MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENDOCRINE FUNCTION OF THE HEART IN COMORBID PATHOLOGY.

Objective: Aim: To study the ultrastructural remodeling of atrial myoendocrine cells (AMC) of the atrial myocardium in streptozotocin-induced diabetes (SID) under chronic immobilization stress (CIS).

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: 40 sexually mature white male rats (body weight 150-180 g) were included in the study. Four groups were formed: group 1 - animals with comorbid pathology (SID and CIS), group 2 - animals with SID, group 3 - animals with CIS, group 4 - intact animals.

Dental Status and Oral Health Behaviors of Selected 45-74-Year-Old Men from Northeastern Poland.

The aim of this study was to assess the dental status and oral health behaviors of selected 45-74-year-old men from northeastern Poland. A total of 419 men were included. A questionnaire on demographic data, socioeconomic status and oral health behaviors was conducted.

Clinical Ethics Consultation and the Reframing of Risk.

As a clinical ethics consultant, I've received numerous consultation requests from health-care providers that reflect the tension at the heart of the concept of dignity of risk, often presented in this form: "The patient wants to [do something that we think is unsafe]. How can we change their mind or stop them?" These consultation requests are almost always framed within a medicalized conception of risk: each is presented as a medical provider's concern that a patient's behavior or choice will lead to a specific physiological harm that the medical team wishes to avoid. However, this medicalized perspective neglects the subjective nature of self-determined choices and ignores important aspects of how patients integrate their disability or illness into a broader narrative of how their preferences and actions fit within their self-understanding.