ABSTRACT: Current recommendations on the prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice stress the need to base intervention on an assessment of the individual's total burden of risk rather than on the level of any particular risk factor. This is because most people have several risk factors which interact to produce their total risk. There is a need for clinicians to be able to e…
ABSTRACT: Seborrheic keratosis is the most common benign epidermal tumor. Destruction with cryotherapy, electrodesiccation, curettage, or laser ablation (carbon dioxide or erbium:YAG) are effective. We performed a split-face comparison of carbon dioxide laser versus electrodesiccation for the treatment of facial seborrheic keratoses. This is a case report of a 61-year-old woman presented wit…
ABSTRACT: Hypertensive nephrosclerosis is a target-organ complication of hypertension with incidence range of 17-24%. The pathogenesis is not fully understood, there are assumptions on role of genetic factors and failure of glomerular autoregulation mechanism. There are several clinical guidance on its diagnostic and management; the exact diagnosis needs renal biopsy. The main target is to k…
ABSTRACT: Indonesia is the fourth highest number of people with DM in worldwide after India, China, and the United States. Prevalence data of type 1 DM patients in Indonesia is still unknown, but believed to be quite a lot. The cause of type 1 DM is a combination of genetic, environmental, and immunologic response. Wheat is one of the environmental factors that can trigger type 1 DM. Wheat w…
ABSTRACT: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is escalating in frequency and also proportion. The incidence of NAFLD and its complications such as liver fibrosis and cirrhosis is increasing, caused by lifestyle shift towards high calorie intake but low physical activity. Liver biopsy as the gold stan¬dard for diagnosis was seldom used because of reluctance for invasive procedure.…