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Mitigation of Obesity: A Phytotherapeutic Approach
Published in Amit Baran Sharangi, K. V. Peter, Medicinal Plants, 2023
A.B. Sharangi, Suddhasuchi Das
Obesity is the sum total of many contributing factors, which include dietary, lifestyle, genetic, and environmental factors. Appropriate lifestyle and behavior interventions may be fundamental in alleviating this complex, chronic disorder mediated mainly by weight loss, but maintaining such a healthy lifestyle is extremely challenging. Multiple natural products could confer a synergistic activity through increasing the anti-obesity action on multiple targets as well as offering advantages over chemical treatments in terms of serious side effects. Phytotherapeutical approaches effect in anti-obesity and also offer other health benefits like anti-diabetic and anti-hyperlipidemic activities, simultaneously. However, the development of evidence-based public policies is necessary for the formulations. It will contribute a beneficial and sustainable approach for novel anti-obesity products and open up new research insights towards validation and confirmation of all the positive results time-tested through natural medicinal plants. Translational research should promote the exchange of knowledge between producers, researchers, developers, and industrialists to result in the much-needed synergy and harmony.
Iron Deficiency Anemia
Published in Harold R. Schumacher, William A. Rock, Sanford A. Stass, Handbook of Hematologic Pathology, 2019
Donald P. Skoog, James R. Newland
Patients with ACD usually have an obvious chronic disorder such as rheumatoid arthritis or cancer. Anemia is mild to moderate and, unless complicated by another mechanism, is never severe. Platelets and reticulocytes are usually normal. In ACD, serum ferritin is normal or increased, while serum iron is decreased, and transferrin is either normal or decreased. As indicated in Case Study 1, a serum ferritin less than 50 ng/mL in a patient with a condition associated with ACD is likely to indicate superimposed iron deficiency.
How is it Possible to Die?
Published in Iona Heath, John Berger, Matters of Life and Death, 2018
Sense making and the finding of meaning, the summation of a life within a coherent story, are processes through which the mind becomes accepting of death. Connections of love and acquaintance and relationship are crucial to this endeavour. The appreciation of meanings is bound within a relationship: it belongs to the sick person’s spouse, child, friend, or care giver, or to the patient himself. For this reason it is usually as much hedged in with ambiguities as are those relationships themselves. But in the long, oscillating course of chronic disorder, the sick, their relatives, and those who treat them become aware that the meanings communicated by illness can amplify or dampen symptoms, exaggerate or lessen disability, impede or facilitate treatment.15
Acute toxicity studies and protective effects of Cinnamon cassia bark extract in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2022
K. Vijayakumar, R. L. Rengarajan, N. Suganthi, B. Prasanna, S. Velayuthaprabhu, M. Shenbagam, A. Vijaya Anand
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder caused by insufficient or lack of insulin. Prolonged hyperglycemic condition favors oxidative stress in the tissues. In developed and Western countries, change in dietary habits and lifestyle enhanced the prevalence rate of this chronic disorder. Around 366 million people suffer from diabetes in 2011, which is expected to rise by 552 million in 2030 (Whiting et al.2011). Common drugs used for the treatment of diabetes, such as insulin, sulfonylurea, metformin, an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor, and thiazolidinediones have adverse side effects (Meneses et al.2015), which turned the attention of researchers toward effective herbal medicine. Plant-based drugs and herbal formulations have been considered to be less toxic and side effects.
Patient perspectives on employment participation in the “hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome”
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2021
Stijn De Baets, Patrick Calders, Liesbeth Verhoost, Marieke Coussens, Inge Dewandele, Fransiska Malfait, Guy Vanderstraeten, Geert Van Hove, Dominique Van de Velde
The participants argued that their chronic disorder constituted a potential risk for social isolation, as fatigue and pain are the main causes for not participating in social events. Therefore, having a job provided opportunities for them to have social contacts during working hours. Working was described by some as a positive experience and an important aspect of social life. Furthermore, colleagues made it possible for different, non-work-related and non-disease-related topics to be discussed. In addition, the participants were able to learn from colleagues, which are regarded as an added value. The relationship patients have with colleagues is a great motivation to continue working.“If you value social interactions and you do not want your social life to deteriorate due to your pathology, then work is important, I think.” (Participant 3)
Measuring success in the treatment of depression: what is most important to patients?
Published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2020
There is a long tradition in mental health care focusing on what patients want when they seek treatment. It is not an extensive literature, and it is mostly limited to psychotherapy research, but it goes back to the 1960s and it is illuminating in that it gives indications for what patients really want from treatments [1]. This research shows that patients find symptom reduction a very important goal of therapy, but it is certainly not the only goal. What patients want is very personal and depends on their current situation. Apart from symptom reduction, it is well-known to clinicians that patients want, for example to be able to go back to work, have a more fulfilling life, solve conflicts with partners, other close relatives, friends, want to learn to live with the chronic disorder they recently developed, learn to handle a trauma, recent or in the past.