late life depression is both underdiagnosed and undertreated. the impact of medical conditions may mask depressive symptoms. untreated depressive disorder in older people impair their quality of life and leads to decreased ability for self care and diminish in social interaction and increase in health care use. this article provides an update and current evidence in relation to old age depressi...

background and aims: blacks have a higher rate of chronic medical conditions (cmc), disability, and depressive symptoms compared to whites. the present study compared blacks and whites for bidirectional associations between cmc, disability, and depressive symptoms over a 25-year period. methods: data came from all five waves (1986, 1989, 1994, 2001, and 2011) of the americans’ changing lives st...

1 Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA 2Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 66160, USA 3Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA 98109, USA 4Department of Physiology and Immunology, University of Rijeka, 5...

More than half of maternal deaths in the UK are due to pre-existing medical conditions, and medical emergencies often mimic acute obstetric conditions. An acute flare of systemic lupus erythaematosus, a thyroid storm or a phaeochromocytoma have many of the signs and symptoms of imminent eclampsia. Similarly, severe postpartum haemorrhage can result in diagnostic difficulties of medical conditio...

Children and adolescents with medical conditions present special issues with respect to participation in athletic activities. The pediatrician can play an important role in determining whether a child with a health condition should participate in certain sports by assessing the child's health status, suggesting appropriate equipment or modifications of sports to decrease the risk of injury, and...

Nocturia had traditionally been considered part of an array of symptoms of some other primary disorder [ 1 ] . In 2002, the standardization subcommittee of the International Continence Society (ICS) proposed the fi rst standardization of nocturia terminology and this report has marked a new era in the approach to the management of nocturia. Since then, nocturia has begun to be recognized as a c...