Hepatitis is Deadly

How deadly is the "deadly quartet"? A post-CABG evaluation.

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine the value of a cluster of metabolic risk factors in predicting mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). BACKGROUND The "deadly quartet" of metabolic risk factors (i.e., obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia) has been associated with coronary heart disease in healthy population studies. The expected influence of...

Is Osteoarthritis a Deadly Disease?

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com earlier mortality risk [2]. Osteoarthritis, while not classified as an inflammatory arthritis, does have intermittent joint inflammation as a characteristic of the disease process [3]. In line with the evidence of early mortality risk and rheumatoid arthritis, OA of the hip or knee has also been convincingly associated with early mortality risk in d...

Is Osteoarthritis a Deadly Disease?

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com earlier mortality risk [2]. Osteoarthritis, while not classified as an inflammatory arthritis, does have intermittent joint inflammation as a characteristic of the disease process [3]. In line with the evidence of early mortality risk and rheumatoid arthritis, OA of the hip or knee has also been convincingly associated with early mortality risk in d...

Who is the Deadly Drinking Driver

Deadly duo

An astonishing one-third of the world’s population is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In most people it remains inactive or latent but in about 10% of people an active case of TB disease will develop within their lifetime. Simple antibiotics can prevent and treat most of these cases, yet 8-10 million people develop an active TB infection an...

Gluttony in the ICU: is it really a deadly sin?