Vera Popovic, Felipe F. Casanueva
Recent data suggest that in addition to leptin’s role in conveying signals of the amount of energy stores to the central nervous system, this adipocyte secreted hormone interacts with the endocrine system to provide critical information about the size of fat stores, acting as a permissive factor that allows the triggering of energy demanding situations …
John Doupis, Charalambos Stavrianos, Katerina Saltiki, Emily Mantzou, Antonios Mastrokostopoulos, George Philippou, Maria Alevizaki
Albania is an in-transition country in the Balkan area and among those with the lowest per capita income in Europe. The Health System of Albania, as the Albanian society itself, is now taking its first steps in adopting the Western financial model. Globalization in modern Western society, even at the level of dietary practices …
Yannis Dionyssiotis, Athina Kapsokoulou, Eleni Samlidi, Antonios G. Angoules, Jannis Papathanasiou, Efstathios Chronopoulos, Ifigenia Kostoglou-Athanassiou, Georgios Trovas
Over the last few decades, worldwide average life expectancy has grown significantly and therefore the percentage of the elderly has correspondingly increased. As a result, clinical medicine has focused much interest on the latter age group and their health problems. During the 20th century, the typical elderly patient was a person with an acute or chronic disease …