High blood pressure is the most common cardiovascular disease and the first one due to mortality risk. Prospective studies showed that, until 2025, the number of individuals with HBP will increase up to 1.56 billion in adults, of which more than two thirds will be found in poor countries or developing ones.
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June 2020
A peculiarity in the professional training of medical staff with higher education is the fact that a large part of the teaching staff is also a practitioner of the medical profession, thus combining the activity of educator and trainer with that of doctor or nurse. The two occupations, although distinct at first glance, cannot be separated in the educational-formative process of the medical profession. Practitioners who combine the two professional activities decide to develop a parallel medical and university career, though different are complementary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArterial hypertension (AH) represents the main cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world. Approximately 40% of the adults aged over 25 years old and about 90% of the persons aged over 80 years old suffer from AH. It is a multifactorial condition, in whose etiopathogeny there are involved numerous genetic, metabolic and environment factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: International regulations regarding the protection of individuals concerning the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data highlight the need for their systematization and customization, depending on the purpose for which they are collected and used.
Background: Medical legislation is structured so that the constitutional right to healthcare is guaranteed and at the same time be protected by respecting the right to privacy with respect to identity, physiological state of the person and the way this, by health maneuvers, was restored. European Union (EU) legislation is more and more complex related to the patients' right and also to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Our study included a total of 259 patients with diabetes, who were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery of the Emergency County Hospital of Piteşti, Romania, in 2016, with the diagnosis of "diabetic foot". Of the 259 patients, 55 (21.23%) were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and the remaining 204 (78.
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