Vascular adhesion molecules in men with obstructive sleep apnea: associations with obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Introduction: Mechanisms linking obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to vascular diseases as well as obesity and metabolic syndrome are not clear. The purpose of the study was to evaluate levels of vascular adhesion molecules (soluble vascular cell adhesion molecules-1 (sVCAM-1) and E-selectin) in men with obstructive sleep apnea and control subjects and to determine their relations with obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Methods: Men with OSA and controls matched for age were included in the study.

Reactive oxygen species production in peripheral blood neutrophils of obstructive sleep apnea patients.

Unlabelled: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) as well as obesity is associated with increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Neutrophils produce great amounts of ROS. The AIM was to evaluate peripheral blood neutrophils ROS production in men with OSA and to establish relations with disease severity and obesity.

[Assessment of disease control in patients with asthma].

Unlabelled: International guidelines indicate that the main criterion of asthma management is asthma control level. The aim of this study was to assess asthma control and its relation with age, gender, and lung function.

Material And Methods: A total of 106 family physicians and 13 pulmonologists and allergists took part in this study.

An unusual case of bleeding from stomach due to a giant diospyrobezoar.

Gastric bezoars may be formed in the stomach as a result of foreign body accumulation with inability to pass through the pylorus. Usually bezoars are found in patients with a history of previous gastric surgery. Phytobezoars are the most common type of bezoars.