Walking and postural balance in adults with severe short stature due to isolated GH deficiency.

Objectives: Walking and postural balance are extremely important to obtain food and to work. Both are critical for quality of life and ability to survive. While walking reflects musculoskeletal and cardiopulmonary systems, postural balance depends on body size, muscle tone, visual, vestibular and nervous systems.

Clinical aspects and polymorphisms in the LTA, TNFA, LTB genes and association with dental implant loss.

Background: This study shows the relationship between host factors and environmental factors in the influence of susceptibility to loss of dental implants.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of clinical aspects and tag SNPs of the genes LTA, TNFA, and LTB with dental implant loss.

Materials And Methods: The subjects consisted of 244 patients, divided into two groups: control group (C)-163 individuals who did not lose any implants, being in function for at least 6 months; and study group (S)-81 individuals who had lost at least one implant.

Analysis of association of clinical aspects and IL1B tagSNPs with severe preeclampsia.

Objective: This study investigates the association between IL1B genotypes using a tag SNP (single polymorphism) approach, maternal and environmental factors in Brazilian women with severe preeclampsia.

Methods: A case-control study with a total of 456 patients (169 preeclamptic women and 287 controls) was conducted in the two reference maternity hospitals of Sergipe state, Northeast Brazil. A questionnaire was administered and DNA was extracted to genotype the population for four tag SNPs of the IL1Beta: rs 1143643, rs 1143633, rs 1143634 and rs 1143630.

Outcome of orthodontic mini-implant loss in relation to interleukin 6 polymorphisms.

Mini-implants (MIs) are used increasingly for orthodontic anchorage and their success may require some osseointegration, which is affected by the underlying host immune-inflammatory response. Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a cytokine expressed during the host response after a trauma or infection. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of clinical characteristics and IL6 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (which capture the information of the whole gene in terms of genetic variability) with the loss of MIs for orthodontic anchorage.

Different contribution of BRINP3 gene in chronic periodontitis and peri-implantitis: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Peri-implantitis is a chronic inflammation, resulting in loss of supporting bone around implants. Chronic periodontitis is a risk indicator for implant failure. Both diseases have a common etiology regarding inflammatory destructive response.