OPPORTUNISTIC SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER IN HIGH-RISK PATIENTS IN FAMILY MEDICINE PRACTICES IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA.

Colorectal cancer is a malignant neoplasm which has an increasing incidence and represents a global public health problem. The majority of patients are diagnosed after the age of 50, and the risk of developing it over lifetime is 5%. Development of preventive, diagnostic and treatment methods has resulted in a significant reduction in mortality and other negative clinical outcomes.

CROATIAN GUIDELINES FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a term describing excessive accumulation of fat in hepatocytes, and is associated with metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. NAFLD prevalence is on increase and goes in parallel with the increasing prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components. That is why Croatian guidelines have been developed, which cover the screening protocol for patients with NAFLD risk factors, and the recommended diagnostic work-up and treatment of NAFLD patients.

Depression prevalence and estimation of psychosocial parameters within adult population in city of Zagreb.

Background: There is no data on depression prevalence in Croatia. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence and psychosocial risk factors of depression in the adult population of the Croatian capital Zagreb, particularly in patients suffering from Depressive episode (F32) and Recurrent depressive disorder (F33).

Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional study was preformed on a representative sample for city of Zagreb drawn from 10 family physicians' offices with 17290 patients.

[Importance of kinesiologic recreation beginning in early rehabilitation in Zagreb].

Rehabilitation of persons injured in the Croatian Homeland War is complex and prolonged because war wounds heal longer due to infections, additional complications and associated injuries of many organic structures. To make their prolonged hospitalization easier, the first sports competition of war-injured persons was organized in Zagreb on September 26th 1992. Out of 2457 wounded patients undergoing rehabilitation at the Dubrava University Hospital (UHD) in Zagreb till April 4th 1995, a total of 566 (23.

[Weekly and daily intake of alendronate: comparison of tolerance in osteoporosis treatment].

In this study we analyzed, considering complains of patients, tolerance of taking alendronate 70 mg once a week in comparison with daily intake of alendronate 10 mg. Subjects were patients that were treated for osteoporosis at Department for physical medicine and rehabilitation in Clinical hospital Dubrava. The diagnosis of osteoporosis was established by DXA densitometry.