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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Elise Mendes da Costa, Isabelle Godin, Thierry Pepersack, Michèle Dramaix, Yves Coppieters, Martine Bantuelle, Alain Levêque
Introduction: In older populations, the help of a third person may be necessary for a certain number of individuals in order to fill in questionnaires. The influence of this assistance on the collected information can raise questions, among others concerning…
David Martins, Yuan-Xiang Meng, Naureen Tareen, Jorge Artaza, Jae Eun Lee, Caroline Farodolu, Gary Gibbons, Keith Norris
Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been implicated as a potential risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The high rate of vitamin D deficiency (<30 ng/ml) exhibited by African Americans may account for some of the excess prevalence of cardiovascular morbid…
Bronislava Papadatou, Fiammetta Bracci, Daniela Knafelz, Antonella Diamanti, Maria Sole Basso, Fabio Panetta, Filippo Torroni, Valerio Nobili, Giuliano Torre
We report the case of a 14-year-old boy affected by ulcerative colitis (UC) and acute thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) with simultaneous onset. UC diagnosis was based on symptoms, endoscopy and histology findings. ITP diagnosis was based on the normal bone marr…
Thiago Adler Ralho Rodrigues dos Santos, Rodrigo Otavio Gomes Pina, Marina Taliberti Pereira de Souza, Maria Cristina Chammas
Graves’ disease, as known today, is an autoimmune, diffuse, chronic disease of thyroid gland, as described by Robert Graves in 1835. It presents genetic predisposition and unknown etiology evidence, which is influenced in its development by several factors, i…
Bronislava Papadatou, Lidia Monti, Giuliano Torre, Fabio Panetta, Antonella Diamanti
We report a rare mode of presentation of Crohn’s Disease (CD) in a 17-year-old boy, who was admitted at our hospital due to abdominal pain, dysuria, polyuria and fever. The ultrasound showed an increased wall thickness of the small bowel and cecum and a veget…
Wolfram E. Samlowski, John R. McGregor, Suzanne T. Samlowski, Shweta Tharkar, Shirley Shen, Joel S. Bentz
Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are rarely detected in the blood of cancer patients, even though they are a direct harbinger of eventual patient demise. We developed an innovative CTC culture technology to allow more sensitive isolation, expansion, and characte…
Keiichi Tsuji, Tomohiro Aoki, Miyuki Fukuda, Kazuhiko Nozaki
The treatment for intracranial aneurysm (IA) is socially important because of poor outcome posed by subarachnoid hemorrhage after rupture. Further, the incidence of IAs in general public is high and, indeed, in developed countries many IAs are incidentally fo…
Jens Hunze, Linda IJsselstijn, Remi W. Wulkan, Arjan M. van Alphen
Background: According to most clinical guidelines hypothyroidism should be excluded as a cause in the analysis of euvolemic hyponatremia. Although this axiom has been well established in clinical practice, relatively little evidence supports a relation betwee…
Malgorzata Wasniewska, Tommaso Aversa, Filippo De Luca, Mariella Valenzise, Maria Francesca Messina, Fortunato Lombardo
Aim: to describe the salient relationships between Graves’ disease (GD) and both Turner syndrome (TS) and Down syndrome (DS). Design: to conduct a secondary analysis of current literature on this topic. Results: 1) the prevalences of GD in TS and in DS young…
Eleni Klinaki, Alexandra Soldatou, Antonios Marmarinos, Athanasia Pagoni, Charalampos Tsentidis, Dimitrios Gourgiotis, Anastasia Garoufi
Background: The pathophysiologic mechanisms which lead to cardiovascular (CV) events begin early in childhood. Atherosclerosis is recognized as a process of chronic and dynamic vascular inflammation induced primarily by endothelial dysfunction. Asymmetric dim…
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