Peter Paisley,Mick Serpell
Peter Paisley
Diabetic neuropathy is thought to affect 1.9% of the world’s population and 50% of patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus which would equate to 2.25 million people in the UK. The term diabetic neuropathy includes multiple distinct ...
Review
The Practitioner. 2017 Mar;261(1802):23-6. DOI: 2017
Marie OSullivan,Caroline Overton
Marie OSullivan
Fibroids are benign, hormone-dependent tumours of uterine smooth muscle and connective tissue. They are commonly asymptomatic, but can cause symptoms such as heavy menstrual bleeding and pelvic pressure symptoms. Between 20 to 30% of women ...
Review
The Practitioner. 2017 Mar;261(1802):19-22. DOI: 2017
Tracey Keteepe-Arachi,Sanjay Sharma
Tracey Keteepe-Arachi
Ischaemic stroke is rare in premenopausal women but risk increases with advancing age and doubles in the ten years following the menopause. Up to the age of 75 years men have a 25% higher risk of suffering a stroke compared with women. Howe...
Review
The Practitioner. 2017 Mar;261(1802):13-7. DOI: 2017
Phillip Bland
Phillip Bland
Editorial
The Practitioner. 2017 Mar;261(1802):7. DOI: 2017
Jobie Evans,Andra Negoescu
Jobie Evans
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common, chronic systemic inflammatory disease of unclear aetiology leading to synovial hypertrophy and joint inflammation. It typically presents with symmetrical polyarthritis of small joints of the hands or f...
Review
The Practitioner. 2017 May;261(1804):21-5. DOI: 2017
Sophie Behrman,Vyara Valkanova,Charlotte L Allan
Sophie Behrman
There has been a rapid rise in the number of people diagnosed with dementia in England from 232,000 in 2008 to 850,000 in 2014. Currently, it is estimated that the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in adults aged 65 and over is 10-20%...
Review
The Practitioner. 2017 May;261(1804):17-20. DOI: 2017
Flavia Niccolini,Konstantinos Diamantopoulos,Stelios Kiosses et al.
Flavia Niccolini et al.
It is estimated that up to 80% of patients with Parkinson's disease will eventually develop cognitive impairment over the course of their illness. Even at the time of diagnosis, cognitive impairment has been reported in 20-25% of patients. ...
Review
The Practitioner. 2017 May;261(1804):11-5. DOI: 2017
Phillip Bland
Phillip Bland
Editorial
The Practitioner. 2017 May;261(1804):5. DOI: 2017
Surya Panicker Rajeev,John Wilding
Surya Panicker Rajeev
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic, progressive, metabolic disorder caused by defects in insulin secretion and action resulting in hyperglycaemia. Fasting blood glucose, random blood glucose, the oral glucose tolerance test and glycated haemoglob...
Review
The Practitioner. 2016 Sep;260(1796):23-6. DOI: 2016
Richard W Orrell
Richard W Orrell
Motor neurone disease is a rapidly progressive and fatal neurodegenerative condition which causes progressive weakness, with normal sensation. It can occur at any age but is more frequent with increasing age. Key clinical presentations incl...
Review
The Practitioner. 2016 Sep;260(1796):17-21. DOI: 2016