For several decades, testosterone and its synthetic derivatives have been used with anabolic and androgenic purposes. These substances were first restricted to professional bodybuilders, but become more and more popular among recreational athletes. Up to date, 3,000,000 anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) users have been reported in the United States with an increasing prevalence, making AAS con...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study investigates the anxiety people feel about aging and the psychometric properties of the Anxiety about Aging Scale (AAS) in Greek samples. DESIGN AND METHODS The AAS was administered in 3 groups: 147 primary health care professionals, 74 Nursing and Social Work students, and 99 community residents. RESULTS AND IMPLICATIONS A confirmatory factor analysis reprod...

Supported in part by a grant provided by “IASIS” a non-profit organization raising funds for Research in Leukemias, Lymphomas and related disorders come. AAS I/IIA are definitely non-advanced for most study groups. Non-advanced stages are further classified as “early” or “early favourable” and “intermediate” or “early unfavourable” according to the presence of adverse features. Table 1 summariz...

Previously, we have shown that a maternal low protein diet, fed exclusively during the preimplantation period of mouse development (Emb-LPD), is sufficient to induce by the blastocyst stage a compensatory growth phenotype in late gestation and postnatally, correlating with increased risk of adult onset cardiovascular disease and behavioural dysfunction. Here, we examine mechanisms of induction ...

Cervical joint disease in rheumatoid arthritis patients is common. These patients may be at risk for severe life-threatening neurological problems in the perioperative period and thus present a challenge to the anaesthetist. By understanding the various anatomical abnormalities that may occur in rheumatoid cervical joint disease, the anaesthetist can design an appropriate management plan for th...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is soaring worldwide and is now recognized as one of the main threats to human health being associated with comorbidities, such as cardiovascular disease. Type 2 diabetes is a condition characterized by abnormalities in carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism, with the most characteristic features being hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia. The underlying patholog...

Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are used illicitly at high doses by bodybuilders. The misuse of these drugs is associated with serious adverse effects to the liver, including cellular adenomas and adenocarcinomas. We report two very different cases of adult male bodybuilders who developed hepatocellular adenomas following AAS abuse. The first patient was asymptomatic but had two large liver ...

Growth-restricted fetuses are at risk for a variety of lifelong medical conditions. Preeclampsia, a life-threatening hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, is associated with fetuses who suffer from intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). Recently, emerging evidence indicates that preeclamptic women harbor AT(1) receptor agonistic autoantibodies (AT(1)-AAs) that contribute to the disease features....

BACKGROUND Focal atrial tachycardias (ATs) surrounding the anterior atrial septum (AAS) have been successfully ablated from the right atrial septum (RAS), the aortic cusps, and the aortic mitral junction. However, the strategy for mapping and ablation of AAS-ATs has not been well defined. METHODS AND RESULTS Of 227 consecutive patients with AT, 47 (20.7%; mean age, 56.3±11.6 years) with AAS-A...

In this communication, we report the springtime variation of the composition of aristolochic acids (AAs) in Aristolochia chilensis leaves and stems. The dominant AA in the leaves of all samples, which were collected between October and December, was AA-I (1), and its concentration varied between 212.6±3.8 and 145.6±1.2 mg/kg and decreased linearly. This decrease occurred in parallel with the in...