Initial researches on neuro-functional status and evolution in chronic ethanol consumers with recent traumatic spinal cord injury.

We found differences related to the neuro-functional deficiency and clinical progress, among non-consumers and chronic consumers of ethanol, with recent traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). We present a synthesis of related data on lesion mechanisms in post-traumatic myelogenous disorders, namely some of the alcohols and their actions on the nervous system, with details on the influences exerted, in such afflictions, by the chronic consumption of ethanol. The subject is not frequently approached - according to a literature review with systematic elements, which we have done before - thus constituting a niche that deserves to be further explored.

Evaluation of the metabolic balance in type 2 diabetes by assay of the hair glucose.

The authors used a relative new method of long term retrospective evaluation of metabolic balance in type 2 diabetes. This method was based on the variations of the glucose in the hair with the variations of HbA1c (r=+0.96; p<0.

The analysis of structural lipid of the hair of patients with angina pectoris.

A study of 48 patients with angina pectoris carried out, in which the structural lipids of the hair were analyzed and correlated with the manifestations of angina and the potential incidence of dyslipidemia. It was noted that the excesses of hair lipids associated with deficiencies of some unsaturated fatty acids raised the frequency of angina attacks in the group studied by 2.7 times.