BACKGROUND With regard to patients' self-reported somatic diseases some researchers transformed "don't know (DK)" responses into "no" responses. The present study examines the appropriateness of this procedure. METHODS Analyses were based on the nationally representative German National Health Interview and Examination Survey (GHS), which assessed both self-reported diseases and physician-dia...

AIM The aim of this paper was to characterise nonspecific eating disorders (other than anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa). METHOD The Medline database was searched for articles on nonspecific eating disorders. The following disorders were described: binge eating disorder (BED), pica, rumination disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, night eating syndrome (NES), sleep-related ...

OBJECTIVE Health beliefs of overweight adults who did and did not enter an exercise program were compared to identify possible factors that hamper people to enter such a program. METHOD Participants (n = 116, 78 women and 38 men) were overweight adults without comorbidities. Self-report instruments examined the burden of suffering, beliefs related to physical exercise and obesity, somatic com...

BACKGROUND Comorbidity is prevalent among patients with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and may influence patients' subjective and objective domains of well-being. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the associations between comorbidity and different measures of well-being (i.e. health related quality of life, psychological distress, sleep quality, and dyadic adjustment) among patients with IHD. ...

Introduction. COVID-19-related stroke is associated with a significantly higher mortality than COVID-19 or alone. Mechanisms underlying the increased of patients and should be thoroughly studied.
 Objective: to analyze predictors hospital stroke.
 Materials methods. We retrospectively analyzed 1,386 cases reported by an infectious diseases inpatient clinic in 2020. studied clinical, l...

Background: Hypertension is one of the most common chronic diseases. The need to undergo indefinite treatment combined with risk complications affecting cardiovascular system impose significant psychological and somatic burden on patient. Arterial hypertension (AH) rarely an isolated disease commonly observed comorbidities include metabolic disorders as well clinically apparent associated polyp...

People with mental disorders are facing the double pressure of undertreatment both for their mental and physical diseases. The dimensions and burden of these problems associated with the high rates of medical comorbidity, disability, and mortality among people with mental disorders have been revealed in many recent reviews. This issue constitutes a major public health/ mental health challenge a...

Neuropsychiatric symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) such as depression may be associated with pain, which according to the literature may be inadequately recognized and managed in this population. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with analgesic use in persons with AD; in particular, how AD severity, functional status, neuropsychiatric symptoms of AD, co-morbidities and soma...