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Treatment Strategies for Resistant Arterial Hypertension (28.10.2011)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2011.0725
Arterial hypertension is one of the most frequent chronic diseases in the industrialized nations of the West and represents a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In Germany, only 5% to 17% of patients treated for...
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Liquid Biopsy in Tumor Genetic Diagnosis (09.03.2018)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2018.0169
Liquid biopsy is a term used to describe a diagnostic approach relying on cell-free nucleic acids from bodily fluids—usually circulating free deoxyribonucleic acids (circulating free DNA, cfDNA)—which are isolated from blood, enhanced and...
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Neonatal Cystic Fibrosis Screening (17.05.2013)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2013.0354
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common multisystem, autosomal-recessive genetic disease leading to premature death among persons of European ancestry. It affects about 1 in every 2500 neonates in Germany. The underlying abnormality in the chloride...
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Oocyte Donation (21.01.2011)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2011.0023
Oocyte donation has been used for more than 25 years to treat unwanted childlessness (1). As the procedure has been prohibited in Germany since the law on the protection of embryos was introduced in December 1990, couples have been using medical...
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Diabetic Retinopathy (05.02.2010)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2010.0075
Medical advances in recent decades have paradoxically led to an increase in the incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Increased life expectancy in the industrialized world is one reason why diabetes is now more common;...
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Strength Training for Women as a Vehicle for Health Promotion at Work (30.06.2017)
https://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article/191927
Continuing technological progress has had an enormous effect on working conditions and general lifestyle in recent decades, leading to a sharp decrease in physical activity (1, 2, e1–e3). This trend has been especially pronounced in the areas of work...
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Intra-abdominal Adhesions (05.11.2010)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2010.0769
Intra-abdominal adhesions following surgery represent a major unsolved problem (1). They occur after 50% to 100% of all surgical interventions in the abdomen and can complicate future surgery considerably (2). Dembrowski published the first data on...
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Boxing (26.11.2010)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2010.0835
Boxing matches were added to the Olympic games in 688 BC. The athletes boxed without any breaks until one of the opponents was not longer able to defend himself. The Greek boxers wrapped leather straps around their fists, while from 150 BC Roman...
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Concordance Analysis (29.07.2011)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2011.0515
Many diagnostic methods in medicine carry the risk of misdiagnosis. All physicians sometimes make diagnostic errors, any two physicians will sometimes disagree on a diagnosis, and even the technical measurements on which diagnoses are based are never...
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Typhus and Other Rickettsioses (15.05.2009)
//doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.2009.0348
Since mankind has existed, fleas and lice have been its permanent companions. In addition to the small volume of blood sucked and the allergic pruritus, these ectoparasites are important transmitters of communicable diseases. Fleas are well known for...