Atrial fibrillation and the risk of dementia disorders
Among the risks that are associated with atrial fibrillation, the increased risk of stroke is mentioned first and foremost. However, scientists at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul have...
Infective endocarditis
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a disease that develops as a result of endocardial infection in the valves, ventricles, atria or endothelium of large thoracic blood vessels, vascular connections and...
Familial hypercholesterolaemia
Familial hypercholesterolaemia is a type of dyslipidaemia inherited genetically, in which there is an increase in total cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins (so-called 'bad cholesterol')....
Which medicines should not be used with MAO inhibitors?
Patients often do not realise that combining certain medicinal products with others can do more harm than good. Particular care should be taken when using monoamine oxidase inhibitors, known as MAOs.
Rickettsioses - what are these diseases?
Rickettsioses are caused by rickettsiae - bacteria that multiply intracellularly. Humans are the indirect host of rickettsioses, as their direct hosts are ticks, lice and fleas. Infection occurs when...
Aspirin in the past and today
Aspirin has been known to man since ancient times, and the salicylates themselves as the group from which aspirin is derived, since ancient times. To date, the knowledge that medicine has of the...
Pregnancy loss and risk of cardiovascular disease
Factors that exacerbate the risk of cardiovascular disease are classically mentioned, including excessive body weight, diabetes or excessively high blood pressure. However, as cardiovascular disease...
Niemann-Pick disease, or childhood Alzheimer's - causes, symptoms, treatment
Niemann-Pick disease is classified as a rare metabolic disease, which is also known in the literature as leukodystrophy or lipid storage disease. The characteristic symptom of the disease is lipid...
NASH - non-alcoholic steatohepatitis - what is the disease?
Liver problems do not only affect alcohol abusers or heavy drug users. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is similar to the changes seen in people who abuse alcohol. What is NASH and what is its treatment?
Obesity and the sense of smell: what could be the link between the two?
Excess body weight, in the form of both overweight and obesity, is definitely not good for health. Attention is drawn to the fact that the aforementioned problems exacerbate the risk of diabetes and...
Does it matter when we eat?
Our body's glucose tolerance varies depending on the time of day, a study by Harvard researchers has confirmed. As it turns out, it is not only what we eat that matters, but also when we eat. Indeed,...
Work on oral insulin: will a drug in this form become available soon?
Currently, insulin preparations administered by injection are used in the treatment of diabetes - as you can easily guess, this form of administration of these drugs for patients is not very...
Omega-3 fatty acids as heart protection after myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular diseases are very widespread in society and represent one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Having suffered a heart attack obliges one to change one's lifestyle and introduce...
Symptoms and treatment of anaemia
The first symptoms of anaemia are inconspicuous and do not always immediately indicate anaemia. There are many causes of anaemia, but no matter which one has caused the condition, steps should be...
Changing climate threatens our health!
Krystian Szczepański, Director of the Institute of Environmental Protection of the State Research Institute, commented on a study carried out a few years ago which looked at the impact of very high...
Migraine with aura and atrial fibrillation: is there a link between the two?
Migraines with aura have long been linked to stroke risk. There are many hypotheses as to why this relationship exists, researchers from the University of South Carolina decided to look at whether...
OGTT, or oral glucose tolerance test: what does it diagnose?
The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is a very valuable test for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes, as well as for detecting the existence of pre-diabetic conditions....
Too much is unhealthy - magnesium overdose
It is estimated that magnesium is essential for more than 300 different processes that take place in the human body. Because it is such an important substance, many people choose to supplement it....
Phones and computers can adversely affect doctors' dexterity
Today's medical students lack the manual skills that are crucial to the work of a surgeon , according to Professor of Surgery Roger Kneebone of the Royal University of London. According to him, the...
Bariatric surgery, or surgery to treat obesity
Bariatric surgery is increasingly being used to treat obesity. A distinction is made between procedures that are completely reversible (such as the insertion of a balloon into the patient's stomach)...
