{"id":1742,"date":"2025-09-15T07:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:12:45","slug":"patient-reported-outcomes-2-14-11-36-21-2-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">ACHAIKI IATRIKI | 2025; 44(3): 120<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Letter from the editor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/achaiki-44-120.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pdf-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pdf-icon.png 48w, https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pdf-icon-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 48px) 100vw, 48px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Dear colleagues,<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"03aKeimeno\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In the current issue, the editorial by Papantoniou et al. assesses the strengths and limitations of the scoring systems for predicting outcomes in acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding and evaluates their practical relevance in clinical settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"03aKeimeno\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: .05pt;\">The current issue features four review articles. The first, authored by Delimaris I., discusses the potential positive impact of the Mediterranean Diet in the reduction of DNA damage via the use of specific biomarkers such as 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and F2-isoprostanes.The review by Kyriakopoulou et al. examines the complex aspects of cancer management during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting several factors that contributed to delays in the healthcare system\u2019s response to cancer care. The review by Patagia Bakaraki et al. offers a comprehensive understanding of how conformity influences behavior across both traditional and emerging platforms, bridging classical theories with modern applications. Finally, the review by Karakasidis E. outlines the main aspects of the diagnostic approach and treatment of tetanus in everyday clinical practice, noting that patients often seek help from various specialists. Lastly, this issue features a case report by Papantoniou et al., which evaluates the short-term biochemical response and tolerability of obeticholic acid (OCA) when added to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who exhibited an inadequate response to UDCA alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yours sincerely,<br \/>\nC Triantos<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Associate Professor in Internal Medicine<br \/>\nand Gastroenterology Faculty of Medicine,<br \/>\nSchool of Health Sciences, University of Patras<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Editor-in-Chief of the journal \u201cACHAIKI IATRIKI\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACHAIKI IATRIKI | 2025; 44(3): 120 Letter from the editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-44-2025-issue-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achaiki-iatriki.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}