAN PARTICIPANTS; (3) FULL TEXT IS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH (4) ORIGINAL RESEARCH; (5) DIAGNOSIS OF ME/CFS PATIENTS MADE ACCORDING TO THE FUKUDA CRITERIA (1994), CANADIAN CONSENSUS CRITERIA (2003), INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS CRITERIA (2011) OR INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE CRITERIA (2015); (6) STUDY INVESTIGATED POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS OF ME/CFS COMPARED TO HEALTHY CONTROLS. QUALITY AND BIAS WERE ASSESSED USING THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE CRITICAL APPRAISAL CHECKLIST FOR CASE CONTROL STUDIES. RESULTS: A TOTAL OF 101 PUBLICATIONS WERE INCLUDED IN THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS RANGED FROM GENETIC/EPIGENETIC (19.8%), IMMUNOLOGICAL (29.7%), METABOLOMICS/MITOCHONDRIAL/MICROBIOME (14.85%), ENDOVASCULAR/CIRCULATORY (17.82%), NEUROLOGICAL (7.92%), ION CHANNEL (8.91%) AND PHYSICAL DYSFUNCTION BIOMARKERS (8.91%). MOST OF THE POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS REPORTED WERE BLOOD-BASED (79.2%). USE OF LYMPHOCYTES AS A MODEL TO INVESTIGATE ME/CFS PATHOLOGY WAS PROMINENT AMONG IMMUNE-BASED BIOMARKERS. MOST BIOMARKERS HAD SECONDARY (43.56%) OR TERTIARY (54.47%) SELECTIVITY, WHICH IS THE ABILITY FOR THE BIOMARKER TO IDENTIFY A DISEASE-CAUSING AGENT, AND A MODERATE (59.40%) TO COMPLEX (39.60%) EASE-OF-DETECTION, INCLUDING THE REQUIREMENT OF SPECIALISED EQUIPMENT. CONCLUSIONS: ALL POTENTIAL ME/CFS BIOMARKERS DIFFERED IN EFFICIENCY, QUALITY, AND TRANSLATABILITY AS A DIAGNOSTIC MARKER. REPRODUCIBILITY OF FINDINGS BETWEEN THE INCLUDED PUBLICATIONS WERE LIMITED, HOWEVER, SEVERAL STUDIES VALIDATED THE INVOLVEMENT OF IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION IN THE PATHOLOGY OF ME/CFS AND THE USE OF LYMPHOCYTES AS A MODEL TO INVESTIGATE THE PATHOMECHANISM OF ILLNESS. THE HETEROGENEITY SHOWN ACROSS MANY OF THE INCLUDED STUDIES HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND UNIFORM PROTOCOLS IN ME/CFS BIOMARKER RESEARCH.	2023	

8  1045  38 CLINICAL CORRELATION AMONG MALE INFERTILITY AND OVERALL MALE HEALTH: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. PURPOSE: ONGOING EVIDENCE HAS SUGGESTED THE ROLE OF MALE FACTOR INFERTILITY AS A POTENTIAL PREDICTOR OF MORTALITY AND GENERAL HEALTH STATUS. THE AIM OF THE PRESENT REVIEW IS TO UPDATE THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE BASE REGARDING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MALE FACTOR INFERTILITY AND GENERAL HEALTH THROUGH A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE WAS CARRIED OUT FROM INCEPTION TO NOVEMBER 2019 IN ORDER TO EVALUATE SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN MALE INFERTILITY AND ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES SUCH AS CARDIOVASCULAR, ONCOLOGIC, METABOLIC AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AS WELL AS OVERALL MORTALITY. RESULTS: IN ALL, 27 STUDIES MET INCLUSION CRITERIA AND WERE CRITICALLY EXAMINED. FIVE STUDIES EXAMINED MALE INFERTILITY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK, 11 EXAMINED ONCOLOGIC RISK (E.G., OVERALL CANCER RISK, TESTIS AND PROSTATE CANCER), 8 EXAMINED AGGREGATE CHRONIC MEDICAL DISEASES AND 5 INFERTILITY RELATED TO INCIDENCE OF MORTALITY, FOR A TOTAL OF 599,807 MEN DIAGNOSED WITH ANY MALE FACTOR INFERTILITY COVERING A PERIOD FROM 1916 TO 2016. CONCLUSIONS: A MAN'S FERTILITY AND OVERALL HEALTH APPEAR TO BE INTERCONNECTED. THEREFORE, A DIAGNOSIS OF MALE INFERTILITY MAY ALLOW A WINDOW INTO FUTURE COMORBIDITY AND/OR MORTALITY WHICH MAY HELP GUIDE CLINICAL DECISIONS AND COUNSELING. SEVERAL POSSIBLE ETIOLOGIES SUCH AS GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, DEVELOPMENTAL, AND LIFESTYLE-BASED FACTORS NEED TO BE FURTHER EVALUATED IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS BETWEEN MALE INFERTILITY AND HEALTH.	2020	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
9  1221  40 CRITICAL CONNECTIONS AMONG EMBEDDING OF CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY AND ADULT CHRONIC GASTROINTESTINAL AND GENITOURINARY DISORDERS: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. BACKGROUND: A GAP IN THE LITERATURE EXISTS DEMONSTRATING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILD EXPERIENCES (ACES) AS POTENTIAL A PRIORI CONTRIBUTING FACTORS AND GASTROINTESTINAL (GI)/GENITOURINARY (GU) DISORDERS. PURPOSE: A NARRATIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE WAS CONDUCTED TO EXPLORE CRITICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ACES AND GI/GU DISORDERS WITH A WORKING HYPOTHESIS OF A DOSE-RESPONSIVE RELATIONSHIP EXISTING AMONG THEM. METHODS: A LITERATURE SEARCH WAS CONDUCTED USING MEDLINE, CUMULATIVE INDEX OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE, PUBMED, AND WEB OF SCIENCE USING SEARCH TERMS ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY, OBESITY, GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS, AND GENITOURINARY DISORDERS, AND SECONDARY SEARCHES OF OBESITY AND SPECIFIC GI/GU DISORDERS (EG, IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, PELVIC PAIN). DUPLICATES AND ARTICLES WITH INAPPROPRIATE FOCUS WERE DISCARDED AFTER REVIEW. RESULTS: A TOTAL OF 58 ARTICLES WERE INCLUDED. RESEARCH IDENTIFIED SHOWED THAT ACES DO PLAY A ROLE IN ADULT GI AND GU MORBIDITIES IN A DOSE-RESPONSE MANNER, AND SELECTED FACTORS SUCH AS SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, RACE, GENDER IDENTITY, AND PHYSIOLOGIC STATE (EG, OBESITY) CONFER HIGHER RISK. RESEARCH ALSO SUGGESTED THAT GENETIC/EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS ARE AT PLAY IN DISEASE OCCURRENCE, AND THE IMPACT OF ACES MAY BE MITIGATED WITH POSITIVE LIFE EXPERIENCES. CONCLUSION: RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACES AND GI/GU DISORDERS IS HETEROGENEOUS, NOTABLY DUE TO WIDE VARIATIONS IN HOW TYPES OF ACES ARE DEFINED AND SCREENING METHODS USED. DESPITE THIS LIMITATION, ASSOCIATIONS ARE DEMONSTRATED. AWARENESS OF A POSSIBLE CORRELATION BETWEEN ACES AND RISK OF GI/GU DISORDERS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE, ESPECIALLY THROUGH TRAUMA-INFORMED STRATEGIES.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
10   602  25 BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHILDHOOD ASTHMA, TOWARDS PRIMARY PREVENTION - ARE WE THERE YET? CONSIDERATION OF PERTINENT LITERATURE. ASTHMA IS A CHRONIC DISEASE, CHARACTERIZED BY REVERSIBLE AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION, AIRWAY INFLAMMATION AND HYPER-REACTIVITY. THE PREVALENCE OF ASTHMA HAS RISEN DRAMATICALLY OVER THE PAST DECADE, AFFECTING AROUND 300,000,000 PEOPLE. THE ETIOLOGY IS MULTIFACTORIAL, WITH GENETIC, EPIGENETIC, DEVELOPMENTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS PLAYING A ROLE. A COMPLEX INTERACTION BETWEEN THE INTRAUTERINE ENVIRONMENT, THE DEVELOPING IMMUNE SYSTEM, THE INFANT'S MICROBIOME AND INFECTIOUS ORGANISMS MAY LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALLERGIC SENSITIZATION AND ASTHMA. THUS, A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE INVESTIGATED THE RISK FACTORS FOR CHILDHOOD ASTHMA, WITH A METICULOUS SEARCH OF MODIFIABLE FACTORS THAT COULD AID IN PRIMARY PREVENTION. WE PRESENT A CURRENT LITERATURE REVIEW FROM 2014-2017, AS WELL AS OLDER CLASSIC PUBLICATIONS, ON THE PATHOGENESIS AND THE POTENTIAL MODIFIABLE FACTORS FOR PRIMARY PREVENTION OF ASTHMA. NO IDEAL PREVENTIVE MEASURE HAS YET BEEN FOUND. RATHER, CREATING FAVORABLE PRENATAL AND POSTNATAL ENVIRONMENTS, MINIMAL EXPOSURE TO HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, PREVENTION OF INFECTIONS IN EARLY LIFE, ALLERGIC DESENSITIZATION AND NUTRITIONAL MODIFICATIONS COULD POSSIBLY REDUCE ASTHMA INCEPTION. IN THE ERA OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL RISK FACTORS AND TAILORING SPECIFIC PREVENTIVE MEASURES IS WARRANTED.	2017	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
11  2585  41 EPIGENETICS OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. STUDY OBJECTIVES: OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) IS A CHRONIC AND WIDELY PREVALENT DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE HEALTH DISORDERS. CURRENT DIAGNOSTIC STRATEGIES FOR OSA ARE LIMITED BECAUSE OF COST, TIME, AND ACCESS. EPIGENETIC SIGNATURES OFFER INSIGHT INTO THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DISEASE AND ENVIRONMENT AND COULD PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN DEVELOPING BOTH DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TOOLS FOR OSA. IN THE CURRENT STUDY, A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE SEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE THE EXISTING EVIDENCE OF OSA-ASSOCIATED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. METHODS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE SEARCH WAS PERFORMED USING ELECTRONIC ACADEMIC DATABASES INCLUDING PUBMED, CINAHL, SCOPUS, EMBASE, EBM REVIEWS, AND WEB OF SCIENCE. HOWEVER, THE CURRENT STUDY FOCUSED ON SCREENING FOR ORIGINAL, ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTICLES PERTAINING TO OSA AND ASSOCIATED EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. TO PRODUCE UNBIASED RESULTS, SCREENING WAS PERFORMED INDEPENDENTLY BY AUTHORS. RESULTS: WE IDENTIFIED 2,944 PUBLICATIONS IN OUR SYSTEMATIC SEARCH. AMONG THEM, 65 RESEARCH ARTICLES WERE RELATED TO OS A-ASSOCIATED DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION, GENETIC VARIATION, AND EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. ALTHOUGH THESE 65 ARTICLES WERE CONSIDERED FOR FULL MANUSCRIPT REVIEW, ONLY 12 ARTICLES MET THE CRITERIA OF OSA-ASSOCIATED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN HUMAN AND ANIMAL MODELS. HUMAN PATIENTS WITH OSA HAD UNIQUE EPIGENETIC CHANGES COMPARED TO HEALTHY CONTROL PATIENTS AND, INTERESTINGLY, EPIGENETIC SIGNATURES WERE COMMONLY IDENTIFIED IN GENES ASSOCIATED WITH METABOLIC AND INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS. CONCLUSIONS: ALTHOUGH THE AVAILABLE STUDIES ARE LIMITED, THIS RESEARCH PROVIDES NOVEL INSIGHTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EPIGENETIC MARKERS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF OSA. THOROUGH GENOME-WIDE INVESTIGATIONS WILL BE REQUIRED TO DEVELOP COST-EFFECTIVE, ROBUST BIOMARKERS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF OSA AMONG CHILDREN AND ADULTS. HERE, WE OFFER A STUDY DESIGN FOR SUCH EFFORTS. CITATION: LEADER BA, KORITALA BSC, MOORE CA, DEAN EG, KOTTYAN LC, SMITH DF. EPIGENETICS OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. J CLIN SLEEP MED. 2021;17(12):2533-2541.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
12  1222  18 CRITICAL MOMENTS IN PRESCHOOL OBESITY: THE CALL FOR NURSES AND COMMUNITIES TO ASSESS AND INTERVENE. THIRTY YEARS AGO OBESITY WAS RARELY SEEN IN CHILDREN BUT IS NOW DESCRIBED AS A WORLD WIDE PANDEMIC. PREVIOUS RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ON SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN; HOWEVER, RESEARCHERS HAVE NOW IDENTIFIED CRITICAL MOMENTS OF DEVELOPMENT DURING UTERINE LIFE AND EARLY INFANCY WHERE NEGATIVE FACTORS OR INSULTS COULD CAUSE PERMANENT CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF TISSUES AND LEAD TO EPIGENETIC CHANGES. OBESITY IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN CAN CAUSE PREMATURE AND LONG TERM CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS; HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL DIFFICULTIES IN KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN; DIFFICULTY WITH SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; INCREASED FEELINGS OF SADNESS, LONELINESS AND ANXIETY; AND NEGATIVE SELF IMAGE IN CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 5 YEARS OF AGE. THE IMPORTANCE OF IDENTIFYING CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE WITH OBESITY AND ASSOCIATED RISKS IS IMPORTANT YET LESS THAN HALF OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTERVENE IN CASES OF PRESCHOOL OBESITY. THIS PAPER EXPLORES THE CONCERNS AROUND ANTENATAL AND PRESCHOOL OBESITY AND THE CHALLENGES FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES IN ASSESSING AND PROVIDING APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS.	2011	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
13  1095  24 COHORT PROFILE: THE EWHA BIRTH AND GROWTH STUDY. WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF LIFE-COURSE EPIDEMIOLOGY, RESEARCHERS REALIZED THE IMPORTANCE OF IDENTIFYING RISK FACTORS IN EARLY LIFE TO PREVENT CHRONIC DISEASES. THIS LED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EWHA BIRTH AND GROWTH STUDY IN 2001; THE STUDY IS A PROSPECTIVE BIRTH COHORT DESIGNED TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF EARLY LIFE RISK FACTORS FOR A CHILD'S GROWTH AND HEALTH. PARTICIPANTS WERE RECRUITED FROM THOSE WHO VISITED EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY MOKDONG HOSPITAL (A TERTIARY HOSPITAL IN SOUTHWEST SEOUL, KOREA) FOR PRENATAL CARE AT 24-28 WEEKS OF GESTATION. IN TOTAL, 891 MOTHERS ENROLLED IN THIS STUDY BETWEEN 2001 AND 2006 AND THEIR OFFSPRING (N=940) WERE FOLLOWED-UP. REGULAR CHECK-UP EXAMINATIONS OF OFFSPRING WERE CONDUCTED AT 3 YEARS, 5 YEARS, AND 7 YEARS OF AGE AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER. TO CONSIDER AGE-RELATED HEALTH ISSUES, EXTENSIVE DATA WERE COLLECTED USING QUESTIONNAIRES AND MEASUREMENTS. IN 2021, THE STUDY SUBJECTS WILL REACH 19 YEARS OF AGE, AND WE ARE PLANNING A CHECK-UP EXAMINATION FOR EARLY ADULTHOOD. ABOUT 20 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE COHORT DATA WERE COLLECTED, AND WE HAVE PUBLISHED RESULTS ON CHILDHOOD HEALTH OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH PRENATAL AND BIRTH CHARACTERISTICS, GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO CHILDHOOD METABOLISM, THE EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS, AND DIETARY PATTERNS IN CHILDHOOD. RECENTLY, WE STARTED REPORTING ON TOPICS RELATED TO ADOLESCENT HEALTH. THE FINDINGS WILL FACILITATE IDENTIFICATION OF EARLY LIFE RISK FACTORS FOR CHRONIC DISEASES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTIONS FOR DISEASES LATER IN LIFE.	2021	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
14    61  27 A HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK TO DELIVER INFORMATION ON PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE STRATEGIES. A SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK CAN REDUCE COSTS RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPLICATION BECAUSE IT ALLOWS DEVELOPERS TO REUSE BOTH DESIGN AND CODE. RECENTLY, COMPANIES AND RESEARCH GROUPS HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAVE BEEN EMPLOYING HEALTH SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS. THIS PAPER PRESENTS THE DESIGN, PROOF-OF-CONCEPT IMPLEMENTATIONS AND EXPERIMENTATION OF THE HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK (HSSF). THE HSSF IS A FRAMEWORK THAT TACKLES THE DEMAND FOR THE RECOMMENDATION OF SURVEILLANCE INFORMATION AIMING AT SUPPORTING PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE STRATEGIES. EXAMPLES OF SUCH STRATEGIES ARE THE AUTOMATIC RECOMMENDATION OF SURVEILLANCE LEVELS TO PATIENTS IN NEED OF HEALTHCARE AND THE AUTOMATIC RECOMMENDATION OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE THAT ELUCIDATES EPIGENETIC PROBLEMS RELATED TO PATIENTS. HSSF WAS CREATED FROM TWO SYSTEMS WE DEVELOPED IN OUR PREVIOUS WORK ON HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS: THE AUTOMATIC-SL AND CISS SYSTEMS. THE AUTOMATIC-SL SYSTEM AIMS TO ASSIST HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN MAKING DECISIONS AND IN IDENTIFYING CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS. THE CISS SERVICE ASSOCIATES GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC RISK FACTORS RELATED TO CHRONIC DISEASES WITH PATIENT'S CLINICAL RECORDS. TOWARDS EVALUATING THE HSSF FRAMEWORK, TWO NEW SYSTEMS, CISS+ AND CISS-SW, WERE CREATED BY MEANS OF ABSTRACTIONS AND INSTANTIATIONS OF THE FRAMEWORK (DESIGN AND CODE). WE SHOW THAT HSSF SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWO NEW SYSTEMS GIVEN THAT THEY BOTH RECOMMEND SCIENTIFIC PAPERS USING MEDICAL RECORDS AS QUERIES EVEN THOUGH THEY EXPLOIT DIFFERENT COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES. IN AN EXPERIMENT USING SIMULATED PATIENTS' MEDICAL RECORDS, WE SHOW THAT CISS, CISS+, AND CISS-SW SYSTEMS RECOMMENDED MORE CLOSELY RELATED AND SOMEWHAT RELATED DOCUMENTS THAN GOOGLE, GOOGLE SCHOLAR AND PUBMED. CONSIDERING RECALL AND PRECISION MEASURES, CISS+ SURPASSES CISS-SW IN TERMS OF PRECISION.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
15   455  36 APPLICATIONS OF YOGA IN ORAL ONCOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC SCOPING REVIEW. BACKGROUND AND AIMS: YOGA IS WELL-THOUGHT-OUT AS AN ALL-INCLUSIVE APPROACH GLOBALLY AND CAN BE ADMINISTERED IN CLINICAL CARE AS AN INTEGRATIVE OR ALTERNATE APPROACH TO REGULAR TREATMENT. YOGA EXERCISE HAS BEEN DISCLOSED TO INFLUENCE REMISSION FROM CANCER CELLS OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND ALSO REVERSES EPIGENETIC ALTERATIONS. APPLICATIONS OF YOGA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ORAL ONCOLOGY PATIENTS ARE SCARCE, HENCE THE NEED FOR A SCOPING REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. HENCE, THIS STUDY AIMED TO CONDUCT A SCOPING REVIEW OF THE EXISTING EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE APPLICATIONS OF YOGA IN ORAL ONCOLOGY. METHODS: THE REVIEW METHODOLOGY WAS INFORMED BY JOANNA BRIGG'S INSTITUTE GUIDELINES FOR SYSTEMATIC SCOPING REVIEWS, AND THE REVIEW WAS REPORTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PREFERRED REPORTING ITEMS FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES EXTENSION FOR SCOPING REVIEWS. TEN DATABASES WERE SEARCHED. THE RECORDS OF ALL THE LITERATURE RETRIEVED FROM THE SEARCH WERE IMPORTED INTO THE RAYYAN SOFTWARE FOR DEDUPLICATION. AFTER THE FULL-TEXT SCREENING, ONLY TWO WERE FOUND ELIGIBLE FOR INCLUSION IN THE SCOPING REVIEW. DATA OBTAINED IN THE INCLUDED LITERATURE WERE EXTRACTED AND SYNTHESIZED. RESULTS: THIS REVIEW FOUND THAT YOGA WAS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY EFFECTIVE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STRESS AMONG ORAL CANCER PATIENTS (P-VALUES > 0.04). HOWEVER, IT WAS FOUND THAT YOGA SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED ANXIETY, SALIVA STICKINESS, AND EPISODES OF FALLING ILL (P-VALUES < 0.05) WHILE IT IMPROVED MENTAL WELL-BEING, COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING, EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING, AND HEAD AND NECK PAIN OF THOSE ORAL CANCER PATIENTS THAT RECEIVED IT (P-VALUES < 0.05). CONCLUSION: AN INTEGRATIVE CARE APPROACH THAT CONSIDERS NONPHARMACEUTICAL TECHNIQUES SUCH AS YOGA COULD HELP TO REDUCE CARE COST WHILE IMPROVING CARE OUTCOMES AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF ORAL CANCER PATIENTS. HENCE, IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CONSIDER YOGA ALONG WITH ITS POTENTIAL BENEFITS, AND WE RECOMMEND GRADUAL INCORPORATION OF YOGA INTO ORAL CANCER CARE.	2023	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
16  1517  28 DNA METHYLATION AS A MEDIATOR OF ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT AND CHRONIC DISEASES: A SCOPING REVIEW ON APPLICATION OF MEDIATION ANALYSIS. DNA METHYLATION (DNAM) IS ONE OF THE MOST STUDIED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS. DNAM HAS EMERGED AS A KEY BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM AND BIOMARKERS TO TEST ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE AND OUTCOMES IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES. ALTHOUGH PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE FOCUSED ON ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN DNAM AND EITHER EXPOSURE/OUTCOMES, IT IS USEFUL TO TEST FOR MEDIATION OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EXPOSURE AND OUTCOME BY DNAM. THE PURPOSE OF THIS SCOPING REVIEW IS TO INTRODUCE THE METHODOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF STATISTICAL MEDIATION ANALYSIS AND TO EXAMINE EMERGING EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH APPLYING MEDIATION ANALYSES. WE CONDUCTED THIS SCOPING REVIEW FOR PUBLISHED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS ON THIS TOPIC USING ONLINE DATABASES (PUBMED, SCOPUS, COCHRANE, AND CINAHL) ENDING IN DECEMBER 2020. WE EXTRACTED A TOTAL OF 219 ARTICLES BY INITIAL SCREENING. AFTER REVIEWING TITLES, ABSTRACTS, AND FULL TEXTS, A TOTAL OF 69 ARTICLES WERE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS REVIEW. THE BREAKDOWN OF STUDIES ASSIGNED TO EACH CATEGORY WAS 13 FOR SMOKING (18.8%), 8 FOR DIETARY INTAKE AND FAMINE (11.6%), 6 FOR OTHER LIFESTYLE FACTORS (8.7%), 8 FOR CLINICAL ENDPOINTS (11.6%), 22 FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL EXPOSURES (31.9%), 2 FOR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) (2.9%), AND 10 FOR GENETIC FACTORS AND RACE (14.5%). IN THIS REVIEW, WE PROVIDE AN EXPOSURE-WIDE SUMMARY FOR THE MEDIATION ANALYSIS USING DNAM LEVELS. HOWEVER, WE FOUND HETEROGENOUS METHODS AND INTERPRETATIONS IN MEDIATION ANALYSIS WITH TYPICAL ISSUES SUCH AS DIFFERENT CELL COMPOSITIONS AND TISSUE-SPECIFICITY. FURTHER ACCUMULATION OF EVIDENCE WITH DIVERSE EXPOSURES, POPULATIONS AND WITH RIGOROUS METHODOLOGY WILL BE EXPECTED TO PROVIDE FURTHER INSIGHT IN THE ROLE OF DNAM IN DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY.	2022	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
17  4865  30 ORO-FACIAL PAIN AND TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. IT IS A DIFFICULT UNDERTAKING TO DESIGN A CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ANY DISEASE ENTITY, LET ALONE FOR ORO-FACIAL PAIN (OFP) AND MORE SPECIFICALLY FOR TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS (TMD). A FURTHER COMPLICATION OF THIS TASK IS THAT BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL VARIABLES MUST BE INCLUDED. TO AUGMENT THIS PROCESS, A TWO-STEP SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, ADHERING TO PRISMA GUIDELINES, OF THE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS PUBLISHED DURING THE LAST 20 YEARS FOR OFP AND TMD WAS PERFORMED. THE FIRST SEARCH STEP IDENTIFIED 190 POTENTIAL CITATIONS WHICH ULTIMATELY RESULTED IN ONLY 17 ARTICLES BEING INCLUDED FOR IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS AND REVIEW. THE SECOND STEP RESULTED IN ONLY 5 ARTICLES BEING SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THIS REVIEW. FIVE ADDITIONAL ARTICLES AND FOUR CLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES/CRITERIA WERE ALSO INCLUDED DUE TO EXPANSION OF THE SEARCH CRITERIA. THUS, IN TOTAL, 14 DOCUMENTS COMPRISING ARTICLES AND GUIDELINES/CRITERIA (8 PROPOSALS OF CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS FOR OFP; 6 FOR TMD) WERE SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. FOR EACH, A DISCUSSION AS TO THEIR ADVANTAGES, STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS WAS PROVIDED. SUGGESTIONS REGARDING THE FUTURE DIRECTION FOR IMPROVING THE CLASSIFICATION PROCESS WITH THE USE OF ONTOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES RATHER THAN TAXONOMY ARE DISCUSSED. FURTHERMORE, THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF AXES INCLUDED IN EXISTING CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS, TO INCLUDE GENETIC, EPIGENETIC AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL VARIABLES, IS EXPLORED. IT IS THEREFORE RECOMMENDED THAT FUTURE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM PROPOSALS BE BASED ON COMBINED APPROACHES AIMING TO PROVIDE ARCHETYPAL TREATMENT-ORIENTED CLASSIFICATIONS.	2018	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
18  2160  16 EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN ASTHMA. ASTHMA AND ALLERGIC DISEASES ARE AMONG THE MOST PREVALENT CHRONIC NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD, BUT THE UNDERLYING PATHOGENETIC MECHANISMS ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. BECAUSE EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS LINK GENE REGULATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CUES AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES, THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO ASTHMA AND ALLERGY PATHOGENESIS IS UNDER ACTIVE INVESTIGATION. DNA METHYLATION SIGNATURES ASSOCIATED WITH CONCURRENT DISEASE AND WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASTHMA DURING CHILDHOOD ASTHMA HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, BUT THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IS NOT EASILY INTERPRETABLE. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE CHARACTERIZATION OF EARLY EPIGENETIC PREDICTORS OF ASTHMA POINTS TO A POTENTIAL ROLE OF EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN REGULATING THE INCEPTION OF, AND THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO, THIS DISEASE.	2016	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
19  1151  37 CONNECTIONS AMONG BIOLOGIC EMBEDDING OF CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY, ADULT CHRONIC ILLNESS, AND WOUND CARE: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES) BIOLOGICALLY EMBED BY ALTERING BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND INFLUENCING EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS. THESE EXPERIENCES MAY GENERATE HEALTH RISK FACTORS. PURPOSE: A LITERATURE REVIEW WAS CONDUCTED TO COMPARE ACE-GENERATED HEALTH RISK FACTORS WITH RISK FACTORS FOR WOUND DEVELOPMENT AND ABERRANT HEALING, AS WELL AS TO IDENTIFY A GAP IN LITERATURE REGARDING CRITICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ACES, CHRONIC ILLNESS, AND WOUND DEVELOPMENT/HEALING, WITH ASSOCIATED PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. METHODOLOGY: A LITERATURE SEARCH OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ARTICLES WAS CONDUCTED USING THE CUMULATIVE INDEX OF NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH LITERATURE, MEDLINE, AND PUBMED USING THE SEARCH TERMS ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, ADULTS, WOUNDS, CHRONIC DISEASE OR ILLNESS, AND EPIGENETICS. THE SEARCHES YIELDED 561 PUBLICATIONS REGARDING ACES, CHRONIC ILLNESS OR DISEASE, AND ADULT; 182 FOR ACES; AND 547 FOR EPIGENETICS AND WOUNDS. ABSTRACTS WERE REVIEWED TO REMOVE DUPLICATES AND STUDIES WITH PARTICIPANTS WHO WERE <18 YEARS OLD. PUBLICATIONS WERE REVIEWED FOR SALIENCE; THOSE DISCUSSING THE BIOLOGIC PLAUSIBILITY OF ACES CONTRIBUTING TO ADULT ILLNESSES AND ASSOCIATED WOUND DEVELOPMENT AND HEALING WERE REVIEWED FOR INCLUSION. RESULTS: SIXTY-EIGHT (68) PUBLICATIONS WERE FOUND APPROPRIATE FOR REVIEW AND INCLUDED POPULATION-BASED STUDIES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA; META-ANALYSES; AND SYSTEMATIC, CROSS-SECTIONAL, OBSERVATIONAL, AND PROSPECTIVE STUDIES AS SINGULAR OR MIXED METHODS DESIGNS. A SUBSTANTIAL OVERLAP WAS FOUND IN TERMS OF RISK FACTORS GENERATED BY ACE EXPOSURE AND RISK FACTORS FOR WOUND DEVELOPMENT/HEALING, AS WAS A GAP IN THE LITERATURE REGARDING THIS RELATIONSHIP. EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS AND ALTERED BRAIN DEVELOPMENT ARE IMPLICATED IN PROCESSES THROUGH WHICH CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY ERODES HUMAN HEALTH. CONCLUSION: ADULT HEALTH RISKS AS A RESULT OF EXPOSURE TO ACES AND CRITICAL CONNECTIONS WITH RISKS FOR WOUND DEVELOPMENT AND DISRUPTED WOUND HEALING VIA EPIGENETIC INFLUENCES ARE RECOGNIZED IN THE LITERATURE. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS INCLUDE CONSIDERING SCREENING FOR THE RISK FACTOR OF ACES EXPOSURE IN ADULT PATIENTS TO IDENTIFY THIS ADDITIONAL RISK FACTOR AND PRACTICING PATIENT-CENTERED, TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE. FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE INTEGRATIVE ROLES OF THESE FACTORS IS WARRANTED.	2019	
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
20  6112  39 THE EPIGENETIC CLOCK AS A PREDICTOR OF DISEASE AND MORTALITY RISK: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. BACKGROUND: AGEING IS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL RISK FACTORS FOR MANY CHRONIC DISEASES. HOWEVER, THERE IS CONSIDERABLE BETWEEN-PERSON VARIATION IN THE RATE OF AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE AND DEATH. EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS MAY PLAY A ROLE IN HUMAN AGEING, AND DNA METHYLATION AGE BIOMARKERS MAY BE GOOD PREDICTORS OF AGE-RELATED DISEASES AND MORTALITY RISK. THE AIMS OF THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW WERE TO IDENTIFY AND SYNTHESISE THE EVIDENCE FOR AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERIPHERALLY MEASURED DNA METHYLATION AGE AND LONGEVITY, AGE-RELATED DISEASE, AND MORTALITY RISK. METHODS: A SYSTEMATIC SEARCH WAS CONDUCTED IN LINE WITH THE PREFERRED REPORTING ITEMS FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES (PRISMA) GUIDELINES. USING RELEVANT SEARCH TERMS, MEDLINE, EMBASE, COCHRANE CENTRAL REGISTER OF CONTROLLED TRIALS, AND PSYCHINFO DATABASES WERE SEARCHED TO IDENTIFY ARTICLES MEETING THE INCLUSION CRITERIA. STUDIES WERE ASSESSED FOR BIAS USING JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE CRITICAL APPRAISAL CHECKLISTS. DATA WAS EXTRACTED FROM STUDIES MEASURING AGE ACCELERATION AS A PREDICTOR OF AGE-RELATED DISEASES, MORTALITY OR LONGEVITY, AND THE FINDINGS FOR SIMILAR OUTCOMES COMPARED. USING REVIEW MANAGER 5.3 SOFTWARE, TWO META-ANALYSES (ONE PER EPIGENETIC CLOCK) WERE CONDUCTED ON STUDIES MEASURING ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. RESULTS: TWENTY-THREE RELEVANT ARTICLES WERE IDENTIFIED, INCLUDING A TOTAL OF 41,607 PARTICIPANTS. FOUR STUDIES FOCUSED ON AGEING AND LONGEVITY, 11 ON AGE-RELATED DISEASE (CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, AND DEMENTIA), AND 11 ON MORTALITY. THERE WAS SOME, ALTHOUGH INCONSISTENT, EVIDENCE FOR AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INCREASED DNA METHYLATION AGE AND RISK OF DISEASE. META-ANALYSES INDICATED THAT EACH 5-YEAR INCREASE IN DNA METHYLATION AGE WAS ASSOCIATED AN 8 TO 15% INCREASED RISK OF MORTALITY. CONCLUSION: DUE TO THE SMALL NUMBER OF STUDIES AND HETEROGENEITY IN STUDY DESIGN AND OUTCOMES, THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DNA METHYLATION AGE AND AGE-RELATED DISEASE AND LONGEVITY IS INCONCLUSIVE. INCREASED EPIGENETIC AGE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MORTALITY RISK, BUT POSITIVE PUBLICATION BIAS NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED. FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH DNA METHYLATION AGE CAN BE USED AS A CLINICAL BIOMARKER.	2019