BACKGROUND: Summary measures of health that combine mortality and morbidity into a single indicator are being estimated in the Canadian context for approximately 200 diseases and conditions. To manage the large amount of data and calculations for this many diseases, we have developed a structured workbook system with easy to use tools. We expect this system will be attractive to researchers fro...

abū l-ḥasan alī ibn al-‘abbās al-majūsī ahvazi (? 930-994 ad), best known as haly abbas in the west, was a 10th century persian physician whose lifetime coincided with the flourishing of medical science in the near east, the islamic medicine golden age, an era extending from the 9th to the 12th centuries ad. haly abbas, in his extant book kāmil al-sinā‘ah al-tibbīyah (the perfect book of the ar...

Sažetak Pučanstvo razvijenih zemalja, uključujući i Hrvatsku, postaje sve starije i danas su u ovim zemljama kardiovaskularne bolesti uzrokovane aterosklerozom postale ubojica broj jedan ne samo osoba srednje životne dobi, već i onih starijih. Ove bolesti i njihove posljedice uvelike utječu na smrtnost, ali i na kvalitetu života starijih osoba i značajno je pogoršavaju. Međutim, do relativno ne...

Schweitzer’s book, of which this English translation is now offered to the public, contains two distinct elements. The larger part of it is a historical critique of the life-of-Jesus literature. To this is added a constructive attempt to interpret the life of Jesus on extreme eschatological lines. The constructive part is, however, of much smaller compass than the historico-critical section and...

Uvod i epidemiološki podaci Prema literaturnim podacima, procjenjuje se da je 2010. godine u svijetu 20,9 milijuna muškaraca i 12,6 milijuna žena bolovalo od atrijalne fibrilacije (AF). Smatra se da će do 2030. godine Europska unija imati 14 do 17 milijuna bolesnika s AF-om, tj. da se svake godine dijagnosticira 120.000 do 250.000 novih bolesnika. Kako raste pojavnost čimbenika rizika tako se p...