Several challenges confront those patients living and growing older with HIV disease with regard to non-communicable diseases, including cancer, addictive behaviors, fracture prevalence, heart disease and affective disorders, that present physical and mental health problems among the HIV positive [1-5]. Indeed, frailty and a conglomeration of behavioral risk factors are associated with multisys...

BACKGROUND Co-morbidities of vertiginous diseases have so far not been investigated systematically. Thus, it is still unclear whether the different vertigo syndromes (e.g. benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), Meniere's disease (MD), vestibular migraine and phobic vertigo (PPV)) have also different spectrums of co-morbidities. METHODS All patients from a cohort of 131 participants were...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to estimate the proportion of patients with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (IC/BPS) with systemic dysfunction associated co-morbidities such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and fibromyalgia (FM). MATERIALS AND METHODS Two groups of subjects with IC/BPS were included: (1) physician diagnosed patients with IC/BPS and (2) subjects meeting NIDDK IC/...