There is a cause-and-effect relationship between stress, sleep disorders and emotional brain function. Insufficient quality and duration of sleep can trigger or exacerbate anxiety in an individual. The study aims to assess the scores for sleep disorders and the level of stress depending on typological features of state and trait anxiety in patients...

By Anastasiia Zhyvotovska, Dmytro Boiko, Lesya Bodnar, Yurii Kozar, Yanina Martynenko, Rustam Isakov

Heart failure is the leading public health concern as its prevalence increases and the cost of care increases dramatically due to poor prognosis. Ineffective disease management can increase morbidity and lead to repeated hospitalizations. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the care needs of patients treated for heart failure. The da...

By Tahere Zahedifard, Khadijeh Mirzaei-Najmabadi, Talat Khadivzadeh, Ali Vafaee-Najar, Marzieh Lotfalizadeh

Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CVR) is of utmost importance in primary and (especially) in secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of our paper was to examine whether elderly patients with CAD benefit equally from CVR program as CAD patients of younger age. The study involved 1,697 patients referred to the CVR program after s...

By Milovan Stojanović, Marija Stanković, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Aleksa Vuković, Jelena Igrutinović-Novković, Igor Igić, Stevan Ilić, Dejan Petrović

Hemophilia A is an antihemophilic factor deficiency which requires life-long treatment. The aim of this analysis was to present the effects of prophylactic non-factor replacement therapy in ten patients with hemophilia A. This retrospective analysis was conducted on ten male patients (4 children, 1 adolescent, and 5 adults) with severe hemophilia A...

By Miodrag Vučić, Božidar Lilić, Danijela Jovančić-Petković, Jelena Vučić

Depression is a mood disorder that prevents the patients from performing everyday activities, due to the constant presence of negative feelings. Depression is a worldwide medical disorder which is highly prevalent and has therefore become a huge financial burden for the health system. Biological, psychological, and social factors are most commonly ...

By Ina Konstantinović, Milena Trandafilović

Anemia is a common extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). Recognizing and treating anemia in patients with IBD is vital for improving the quality of life and reducing complications. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness and safety of the liposomal iron formulation in the treatment of anemia in patients ...

By Srđan Marković, Đorđe Kralj, Tamara Knežević-Ivanovski, Miloš Mitrović, Olga Odanović, Vesna Brzački, Petar Svorcan

This study aimed to determine the effect of the self-efficacy enhancement program on medication adherence and self-efficacy in patients with the acute coronary syndrome. The parallel randomized clinical trial study was conducted on 86 patients with the acute coronary syndrome in Shahroud, Iran, by using a convenience sampling method. Data collectio...

By Maryam Mahdavian, Mahboobeh Khajeh, Shahrbanoo Goli, Kamran Pourmand, Seyedmohammad Mirhosseini, Hossein Ebrahimi

Despite the fact that proton pump inhibitors are widely used for the inhibition of gastric acid secretion, recent studies have revealed certain long-term side effects. Due to acidic environment in the stomach, it is challenging to design new competitive inhibitors of gastric proton pump with more potent inhibition of gastric acid secretion to conve...

By Marko Karović, Boško Nikolić, Nikola Nedeljković, Marina Vesović, Miloš Nikolić

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and metastatic disease is an important and frequent clinical problem. Metastases in the oral and maxillofacial region are rare, comprising 1-2% of all malignant lesions, and clinically resemble common benign conditions. A 59-year-old woman diagnosed with rectal cancer developed perimandibular lesion...

By Miljana Džunić, Ana Cvetanović, Ivan Petković

Since 1999 continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been used to measure the amount of glucose in the interstitial fluid. CGM is crucial when it comes to developing the ambulatory glucose profile and giving information on time spent in range (TIR), percentage of time spent above and below range, as well as variability. It was in 1992 that Campbell e...

By Milovan Stojanović, Milica Pešić, Stevan Ilić, Marina Deljanin-Ilić, Vojislav Ćirić