Sleep Disturbances in Patients With Advanced Cancer in Different Palliative Care Settings.

Context: Information regarding sleep disturbances in the population with advanced cancer is meager.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of sleep disturbances and possible correlations with associated factors in a large number of patients with advanced cancer admitted to different palliative care settings.

Methods: This was an observational study performed in different settings of palliative care.

Renal plasma flow, filtration fraction and microalbuminuria in hypertensive patients: effects of chronic smoking.

Introduction: Albumin excretion rate is usually increased in people who smoke, but the physiological basis of this phenomenon is not fully understood.

Methods: The effect of chronic smoking on renal haemodynamics was studied in a cohort of 66 men. Twenty-seven were smokers and 36 were hypertensive.