Severe acute panreatitis is a life-threatening disease with mortality rates of about 15%. With the development infected necrotizing pancreatitis, complicated by organ failure, rate 35.2%. Due to fact that pancreatitis highly variable pathological process, leading wide range clinical outcomes, predicting severity and early identification patients at risk developing severe complications critical ...

An increase in asthma-related morbidity and mortality has been reported recently, resulting in a substantial increase in the economic impact of this condition. Little information is available relating to the costs of asthma depending on the degree of severity of the disease. Total, direct and indirect costs generated by asthma patients who sought medical care for asthma control over a one-year ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The rising prevalence of human obesity worldwide has focused research on a variety of interventions that result in highly varied degrees of weight loss (WL). The advent of genomic testing has quantified estimates of both the contribution of genetic factors to the development of obesity as well as racial/ethnic variation of risk alleles across subpopulations. More recent studies ...

AIM to evaluate the association between TSH receptor antibody (TRAb), thyroid stimulating antibody (TSAb), and thyroid stimulation blocking antibody (TBAb) and TSAb/TBAb ratio with clinical activity score (CAS) and degree of severity of GO. METHODS this was a cross sectional study involving 75 consecutive Graves' disease patients admitted at Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital between December 2009 u...