Takayasu's disease — Current status

Current status: Alzheimer's Disease.

lzheimer's disease (AD) is a specific type of neurodegenerative dementia characterized clinically by a progressive loss of memory and other aspects of cognition and pathologically by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles, amyloid plaques, and neuronal cell death1. Alois Alzheimer was the first physician to describe the neurohistopathological aspects of AD in 1907 in a 55-year-old woman. It ac...

Current status of tsutsugamushi disease in Korea.

Wilson disease: current status and the future.

The focus of this minireview is on the current status and new advances in diagnosis and treatment of Wilson disease, an autosomal recessive disorder of copper metabolism. Molecular diagnostics have improved and complements current biochemical and clinical methods for screening for Wilson disease. Screening for Wilson disease in newborns is feasible and has been tested in limited populations, bu...

Recurrence of fatty liver disease following liver transplantation for NAFLD-related cirrhosis: Current status and challenges

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is emerging as a major health problem worldwide. NAFLD is a continuum of disease ranging from mild liver steatosis to severe steatohepatitis, which will ultimately lead to end-stage liver disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. This disorder is considered as a silent liver disease. The metabolic syndrome and its components are accounted as the ...

Socioeconomic Status and Current Cigarette Smoking Status: Immigrants’ Diminished Returns

Introduction: Although socioeconomic status (SES) resources influence population and individual health behaviors, socially marginalized groups gain significantly less health from their SES indicators, such as education and income, compared to the socially privileged groups. This pattern is called marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs). However, most of the MDRs liter...