TOTAL ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY AND MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE IN COMORBIDITY OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE AND AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS IN STUDENT POPULATION.

Objective: The aim: To determine the state of total antioxidant activity and the content of the mitochondrial enzyme - manganese superoxide dismutase in students with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) comorbidity.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: 120 patients with GERD and AIT, 45 patients with GERD and 42 patients with AIT were examined. The patients involved in the study were students.

Beneficial effects of combined therapy with lacidipine and candesartan in obese hypertensive patients.

Introduction: Obesity is becoming one of the leading risk factors of coronary heart disease, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease. Despite the presence of a large number of antihypertensive agents and scientific substantiation of antihypertensive treatment principles it would be wrong to assume that the problem is completely solved. Development of endothelial dysfunction is one of the key pathogenic mechanisms in hypertension.