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We measured fasting serum total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), and low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C and HDL-C) levels in 5000 individuals. Coronary artery disease (CAD) was present in 31%. Compared with women, men had lower mean TC, LDL-C and HDL-C and higher mean TG. Optimal TC level was observed in only 46% of men and 41% of women, and optimal TG in 42% of men and 50% of women. Only 3% of men and 12% of women had HDL-C > 60 mg/dL. Mean TC was not different in CAD patients and those without CAD, but mean TG was significantly higher and mean HDL-C was lower. In all age groups, low HDL-C was more prevalent among men and women who had CAD.
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Doença da Artéria Coronariana/epidemiologia , Hiperlipidemias/epidemiologia , Adulto , Distribuição por Idade , Idoso , Análise de Variância , Distribuição de Qui-Quadrado , Colesterol/sangue , HDL-Colesterol/sangue , LDL-Colesterol/sangue , Doença da Artéria Coronariana/etiologia , Jejum , Feminino , Humanos , Hiperlipidemias/sangue , Hiperlipidemias/complicações , Hiperlipidemias/diagnóstico , Jordânia/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Vigilância da População , Prevalência , Análise de Regressão , Fatores de Risco , Distribuição por Sexo , Triglicerídeos/sangueRESUMO
We measured fasting serum total cholesterol [TC], triglycerides [TG], and low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [LDL-C and HDL-C] levels in 5000 individuals. Coronary artery disease [CAD] was present in 31%. Compared with women, men had lower mean TC, LDL-C and HDL-C and higher mean TG. Optimal TC level was observed in only 46% of men and 41% of women, and optimal TG in 42% of men and 50% of women. Only 3% of men and 12% of women had HDL-C > 60 mg/dL. Mean TC was not different in CAD patients and those without CAD, but mean TG was significantly higher and mean HDL-C was lower. In all age groups, low HDL-C was more prevalent among men and women who had CAD
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Colesterol , HDL-Colesterol , LDL-Colesterol , Triglicerídeos , Doença da Artéria Coronariana , Fatores de Risco , Distribuição por Idade , Distribuição por Sexo , LipídeosRESUMO
Four patients with painless, progressive focal neurological deficits that localized to peripheral nerve or plexus were eventually found to have the relatively rare condition of localized hypertrophic neuropathy or intraneural perineurioma. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was an excellent tool for aiding in the precise localization of the lesion, if specifically tailored with regard to imaging planes and specific MRI sequences. Fat-saturated T2-weighted and fat-saturated T1-weighted postgadolinium images provided the best visualization, particularly with a high-field magnet and phase array body coil. Two patients stabilized following resection of the lesion and sural nerve grafting, and 1 had partial improvement in a proximal muscle following neurolysis.
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Doenças do Sistema Nervoso Periférico/diagnóstico , Neoplasias do Sistema Nervoso Periférico/diagnóstico , Adolescente , Adulto , Braço/inervação , Plexo Braquial/patologia , Criança , Feminino , Nervo Femoral/patologia , Seguimentos , Humanos , Hipertrofia , Perna (Membro)/inervação , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Doenças do Sistema Nervoso Periférico/patologia , Neoplasias do Sistema Nervoso Periférico/patologia , Nervo Isquiático/patologiaRESUMO
Bilateral facial paralysis of diverse infectious aetiologies has been reported in HIV infected patients. We present a patient with bilateral facial palsy most likely due to herpes zoster meningoencephalitis in a patient with neutropenia and who subsequently tested HIV-positive.
