ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION IS ASSOCIATED WITH MALNUTRITION DIAGNOSED BY GLIM IN ELDERLY HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS


Examining the impact of personal freedom on income inequality: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and Western European regions.

Rising income inequality has recently garnered intensive attention owing to its significance in theory and practice.This has rendered the mechanism through which inequality can be understood, even from a microscopic perspective, to institute proper policies that curtail it important.We contribute to the literature by examining the effect of freedom

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Investigating the shared genetic architecture between COVID-19 and obesity: a large-scale genome wide cross-trait analysis

Observational studies have reported high comorbidity between obesity and severe COVID-19.The read more aim of this study is to explore whether genetic factors are involved in the co-occurrence of the two traits.Based on the available genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics, we explored the genetic correlation and performed cross-t

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NMR Spectroscopy Identifies Chemicals in Cigarette Smoke Condensate That Impair Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Function

Tobacco smoke-related diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are associated with high healthcare burden and mortality rates.Many COPD patients were reported to have muscle atrophy and weakness, with several studies suggesting intrinsic muscle mitochondrial impairment as a possible driver of this phenotype.Whereas much informa

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Systematic review of randomized controlled trials of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics in inflammatory bowel disease

Yezaz A Ghouri, David M Richards, Erik F Rahimi, Joseph T Krill, Katherine A Jelinek, Andrew W DuPont The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA Background: Probiotics are microorganisms that are ingested either in combination or as a single organism in an effort to normalize intestinal microbiota and potentially improve

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