Boris Maslov

Publications (16)5.82 Total impact

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  Article: New image of psychiatry, mass media impact and public relations.

  Miro Jakovljević, Zoran Tomić, Boris Maslov, Iko Skoko
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  ABSTRACT: The mass media has a powerful impact on public attitudes about mental health and psychiatry. The question of identity of psychiatry as a medical profession as well as of the future of psychiatry has been the subject of much controversial discussion. Psychiatry today has the historical opportunity to shape the future of mental health care, medicine and society. It has gained in scientific and professional status by the tremendous increase of knowledge and treatment skills. Psychiatry should build up new transdisciplinary and integrative image of a specialized profession, promote it and make it public. Good public relations are very important for the future of psychiatry.
  Psychiatria Danubina 06/2010; 22(2):145-8. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: Biomedical scientific productivity of the Mostar University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Mostar in 1999-2008.

  Ljerka Ostojić, Vesna Damjanović, Ivan Vasilj, Ervin Jancić, Boris Maslov
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  ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate the scientific productivity of the Mostar University Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Mostar. All articles that were indexed by PubMed with the keyword Mostar were included in the analysis. During 1999-2008, a total of 76 articles were published, with a total of 366 authorships contributed by a total of 228 unique authors, whereas a total of 161 of these authors (70.6%) coauthored a single article only. The average number of co-authors was 4.6 per article. There was a strong increasing linear trend in the total number of published articles. The most published articles were related to clinical research, whereas the least were recorded in the basic biomedical sciences, suggesting the need to increase the research capacity in basic biomedical sciences. The large percent of single-authorship authors that were recorded suggest almost a sporadic rather than systematic publication output. Likely improvements to this situation include the creation of the newly formed doctoral (PhD) course due to start next year and several other ways in which scientific research in biomedicine can be increased in basic, clinical and public health sciences.
  Collegium antropologicum 03/2010; 34 Suppl 1:7-10. · 0.61 Impact Factor
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  Article: Bipolar disorder and metabolic syndrome: comorbidity or side effects of treatment of bipolar disorder.

  Dragan Babić, Boris Maslov, Marko Martinac, Katica Nikolić, Suzana Uzun, Oliver Kozumplik
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  ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: There is evidence that people with mental disorders are more likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome. In the last decades there has been an increase in interest for researching metabolic syndrome in psychiatric patients and plenty of evidence about their association. However, investigations on the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with bipolar disorder are still surprisingly rare. The aim of this paper is to analyze comorbidity of bipolar disorder and metabolic syndrome, and the association of treatment with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers with metabolic syndrome, as well as to point out the necessity of appropriate preventive measures and treatment of metabolic syndrome in patient with bipolar disorder. CONTENT ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE: Literature research included structured searches of Medline and other publications on the subject of comorbidity of bipolar disorder and metabolic syndrome, and the association of treatment with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers with metabolic syndrome, as well as preventive measures and treatment of metabolic syndrome in patient with bipolar disorder. CONCLUSION: Metabolic syndrome is present in 8-56% of patients suffering from bipolar disorder. Metabolic syndrome in patients with bipolar disorder can significantly contribute to morbidity and mortality, and it is certainly necessary to think of it, to take adequate preventive and therapeutic measures in treating its individual components. Further investigation on association between bipolar disorder and metabolic disorder, and the association of treatment with antipsychotics and mood stabilizers with metabolic syndrome are necessary.
  Psychiatria Danubina 03/2010; 22(1):75-8. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: Cardiovascular risk factors research in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  Ivan Vasilj, Aida Pilav, Boris Maslov, Ozren Polasek
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  ABSTRACT: This study describes the current situation of cardiovascular risk factors research in the Bosnia and Herzegovina, with special emphasis on the Herzegovina region. The available data for the analysis includes various secondary sources, including project reports, official vital statistics data and other sources. Currently, there is a substantial lack of relevant information, which is available from occasional surveys or isolated studies. One of the main problems in detailed analysis is the lack of detailed and reliable census data, which causes problems in calculation of various rates and disables the creation of representative population samples for the field work and subsequent analysis. Comparison of the available information with neighbouring Croatia indicates interesting mixture of relatively high prevalence of some risk factors and rather low prevalence of others; almost 50% of men reported smoking on a daily basis, while only 16.5% of men were obese, while 40% of them had blood pressure over 140/90 mmHg. The results provide useful but incomplete information for the policy, thus suggesting that broader scope of public health research is needed in the region coupled with the census data, in order to provide better information for health policy and ultimately delivery of the optimal health care to the entire population.
  Collegium antropologicum 12/2009; 33 Suppl 2:185-8. · 0.61 Impact Factor
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  Article: Metabolic syndrome, anxiety, depression and suicidal tendencies in post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenic patients.

  Boris Maslov, Darko Marcinko, Ruza Milicevic, Dragan Babić, Veljko Dordević, Miro Jakovljević
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  ABSTRACT: Persons with schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tend to have higher psychiatric and somatic morbidity. They typically have higher rates of substances abuse (including smoking), more prevalent obesity, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease (CVD). This is especially well seen in case of the metabolic syndrome, with a number of published studies on psychiatric patients in the last few years. This study investigated the associations between metabolic syndrome, anxiety, depression and suicidal tendency in schizophrenic and combat-related PTSD patients controlled by healthy controls. Higher rates of anxiety, depression and recent life changes scores in participants with metabolic syndrome were recorded compared to those without metabolic syndrome. Suicidal tendencies were equally present in both groups.
  Collegium antropologicum 12/2009; 33 Suppl 2:7-10. · 0.61 Impact Factor
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  Article: Recommendations for neuropathic pain treatment.

  Vida Demarin, Vanja Basić-Kes, Iris Zavoreo, Marijana Bosnar-Puretić, Kresimir Rotim, Velimir Lupret, Mladen Perić, Zeljko Ivanec, Lidija Fumić, Ivo Lusić, Anka Aleksić-Shihabis, Biserka Kovac, Mira Ivanković, Helena Skobić, Boris Maslov, Natan Bornstein, Kurt Niederkorn, Osman Sinanović, Tanja Rundek
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  ABSTRACT: Damage to the somatosensory nervous system poses a risk for the development of neuropathic pain. Such an injury to the nervous system results in a series of neurobiological events resulting in sensitization of both the peripheral and central nervous system. The symptoms include continuous background pain (often burning or crushing in nature) and spasmodic pain (shooting, stabbing or "electrical"). The diagnosis of neuropathic pain is based primarily on the history and physical examination finding. Although monotherapy is the ideal approach, rational polypharmacy is often pragmatically used. Several classes of drugs are moderately effective, but complete or near-complete relief is unlikely. Antidepressants and anticonvulsants are most commonly used. Opioid analgesics can provide some relief but are less effective than for nociceptive pain; adverse effects may prevent adequate analgesia. Topical drugs and a lidocaine-containing patch may be effective for peripheral syndromes. Sympathetic blockade is usually ineffective except for some patients with complex regional pain syndrome.
  Acta clinica Croatica 10/2008; 47(3):181-91. · 0.25 Impact Factor
• Article: Metabolic syndrome and schizophrenia from integrative medicine perspective.

  Boris Maslov, Miro Jakovljević, Zeljka Crncević, Ljerka Ostojić, Darko Marcinko, Dragan Babić, Mirko Korsić
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  ABSTRACT: There has been a growing interest in the effect that comorbid schizophrenia and metabolic syndrome may have on each other. To examine metabolic syndrome from integrative medicine point of view including prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with schiziphrenia compared to their first-degree relatives, healthy volunteers without schizophrenia in close family, and patients with PTSD, as well as the percentage patients with schizophrenia without any component of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome according to NCEP/ATP III criteria and number of its components were analysed in 205 patients with schizophrenia, 140 healthy volunteers and 105 patients with combat PTSD. Metabolic syndrome was identified in 45.9% of the patients with schizophrenia, 38.1% of the war veterans with PTSD, 36.7% of the first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia and 16.2% of the healthy volunteers without schizophrenia in close family. Only 21.5% of the patients with schizophrenia were without any metabolic syndrome component. The comorbidity of schizophrenia and metabolic syndrome is very important for theory and practice of integrative medicine. Almost 80% of the patients with schizophrenia have increased risk or developed cardiovascular disorders,.
  Psychiatria Danubina 10/2008; 20(3):384-9. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: Metabolic syndrome and depression in war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

  Miro Jakovljević, Dragan Babić, Zeljka Crncević, Marko Martinac, Boris Maslov, Radmila Topić
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  ABSTRACT: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and metabolic syndromes are growing public health problems in post-war countries. Understanding the co-morbidity among PTSD, depression and metabolic syndrome has an important clinical and theoretical issue. To examine the relationship between combat-related PTSD, co-morbid depression and metabolic syndrome as well as between severity of depression and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome and co-morbid depression were investigated in 100 male war veterans with combat PTSD and in 79 males who needed medical attention in dispensary of family medicine. Metabolic syndrome according NCEP: ATP III was found in 25 % of war veterans with PTSD. Metabolic syndrome was identified more frequently in PTSD patients with co-morbid depression (47.8 %) compared to those without depression (9.1%). PTSD with moderate and severe co-morbid depression was associated with higher rates of metabolic syndrome (78.6% and 90.9% respectively) in comparison with mild depression (26.2%). PTSD is frequently comorbid with depression, and when the two disorders co-occur, the risk for metabolic syndrome is increased. Treatment of war veterans with PTSD should address co-morbid depression and metabolic syndrome as well as the clinical features of PTSD.
  Psychiatria Danubina 10/2008; 20(3):406-10. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: Metabolic syndrome and combat post-traumatic stress disorder intensity: preliminary findings.

  Dragan Babić, Miro Jakovljević, Marko Martinac, Marija Sarić, Radmila Topić, Boris Maslov
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  ABSTRACT: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with co-morbidity of many major mental and somatic disorders as well as with premature mortality. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between combat-related PTSD, metabolic syndrome and its components as well as between PTSD severity and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome and its components were investigated in 100 male war veterans with combat PTSD and in 79 males who needed medical attention in a family medicine dispensary. Metabolic syndrome according to the modified NCEP: ATP III criteria was found in 35% of our PTSD patients. Metabolic syndrome and intensity of PTSD were significantly related. Metabolic syndrome was identified in 66.7% of the war veterans with high intensity of PTSD in comparison to 23.3% of the veterans with low intensity PTSD. Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its components is elevated in war veterans with PTSD. PTSD is a multi-systemic disorder and treatment of war veterans with PTSD should address co-morbid somatic disorders including metabolic syndrome in addition to the clinical features of PTSD.
  Psychiatria Danubina 07/2007; 19(1-2):68-75. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: Prevalence of scoliosis in school-children from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  Zdenko Ostojić, Tina Kristo, Ljerka Ostojić, Pavao Petrović, Ivan Vasilj, Zarko Santić, Boris Maslov, Oliver Vasilj, Davor Carić
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  ABSTRACT: In the school-year 2002/2003 a prospective epidemiological study was performed with the aim of evaluating the prevalence and distribution of scoliosis in the population of schoolchildren from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The general check-up of primary-school children covered a total of 2,517 children aged 7-14. The children in which at least one positive symptom of scoliosis was found were directed to undergo orthopedic examination and--if indicated--radiography. Incorrect posture was noted in 33.4% of children, and 11.8% of children were sent to orthopedic specialist examination. The prevalence of structural scoliosis amounted to 3.1%, with the spine curvature threshold being 10 degrees. In eight children (0.32%; 1 boy and 7 girls) a curvature of 20 degrees or more was diagnosed. The most common type of curvature was the thoracal (39%) and the thoraco-lumbar (39%) while 14 children had a double curvature (17.8%). A scoliosis was detected due to here performed check-up in 83.5% of children with scoliosis. No case of serious spine deformity (45 degree or more) was recorded, due to regular general check-ups taking place biannually in this population.
  Collegium antropologicum 04/2006; 30(1):59-64. · 0.61 Impact Factor
• Article: Suicides of the hospitalized chronic shizophrenic patients in the period from 1972 to 2002.

  Boris Maslov, Dragan Babić, Miro Klarić
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  ABSTRACT: The paper deals with the data on suicides of the hospitalised chronic schizophrenic patients in the pre-war, war and post-war time, i.e. the period from 1972 to 2002. The subjects are the schizophrenic patients from the Psychiatric hospital of Domanovići who were moved at the beginning of war to the premises of the Clinical hospital of Mostar. Special attention in the analysis has been paid to the war year of 1992, when a high rate of suicides was registered among the hospitalised schizophrenic patients, the data showing their number, gender, age, diagnosis, duration of illness, hospitalisation as well as earlier attempts of suicide or suicides in their families. The results of the research show the increase in the number of suicides in the period of the most terrible war events, caused by their displacement, inadequate accommodation, lack of food and medicines. This research is epidemiological, retrospective, descriptive and analytic.
  Psychiatria Danubina 01/2004; 15(3-4):189-93. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: Comorbidity of the posttraumatic stress disorder and the depression in ex-prisoners of war.

  Dragan Babić, Osman Sinanović, Slobodan Pavlović, Miro Klarić, Boris Maslov
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  ABSTRACT: The interest in investigating the war related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has increased both in the world and in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) over the last decades. Extensive literature indicates the association between PTSD and other psychiatric disorders. The most frequent disorders associated with PTSD are: depression, anxiety disorder and the abuse of psychoactive substances and alcohol. Some studies show that the depression is the most frequent disorder which follows PTSD. We studied the comorbidity of PTSD and depression in ex-war prisoners and in war veterans five years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The study sample was divided into two groups. The first group is composed of 100 ex-prisoners of war, and the second one consists of 60 war veterans who were not confined in camps. The questionnaires under the criteria DSM IV were used to diagnose PTSD and depression. All the respondents were males and all of them were in good health before the war. The results obtained show a statistically significant higher representation of PTSD and depression in the prisoners of war as compared with the war veterans at the level of p<0.05. We also found a significant association of PTSD and depression, both in the prisoners of war and in the war veterans, however, there is no statistically signifficant difference between the studied groups.
  Psychiatria Danubina 01/2004; 15(3-4):195-200. · 0.44 Impact Factor
• Article: [Effect of war on alcoholism].

  Dragan Babić, Miro Klarić, Vedrana Hoffmann, Zrinka Cavar, Mulija Dzudza, Slavica Corluka, Boris Maslov
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  ABSTRACT: To investigate and analyze the effect of the war upon the representation of the hospitalized alcoholics at the Department of Psychiatry at the Clinical Hospital of Mostar. RESPONDENTS AND METHODS: In this retrospective research was analyzed the representation of alcoholism in all the patients hospitalized in the year 1994 and in all the patients hospitalized in the year 1999, by examining the disease history. All the patients were hospitalized at the Department of Psychiatry of the Clinical Hospital of Mostar. The classical medical procedure and the biomedical diagnostics parametry were used to make a diagnosis. Total number of the hospitalized at the Department of Psychiatry in the war period (year 1994) amounted to 329 patients, out of who 25.5% due to alcoholism. Five years later the number of the patients hospitalized at the Department of Psychiatry amounted to 349, out of whom 28.6% owing to alcoholism, which is an increase in the representation of alcoholics among the total number of treated patients, but not also a statistically significant difference (P > 0.05). The increased number of persons who were treated for alcoholism in the post-war year 1999 can be partly explained by the occurrence of war related psychic disorders, a combination of severe social and material situation and frequent secondary traumatization. An increase in the number of patients hospitalized owing to alcoholism in the post-war year 1999 (28.6%) as compared to the war year 1994 (25.5%), is shown.
  Medical Archives 02/2003; 57(5-6 Suppl 1):37-9.
• Article: NEW IMAGE OF PSYCHIATRY, MASS MEDIA IMPACT AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

  predstojnik_psi@kbc-zagreb.hr, Zoran Tomić, Boris Maslov, Iko Skoko
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  ABSTRACT: The mass media has a powerful impact on public attitudes about mental healt and psychiatry. The question of identity of psychiatry as a medical profession as well as of the future of psychiatry has been the subject of much controversial discussion. Psychiatry today has the historical opportunity to shape the future of mental health care, medicine and society. It has gained in scientific and proffesional status by the tremendous increase of knowledge and treatment skills. Psychiatry should build uu new transdisciplinary and integrative image of a specilized profession, promote it and make it public. Good public relations are very important for the future of psychiatry.
  Psychiatria Danubina (danubina@kbc-zagreb.hr); Vol.22 No.2.
• Article: Cardiovascular Risk Factors Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Ivan Vasilj, Federal Ministry of Health, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Boris Maslov, Ozren Polašek
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  ABSTRACT: This study describes the current situation of cardiovascular risk factors research in the Bosnia and Herzegovina, with special emphasis on the Herzegovina region. The available data for the analysis includes various secondary sources, including project reports, official vital statistics data and other sources. Currently, there is a substantial lack of relevant information, which is available from occasional surveys or isolated studies. One of the main problems in detailed analysis is the lack of detailed and reliable census data, which causes problems in calculation of various rates and disables the creation of representative population samples for the field work and subsequent analysis. Comparison of the available information with neighbouring Croatia indicates interesting mixture of relatively high prevalence of some risk factors and rather low prevalence of others; almost 50% of men reported smoking on a daily basis, while only 16.5% of men were obese, while 40% of them had blood pressure over 140/90 mmHg. The results provide useful but incomplete information for the policy, thus suggesting that broader scope of public health research is needed in the region coupled with the census data, in order to provide better information for health policy and ultimately delivery of the optimal health care to the entire population.
  Collegium Antropologicum (croantro@inantro.hr ); Vol.33 supplement 2 No.2.
• Article: Acupuncture Treatment in Facial Palsy - Clinical observations

  Boris Maslov, Marina Roje-Bedeković, Snježana Miškov, Vida Demarin
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  ABSTRACT: Acupuncture points are believed to stimulate the release of chemicals from the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) into the muscles, spinal cord and brain. The aim of the study was to present acupuncture treatment in peripheral facial paresis. A total of 176 patients with peripheral facial palsy were divided into two groups: 128 patients treated with acupuncture and 48 patients treated with conservative therapy. The choice of acupuncture points, their number and power of electromagnetic stimuli depended on clinical features exhibited by the patients. Study results indicated acupuncture therapy to be associated with a shorter duration of treatment and higher percentage of full recovery as compared with medicamentous plus physical therapy.
  Acta Clinica Croatica; Vol.43 No.3.