Journal of Metabolic Syndrome

It is possible to obtain nicotine without using conventional cigarettes by utilising heated tobacco products (HTP). For both users and bystanders, HTP tobacco products are offered as a less hazardous substitute for conventional cigarettes. More research is still required to determine the precise effects of HTP on user health as well as its overall effects on public health. Through a thorough review of the literature, relevant research that were published in English between 25 independent studies funded by the tobacco industry were looked at. Smokers' exposure biomarkers, as well as their cardiovascular and respiratory biomarkers, improved to a clinically relevant level differently from heated tobacco product users.

In the 16^th and 17^th centuries, Portuguese cultural influence helped spread the cult worldwide. He was made a Doctor of the Universal Church in 1946. In addition to the devotional aspect, numerous well-known sculptors and painters have attempted to present a historically accurate portrait of the Saint. The information that came from hagiographic sources was used in different ways by the artists. The work Vita prima o Assidua (1232, by Anonymous, one of the most important hagiographic sources), which described St. Anthony in the final months of his life as endowed with a "natural corpulence," appears to have inspired the Giotto School's depiction of St. Anthony (1238–1310). However, the term "dropsy" was first mentioned in the Legenda Raymondina, which is attributed to the Italian Franciscan Pietro Raimondi and was written around 1293 (“Cum enim esset naturali corpulentia gravis et hydropisi etiam laboret.