IMPORTANCE Spironolactone has been shown to be an effective treatment option for hormonally mediated acne but can cause hyperkalemia. The prevalence of hyperkalemia among healthy young women taking spironolactone for acne is unclear. OBJECTIVE To measure the rate of hyperkalemia in healthy young women taking spironolactone for acne or for an endocrine disorder with associated acne. DESIGN, ...

Aim. To compare the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness between women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and healthy women. Materials and Methods. The study included 88 eyes of 44 women (group 1) with PCOS and 84 eyes of 42 healthy women (group 2). In all subjects, the RNFL and ganglion cell complex (GCC) thicknesses were measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT). In addition, vi...

OBJECTIVES To study the influence of healthy lifestyle behaviour on the prognosis of occasional low back pain among men and women in a general population. DESIGN Cohort study with a 4-year follow-up. SETTINGS General population in Stockholm County, Sweden. PARTICIPANTS The study sample comprised 3938 men and 5056 women aged 18-84 from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort reporting occasiona...

BACKGROUND Bulimia Nervosa (BN) is believed to be caused by an interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Previous studies support the existence of a bulimia-related endophenotype as well as disturbances in serotonin (5-HT) transmission. We studied serotonin transporter (SERT) binding in BN, and to investigate the possibility of a SERT-related endophenotype for BN, did this in a sample o...

BACKGROUND Laeverin is a placenta-specific membrane-bound aminopeptidase. In this study we wanted to: 1) serially measure plasma levels of laeverin in healthy women during the second half of pregnancy and postpartum, 2) determine whether laeverin is differently expressed at 22-24 weeks in women who later develop preeclampsia compared to controls, 3) compare laeverin protein expression in placen...

introduction: prostatic specific antigen (psa) is an important tumor marker of prostatic cancer and antigenic determinant of prostatic tissue. however, recently, results of several  researches have proposed existence of psa in non- prostatic tumors, extracts . in this study, our goal was to find that if patients with non-prostatic cancers synthesize psa. materials & methods : the sample was sel...

BACKGROUND Male DNA or cells are often used to measure microchimerism in a woman. In studies of autoimmune diseases male microchimerism is most often attributed to the previous birth of a son. OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of male microchimerism in healthy women or women with systemic sclerosis who had never given birth to a son. METHODS Real time quantitative polymerase chain reacti...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between serum and saliva levels of cancer antigen (CA) 125 and compare them among healthy women and patients with treated and untreated breast cancer. METHODS AND MATERIALS CA125 levels were assayed in serum and unstimulated whole saliva of 25 normal healthy women, 24 patients with untreated breast cancer, and 23 patients with treated ...