Can lycopene be considered an effective protection against cardiovascular disease?

Can hysterectomy be considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disease?

Context Hysterectomy is the most common nonobstetrical surgical procedure performed on women in the United States.2 In 2001, an estimated 649 000 hysterectomies were performed in the United States. Because most of the patients undergoing this procedure are between 25 and 54 years old, they live with the potential consequences of the procedure for many years.3 Thus, if hysterectomy is an indepen...

Can Bioinformatics Be Considered as an Experimental Biological Science?

The objective of this short report is to reconsider the subject of bioinformatics as just being a tool of experimental biological science. To do that, we introduce three examples to show how bioinformatics could be considered as an experimental science. These examples show how the development of theoretical biological models generates experimentally verifiable computer hypotheses, which necessa...

Diabetic nephropathy: can renoprotection be extrapolated to cardiovascular protection?

Recent years have seen the seemingly unstoppable attack by cardiologists on all diseases that limit cardiovascular health. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of diabetes mellitus, the subject of an important article in this issue of Circulation1 that relates to renoprotection in type 2 diabetes mellitus. As a background, type 2 diabetes is increasing in incidence and cardiological si...

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?

A Slightly Dorsally Tilted Lunate on MRI can be Considered Normal

  Background: Abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. On magnetic resonance images (MRIs) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. The tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. The primary aim of this study was to det...