Unmeasurable capillary C-reactive protein as one of the diagnostic clues of severe hematological pathologies in children in primary settings: Case series.

Rationale: The manuscript aimed to show that an unmeasurable capillary C-reactive protein (CRP) should be a red flag that can indicate a possible severe hematological pathology.

Patients Concerns And Diagnoses: The authors present 3 case reports of children with fever examined at the pediatric emergency department. Fever is among the most frequently exhibited symptoms of acute pediatric infectious diseases.

Obesity, elevated levels of fasting plasma glucose and type 2 diabetes are associated with aortic stiffness.

Objectives: Obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) are associated with structural and functional vascular abnormalities. MetS and its components may increase arterial stiffness and the risk of cardiovascular events. However, the relationship of MetS and its components, including obesity, with arterial stiffness is still not fully understood.

Central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) to brachial systolic blood pressure (brachSBP) ratio reproducibility during antihypertensive therapy.

Objectives: Higher CSBP than brachial SBP in individual patient increases cardiovascular (CV) risk. For follow-up it is important to assess the reproducibility of such measurements. The aim of this study was to assess the reproducibility of these differences, expressed as a CSBP/BrachSBP ratios.

Serum butyrylcholinesterase activities in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Comparison with liver proteosynthetic function and liver fibrosis.

Background: We aimed to determine how does butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) activity change in the serum of NAFLD patients, whether there was a relationship between BChE and the severity of NAFLD and whether BChE could be used to distinguish the patients with simple hepatic steatosis from the patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Methods: The study group consisted of 64 patients with NAFLD. Patients were examined for fatty liver index and in the serum, we investigated BChE activities and the concentrations of prealbumin, cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triacylglycerols and hyaluronic acid (HA).

[Serum butyrylcholinesterase/HDL-cholesterol ratio and atherogenic index of plasma in patients with fatty liver disease].

Cardiovascular diseases on an atherosclerotic basis are a serious health problem. Atherosclerosis is a multifactorial pathological process with complex pathogenesis. Its origin and development is conditioned by a set of several risk factors.