submitted by olsefi 4 months ago - Topic: Health
Anorexia nervosa remains challenging to treat and difficult to prevent. Nearly 5% of affected individuals die of this disease and 20% develop a chronic eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa may be associated with several medical complications of varying severity, including dysfunction of the renal sy...
submitted by niilish 3 months ago - Topic: Health
Pellagra is caused by a deficiency of niacin. It is endemic in Africa and Asia where the staple diet of the many refugees or displaced people is corn-based and, therefore, nicotinic acid–deficient. It is also frequently seen in developed countries among chronic alcoholics or, occasionally, ...
submitted by bettsnirvana 3 months ago - Topic: Health
Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic disorder in genetically predisposed individuals in which a small intestinal immune-mediated enteropathy is precipitated by dietary gluten. It can be difficult to diagnose because signs and symptoms may be absent, subtle, or not recognized as CD related and therefo...
submitted by lokshmon 3 months ago - Topic: Health
Anorexia nervosa commonly arises during adolescence and is associated with more than one medical morbidity. Abnormalities in brain structure (defined as "pseudoatrophy") are common in adolescents with anorexia nervosa; however, their correlations with endocrinological profiles and clinical parame...
submitted by rozon 2 months ago - Topic: Health
Anorexia nervosa is characterised by a chronic course that is refractory to treatment in many patients and has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric disorder. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been applied to circuit-based neuropsychiatric diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and ...
submitted by mffrietos 2 months ago - Topic: Health
To screen for neurological and behavioral disorders a pediatric cohort of patients with celiac disease (CD) in order to detect possible differences related to compliance to gluten free diet (GFD). We recruited a cohort of 139 patients divided in three groups: A (40 patients with newly diagnosed C...
submitted by riemirb 24 days ago - Topic: Health
Altered expression and/or function, both peripherally and centrally, of various neuropeptides is involved in the neurophysiology of anorexia nervosa (AN). Diazepam-binding inhibitor (DBI) is an interesting peptide for understanding this crosstalk. The aim of this work was to assess fasting plasma...
submitted by ABAlover 1 year and 11 months ago - Topic: Health
Identification of specific serological algorithms allowing the diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) is a new challenge for both the clinic and the laboratory. We compared the diagnostic accuracy of three new tests proposed for CD screening with that of the well established IgA tTG, and ascertained wh...
submitted by tahama 1 year and 11 months ago - Topic: Health
Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). These results of a new study are being presented Monday at the...
submitted by orviswopnel 1 year and 10 months ago - Topic: Health
To study the coexistence of subthreshold diagnoses of both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and disruptive behaviour disorders (DBD) with other symptoms of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders as well as risk behaviours associated with smoking, alcohol and drug use. A populat...
