Nutrition remains a relevant issue until the end of life, both for patients and their relatives. This is particularly true for palliative patients with advanced head and neck cancer. In addition to local problems caused by the disease and its treatment, patients suffer from social aspects such as isolation, decreasing strength, and reduced…[Read more]

Body mass index is a major determinant of cardiac annular valvar dimension and left ventricular mass index in children with sickle cell anemia.

The study is aimed at ascertaining the impact of Body Mass Index on Left ventricular mass index, right ventricular function and cardiac dimension of children with sickle cell anemia.

A case…[Read more]

21) and THIM sleep onset latency (mean = 3.65 minutes, SD = 2.18) (P = .25). There was strong correspondence between the two devices [r

> .73, P < .001], narrow levels of agreement on Bland-Altman plots, and significantly fewer trials where PSG sleep onset had not occurred (10.24%), P = .04.

THIM showed a high degree of correspondence…[Read more]