Impaired wound healing: Facts and hypotheses for multi-professional considerations in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine

EPMA Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 23-33

  Avishai, Eden ^a   Yeghiazaryan, Kristina ^b   Golubnitschaja, Olga ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cardio vascular disease; Diabetes; Flammer syndrome; Impaired healing; Predictive preventive personalised medicine; Wound

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DETERIORATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL STRESS; OBESITY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STRESS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 85016165005     PISSN: 18785077     EISSN: 18785085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13167-017-0081-y     Document Type: Review

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