Terapevt Arkh
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To comparatively evaluate the efficiency of preventive treatment with various iron preparations on copper, manganese, and iron metabolic features in adult athletes. ⋯ Dietary addition of foods containing large amounts of ferrous iron, copper, and manganese is indicated for athletes exposed to higher intensity exercises.
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To study the distribution of genotypes in the cytokine genes and their combinations with immunoregulatory activity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and in healthy women. ⋯ The high odds ratio and high specificity of the detected genetic combinations allow one to hope that they will be clinically used as predictors.
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Prospects of introduction of personification medicine principles into clinical nephrology are discussed with a special emphasis on prognosis of the course of chronic kidney diseases and response of the latter to pathogenetic therapy.
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The lecture analyses current tools of anti-inflammatory treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Anti-inflammatory treatment is aimed at a key element of COPD pathogenesis. The results of treatment with main anti-inflammatory drugs and methods in COPD management are reviewed as well as efficacy of a new anti-inflammatory drug roflumilast in COPD patients.