Reasons for Referring Patients for Determining the Hormonal Status of the Thyroid Gland From the Level of Primary Health Care in Sarajevo Canton.

Background: Thyroid dysfunction includes hyper- and hypofunction of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism). The spectrum encompasses both subclinical and clinical disease presentation. The etiology is vast and varied, as are the risk factors and simptoms.

IDegLira Improves Metabolic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Previously Treated with Premix Insulin.

Background: IDegLira( fixed combination of GLP 1 receptor agonist and insulin) has been shown to be effective in improving the glucoregulation in patients previously treated with oral therapy as well as individual components, GLP-1 receptor agonist or basal insulin.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the parameters of metabolic control in patients treated with IDegLira who were previously treated with premix insulin in several daily doses and to compare them with patients whose premix insulin dose was increased.

Methods: The study included 100 patients who had been previously treated with two or three daily doses of premix insulin.

Dilemma: Correlation Between Serum Level of Hepcidin and IL-6 in Anemic Myeloma Patients.

Introduction: Anemia occurs in 60% to 80 % of patients with newly diagnosed myeloma multiplex (MM). The cause of anemia in MM is probably multi factorial and involved among the others hepcidin and some cytokines, especially interleukine-6. Anemia in MM is one of the risk factor used in Durie-Salmon classification for staging and prognostic score.

Correlation of arterial hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus with type of polyvascular atherosclerotic disease.

Unlabelled: Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease of blood vessels which in most of the cases affects two or three vascular beds. The occurrence and development of atherosclerotic disease is accelerated by multiple risk factors among which the significant role has arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus. AIM of this article is to evaluate presence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus type 2 in patients with polyvascular atherosclerotic disease and compare them to those who have isolated disease of one vascular bed.

Cerebrovascular events: correlation with plaque type, velocity parameters and multiple risk factors.

Purpose: Cerebrovascular events (CVE) are the third most common cause of death in Western countries and about 65-70% of CVE are due to atherosclerotic disease of carotid arteries. Color Doppler scanning is used to evaluate the presence, severity and type of atheromatous plaques as well as velocity parameters of carotid arteries. We performed this study to correlate data of morphological and velocity parameters with clinical variables in patients following CVE.