Feb 13, 2020

This study aimed to examine the effect of a diabetes pay-for-performance (P4P) program on all-cause mortality in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus. Using a Taiwanese representativ...

Feb 13, 2020

Despite the fact that the rate of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is increasing worldwide, there exists a dearth of information on the disease in most sub-Saharan African countries. The goal of this study was t...

Feb 13, 2020

Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are products of cascades of non-enzymatic glycosylation. They are formed over a period of hours to days, depending on the protein lifetime. AGEs acts by independ...

Feb 13, 2020

Elderly individuals with non-dipper hypertension are at high risk of cardiovascular disease because of increased stiffness of peripheral arteries. Since, vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in elderly C...

Feb 13, 2020

Music has cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral and motor benefits for people with neurological disorders such as dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Here we discuss seve...

Feb 13, 2020

Observational studies have suggested that accelerated surgery is associated with improved outcomes in patients with a hip fracture. The HIP ATTACK trial assessed whether accelerated surgery could redu...

Feb 12, 2020

In regard to the assessment of performance in cardiopulmonary exercise tests, oxygen uptake (VO2) at anaerobic threshold (AT) and respiratory compensation point (RCP) has been suggested to have a prog...

Feb 10, 2020

The management of pituitary apoplexy, caused by acute hemorrhage and/or infarction of a pituitary adenoma, is debated.Analyze clinical characteristics of patients undergoing endoscopic endonasal appro...

Feb 10, 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is a frequent complication in ambulatory cancer patients. Despite the high risk, routine thromboprophylaxis is not...

Feb 10, 2020

Non-cirrhotic portal vein thrombosis (ncPVT) most often occurs in the setting of intraabdominal proinflammatory processes. Less often, ncPVT may result from primary hematologic thrombophilia (most com...

Feb 10, 2020

Vismodegib (Erivedge ), a hedgehog pathway inhibitor, is approved to treat metastatic or locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (BCC) not suitable for surgery or radiotherapy. Our main objectives were ...

Feb 10, 2020

The optimal timing of decompression surgery following thrombolysis in patients with primary upper extremity deep vein thrombosis (UEDVT) is still a matter of debate. This systematic review compares th...

Feb 10, 2020

Stroke is the second cause of death after myocardial infarction, and the main cause of acquired disability. Patients with ischaemic stroke have a higher risk of future vascular events, including recur...

Feb 10, 2020

Whether recent stroke mandates planned shunting during carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is controversial. Our goal was to determine associations of various shunting practices with postoperative outcomes o...

Feb 10, 2020

Previous data showed superior outcomes of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) compared with transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TFCAS) in elderly patients because of an increased stroke risk in TFCAS-treat...

Feb 10, 2020

Current guidelines recommend the use of exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) in patients with unexplained dyspnoea. SE was recently reshaped with the ABCDE protocol: A for asynergy, B for B-lines (4...

Feb 10, 2020

Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of specific risk factors, namely, central obesity, raised blood pressure, impaired fasting glucose, raised triglycerides, and low levels of high-density lipop...

Feb 10, 2020

Cross-sectional studies indicate that the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) rs9939609 gene variant is associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) primarily in European ancestry. However, the associa...

Feb 10, 2020

World Kidney Day (WKD) was promoted by the Italian Kidney Foundation and the Italian Society of Nephrology for raising awareness, detection, prevention, and treatment of kidney diseases. The Italian W...

Feb 10, 2020

BACKGROUND Intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. IAH leads to intra-abdominal tissue damage and causes dysfunction in distal organs such as the brain. The...