Stress and diabetes coexist in a vicious cycle. Different types of stress lead to diabetes, while diabetes itself is a major life stressor. This was the focus of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium's 19^(th) annual symposium, "Stress and Human Health
A pituitary adenoma is an insidious and slow-growing neoplasm of the pituitary gland. No definitive aggravating factors have currently been reported for pituitary adenoma enlargement. Our case demonstrates that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
CONCLUSIONS: Circulating glucocorticoids in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 reflect acute illness, with a marked rise in cortisol and fall in male testosterone. These findings are not observed 5 months from discharge. The lack of association
Increased endothelial cell (EC) permeability is a cardinal feature of acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS). Tyrosine phosphorylation of VE-cadherin is a key determinant of EC barrier disruption. However, the identity and
CONCLUSIONS: The neonatal and infant mortality rates indicate the persistence of profound inequalities in Italy between the North and the South and between Italian and foreign children.
CONCLUSIONS: Adenovirus-vectored vaccines showed a 2.4 times increased risk of GBS that was about seven times higher compared with mRNA-based vaccines. The decreased GBS risk associated with mRNA vaccines was possibly due to an elicited reduction of
Noise pollution is one of the major environmental problems of contemporary societies. In urban areas, road transport is the main source impacting the spatio-temporal variation of air quality. This work aims to analyse the spatio-temporal variability
CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac tamponade is a rare complication during ECMO that, despite being potentially reversible, is associated with high hospital mortality. Venoarterial ECMO is the most common configuration. ECMO for pulmonary support was associated
CONCLUSIONS: PCC definitions are heterogenous across real-world studies, which limits reliable comparisons between studies. However, some similarities were observed in terms of the most frequently measured PCC-associated symptoms/conditions, which