IMPACT OF FUNCTIONAL, COMMUNICATIVE AND CRITICAL HEALTH LITERACY ON GLYCEMIC CONTROL AMONG PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES, AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SELF-CARE

Impact of functional, communicative and critical health literacy on glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes, and the mediating role of self-care

Soudabeh Yarmohammadi,1 Somayeh Momenyan,2 Mohtasham Ghaffari,3 Ramezankhani Ali,4 Mohyeddin Azizpour51Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran; 2Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Girdles Medical Sciences

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The morphology of cell spheroids in simple shear flow

Cell spheroids are a widely used model to investigate cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in a 3D microenvironment in vitro.Most research on cell spheroids has been focused on their response to various stimuli under static conditions.Recently, the effect of flow on cell spheroids has been investigated in the context of tumor invasion in intersti

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