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Se presenta una niña de tres años de edad que tiene un linfedema congenito unilateral no familiar,comprobandose la falta de linfaticos en miembros del lado izquierdo.Realizamos una revision de los linfedemas primitivos respecto a su clinica,pronostico y complicaciones.AU
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Humans , Female , Child, Preschool , Arm/pathology , Lymphedema/classification , Lymphedema/complications , Lymphedema/congenital , Lymphedema/therapy , EdemaABSTRACT
Se presenta una niña de tres años de edad que tiene un linfedema congenito unilateral no familiar,comprobandose la falta de linfaticos en miembros del lado izquierdo.Realizamos una revision de los linfedemas primitivos respecto a su clinica,pronostico y complicaciones.
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Humans , Female , Child, Preschool , Arm/pathology , Lymphedema/classification , Lymphedema/complications , Lymphedema/congenital , Lymphedema/therapy , EdemaABSTRACT
The present report focuses on the association between baldness pattern and coronary heart disease risk factors in 872 male factory workers from southern Italy participating in an epidemiological study. Participants were divided according to presence or absence of baldness and baldness pattern. Participants with fronto-occipital baldness (male-type baldness) (n = 280) characterized by hair loss centered over the vertex with an m-shaped frontal-temporal recession had, on the average, higher serum cholesterol and blood pressure compared to participants with no baldness (n = 321) and/or participants with just frontal baldness (n = 273). For serum cholesterol, a significant interaction was detected between age and fronto-occipital baldness (i.e. the association between fronto-occipital baldness and elevated levels of serum cholesterol became weaker with age). No interaction was detectable between age and fronto-occipital baldness for blood pressure. The results of this cross-sectional study indicate that male-type pattern of baldness is associated with elevated CHD risk profile, and that this relation between age and serum cholesterol differs in younger compared to older men.
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Alopecia/complications , Coronary Disease/epidemiology , Hypercholesterolemia/epidemiology , Hypertension/epidemiology , Adult , Age Factors , Alopecia/classification , Analysis of Variance , Blood Pressure , Body Mass Index , Cholesterol/blood , Coronary Disease/etiology , Cross-Sectional Studies , Diastole , Humans , Hypercholesterolemia/blood , Hypercholesterolemia/complications , Hypertension/complications , Hypertension/diagnosis , Italy/epidemiology , Male , Middle Aged , Prevalence , Regression Analysis , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
METHODS: Correlates of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol are analyzed in a sample of 797 male workers in southern Italy participating in the Olivetti Heart Study. At the univariate level high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations are positively related to alcohol consumption (r = 0.127; P less than or equal to 0.001) and sport activity (r = 0.074; P less than or equal to 0.05) and inversely related to body mass index (r = -0.160; P less than or equal to 0.001), serum triglycerides (r = -0.349; P less than or equal to 0.001), cigarette smoking (r = -0.227; P less than or equal to 0.001), and coffee consumption (r = -0.153; P less than or equal to 0.001). RESULTS: In the group as a whole, body mass index, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, and serum triglycerides remain significantly related to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the multivariate model, while the association with coffee intake and sport activity loses statistical significance. A significant negative interaction is reported between physical activity and cigarette smoking, and a positive significant linear trend between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and sport activity is observed only in nonsmokers. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that body mass index, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, serum triglycerides, and sport activity are important correlates of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol but that the positive significant association between sport activity and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is absent in smokers.
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Cholesterol, HDL/blood , Hyperlipoproteinemias/epidemiology , Adult , Aged , Alcohol Drinking/adverse effects , Body Mass Index , Cholesterol/blood , Coffee/adverse effects , Exercise , Humans , Hyperlipoproteinemias/blood , Hyperlipoproteinemias/etiology , Italy/epidemiology , Longitudinal Studies , Male , Middle Aged , Risk Factors , Smoking/adverse effects , Sports , Triglycerides/bloodABSTRACT
The association between serum selenium concentration and a number of coronary heart disease risk factors is studied in 364 males from southern Italy participating in the Olivetti Heart Study. Selenium correlates positively and significantly with serum cholesterol (r = 0.120; P = 0.022), and this positive association persists after adjustment for age and body mass index. Selenium levels in heavy smokers are lower than both light smokers and current non-smokers, but these differences do not reach statistical significance. Selenium is not significantly associated with any of the other CHD risk factors (e.g., triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, age, and body mass index). It is hypothesized that the association between selenium and serum cholesterol reported in this and previous studies could be due to dietary interrelationships between selenium intake and foods that affect serum cholesterol concentrations.
