Publications by authors named "Raluca Radu"

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  • * There is a noted but poorly defined connection between GD and cutaneous keratinocyte carcinomas, specifically non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs), with very few studies highlighting this relationship between 1983 and 2024.
  • * GD has been misdiagnosed as various NMSCs, and understanding this connection could provide insights into its underlying mechanisms, possibly reclassifying GD as a unique syndrome.
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The relationship between climate change and worsening mental health is of increasing concern globally. Climate change is ubiquitous, yet marginalized populations bear a disproportionate burden of the physical and mental health impacts, while youth are more likely to report mental health concerns related to climate change than older generations. Mental health nurses will inevitably see these impacts play out in their practice, thus it is important to explore innovative tools for teaching about and responding to the emotional and psychological impacts of climate change.

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Puberty menorrhagia is one of the urgent problems of modern reproductive medicine. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between polymorphism of the GP IIIa (PLA1/PLA2) gene and improve the diagnosis of puberty menorrhagia in girls with thyroid gland pathology. Ninety-seven girls at puberty age were divided into three groups: group 1 (main) - girls with puberty menorrhagia and thyroid gland pathology (30 individuals), group 2 (comparison) - 40 girls with puberty menorrhagia, group 3 (control) - 27 practically healthy girls.

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: Although Charcot diabetic foot (CDF) is a frequent complication of diabetic neuropathy, less is known about the possibility of its early prevention. : A review of the original articles published in English, using the "biomarkers AND Charcot's foot" criterion, resulted in 33 articles from the PubMed database and seven articles from the Web of Science database. The five duplicates were eliminated, and two independent reviewers selected the most relevant articles, leaving a total of 21 articles.

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People differ in their general tendency to endorse conspiracy theories (that is, conspiracy mentality). Previous research yielded inconsistent findings on the relationship between conspiracy mentality and political orientation, showing a greater conspiracy mentality either among the political right (a linear relation) or amongst both the left and right extremes (a curvilinear relation). We revisited this relationship across two studies spanning 26 countries (combined N = 104,253) and found overall evidence for both linear and quadratic relations, albeit small and heterogeneous across countries.

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Recent years have brought additional data on the benefits of prebiotics and probiotics treatment in patients with atopic dermatitis. This review includes all the articles published in PubMed, Scopus, Embase and Cochrane databases until 05.06.

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The diabetic foot is a complex pathologic entity characterized by the totality of modifications appearing on the foot during the evolution of the diabetic disease. This survey aims to elaborate an algorithm of treatment for patients with arteriopathic predominant diabetic foot lesions, with the purpose of reducing the number of debilitating interventions and improving the quality of life. Material and Method: There were analysed a number of 188 patients admitted to the Surgery Clinic I of the Dr.

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