The Role of Psychological Factors and Resilience in Mediating Sports Passion in Triathletes.

The present study aims to analyze the psychological characteristics associated with the performance of amateur athletes, exploring their relationships with key variables such as resilience, harmonious and obsessive passion, and perception of discomfort. The main objective is to establish the relationship between psychological characteristics and each of the variables used (resilience, personal competence, and acceptance of self and life), and to consider whether these are related to passion (harmonious and obsessive) through a structural equation analysis. The sample was composed of 110 persons: 87 adults (22 females, mean age 40.

Gastrointestinal involvement in a case of hereditary angioedema: could the early weaning have had a role?

Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a noninflammatory disorder due to reduced C1-inhibitor level and/or function and characterized by recurrent, circumscribed, and self-limiting episodes of cutaneous and mucous membrane swellings involving different organs. A heterogeneous group of mutations in the C1-inhibitor gene have been found. HAE might present with diverse clinical pictures, even within families with the same mutation, but the cause of this variability is not known yet.

Fecal calprotectin in first-degree relatives of patients with ulcerative colitis.

Objectives: The pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease seems to depend on the combination of genetic and environmental factors. To evaluate genetic susceptibility, one approach is to search for specific markers in apparently unaffected family members of patients. Our aim was to evaluate fecal calprotectin concentrations (FCCs) in first-degree relatives of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC).