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In this part, the risks and complications of pregnancy in women with active or corrected, congenital or acquired heart disease are reviewed, in order to allow individual counseling on a possible pregnancy or treatment recommendations on contraception.
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Heart Diseases , Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular , Contraception , Counseling , Female , Heart Defects, Congenital/physiopathology , Heart Defects, Congenital/therapy , Heart Diseases/physiopathology , Heart Diseases/therapy , Humans , Pregnancy , Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/physiopathology , Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular/therapy , Risk FactorsSubject(s)
Exercise Test , Heart Failure/diagnosis , Aged , Exercise Tolerance , Female , Heart Failure/mortality , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Multivariate Analysis , Oxygen Consumption , Prognosis , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
A good level of physical fitness is a fundamental prerequisite of many occupations, hence the importance of valid methods of fitness assessment. A method, using submaximal treadmill exercise, was tested in a group of Urban Police Officers. Physiology variables and subjective perceptions were monitored. The trend of individual variables provided a means to define the "critical" capacity which corresponded to a mean value of 6.8 MET (a "heavy activity" according to Haskell's classification). This level is proposed as a predictor of endurance and could be used in follow-up fitness assessments.
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Occupational Health , Physical Fitness , Adult , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Exercise Test/methods , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Police , Sex DistributionABSTRACT
According to act n. 626, individual assessment of fitness and absence of contraindications for carrying on a job is fundamental. We considered a group of 44 Urban Police officers (36 males, 8 females), age 39.7 +/- 9.1, whose principal job requirement is a good energetic and motor availability, for a fitness evaluation through a submaximal treadmill test, with subsequent steps of 6 minutes. During the test, physiological variables (VO2, VE, QR through a metabograph, Hr trough an Ec-monitor and Pa through a manual sphygmomanometer) and subjective evaluations of fatigue and dyspnea were monitored. Studying the individual variables trend it was possible to identify the critical metabolic level that was easily tolerated by each individual. This level, an average of 6.8 MET corresponding to a heavy activity, is an endurance predictor and can be utilized in subsequent controls.
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Physical Fitness , Police , Adult , Energy Metabolism , Exercise Test , Exercise Tolerance , Female , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Catheterization, Central Venous/methods , Electrocardiography , Renal Dialysis/methods , Female , Humans , MaleSubject(s)
Arteriosclerosis/blood , Blood Proteins/metabolism , Insulin/blood , Protein Binding , Aged , Female , Humans , Insulin/metabolism , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Radiochemical evaluation of serum insulin-binding activity in diabetics shows that there are no correlations between this behaviour and diabetic retinopathy. High values are mainly encountered in insulin-dependent diabetics; its nil or poor inhibition, owing to the effect of preincubation of the serum with high concentrations of unlabelled insulinic antigen, suggests that the phenomenon is connected above all to the presence of aspecific serous factors that "bind" the labelled hormone.
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Diabetic Retinopathy/blood , Insulin/blood , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Antigen-Antibody Complex , Antigen-Antibody Reactions , Chronic Disease , Diabetic Retinopathy/immunology , Humans , Immunoglobulins/isolation & purification , Insulin Antibodies/isolation & purification , Male , Middle Aged , Protein BindingABSTRACT
We have studied psoriatic subjects with normal weight and with overweight without inherited diabetic familiarity. The results seem to indicate the existence in psoriasis of an endogenous insulin-resistence. In this prospective the hypothesis that psoriasis carries a diabetogen risk is suggested.