Resistance to acetylsalicylic acid in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with lipid disorders and history of current smoking.

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important risk factor for stroke. Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is the most frequently used medication for prevention of cardio-cerebral vascular diseases. However, some patients experience ischaemic vascular events despite the use of ASA.

[Oral health in multiple sclerosis patients].

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic demyelinating disease of the central nervous system occuring in young adults, mainly female. MS dominates in Caucasians living in regions far away from the equator. The coexistence of genetic and environmental factors is considered in its etiopathogenesis.

Medicine students and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke.

Objective: Although medicine students express positive attitudes toward providing lifestyle counseling, they require more instruction in many areas of health behavior in order to be helpful to their patients. The presented study included the students' questionnaires analysis regarding their lifestyle and exposure to tobacco smoke. The aim of this study was to examine students' exposure to chosen xenobiotics by determination of selected biomarkers in urine samples, which underlay the basis for exposure assessment towards tobacco smoke.

[Assessment of exposure to tobacco smoke in a selected group of patients with multiple sclerosis from the Upper Silesia region].

In recent years, the increase in the incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS - Multiple Sclerosis) is observed. and the direct cause of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis is myelin nerves damage. It can be concluded that the environmental factor is at least partly responsible for the occurrence of this disease.

[3-nitrotyrosine determination as nitrosative stress marker and health attitudes of medical students considering exposure to environmental tobacco smoke].

Negative attitudes in health such as cigarette smoking and imbalanced diet play important role in pathogenesis of various diseases. Cigarette smoking constitutes one of the main sources of exposure to cancerogenic and procancerogenic xenobiotics among adults as well as among young people. Many studies have proven that cigarettes smokers more frequently follow less varied diet in comparison to non-smokers.