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The present study explores when consumers recognize the high sugar content of fruit juice and refrain from choosing it for themselves or their families. Fruit juice may be typically perceived as a healthy drink, despite its often high sugar content. Sodium succinate in vitro We investigate the role of salience of sugar information and enjoyment and responsibility goals in perception and choice of fruit juices. We argue that sugar information needs to be salient to prevent this health halo effect, but that consumers also need to be in a motivational state that promotes processing of this information. In three experiments (N = 801), we manipulate the salience of the sugar content using a salient sugar label (or no explicit sugar label) as well as the activation of different goals (to enjoy versus to be responsible, in the context of choices for self versus significant others). Utilising a newly designed fictitious juice brand, salient sugar labels are effective in significantly raising awareness of sugar content in study 1. Consumers primed for responsibility consider fruit juice with salient sugar information unhealthier as compared to those primed for enjoyment in study 2. Further, in study 3, parents primed for responsibility perceive fruit juice with salient sugar information as unhealthier and less appealing in comparison to parents primed for enjoyment. The effects of responsibility and enjoyment primes on health perceptions are stronger when people think of responsibility or enjoyment of food in the context of their families rather than themselves. We discuss implications for theorizing, beverage marketing, and public policy.During multiday training exercises, soldiers almost systematically face a moderate-to-large energy deficit, affecting their body mass and composition and potentially their physical and cognitive performance. Such energy deficits are explained by their inability to increase their energy intake during these highly demanding periods. With the exception of certain scenarios in which rations are voluntarily undersized to maximize the constraints, the energy content of the rations are often sufficient to maintain a neutral energy balance, suggesting that other limitations are responsible for such voluntary and/or spontaneous underconsumption. In this review, the overall aim was to present an overview of the impact of military training on energy balance, a context that stands out by its summation of specific limitations that interfere with energy intake. We first explore the impact of military training on the various components of energy balance (intake and expenditure) and body mass loss. Then, the role of the dimensioning of the rations (total energy content above or below energy expenditure) on energy deficits are addressed. Finally, the potential limitations inherent to military training (training characteristics, food characteristics, timing and context of eating, and the soldiers’ attitude) are discussed to identify potential strategies to spontaneously increase energy intake and thus limit the energy deficit.
Up to 14% of patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy with continuous electroencephalographic (EEG) neuromonitoring will require shunt placement because of EEG changes. However, the initial studies of transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR) found only one patient with temporary EEG changes. We report our experience with intraoperative EEG monitoring during TCAR.
We conducted a retrospective review of patients who underwent TCAR at two urban hospitals within an integrated healthcare network from May 2017 to January 2020. The data included demographic information, patient comorbidities, symptom status, previous carotid interventions, anatomic details, contralateral disease, intraoperative vital signs and EEG changes, and postoperative major adverse events (transient ischemic attack, stroke, myocardial infarction , and death) both initially and at 30days postoperatively. The Fisher exact test was used for categorical data and the Wilcoxon rank sum test for continuous data.
A total of 89 patientste of 6.7%.
Changes in continuous EEG monitoring were more frequent in our study than previously reported. Less severe carotid stenosis might be associated with a greater incidence of EEG changes. Limited data are available on theprognostic ability of EEG to detect clinically relevant changes during TCAR, and further studies are warranted.
Changes in continuous EEG monitoring were more frequent in our study than previously reported. Less severe carotid stenosis might be associated with a greater incidence of EEG changes. Limited data are available on the prognostic ability of EEG to detect clinically relevant changes during TCAR, and further studies are warranted.
Which type of closure after carotid endarterectomy (CEA), whether primary, patching, or eversion, will provide the optimal results has remained controversial. In the present study, we compared the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and systematic meta-analyses of the various types of closure.
We conducted a PubMed literature review search to find studies that had compared CEA with primary closure, CEA with patching, and/or eversion CEA (ECEA) during the previous three decades with an emphasis on RCTs, previously reported systematic meta-analyses, large multicenter observational studies (Vascular Quality Initiative data), and recent single-center large studies.
The results from RCTs comparing primary patching vs primary closure were as follows. Most of the randomized trials showed CEA with patching was superior to CEA with primary closure in lowering the perioperative stroke rates, stroke and death rates, carotid thrombosis rates, and late restenosis rates. These studies also showed no signifthan for primary closure (3.6% vs 9.2%; P= .01) but was comparable between patching and eversion (1.5% for patching vs 2.8% for eversion).
Routine carotid patching or ECEA was superior to primary closure (level 1 evidence). We found no significant differences between the preferential use of several patch materials. The rates of significant post-CEA stenosis for CEA with patching was similar to that with ECEA, and both were superior to primary closure.
Routine carotid patching or ECEA was superior to primary closure (level 1 evidence). We found no significant differences between the preferential use of several patch materials. The rates of significant post-CEA stenosis for CEA with patching was similar to that with ECEA, and both were superior to primary closure.