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M Kurz

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PubMed1976

[Weight reduction and sugar deprivation in glucose tolerance disturbance. A two-year study of 131 normal and overweight subjects (author's transl)].

131 test subjects (male: female = 3.3 :1) of normal weight or in average of 20% overweight, and an average age of 55 years at the beginning of the study were followed for an average of 2 years (1-5 years) with regard to weight and glucose tolerance (50 g oral GTT). Group I (40 subjects) reduced weight and observed the ban on sugar, group II (69 subjects) were not able to lose weight but observed the deprivation of sugar and group III (22 subjects) increased weight and also did not observe the ban on sugar. All 109 subjects in groups I and II had a disordered glucose tolerance against only 8 in group III. During the period of observation there was a statistically confirmed improvement in glucose tolerance in 65% and normalization of the GT in 35% (no differences). In group III the deterioration in the glucose tolerance was statistically significant at the 1-hour value.

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PubMed1975

[Convergence insufficiency and school difficulties (author's transl)].

124 lowgrade hypermetropic pupils aged from 6 to 9 years, with normal I.Q. showed exophoria for near vision combined with weakness of convergence and school difficulties in several disciplines. These were treated as follows: training of the physiological diplopy, training of convergence, and surgical treatment by unilateral or bilateral resection of the medial rectus (the last-mentioned method has been applied on failure of so-called "ophthalmologic home-work"). Results were satisfactory in only 19%. The subjective primary complaints, similar to asthenopy, disappeared within a few weeks (65%). The effect of ophthalmological treatment was examined by the school psychological service as to acceleration in learning. Supported by comparisable objective effects (reading- and writing tests) with 50 control persons an improvement of concentration and motivation (77% and 62%), of reading capacity (44%) and of writing capacity (42%) was obtained within a space of 6 weeks to four months. Without taking up a too great percentage of the available school time, more attention should be paid in the elementary school age to a more accurate examination of the eyes, in order to detect even minor defects.

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Stable pattern of stress coping in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

The stress coping mechanisms of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (74 women and 27 men) were compared to those of healthy controls (17 women and 16 men) using the Stress Coping Questionnaire of Janke et al. (1). Based on the duration of illness, male and female patients were divided into three groups, those with a duration of illness of less than 5 years, those with 5-15 years and a third group with 15 or more years of illness. From a comparison of these groups with healthy controls, the following conclusions can be drawn: (1) RA patients can be characterized by a coping pattern which is determined by significantly more cognitive mechanisms, e.g. trivialization, more attempts at controlling their reactions and less self-accusation. (2) The patient groups with different disease durations do not differ in their coping patterns. The stress coping behaviour of RA patients seems to be stable and does not appear to be influenced by the duration of illness.

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