Publications by authors named "Jovanka Vukmirovic"
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- * The exact cause of peripartum cardiomyopathy is unclear, although factors like age, lifestyle, and genetics may play a role; recent theories suggest that an abnormal form of prolactin may contribute to the heart damage.
- * Ongoing research explores treatments like bromocriptine, a drug that inhibits prolactin, and highlights the importance of safe medication use during pregnancy and breastfeeding, particularly to protect both mothers and their babies.
Although acute heart failure (AHF) is a common disease associated with significant symptoms, morbidity and mortality, the diagnosis, risk stratification and treatment of patients with hypertensive acute heart failure (H-AHF) still remain a challenge in modern medicine. Despite great progress in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, this disease is still accompanied by a high rate of both in-hospital (from 3.8% to 11%) and one-year (from 20% to 36%) mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Sustainable development and public health quite strongly correlate, being connected and conditioned by one another. This paper therein attempts to offer a representation of Europe's current situation of sustainable development in the area of public health.
Methods: A dataset on sustainable development in the area of public health consisting of 31 European countries (formally proposed by the European Union Commission and EUROSTAT) has been used in this paper in order to evaluate said issue for the countries listed thereof.