The relevance of inflammatory markers in metabolic syndrome.

Objectives: To identify how severe is inflammation in metabolic syndrome using as inflammatory markers: C-reactive protein and leukocytes. To asses these markers considering the diversity of metabolic syndrome elements.

Material And Method: We performed a study that enrolled 258 patients registered to a family physician and diagnosed with metabolic syndrome.

Etiology of pneumonia in children in the absence of pneumococcal and antihaemophilus vaccines.

Childhood pneumonia represents an important pathology, a cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Our study aims to determine etiology of pneumonia in hospitalized children using several laboratory methods. We performed a prospective study that enrolled 560 children age 1 up to 18 years old all diagnosed with pneumonia by clinical and radiological features.

Difficulties in achieving arterial hypertension control.

Objective: Our study aims to examine the effectiveness of arterial hypertension treatment on arterial pressure values in a group of people, by gender and age.

Material And Methods: We performed an analytical prospective study, from 2007 to 2009, that included 2266 people; 674 subjects (397 women and 277 men) were diagnosed with essential systemic arterial hypertension, according to ESH (European Society of Hypertension) criteria. Medium age was 49 years.

Arterial hypertension - prevalence of risk factors and morbide associations that increase cardiovascular risk.

Hypertension represents a serious problem in Romania, as there are over 3 million hypertensive people in our country. There is a high incidence of deaths caused by hypertension.WE PERFORMED AN ANALYTICAL PROSPECTIVE STUDY THAT AIMS TO DETERMINE: prevalence of arterial hypertension in a population from Cluj county, distribution on age and gender, arterial hypertension severity, association of hypertension with other cardiovascular risk factors.

[Prophylactic CPAP versus therapeutic CPAP in preterm newborns of 28-32 gestational weeks].

Unlabelled: Strategies in ventilation and in exposure to the oxygen that minimise lung injury improved the prognosis of the extremely low weight newborns. Avoiding intubation can prevent the reduction of mucociliary flow, injury of the mucosa and infection. Using early CPAP isn't unanimous; there are differences between studies in what are concerned: the beginning of the treatment, gestational age, methods.