Original articles - Polish Archives of Internal Medicine

Risk assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using a Bayesian network based on a provincial survey

Changyue Shangguan, Lianzheng Yu, Guangcong Liu, Yibing Song, Jie Chen

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 4: 345–355; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15867

Małgorzata Kowalska, Kamil Barański, Grzegorz Brożek, Angelina Kaleta-Pilarska, Jan E. Zejda

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 4: 339–344; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15893

Inflammatory lesions in the paranasal sinuses in patients with ischemic stroke who underwent mechanical thrombectomy

Grażyna Stryjewska-Makuch, Joanna Glück, Marcelina Niemiec-Urbańczyk, Maria Humeniuk-Arasiewicz, Bogdan Kolebacz, Anetta Lasek-Bal

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 4: 326–331; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15848

Exercise test in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis: clinically useful or not?

Ewa Orłowska-Baranowska, Rafał Baranowski, Tomasz Hryniewiecki

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 4: 332–338; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15873

T helper 17 cell responses induce cardiac hypertrophy and remodeling in essential hypertension

Liangjie Xu, Guanghua Chen, Yi Liang, Cuicui Zhou, Fen Zhang, Tingpan Fan, Xinxin Chen, Hong Zhou, Wei Yuan

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 3: 257–265; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15811

Determination of the optimal on-treatment diastolic blood pressure range using automated office measurements in patients without cardiovascular disease

Piotr Sobieraj, Jacek Lewandowski, Maciej Siński

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 3: 249–256; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15789

Epicardial, pericardial fat and glucagon-like peptide-1 and -2 receptors expression in stable patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: an association with the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system

Maciej Haberka, Aleksander Siniarski, Grzegorz Gajos, Grzegorz Machnik, Adam Kowalówka, Marek Deja, Bogusław Okopień, Zbigniew Gąsior

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 3: 233–240; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15797

Endoscopic treatment of rectal neuroendocrine tumors in a 13-year retrospective single-center study: are we following the guidelines?

Krzysztof Dąbkowski, Natalia Rusiniak-Rossińska, Karolina Michalska, Andrzej Białek, Elżbieta Urasińska, Beata Kos-Kudła, Teresa Starzyńska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 3: 241–248; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15823

Inflammatory bowel disease is associated with higher seroprevalence rates of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2

Michał Łodyga, Katarzyna Maciejewska, Piotr Eder, Katarzyna Waszak, Kamila Stawczyk-Eder, Michał Michalak, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Maria Wiśniewska-Jarosińska, Anita Gąsiorowska, Małgorzata Cicha, Waldemar Wierzba, Grażyna Rydzewska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 3: 226–232; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15796

Association between peripheral eosinophils and clinical outcomes in patients with non–small cell lung cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

Shinichiro Okauchi, Toshihiro Shiozawa, Kunihiko Miyazaki, Kengo Nishino, Yuika Sasatani, Gen Ohara, Katsunori Kagohashi, Shinya Sato, Takahide Kodama, Hiroaki Satoh, Nobuyuki Hizawa

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 2: 152–160; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15776

Comparison of transcatheter aortic valve implantation outcomes in patients younger than 85 years and those aged 85 years or older: a single-center study

Maciej Dąbrowski, Anna Pyłko, Zbigniew Chmielak, Jacek Kwieciński, Krzysztof Kukuła, Karol Wysocki, Łukasz Mazurek, Ignacy Tołwiński, Paweł Tyczyński, Jarosław Skowroński, Ilona Michałowska, Adam Witkowski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 2: 145–151; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15780

Ten-year changes in adherence to a healthy lifestyle: the results of the WOBASZ surveys

Magdalena Kwaśniewska, Małgorzata Pikala, Anita Aranowska, Wojciech Bielecki, Krystyna Kozakiewicz, Andrzej Pająk, Andrzej Tykarski, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Paweł Nadrowski, Jerzy Piwoński, Wojciech Drygas

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 2: 136–144; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15778

Cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy in an organized screening program

Bartlomiej Krzeczewski, Cesare Hassan, Olga Krzeczewska, Paulina Wieszczy, Malgorzata Pisera, Anna Ciopinska-Chaber, Maciej Rupinski, Andrzej Sliwczynski, Radoslaw Pastusiak, Jaroslaw Regula, Michal F. Kaminski

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 2: 128–135; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15779

Clostridioides difficile infection in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): an underestimated problem?

Konrad Lewandowski, Mariusz Rosołowski, Magdalena Kaniewska, Piotr Kucha, Anna Meler, Waldemar Wierzba, Grażyna Rydzewska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 2: 121–127; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15715

Nonpharmacological interventions in patients with cognitive impairment: a comparison of residential and nursing homes in Poland

Violetta Kijowska, Ilona Barańska, Agata Stodolska, Katarzyna Szczerbińska

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 1: 42–53; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15731

The relation of nocturnal exposure to aircraft noise and aircraft noise–induced insomnia with blood pressure

Marta Rojek, Wiktoria Wojciechowska, Andrzej Januszewicz, Danuta Czarnecka, Paweł Skalski, Marek Rajzer

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 1: 33–41; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15716

Obesity in patients with established coronary artery disease over a 20-year period (1997–2017)

Paweł Kozieł, Piotr Jankowski, Ewa Mirek-Bryniarska, Jadwiga Nessler, Piotr Podolec, Dirk De Bacquer, Kornelia Kotseva, David Wood, Danuta Czarnecka, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Andrzej Pająk

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 1: 26–32; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15742

Factors associated with the symptomatic status of carotid artery stenosis: identification in a cross-sectional study and development of a scoring system

Przemysław Puz, Tomasz Urbanek, Damian Ziaja, Aleksandra Cieślik, Arkadiusz Stęposz, Anetta Lasek-Bal

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 1: 17–25; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15676

Prevalent medication-related harm identified in patients admitted to a geriatric ward: cross-sectional and survival based contributors

Barbara Bień

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2021, Vol. 131, No. 1: 9–16; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15713

An elevated Fibrosis-4 score is associated with poor clinical outcomes in patients with sepsis: an observational cohort study

Xiaodan Zhu, Xiang Hu, Xiaoyi Qin, Jingye Pan, Wei Zhou

Pol Arch Intern Med. 2020, Vol. 130, No. 12: 1064–1073; DOI: 10.20452/pamw.15699