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Definition of Suboptimal Health
This chapter clarifies the definition of suboptimal health status (SHS). SHS is commonly characterised by reversible loss of vitality, decline of physiological function and less capacity for self-adaptation, w...
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Approaches for Measuring Reversible Damage to the Health
Health questionnaires and scales are widely used instruments for assessing various aspects of health. A well-established health questionnaire is important for the detection of reversible health damages that co...
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Suboptimal Health Management in the Framework of PPP Medicine
Suboptimal health (SH) can be defined as the reversible phase of the health-to-disease transition. Consequently, the time-frame between the SH condition onset and related clinically manifested disorder is the ...
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Treatment Algorithm Tailored to Individuals with Non-communicable Diseases: The Innovative Utility of Suboptimal Health Concept from the Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medical Care Perspective
Predictive, preventive and personalisation of medical care (PPPM) tailored to an individual is important for alleviating the risk of disease development and the subsequent morbidity and mortality rate. As part...
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Suboptimal Health and the Economic Impact to Healthcare from the Perspective of PPP Medicine
Suboptimal health status (SHS) is the physical state between health and disease, characterised by the self-reporting of general malaise and ambiguous health complaints in the absence of a diagnosable condition...
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Risk Factors, Health Status, and Risk Groups in Suboptimal Health Condition
SHS, or suboptimal health status, is a condition between health and disease brought on by a person’s physical, psychological, and social stress. The leading underlying cause of SHS is yet unknown. For example,...
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Tourism, Suboptimal Health Status, and Dementia
This chapter critically discusses how seemingly disparate domains—tourism, dementia, and suboptimal health status—can be integrated in research to enhance people’s well-being through tourism engagement. Global...
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Neuropsychiatric Function Evaluation
The assessment of neuropsychiatric function is a kind of complicated task, but is an important work for the precise evaluation of therapeutics. In this chapter, assessment methods are summarized in the various...
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Suboptimal Health Innovation: From Bench to Bedside
The epidemic of chronic diseases in the twenty-first century has severely reduced the quality of life, posing a huge healthcare challenge to society. Inspired by the theory of preventive, predicative and perso...
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Involvement of the Immune System in Airways Disease
As with any site in the body, the immune system in the airways and lungs comprises of two parts, namely innate immunity and adaptive immunity. The former exists in the absence of challenge to the immune system...
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Progress on Schistosomiasis Research in China
Schistosomiasis japonica is one of the most important parasitic diseases in China despite a documented history of more than 2100 years. The study and use of diagnostic techniques play an important role in targ...
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Posterior Tibial Artery Flap in Series with Medial Plantar Artery Flap for Repair of Anterior Foot Degloving Injury
The anterior foot plays an important role in walking and loading, and the distribution of anterior foot force in walking is about 37%. When the heel is off the ground, almost all of the body’s gravity falls on...
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Tissue Repair and Over-regeneration: Prevention and Treatment of Scars During Tissue Repair and Regeneration
Wound healing is an extremely complex process, including the remodeling of parenchymal cells and surrounding cell matrix, angiogenesis and neurogenesis, immune system reconstruction, and other processes [1]. I...
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HHV8-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Human herpesvirus type 8 (HHV8) causes several lymphoproliferative disorders, including multicentric Castleman disease (MCD), HHV8-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), HHV8-positive germinotropic ly...
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Nonunion, Bone Defects and Osteomyelitis
Bone healing is a ubiquitous natural life phenomenon that can be stably inherited. Cells are the carrier and performer of genetic information. Biological processes of bone healing are very similar to those of ...
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Development of 3D VATS
To minimize surgical invasion and morbidity, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) techniques, were developed and proven feasible and safe. Furthermore, long-term results proved comparable to thoracotomy, for...
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Tracheal and Carina Resection/Reconstruction
Trachea and carina resection and reconstruction is a difficult surgical technique. In the past, such procedures were completed via large incisions (Pearson FG, Thompson DW, Weissberg D, Simpson WJ, Kergin FG, ...
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Microsurgical Techniques
Since any infection will directly affect the surgical outcome, the principle of aseptic technique is a principle which must be strictly enforced. The microsurgery operation is relatively complex, has longer op...
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Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infraction
With timely reperfusion, myocardial loss following myocardial infarction (MI) can be significantly reduced and may limit the incidence of mechanical complications. However, with improving treatment of those wi...
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Defect Repair After Breast Cancer Surgery
The breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women worldwide, and the incidence rate of breast cancer continues to increase in the past 20 years. It is estimated by World Health Organization (WHO) I...
