Obesity as an "infectious" disease

Periodontitis as an Infectious Disease

Infectious disease as an evolutionary paradigm.

The basic principles of genetics and evolution apply equally to human hosts and to emerging infections, in which foodborne outbreaks play an important and growing role. However, we are dealing with a very complicated coevolutionary process in which infectious agent outcomes range from mutual annihilation to mutual integration and resynthesis of a new species. In our race against microbial evolu...

is hodgkin’s disease an infectious disease?

the exact cause or causes of hodgkin's disease have not yet been determined. the etiology of the disease suggests, but has not verified, a possible immunological and/or viral relationship. the article reviews the literature on the epidemiology and etiology of hodgkin’s disease from 1955 to the present. the author presents several clinical phenomena that are commonly associated with hodgkin’s di...

Obesity as a disease.

Obesity is associated with the development of some of the most prevalent diseases of modern society. The greatest risk is for diabetes mellitus where a body mass index above 35 kg/m2 increases the risk by 93-fold in women and by 42-fold in men. The risk of coronary heart disease is increased 86% by a 20% rise in weight in males, whereas in obese women the risk is increased 3.6-fold. Elevation o...

Obesity and Kidney Disease

The rise in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and an increase in the prevalence of obesity in parallel in the recent years is a great concern. CKD increases the rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and development of end-stage renal disease, and leads to premature death. Although no direct causality link between obesity and CKD can yet be established, this appears highly probable. ...