OBJECTIVE To determine the role of atorvastatin in management of tinnitus in patients with hyperlipidemia. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY ENT Department, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from July 2011 to August 2012. METHODOLOGY Ninety eight patients of tinnitus with sensorineural hearing loss having hyperlipidemia were included in the study. Th...

background: piper guineense (pg) and sesamum indicum (si) have been shown to be rich sources of antioxidants and other health benefits; hence, we evaluated the impact of its consumption in hypercholesterolemic model on lipid metabolism. methods: forty-eight animals were divided into eight groups of six rats each. rats were given cholesterol (40 mg/0.3ml), pg and si extract (100 and 200 mg/kg), ...

conclusions according to the results of this study, effect of biochemical interfering factors on test results of impedance cell counter must be considered in clinical laboratories. results comparison between case and control groups revealed that uremia caused significant increase in mcv and rdw levels (p < 0.05) and had no effect on mch level (p > 0.05). both hyperglycemia and hyperlipemia caus...

introdouction: recent studies have reported the connection between increased risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes with the presence of chronic periodontitis. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between chronic periodontitis and triglyceride, high- and low-density lipoprotein (hdl and ldl), and glucose levels. materials and methods: a total of 102 individuals particip...

Four hundred and four patients who were admitted to the hospital with their first myocardial infarction within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms were studied. In 315 patients the ECG findings in 12 standards leads (I, II, aVF, aVR, aVL, V,-V6) showed the infarction to be in the anterior wall, the inferior wall, or in multiple areas. The patients in each of these three categories were further su...

Eruptive xanthomas are cutaneous manifestations of hyperlipidemias in which lipids accumulate in large foam cells within the skin. They classically present as crops of 1- to 4-mm yellow-orange papules and are often associated with extreme hypertriglyceridemia. We describe a 12-year-old boy with autism who was thought to have widespread molluscum contagiosum for a year before dermatologic consul...

OBJECTIVE To review the main risk factors for ischemic heart disease and preventive strategies during childhood. SOURCES Medline review between 1985 and 2001, and key references from the studies evaluated. CONCLUSIONS Preventive interventions that may start in childhood are described for risk factors such as hyperlipidemias, obesity, smoking and systemic hypertension. Results of early diagn...

A method is described for semiquantitative study of serum lipoproteins, with particular reference to the very low density fractions involved in transport of triglycerides. Serum samples were subjected to electrophoresis in thin layers of starch granules; lipids were extracted from starch segments and subjected to thin-layer chromatography; lipid fractions were recovered from the adsorbent and q...