Association of elderly age and chronic illnesses: Role of gender as a risk factor
Background and Aims: Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death as well as disability worldwide. There is a little information about the prevalence of these diseases among Saudi elderly population.
Bandar Alhumaidi Alharbi +7 more
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ABSTRACT Aims This study aimed to explore the relationship between stress‐induced hyperglycemia (SIH) and in‐hospital medical complications in patients with acute stroke. Methods We enrolled 865,765 patients with acute stroke from the Chinese Stroke Center Alliance cohort.
Xintong Song +6 more
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The dynamics of morbidity and provision of urological resources in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Background: This study aims to analyze the prevalence of diseases of the genitourinary system in the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2015 to 2022. Methods: We used the information from the primary registration database of the incidence of diseases of the ...
Turar Kurmanbekov +3 more
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Prescribing antibiotics to preschool children in primary health care in Croatia [PDF]
The use of antibiotics depends on cultural and socioeconomic factors, physician's characteristics as well as on microbiological considerations. Aim of our study was to asses antibiotic prescription among preschool children in primary health care in ...
Bergman-Marković, Biserka +4 more
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Reduced Muscular Carnosine in Proximal Myotonic Myopathy—A Pilot 1H‐MRS Study
ABSTRACT Objective Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (proximal myotonic myopathy, PROMM) is a progressive multisystem disorder with muscular symptoms (proximal weakness, pain, myotonia) and systemic manifestations such as diabetes mellitus, cataracts, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Alexander Gussew +11 more
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CHRONICKIDNEYDISEASE IN CHILDREN AND RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPYIN UKRAINE
Classification of Chronic Kidney Disease and stages of Chronic Renal Failure in children were compared. There was presented adapted Schwartz formula for estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate.
I. V. Bagdasarova, S. P. Fomina
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Congenital malformations at a referral hospital in Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]
This study recorded the rate of congenital malformations in 10 000 births at a referral hospital in Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran in 1998-99. The overall incidence of congenital malformations was 1.01% (1.19% in males and 0.76% in females).
Ahmadpour-Kacho, M. +2 more
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Non-neural phenotype of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy: Results from a large cohort of Italian patients [PDF]
Objective: To carry out a deep characterisation of the main androgen-responsive tissues involved in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). Methods: 73 consecutive Italian patients underwent a full clinical protocol including biochemical and hormonal ...
Angelini, Lorenzo +37 more
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Increased Blood Levels of NfL, GFAP, and Placental Growth Factor After Radiotherapy to the Brain
ABSTRACT In this study, we analyzed biomarkers of neuronal, glial, and vascular injury in longitudinal paired samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid after prophylactic cranial irradiation in patients with small cell lung cancer. Neurofilament light chain protein (NfL) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) increased in serum and cerebrospinal ...
Erik Fernström +5 more
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Therapeutic abortion in Iran: an epidemiologic study of legal abortion in 2 years
Objectives Unsafe abortion is one of the most important causes of death and disability among mothers in countries where abortion is illegal. These conditions have changed since then.
Seyed Amirhosein Mahdavi +4 more
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