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Background: The association between dietary carbohydrate intake and hyperlipidemia remained incompletely understood. This study aimed to explore the association between dietary carbohydrate intake and the risk of hyperlipidemia among reproductive-aged women in the US. Methods: The study utilized data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted from 2005 to 2020. Dietary intake information was assessed via interviews using 24-hour dietary recall interviews, and hyperlipidemia diagnosis adhered to the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses, along with restricted cubic splines (RCS) and stratified analyses, were conducted to investigate the association between dietary carbohydrate intake and the risk of hyperlipidemia. Results: A total of 6,791 women of reproductive age, with a mean age of 34.87 (±8.57) years, were included in the final analysis. In the multivariate logistic regression model adjusting for covariates, a higher percentage of energy from carbohydrate was positively correlated with the risk of hyperlipidemia (adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 1.014, 95% CI: 1.004–1.024). Analyzing the percentage of energy from carbohydrate as a categorical variable, compared to the lowest quartile, the third quartile (AOR: 1.263, 95% CI: 1.031–1.546) and the highest quartile (AOR: 1.411, 95% CI: 1.083–1.839) were associated with increased hyperlipidemia risk. Additionally, a linear relationship (P for nonlinearity = 0.088) existed between the percentage of energy from carbohydrate and the risk of hyperlipidemia, with an inflection point identified at 49.64. Conclusions: This study found that elevated dietary carbohydrate intake was associated with an increased the risk of hyperlipidemia in reproductive-aged women. These findings implied that reproductive-aged women should pay closer attention to reducing their carbohydrate intake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The impact of nitric oxide (NO) administered via cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) on pediatric heart surgery remains controversial. The objective of this study is to conduct a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the impact of NO administered via CPB on pediatric heart surgery. Methods: This study searched 7 electronic databases to identify Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) on the impact of NO administration during CPB on postoperative outcomes in pediatric heart surgery. The searched databases included Embase, Medline (though PubMed), Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Wan Fang database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and ClinicalTrials.gov from their inception to November 2, 2022. The included RCTs compared NO administration during CPB with standard CPB procedures or placebo gas treatment in pediatric heart surgery. fixed-effects models and/or random-effects models were used to estimate the effect size with 95% confidence interval (CI). Heterogeneity among studies was indicated by p-values and I2. All analyses were performed using Review Manager software (version 5.4) in this study. Results: A total of 6 RCTs including 1,739 children were identified in this study. The primary outcome was duration of postoperative mechanical ventilation, with the length of hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) stay as the second outcomes. Through a pooled analysis, we found that exogenous NO administered via CPB for pediatric heart surgery could not shorten the duration of postoperative mechanical ventilation when compared with the control group (standardized mean difference (SMD) -0.07, CI [–0.16, 0.02], I2 = 45%, P = 0.15). Additionally, there were also no difference between the two groups in terms of length of hospital stay (mean difference (MD) -0.29, CI [–1.03, 0.46], I2 = 32%, P = 0.45) and length of ICU stay (MD -0.22, CI [–0.49 to 0.05], I2 = 72%, P = 0.10). Conclusions: This meta-analysis showed that exogenous NO administration via CBP had no benefits on the duration of mechanical ventilation, the length of postoperative hospital, and ICU stay after pediatric heart surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China’s earliest poetic genres formed in direct relationship with music, and pentasyllabic shi poetry is no exception. This was a new poetic genre that formed after tetrasyllabic poetry and the sao style associated with the Chuci 楚辭(Lyrics of Chu), and it represented a breakthrough in the formal development of Chinese poetic genres. The lines of shi poetry are made up of a “balanced foot” and an “unbalanced foot,” with the balanced foot in the front and the unbalanced foot following behind. Pentasyllabic shi poetry flourished during the Han dynasty, and its development was driven forward by the exploration of the musical and rhythmic properties of the Chinese language in poetic form. Given that Chinese classical poetry was born from music, the sound and rhythm of poetry are of great importance. Chinese is a monosyllabic language in which each graph has just one syllable. Ideally, a line of poetry must maintain two properties: first, to express the semantic meaning of each single monosyllabic word and, second, to allow for the free combination of monosyllabic words. Pentasyllabic shi poetry is a form precisely suited to fulfill these two conditions. In the initial stage of its development, poets focused primarily on the balance in the foot of each line and the balance within poetic lines. Later they focused increasingly on balance in the combination of monosyllabic words and in the parallel arrangement of lines in couplets.The fact that pentasyllabic shi poetry ultimately moved toward greater tonal regulation similarly is due in large part to greater attention to the role of musical rhythm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]