In respiratory physiology, the ventilation/perfusion ratio is a ratio used to assess the efficiency and adequacy of the ventilation-perfusion coupling and thus the matching of two variables:V – ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Scientists have discovered how long-term treatment of high blood pressure with commonly prescribed drugs can destroy the kidney's ability to filter and purify blood. The finding ...

Hypertension or elevated blood pressure (BP) is a worldwide clinical challenge and the leading primary risk factor for kidney dysfunctions, heart failure, and cerebrovascular disease. The kidney is a ...

These vapour pressure analyses and associated maps use data contained in the Bureau of Meteorology climate database, the Australian Data Archive for Meteorology (ADAM). The analyses are initially ...

However, with further volume depletion cardiac output and then blood pressure falls. This is associated with a reduction in organ perfusion. At the organ level local autoregulatory mechanism comes ...

In gaseous fluid dynamics, temperature represents molecular kinetic energy, which is then consistent with the equation of state and with definitions of pressure as the average force of molecular ...

Acute pain management in the older adult is both challenging and rewarding. This review addresses the difficulty with assessment of pain in the older adult, variations in the pain experience of ...

Professor Moutsopoulos, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National University of Athens, 75 Mikras Asias St, 115 27, Athens, Greece OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of different ...

Iron supplementation for iron-deficiency anaemia due to gastrointestinal blood loss is acceptable for inclusion as early Crohn disease. Both immunopathological and clinical evidence indicates that ...