Peculiarities of the Clinical Course of Oxidative Protein and Lipid Modification in Children with Acute Rheumatic Fever.

Background: Measuring indicators of oxidative protein and lipid metabolism is a diagnostic criterion of oxidative metabolism disruption at the early stages of chronic somatic pathology formation. Purpose was to assess the status of protein and lipid oxidative metabolism as a pathogenic link of acute rheumatic fever by measuring markers of early lesion.

Methods: Research included measurement of lipid peroxidation products and efficiency of antioxidant protection.

The impact of maternal obesity on mother and neonatal health: study in a tertiary hospital of Astana, Kazakhstan.

This study was aimed to investigate the impact of maternal obesity on mothers and their neonatal health. Our study population consisted of 157 women with completed singleton pregnancies, which included both obese (Body mass index, BMI > or =30) and non-obese women (BMI < 30). Data were collected from case histories, and ante- and postnatal records at the tertiary hospital in Astana, Kazakhstan between January and February of 2008.