Mohamed Khaled

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• Answer added in Endocrinology
  31 Endocrinal disorders of pancreas and thyroid glands are increasing with alarming rate. Is this due to more frequent testing or easy susceptibility?
  By Satyaprasad Venkata ·
  Mohamed Khaled · BAU

  I think several causes have contributed to that: 1. I believe that many of the diseases are being discovered lately due to improved technology that i... [more]

  I think several causes have contributed to that: 1. I believe that many of the diseases are being discovered lately due to improved technology that is becoming more sensitive and specific which allows scientist to come across new diseases. 2. People and institutional awareness also contributed to that since people are coming more forward for earlier diagnosis and screening tests. 3. Also, technology have contributed to prevalence of many diseases including those in question, people are more subjected to toxic environment whether it’s in their food or tools they use, so the body is becoming less immune and more susceptible to diseases, and that also might have contributed to some genetic mutations leading to new trends of the diseases. 4. The style of life adopted by most of the people now a days is also contributing to this phenomena, people are living more stressful life, due to work load or family problems or others, while their means of entertainment is becoming less entertaining!! Mostly in a sedentary way and less active, like watching TVs or Smoking or eating in many cases or similar entertainment means people tend to go to, sometimes due to lack of other means or on the other hand due to excess luxurious life. Thus we can conclude from that, technology is of high importance for people life but also it might be harmful, this depend on how people approach it. Therefore, scientist need to keep trying find solution for these problems through their researches, but other sectors of the community must put their effort to solve these issues.
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• Answer added in Alzheimer's Disease
  56 Are there any specific or general biomarkers for following up Alzheimer's Disease treatment?
  By Hossein Mirmiranpour · Tehran University of Medical Sciences
  Mohamed Khaled · BAU

  To my knowledge AD is not curable disease, at least not yet. The only process of management of the disease at the moment is to minimize the suffering ... [more]

  To my knowledge AD is not curable disease, at least not yet. The only process of management of the disease at the moment is to minimize the suffering of the patient, and may be delay the deterioration period, hence I can’t see any effective follow up process, but I guess Imaging would give some guidance of the level of AD, but I can't think of any real Biomarkers for that, yes Abeta42 and tau protein would give you some idea but I do not think that they would be considered as a biomarkers for treatment follow up, simply because no real treatment exist at the moment.
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