Predictors Related to Quality of Life in Pregnant Women.

Background: Assessment of quality of life (QoL) during pregnancy can be a starting point for streamlining and promoting the humanization of evidence-based healthcare. We aimed to determine the life quality in pregnant women and its predictors.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on pregnant women from Slovakia from March 2020 to January 2021.

The effects of Rhus coriaria L. (sumac) and Cinnamomum zeylanicum L. bark on serum cytokine levels in rat mammary carcinogenesis.

The purpose of this study was to assess the potential effects of Rhus coriaria L. (sumac) and of Cinnamomum zeylanicum L. bark on the selected serum cytokines as possible serum tumor markers - interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-10 (IL-10), and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in the rat model of mammary carcinogenesis.

TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE 17th CENTURY BASED ON THE ORIGINAL WORK DE PHTHISI (ON TUBERCULOSIS) FROM 1679.

Galen was the first who defined phthisis as lung ulceration, accompanied by coughing, persistent low-grade fevers, and body wasting. Attempts to define tuberculosis and find the cause of the disease belong to significant errors in the period of medical theories about tuberculosis (TB). Even in the 17th century, the most common causes of this disease were pulmonary ulcers, incorrect shape and position of the lungs, or menstruation.

Links between alcohol and external causes of deaths in males: an autopsy study.

Objectives: This study aimed to analyse deaths due to external causes in males in northwest Slovakia.

Study Design: This was a cross-sectional autopsy study.

Methods: The autopsy registry provided information on fatalities in males in northwest Slovakia due to external causes in 2015.