Dr. Sheikh Shafeeq Palesmir

05/01/2025

23/12/2024

View setbacks as learning opportunities rather than failures. So, embrace challenges.

28/10/2024

17/10/2024

New research highlights a potential connection between long-term antibiotic use and a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA):

Antibiotic use for 91+ days is associated with a 79% increased risk of RA.

Using 4 or more types of antibiotics raised RA risk by 61%.

The risk escalates with longer antibiotic exposure and more drug classes.

10/10/2024

The body roundness index (BRI) is an abdominal obesity‐related anthropometric index that combines waist circumference (WC) and height to describe a person's body shape and better reflects the proportion of body fat and visceral fat.

A higher BRI trajectory is associated with an increased risk of CVD.

22/09/2024

Diabetes and even prediabetes are associated with accelerated brain aging.

22/09/2024

Diabetes and even prediabetes are associated with accelerated brain aging, especially among men and people with poor cardiometabolic health. However, a healthy lifestyle may counteract this.

17/09/2024

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi.

AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result, the medicines become ineffective and infections persist in the body, increasing the risk of spread to others.

09/09/2024

Preventing or delaying DIABETES is an important approach for reducing DEMENTIA risk throughout the life course

03/09/2024

Processed Foods Linked to Diabetic Complications:

Consuming more ultraprocessed food is linked to an increased risk for microvascular complications, especially diabetic kidney disease.

02/09/2024

Healthy kidneys stop most of your albumin from getting through their filters and entering the urine. There should be very little or no albumin in your urine. If your kidneys are damaged, albumin can “leak” through their filters and into your urine.

02/09/2024

Albumin is an important protein normally found in the blood that serves many roles in the body - building muscle, repairing tissue, and fighting infection. It is not usually found in the urine.