Overweight and obesity are an increasing health problem of the population all over the world, including in Estonia. According to the data of the Estonian adult population health behavior survey conducted in 2018, 40% of Estonian men and 26% of women are overweight, and 21% of men and 18% of women are obe...
lthough the exact prevalence of chronic venous disease of the lower extremity is unknown, according to studies, lower extremity telangiectasias or varicose veins (CEAP classification C1–C2) and chronic venous insufficiency (CEAP classification C3–C6) occur in 16% of adults (1).
Since there are curre...
Post-stroke inpatient rehabilitation takes place in a rehabilitation hospital, in the inpatient rehabilitation department of a central and regional hospital. In exceptional cases, rehabilitation treatment takes place in another department, where the organization of rehabilitation treatment is ensured und...
Sleep disorders are extremely common in the population. There are no exact data on the prevalence of sleep disorders in Estonia. In Western Europe, according to a cross-sectional study among people older than 15 years, 31% of people have sleep disorders. Half of the people with sleep disorder complaints ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia with a worldwide prevalence of approximately 2% (3, 4, 5). The occurrence of the disease depends on age, the prevalence among people under 60 years old is less than 1%, among people 80 years old and older it is 7...9%. Based on prevalence ind...
Dementia of the Alzheimer's disease ( AD ) type is the most common cause of dementia syndrome (more than 60% of dementia cases) and its incidence is increasing due to the aging of the population ( 12 ). Epidemiological studies of AT have not been conducted in Estonia, but based on 2012 WHO data, there...
According to the 2015 WHO report on overweight and obesity (1), obesity has doubled worldwide in the last 35 years. An estimated 1.8 billion people are overweight and 600 million of them are obese. Obesity among children is also increasing (42 million overweight or obese children under the age of 5). Acc...
Every year, around 234 million surgical operations are performed worldwide ( Weiser, TG 2008 ), which are inevitably accompanied by mistakes. According to the US Institute of Medicine's report, Err is human – building a safer Health System, between 44,000 and 98,000 hospital patients die each year from...
