Some health problems are considered by many individuals as a 'normal' part of ageing. Our aim was to investigate whether patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) consider different types and levels of health losses as ...

INTRODUCTION: So far, the latest survey which used the EQ-5D questionnaire to measure the health status of the Hungarian population was carried out in 2000. AIM: To explore the health state of the Hungarian population by ...

Introduction: Prostate cancer, the most frequent malignant disease in males in Europe, accounts for a great proportion of health expenditures. Aim: A systematic review of registry-based studies about the cost-of-illness ...

INTRODUCTION: Identification of patients with high fracture risk is a key-point in osteoporosis care. AIM: To assess the fracture risk among osteoporotic women attending osteoporosis care in Hungary. METHOD: A cross-sectional ...

Primary dysmenorrhea (PD), or painful menstruation in the absence of identified uterine pathology, affects five to nine in every 10 reproductive-aged women. Despite its high prevalence, just a few studies with very small ...

Background: In clinical practice, treatment sequences of biologicals are applied for active fistulising Crohn's disease, however underlying health economic analyses are lacking.

BACKGROUND: The hormone sensitivity of melanoma and the role of 'classical' estrogen receptor (ER) alpha and beta in tumor progression have been intensively studied with rather contradictory results. The presence of ...

Introduction: Peripheral arterial disease may occur in about of 14% of patients with high blood pressure, of which 1-3% suffer from chronic critical limb ischemia. Literature data on the quality of life according to the ...

AbstractBackground In middle-income countries, access to biological therapy is limited in ulcerative colitis in terms of the number of patients and the length of therapy. Because of their cost advantages, biosimilars have ...