Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840500265127
Ram B Singh, F. Demeester
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840600761587
I. Al-Saleh, I. El-Doush, G. Billedo, Abdulrahman Bin Muammer Ccrp, G. Mohamed, Gamal Yosef
Purpose. To determine the status of selenium, dl‐α‐tocopherol and all‐trans‐retinol in children and adults living in the Al‐Kharj district, using serum and toenail samples. Design. A cross‐sectional study. The samples were collected randomly from 1255 healthy Saudi subjects attending the Primary Health Care Units (PHCUs), Al‐Kharj for different common health problems.Materials and methods. Serum and toenail selenium concentrations were measured using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer coupled with an electrothermal temperature controller, whereas the levels of dl‐α‐tocopherol, all‐trans‐retinol and malondialdehyde in serum were determined using high‐performance liquid chromatography.Results. The arithmetic means of selenium, dl‐α‐tocopherol and all‐trans‐retinol in serum for the tested population were 102.165±22.936 µg l−1 (n = 1255, range 18.25–210.12 µg l−1), 22.715±6.908 µmol l−1 (n = 1250, range 2.53–79.44 µmol l−1) and 1.601±0.802 µmol l−1 (n = 1256, range 0.39–13.99 µmol l−1), respectively. Toen...
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840500191596
R. Vukmir
Background. This study evaluated a potential correlation between patient age, body weight and survival from prehospital cardiac arrest, as a secondary endpoint in a study evaluating the effect of bicarbonate on survival.Design. A prospective, randomized, double‐blinded clinical intervention trial.Methods. 874 prehospital cardiopulmonary arrest patients in a prehospital urban, suburban, and rural regional emergency medical service (EMS) area were used. This group underwent conventional Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) intervention followed by empiric early administration of sodium bicarbonate (1 mEq/L). Survival was measured as presence of vital signs on ED survival. Data was analyzed utilizing Student's t‐test, Fisher's exact test, Chi‐square with Pearson correlation and logistic regression (p<0.05).Results. The overall survival rate was 13.9% (110 of 793) of prehospital arrest patients. There was no significant difference between the control and bicarbonate groups for patient age (67.7 versus 67.4 ye...
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840500535396
John A Newby Bsc, C Vyvyan, Howard Mb, Chb, J. A. Newby
Purpose. The purpose of this review is to inform both scientists and clinicians about the increase in cancer incidence throughout the Western World and to discuss environmental influences in cancer aetiology, in order to stimulate thoughts about plausible aetiological mechanisms and possible preventative measures.Design. Literature review.Materials and methods. This review was conducted by searching biomedical databases such as PubMed and Medline. Further research to obtain cancer incidence data involved accessing UK cancer registries, major cancer charities and government statistical records from the Office of National Statistics, the Department of Health, and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.Results. Cancer incidence rates have increased in the Western World and this increased incidence affects the whole age spectrum. Epidemiological studies have provided some evidence of an association between exposure to environmental contaminants such as organochlorines and increased cancer risk....
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840600622003
C. Pritchard
This issue of the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine carries two substantial review papers: John Newby and Vyvyan Howard’s ‘Environmental influences in cancer aetiology’ and Jeremy Thompson and Honor Anthony’s ‘The health effects of waste incinerators’. Having just read these two outstanding reviews and wondering what an editorial might add to their devastating message, I noticed the Sun’s front page, which read ‘NOBODY WINS BB’, referring to a reality television show. That the Sun’s readership exceeds that of combined broadsheets, yet inflates trivia into national importance, while ignoring literal life-and-death issues as addressed here, is depressing. These reviews should be compulsory reading for Mr Blair and his Cabinet, and for every chief executive of multinational corporations who since 1945 have inadvertently exposed our children to over 85,000 new chemicals, the majority of which are not tested for their impact on human health. The authors show that environmental degradation is no longer just a hazard for the third world or just associated with poverty, but now affects everybody in the developed world, including children of prime ministers, presidents and multinational chief executives. Newby and Howard offer a definitive review of the environmental aetiology of cancer, and complementary to this Thompson and Anthony explore the health effects of incinerators. Both reviews make chilling reading and the Editor should be congratulated for being bold enough to publish both reviews in full, instead of the usual single research papers, which miss the ‘bigger picture’, something these authors grasp by crossing disciplines and specialities.
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Pub Date : 2004-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840500088248
V. Wiwanitkit, S. Soogarun, Jamsai Suwamsaksri
Purpose: In Asia, vegetarianism is a well‐established eating behaviour. It appears that the adoption of a vegan diet leads to a lessening of several health risk factors. However, vegetarianism has some notable effects on the haematological system.Design: A descriptive study.Materials and Methods: The pattern of five red blood cell parameters was studied in 25 Thai vegans compared with 25 non‐vegetarians.Results: Of the five studied parameters, it was found that haematocrit (Hct) and haemoglobin (Hb) were significantly different (p<0.05) in vegans and controls. Hct and Hb were significantly lower in the vegans. In addition, non‐significantly higher mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and red blood cell distribution width (RDW), and lower mean corpuscular Hb (MCH) were observed in the vegans.Conclusions: In this study, lower Hb and Hct were detected in the vegans, reflecting the existence of anaemia in this population. Interestingly, a non‐significant higher MCV was noted among the vegans. Indeed, the characteris...
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Pub Date : 2004-12-01DOI: 10.1080/13590840500088131
A. Ebringer, T. Rashid, C. Wilson, H. Tiwana, A. Green, E. Thompson, V. Chamoun, J. Croker, A. Binder
Purpose and Design: Microbial agents showing molecular mimicry to self‐antigens have been reported to initiate an autoimmune pathology in several diseases, including Sydenham's chorea, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Cows affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) have been shown to have antibodies to Acinetobacter species, microbes that are known to possess bacterial antigens showing molecular mimicry with brain antigens. In this study, the possibility that patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD) have elevated antibodies to bacterial and brain antigens was investigated.Materials and Methods: Serum samples from different groups of patients, including 53 with MS, 20 with RA, 20 with AS, two with sCJD, 18 with cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and 20 with viral encephalitis, as well as 29 healthy control subjects were tested using the enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method for the determination of antibodi...
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