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Intra- and postoperative complications were significantly more frequent in lung cancer patients who had been operated on during a geomagnetic storm period (57) than similar patients operated on on "quiet" days (58). Preoperative diazepam 5 mg, thrice a day, for a week, takes care of the immediate postoperative period in case surgery is performed on a stormy day.
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Anti-Anxiety Agents/therapeutic use , Lung Neoplasms/surgery , Magnetics , Postoperative Complications/prevention & control , Premedication , Solar Activity , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Immunoglobulins/blood , Male , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Arteriosclerosis/etiology , Hyperlipidemias/complications , Hyperlipidemias/genetics , Adult , Aged , Arteriosclerosis/blood , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Middle Aged , RiskABSTRACT
On the basis of data obtained in studies on the accumulation of cholesterol in erythrocytes of newlorns, the hypothesis is advanced on the deficiency of lecithin-cholesterol-acetyl transferase (LCAT) in the newborn children. A decrease in the rate of the LCAT-reaction was shown in funic blood using the specially developed system "LP-infranatante", the constituents of which were isolated from blood plasma of both newborns and of their mothers by ultracentrifugation at a density 1.21 g/ml and 40.000 rpm. The following factors were considered as possible determinants of the decrease in the rate of cholesterol esterification in blood plasma of newborns: 1) insufficiency in LCAT, 2) alteration in the composition of the substrate lipoproteins (lipoproteins of high density).
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Hypolipoproteinemias/blood , Lecithin Cholesterol Acyltransferase Deficiency/blood , Cholesterol Esters/blood , Female , Fetal Blood/metabolism , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Lipoproteins, HDL/blood , PregnancyABSTRACT
Content of beta- and pre-beta-lipoprotein fractions, total cholesterol and triglycerides was distinctly lower in blood serum of infant than in maternal one. In serum of funicular blood content of free fatty acids was 2.5-fold higher than in maternal blood serum; in erythrocytes of infant content of cholesterol was found to be higher by 40%, as compared with maternal erythrocytes. In blood serum of infant content of free cholesterol amounted to 28% of the total cholesterol at the same time in maternal blood it was equal to 37%. The highest proportion of cholesterol was found in alpha-lipoproteins of infant, in mother it was observed in beta-lipoproteins. In blood of infant and mother the same types of lipoproteins were present but their quantitative ratio was different. The main lipoproteins of infant were shown to be alpha-lipoproteins. Relationship between the content of cholesterol in pre-beta-lipoproteins (correlation coefficient 0.64) was noted in blood of mother and infant.
