Gap in knowledge of health benefits and risks of combined oral contraceptives among Lebanese women.

Background: Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCPs) are among the most commonly used forms of contraception, but they are associated with several health benefits and risks. This study aims to determine the gap in knowledge of the underlying health benefits and risks of OCPs among Lebanese women and to identify the factors that might influence their beliefs.

Methods: A questionnaire was completed by 817 Lebanese women aged 18-64 years old and assessed sociodemographic details, medical information, contraceptive practices, knowledge of underlying health benefits and risks, and information needs related to OCPs.

Prisoners of Addictive Cues: Biobehavioral Markers of Overweight and Obese Adults with Food Addiction.

Obesity is associated with food and eating addiction (FA), but the biobehavioral markers of this condition are poorly understood. To characterize FA, we recruited 18 healthy controls and overweight/obese adults with ( = 31) and without ( = 17) FA (H-C, FAOB, NFAOB, respectively) to assess alpha brain asymmetry at rest using electroencephalogram; event-related potentials following exposure to high-calorie food (HCF), low-calorie food (LCF), and nonfood (NF) images in a Stroop paradigm; reaction time reflective of the Stroop bias; and symptoms of depression and disordered eating behavior. The FAOB group had the greatest emotional and uncontrollable eating, depressive, and binge-eating symptoms.

Establishment of blood pressure nomograms representative for Egyptian children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To define nomograms for blood pressure in Egyptian children and adolescents.

Methods And Study Design: A total of 60 025 Egyptian children from birth to 19 years were enrolled in this cross-sectional randomised study from December 2015 to March 2017. They were selected from diverse geographical districts in Egypt.

Fruit-pollen-latex cross-reactivity: implication of profilin (Bet v 2).

Background: An association between allergy to fruits and latex, and between pollen and plant-derived food has been described. The cross-reactive structures responsible for these associations have not yet been completely elucidated.

Methods: IgE reactivity to the recombinant allergens Bet v 1 and Bet v 2, different pollens, natural latex, papain, and bromelain was investigated in 29 patients with allergy to fruits or vegetables who lived in an area without birch trees.

Inhalant allergy to egg yolk and egg white proteins.

Background: Several egg white and egg yolk and avian proteins have been described as a cause of inhalant allergy. Sometimes inhalational type I hypersensitivity to these proteins is associated with food allergy to egg.

Objective: We studied two patients who experienced respiratory and food allergic symptoms upon exposure to egg or avian antigens through the inhalative or digestive routes.

[Definition of a leak model and derivation of formulas for quantifying the accompanying leak surfaces in the anesthetic system].

Our intention was to conceive a simple model for the evaluation of well-defined leakages in the anesthetic breathing system. Utilization of any model requires a formula to calculate the corresponding leakage surfaces. METHOD.

[Peptic ulcer and insular carcinoma of the pancreas with hepatic metastasis (Zollinger-Ellison syndrome)].

A Zollinger-Ellison syndrome case is reported. During arteriography and surgical treatment islet cell carcinoma of the pancreas with metastasis to the liver was found. After surgery, patient has presented several periods of hypoglicemia.