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2022 Newsletters - 2022-11-25

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) / Diabetes Of Pregnancy

Diabetes is a condition that affects the way your body uses sugar. Upon eating a meal, it is digested, and its components absorbed and transported in blood to various tissues. Insulin is a hormone that helps the sugar in blood enter cells. In Diabetes there is either reduced production of insulin, or reduced response of your cells to insulin leading to high blood sugar. GDM typically occurs in the second and third trimester of pregnancy.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-11-02

Diabetes

Diabetes is a lifelong disease in which the body cannot process sugar properly. Diabetes is also called "diabetes mellitus" or "sugar diabetes". When people who have diabetes eat glucose, which is found in foods such as breads, potatoes and sweets, it can't be converted into energy. Instead of being converted into energy, the glucose stays in the blood.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-11-02

Fatigue and Biological Assessments

Fatigue is the first reason for consultation with general practitioners. However, this general term covers very diverse origins, most often banal but sometimes more serious. Fatigue is to be differentiated from asthenia, a medical term, which corresponds to fatigue that is not improved by rest. Asthenia requires a consultation with your GP.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-10-01

BRCA Testing For Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer

Cancer occurs when cells in your body start to grow out of control. These cancer cells can multiply very quickly, cause growth or tumors, invade surrounding tissues, and even spread. (metastasize) to other areas of the body.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-09-22

TSH Receptors Antibody Test in Clinical Practice

INTRODUCTION
Autoimmune thyroid disease is characterised by the presence of autoantibodies against various thyroid components, namely the thyrotropin receptor(TSH-R), thyroid peroxidase (TPO) and thyroglobulin Tg). Antibodies to the TSH-R may cause disease by binding to the TSH-R and either stimulating or blocking the thyroid cells.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-09-22

Urinary Tract Infections (Cystitis)

Urinary tract infection is more often encountered in women than in men. About 50% of women have at least one episode of Cystitis in their lifetime. It is a medically benign condition. Its diagnosis and antibiotic treatment are in principle simple. The Cytobacteriological examination, is the examination of choice for the Urinary Tract Infection but also to identify the germ in question and to define the most suitable Antibiotic treatment for one. Urinary Tract Infections are one of the most frequently encountered infections in the laboratory.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-09-22

All about Vitamin D

UPDATE ON VITAMIN D

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in 2 forms: D2 (Ergocalciferol) of vegetable origin, D3 (Cholecalciferol) of animal origin.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-09-15

High blood pressure

Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps blood through them. The narrower an artery, the greater the force needed to push the blood through it. Blood pressure is measured with a cuff your health care worker places around your arm.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-09-15

What is creatinine?

Creatinine is a waste product of the body that comes from the breakdown of muscle creatine. It is eliminated in the urine by filtration in the kidneys. When the kidneys' ability to eliminate waste decreases, the amount of creatinine increases in the blood. Its dosage in the blood, therefore, depends on kidney function but also on muscle mass.

2022 Newsletters - 2022-09-15

Natriuretic peptides in patients with heart failure

Cleavage of the prohormone proBNP (B-type natriuretic peptide) produces biologically active 32 amino acid BNP and biologically inert 76 amino acid N-terminal pro-BNP (NT-proBNP). Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a hormone that is released from myocardial cells in the atria, and in some cases the ventricles in response to volume expansion.