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V Lupu

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PubMed2002

The prevalence of pathological gambling in Romanian teenagers.

BACKGROUND: The liberalization of teenagers' way of life strikingly increased in Romania after 1989; this includes gambling. The goal of our study is to analyze the different aspects of gambling in some teenager communities in Romania. METHODS: The study included 500 school-teenagers from 3 different Romanian districts (Cluj, Salaj and Bacau). Of these 217 (43.40%) were males and 283 (56.60%) females. Median age was 16 years old (range 14-19). A structural questionnaire was applied to the teenagers consisting in "The 20 questions of the American Anonymous Gambling Association". Other 20 questions about their age, gender, family, income, school, toxic abuse, gambling preferences, the frequency and the amount of money they use in gambling were also proposed. RESULTS: The results of the study were as it follows: 34 (6.8%) of the tested teenagers were pathological gamblers, 28 (82.36%) males and 6 (17.64%) females, with a ratio F:M of 1:4.6. The average age of starting gambling was 13.25 1.51 years old. The majority (82.35%) prefers group gambling and only 17.64% prefer individual gambling. Of these, 47.5% of them gamble very often (almost every day) and 38.2% gamble often (once a week). The most frequent gambling was: pool (55.88%), poker (35.29%), bingo (32.35%), and basketball on a bet (5.88%), black-jack, roulette and craps (2.94% each). Gambling was the reason for school absenteeism and modest results at school in 64.70% and 52.94% of all the teenagers respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the study revealed very concerning aspects of the increased incidence of gambling among Romanian teenagers, compared to the UK (6% of them are gambling).

Adolescent↗
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Effect of magnesium sulfate on learning, emotivity and spontaneous motility in rats.

The study was performed on three groups, each including 10 male Wistar rats, weighing 110-130 g: group 1, the control group; group 2, animals treated with magnesium sulfate in a dose of 100 mg/kg body/day i.m.; group 3, animals treated with double dose of magnesium sulfate (200 mg/kg body/day i.m.). All animals were tested for emotivity and spontaneous motility in the open field, as well as for their capacity of acquiring active avoidance conditioned reflexes in the shuttle-box, for 9 days. Magnesium sulfate decreased significantly the learning ability, decreased emotivity scores regardless of the administered dose, and increased significantly spontaneous motility scores only in the double dose treated group.

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[Jaundice with indirect bilirubinemia via the mother's milk].

Among the clinical entities included in the differential diagnosis of the prolonged jaundice at the end of neonatal period and in the small infant is the jaundice due to mother's milk, whose incidence is of 0.5-2% in the naturally fed infants. The authors present two cases in which the diagnosis was reached by exclusion and confirmed by the therapeutically positive test. Physiopathologic considerations are made on the basis of the literature data, and the nosologic background of the affection is presented. This clinical entity, considered to have an excellent prognosis, presented a special evolution in one of the cases.

Diagnosis, Differential↗
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[Lipid metabolism in severely acute diarrheic disease in infants].

In a group of 34 infants with serious acute diarrheic disease, the authors study the total lipids, total and esterified cholesterol, triglycerides and lipidogram, in the acute phase of the disease and at a 10-day-interval from the first determination. Triglycerides have constantly increased values both at admittance and at the second determination, as a consequence of lipid mobilization in acute stage. This process continues due to the hypolipidic and hypocaloric diet. Esterified fraction of cholesterol has initially important decreases, tending to become normal in the interval studies, more evident in the healthy infant. Total lipids are increased in 10.5% of the cases and the lipidogram shows an increase of alpha-lipoproteins and prebeta-lipoproteins in 10.5% and 17.5% respectively of the cases in the first determination.

Acute Disease↗
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[Enzymatic aspects of severely acute diarrheal disease in infants].

Acute dehydration of diarrhoea of the breast-fed child is a type of hypovolemic shock which, by its severity and frequency is one of the major emergencies of pediatrics. The liver, as the site of many metabolic processes is mainly affected in the frame of the multiple-tissue involvement which is characteristic for this condition. The authors carried out a study of several enzymes (total LDH and the thermally-labile fraction, gluthamatdehydrogenase, gammaglutamyltranspeptidase, acid and alkaline phosphatase) in 27 breast-fed children. Determination of the enzymes was done on hospitalization, and 10 days later. The study showed that all the enzymes that were evaluated had moderate increases in 40.7-71% of all cases. The increases were significant (p less than 0.001). After 10 days the enzyme titers showed a tendency to become normal again, and slightly higher values were found in only 15-12% of all cases. Minimal hepatopathy can be considered, associated to the clinico-biological evolution of this severe conditions of the breast-fed child pathology.

Acid Phosphatase↗
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[A severe dystonic reaction in acute Torecan poisoning].

Phenothiazines are a widely used group of drugs for medical practice. Some of them, including Torecan, may induce dystonic reactions of severe aspect which may lead to errors of diagnosis. Although in the paediatric practice this drug is but seldom used the possibility of intoxications exists when it is used without a medical prescription. The authors present two cases where neurological manifestations occurred, as severe, dystonic phenomena, that had a favourable evolution, under adequate therapy.

Acute Disease↗