An Alarmingly High Number of Candidates for Bariatric Procedures among Professionally Active Poles and Its Strong Relationship with Cardiovascular Co-Morbidities-POL-O-CARIA 2022 Study.

Over recent years, the global healthcare system has experienced a notable increase in the prevalence of obesity and its associated health complications such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders, etc. What is more, one of the significant phenomena is the increasing demand for bariatric procedures among individuals of working age due to the high prevalence of type III obesity and type II obesity with co-morbidities. This trend is pronounced in Poland, due to the increasing number of patients meeting the qualifying criteria for surgery among professionally active and inactive patients.

Reshaping medical education: Performance of ChatGPT on a PES medical examination.

Background: We are currently experiencing a third digital revolution driven by artificial intelligence (AI), and the emergence of new chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT) represents a significant technological advancement with profound implications for global society, especially in the field of education.

Methods: The aim of this study was to see how well ChatGPT performed on medical school exams and to highlight how it might change medical education and practice. Recently, OpenAI's ChatGPT (OpenAI, San Francisco; GPT-4 May 24 Version) was put to the test against a significant Polish medical specialization licensing exam (PES), and the results are in.

Beyond ChatGPT: What does GPT-4 add to healthcare? The dawn of a new era.

Over the past few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly improved healthcare. Once the stuff of science fiction, AI is now widely used, even in our daily lives - often without us thinking about it. All healthcare professionals - especially executives and medical doctors - need to understand the capabilities of advanced AI tools and other breakthrough innovations.

Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking among Professionally Active Adult Population in Poland and Its Strong Relationship with Cardiovascular Co-Morbidities-POL-O-CARIA 2021 Study.

Smoking is a leading cause of preventable mortality. It affects both the health and economic situation within societies. The aim of the study is to perform an epidemiological analysis of smoking among professionally active adults in Poland in the years 2016-2020 and its Strong Relationship with Cardiovascular Co-morbidities.

Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity among Professionally Active Adult Population in Poland and Its Strong Relationship with Cardiovascular Co-Morbidities-POL-O-CARIA 2016-2020 Study.

For several decades, a steady increase in the percentage of overweight and obese people has been observed all over the world. There are many studies available in the literature emphasizing the relationship of overweight and obesity with the occurrence of other diseases. The aim of this study is to characterize the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity, as well as their changes over time, among professionally active adults who underwent occupational medicine examinations in Poland in 2016−2020, for the POL-O-CARIA 2016−2020 study.