NKX2-8 Gene Mutation Linked To Spina Bifida
Neural tube defects affect more than 300,000 babies born around the world each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Neural tube defects affect more than 300,000 babies born around the world each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A panel of expert cardiologists share their clinical pearls for managing patients with hyperlipidemia.
The truth is, we still don’t know exactly what causes anorexia. But we have learned more in recent decades. Whereas anorexia was earlier viewed through the lens of individual and familial behaviors and cultural influences, it is increasingly understood, as with other psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and depression, to involve a neurological element.
Chronic kidney disease is defined as damage of the renal parenchyma that results in chronic deterioration of kidney function and may result in progression to end-stage renal disease.
Several studies conducted over the years have found that South Asians have a higher burden of Coronary Artery Disease (PCAD) compared to other ethnicities. A 2004 INTERHEART study first found that the mean age of the first presentation of heart attack was 53 years, a full 10 years ahead of patients from Western Europe, China, Central and Eastern Europe. Similarly, studies