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Dent’s disease is a rare X-linked recessive proximal tubulopathy. It is typically characterized by low-molecular-weight (LMW) proteinuria, hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis, nephrolithiasis, hypophosphatemia, rickets and slowly progressive renal failure. The laboratory and clinical features may occur in various combinations. The early diagnosis of Dent’s disease is often problematic because affected...
The purpose of the study was to estimate the incidence of urinary system congenital malformations and to analyze their clinical manifestations. The study comprised children hospitalized in the Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University Children's Hospital, Lublin, between 2000 and 2003. Urinary system congenital malformations were diagnosed in 16,2% of studied children. The most common urinary...
The paper focuses on poverty in the German families. Although there is enormous wealth in Germany, a significant proportion of German citizens live in poverty. The research was carried out using the international standard definition of relative poverty - which is an income of less than 50% of national average earnings. The study results reveal a rising tendency in the phenomenon after 1990 as a result...
The paper summarizes the poverty situation in Poland in 1994—2000. It identifies the principal causes, types and scope of poverty. Economic transition undergoing in Poland revealed the previous poverty problems but also affected seriously welfare distributions and standards of living. Upward trend of poverty population after 1989 in the country as a whole was mainly caused by an inconsistency between...
The changes in meat and fish consumption of Polish households during 1988-1998 were analysed in the paper. One of the positive tendencies in food consumption in Poland (when taking into account some aspects of the human health) is increasing consumption of poultrymeat and decreasing consumption of beef. Unfortunately, the research results indicate that the consumption of dietetically harmful pork...
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