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Volume 8 Issue 3
The Pandemic of Physical Inactivity: Do Physicians Prescribe Physical Activity to Their Patients?
Physical inactivity is a growing pandemic over the last two decades. It is well evidenced that physical activity can reduce all-cause mortality by at least 30%. Moreover, literature shows the independent magnificent role of physical activity in reducing the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases, colon cancer, breast cancer, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and even falls among elderly people. [..] READ MORE
A Short Review of Psychological Distress in Breast Cancer Survivorship and a Role for Social Media Technology (Twitter)
Meta analyses of research studies have found that ongoing psychological stress following diagnosis and treatment has adverse outcomes for patients with breast cancer. Psychological interventions, in particular social support networks, have been shown to have significant short term benefits in the management of stress, anxiety and depression. [..] READ MORE
Methodology of Design for a Questionnaire to Measure the Quality of the Process of Advance Care Planning (PROACP)
An important aspect of the quality of care at the end of life, that the care provided congruent with the wishes of the patient, so the main objective in this study is to show the elaboration methodology to develop an instrument to measure the quality of the process of advance care planning. [..] READ MORE
The Changing Spectrum of Acute Appendicitis in Nigeria: A Systematic Review
Background
Appendicitis is one of the leading causes of general surgical emergency admission worldwide. Available clinical research has produced conflicting reports about best practice, delivery and, a possible variation in outcome in the sub-Saharan Africa. Accordingly, the disease represents an important burden on modern health systems with severe emerging atypical presentations. [..] READ MORE
Anesthetic Control in Patients With Hyperhomocysteinemia in Eye Surgery
Hyperhomocysteinemia is a metabolic situation in which the patient has plasma homocysteine levels higher than 12?mol/L. This fact is a risk to patient’s health because it increases the proatherothrombotic and platelet aggregation mechanisms, being a problem for the patient in a basal situation and even more, when some surgical intervention must be performed. [..] READ MORE
Posterior Cardiac Vein Myocardial Bridging: A Case Report
Myocardial bridging is a normal anatomical variant, generally a benign condition and is a common autopsy finding. It had easily seen in dissected specimens comparing to angiograms. The most frequent myocardial bridges were observed on the left anterior descending coronary, diagonal artery, posterior descending artery. Myocardial bridging observed on the circumflex coronary artery and right coronary artery, but rarely. [..] READ MORE
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