Purpose: To evaluate associations between olfactory function, eating behavior, and characteristics of body composition in adolescents with different body weights.
Methods: The study included 87 children aged 10-17 years with normal and excess body weight. The study group consisted of overweight and obese adolescents.
Background: Over the past five years, the pregnancy rate in assisted reproductive technology (ART) programs in Russia has remained relatively stable. The aim of this study was to assess the distribution of monocyte and macrophage subsets in the blood and follicular fluid of infertile women undergoing assisted reproductive technology.
Methods: The study involved 45 women with a mean age of 35 ± 4.
Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
October 2024
Sarcopenia is a progressive generalized skeletal muscle disease that is accompanied by an accelerated loss of muscle mass and function, affecting the quality of life and the ability to perform self-care. The prevalence of sarcopenia in the world today ranges from 10 to 25%, which represents a certain danger as it is a prognostic factor for possible injury and increased disability in the elderly population. Sarcopenia often accompanies a large number of different diseases, including neurodegenerative ones, so it is actively studied in this category of patients, for example, as one of the early symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) remains the most common type of DM and is associat-ed with disabling complications, reduced quality of life and reduced life expectancy. Satisfactory control of carbohydrate metabolism remains the key way to manage them.
Aim: To perform a retrospective analysis of carbohydrate metabolism (in terms of glycated hemoglobin - HbA), the prevalence of complications, and features of hypoglycemic and concomitant therapy in patients with type 2 DM.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is becoming an increasingly common disorder of the development of the nervous system in the modern world. The diagnosis is made based on observation of the patient's behavior, which significantly complicates the diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. The subjectivity of behavioral diagnostics dictates the need for the study of biomarkers of ASD.
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