Prevalence of acne amony secondary school students

This is a cross-sectional, case-control study of the secondary school students in Tikrit in 1994. A random sample of 630 students were studied. The results have revealed a prevalence rate of 14% with female to male ratio of 2:1. Most of the students with acne were in the 15-18 years age group. More than one half of the cases were from the middle class families. Fat rich and spicy diet preference among cases were 35% and 29% respectively. Students with emotional stress formed 33% of the cases while 67% of cases reported positive family history. Most of the cases have greasy skin while 51% of the female cases suffered, in addition, of menstrual irregularity. The lesion in 62% of cases were located on the face, the rest of them were located on the face in addition to other body localities

Study of peptic ulcer in Salah-Al-Deen province

Hundred patients included in this study and represent 4% from all patients attending to Saddam's General Hospital in Salah Al-Deen community during the period from 15/2/1993 to 1/4/1993. The study indicated that duodenal ulcer was predominant types of ulcer. Epigastria pain was the most frequent type of pain and it was more in gastric ulcer than duodenal ulcer. Antiacid represent the main relieving factor for pain and fasting is the main aggrevating factor. The study showed that house wives were more affected by peptic ulcer and the O blood group was predominant type of ulcer. Patients with peptic ulcer were more affected when taking N S A I D