Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) represent a group of chronic and recurrent symptoms in the absence any organic proven disorder [1]. There are several factors involved pathogenesis, although no single cause could be identified addressed properly, like motility disturbances, genetic implications, environmental factors, visceral sensitivity, psychologic alterations, gut-brain disturb...

The simple request for a sick note can disguise important medical, psychologic or social issues. Disability may be influenced by social and cultural factors as well as by patient expectations. Assessment of impairment and subsequent disability is best made on the basis of objective data by use of a biopsychosocial model to ensure that the expression of disability does not mask other unaddressed...

= There is a common perception that women who abuse drugs and alcohol do not like women. How does this attitude relate to women‘s abuse of drugs, and what difference might it make to the nursing care of addicted women? The importance of relationships to self and others has been emphasized in nursing theories, recent theories of women‘s psychologic development, and the social models used to expl...

Objective: To identify the incidence of obesity co-morbidities by age in patients with obesity. Methods: Pre-operative data on 166,601 from Surgical Review Corporation’s BOLD database was analyzed age. Data: demographics, BMI, and percent 33 co-morbidities. Statistics: ANOVA for continuous variables; Dichotomous variables general linear models. Results: BMI alcohol/tobacco/substance use, PCOS, ...