Sugar and obesity.
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Biomedical subjects
M Gibney
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Lipids and fatty acids and their relationship to restenosis.
One hundred consecutive patients had fasting lipids and percutaneous fat biopsy performed at the time of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty to determine if there was an association between restenosis and lipids or fatty acids. Angiographic follow-up and complete lipid and fatty acid results were available in 82 patients. Restenosis occurred in 37/82 (45%). Total cholesterol, triglyceride, high density lipoprotein, low density lipoprotein, and apolipoproteins A1 and B were not associated with restenosis. There was a significantly lower level of the monounsaturated fat palmitoleic acid (p less than 0.02), a trend towards a lower level of the monounsaturated fat oleic acid (p less than 0.09), and a trend towards a higher level of the saturated fat palmitic acid (p less than 0.08) in the restenosis group. The polyunsaturated fatty acids were not associated with restenosis. We conclude that lipids are not significantly associated with restenosis, and that lower levels of monounsaturated fatty acids may increase the risk of restenosis.
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Study of the decay Ds+--> eta ' pi +
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The Kilkenny Health Project: a community research and demonstration cardiovascular health programme.
Ireland has one of the highest death rates in the world from coronary heart disease (CHD) and has not shared in the rapid decline in mortality which has occurred in other countries. The Kilkenny Health Project was established as a community-based research and demonstration programme for cardiovascular disease prevention in County Kilkenny and as a pilot project for future national initiatives. The first phase of the health promotion programme in Kilkenny is being carried out between 1985 and 1990. Changes in behaviour and in factors associated with CHD will be estimated by the difference in changes over time between Kilkenny and the reference area, as measured by independent random sample surveys of men and women aged 35 to 64 years. CHD and stroke events, fatal and non-fatal, will be registered in both areas from 1987-1992. The Project has studied attitudes to CHD and its prevention. Health behaviours have been studied in adults and in post-primary school pupils. Risk factors for CHD have been measured in adults in accordance with the methods of the international MONICA Project. It has been demonstrated that health and education professionals can incorporate preventive activities and health education into everyday practice.
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Food allergy in polysymptomatic patients.
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[The perception of body image as a qualitative approach to nutritional status].
OBJECTIVE: To compare body image perception with body mass index (BMI) calculated from the weight and size declared by subjects, and to evaluate its usefulness in classifying the nutritional status. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A representative sample of the Spanish population was selected consisting of 517 males and 483 females older than 15 years of age. Variables were sex, age, educational level, BMI and perceived body image. Differences between groups were estimated with the chi 2 test. Specificity and sensitivity of the agreement between body mass and image were assessed. RESULTS: The nutritional status for both indicators revealed higher overweight prevalence in males and obesity in females, which increase with age and decrease with greater educational level. Perceived body image differed between sexes, and among ages and educational levels (p < 0.01). Sensitivity and specificity as well as positive and negative predictive values were higher than 0.90 in subjects belonging to extreme cases. Precision was higher for sensitivity than for specificity. In all groups, categorization was better in females than in males and so was Spearman's correlation (p < 0.001). The Kendall W coefficient ranked high for both groups. CONCLUSIONS: Body image allowed the identification of individuals with normal, excessive or lean nutrition. This indicator can therefore be useful in epidemiological surveys, considering some limitations for individualized diagnoses.
Adolescent↗
Sources of information on healthy eating in a Mediterranean country and the level of trust in them: a national sample in a pan-European survey.
OBJECTIVE: To know the sources of information and the level of trust in these sources in a population to facilitate the promotion of healthy dietary habits. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A national survey was carried out according to an established protocol on a representative sample of 1009 Spanish subjects over 15 years of age selected by a random multietapic procedure. This study belongs to the Spanish partnership in a pan-European Survey about sources of information on healthy eating and their level of trust. The analysis was focussed on the evaluation of the 5 most frequently chosen sources. RESULTS: There was a trend towards a greater use and trust in "Health professionals" than other sources. Thus, about 26% of the respondents mentioning "health professionals" as the source of information on healthy eating. However, "TV/radio" (25.7%) was almost so often selected as "Health professionals". About 17.4% of subjects declared that they obtained no information at all on healthy eating. Subjects with university level of studies exhibited a greater mention of "Health professionals", while individuals belonging to higher socio-economic levels preferred "TV/radio". The degree of trust was higher for messages obtained from "Health professionals" (89.9%) and the "Department of Health" (78.7%) and lower for information obtained from "newspaper" (34.2%) and "advertising" (17.6%). CONCLUSION: Nutrition and health educators must promote dietary guidelines through the appropriate channels for communicating messages to different targets groups.
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