OBJECTIVES: The growing popularity of diets that restrict the consumption of animal-based foods is an important new challenge for the public healthcare system in Czechia. While the environmental and health-related benefits ...
The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially on hemodialysis (HD) is higher compared to the general population without CKD and reaches ~20%. The risk of ischemic ...
The molecular mechanisms linking obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remain unclear. This study investigated the effect of OSA on skeletal muscle lipid oxidation in nondiabetic controls and ...
Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a rare form of chronic neuropathic pain characterized by spontaneous or elicited paroxysms of electric shock-like or stabbing pain in a region of the face. While most cases occur in a sporadic ...
Permanent myocardial pacing can preserve adequate heart rates and improve symptoms and mortality in patients with bradycardia. Conventional right ventricular (RV) pacing is far from the optimal treatment since up to 20% ...
In contrast to left bundle branch pacing, the criteria for left ventricular septal pacing (LVSP) were never validated. LVSP is usually defined as deep septal deployment of the pacing lead with a pseudo-right bundle branch ...
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Since the 1950s, one of the goals of adipose tissue research has been to determine lipolytic and lipogenic activity as the primary metabolic pathways affecting adipocyte health and size and thus representing potential ...
This is the second editorial of the first volume of the journal Theology and Philosophy of Education. The title of this editorial shows what could be seen as a common topic for all of the articles published in this second ...
A unique clinical feature of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is the stress trigger factor. Different types of triggers exist, generally divided into emotional and physical stressor. The aim was to create long-term registry of all ...
Background: VIM metallo-β-lactamases are enzymes characterized by the ability to hydrolyze all β-lactams. Usually, blaVIM-like genes are carried by class 1 integrons. In the Czech Republic, only sporadic cases of VIM-producing ...