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Medicines, Volume 9, Issue 7

2022 July - 3 articles

Cover Story: Obesity is a chronic pathology that affects people of all ages, from infants to the elderly, residing in both developed and developing countries. It represents an epidemic with far-reaching consequences on health and morbidity. The literature has established that obesity is associated with increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure, stroke, and death. Sarcopenic obesity is strongly associated with frailty, cardiometabolic dysfunction, physical disability, and mortality. This concept of sarcopenic obesity has emerged and is considered a public health risk in older adults. Sarcopenia and obesity are both considered multifactorial syndromes sharing various overlapping causes and feedback mechanisms. Preventing them is therefore essential. View this paper

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Associations between Workers’ Health and Working Conditions: Would the Physical and Mental Health of Nonregular Employees Improve If Their Income Was Adjusted?

Mariko Nishikitani,
Mutsuhiro Nakao,
Mariko Inoue,
Shinobu Tsurugano and
Eiji Yano

Medicines2022, 9(7), 40;https://doi.org/10.3390/medicines9070040

14 July 2022

Precarious employment can negatively affect health, but workers may be healthy if they earn enough income. This study uses equivalent disposable income and examines the interaction between income classes and employment types to clarify whether worker...

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Communication

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Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis in a Patient with Pancreatic Cancer: A Rare Phenomenon?

Taichi Sayanagi,
Yumiko Ohishi,
Makoto Katayama and
Ryota Tamura

Medicines2022, 9(7), 39;https://doi.org/10.3390/medicines9070039

12 July 2022

Complication of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) is critical. It causes rapid neurological deterioration, and subsequently, discontinuation of the ineffective treatment even in body tumor dormancy. Large molecular chemotherapeutic agents that are...

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Brief Report

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RETRACTED: Obesity and Frailty Syndrome in the Elderly: Prospective Study in Primary Care

Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar,
Perla Habchi and
Ibrahima Amadou Dembele

Medicines2022, 9(7), 38;https://doi.org/10.3390/medicines9070038

24 June 2022

Background: Obesity is a chronic pathology that affects people of all ages, from infants to the elderly, residing in both developed and developing countries. Objective: Our aim is to study the link between obesity and frailty in the elderly. Method:...

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