Familial hypercholesterolemia screening program in Bosnia and Herzegovina and cardiovascular morbidity.

Background And Aims: We aimed to estimate the frequency of cardiovascular diseases in familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) patients in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Methods: We screened lipid profiles in the hospital system during the period March 2008-November 2016, and included 307 patients with LDL>4.5 mmol/L.

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte Ratio and Its Relation with Markers of Inflammation and Myocardial Necrosis in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome.

Introduction: Inflammation plays an important role in atherosclerosis which is the primary cause of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) that encompasses acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and unstable angina (UA).

Objective: To investigate and characterize white blood cells (WBC) count, differential blood count in peripheral blood and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients by the type of ACS.

Patients And Methods: The cross-sectional study included 100 patients with ACS (50 males, 50 females), aged 41 to 91 years, classified into two groups: AMI group (n=50) and UA group (n=50).

Influence of C-reactive protein on the occurrence and assessing of albuminuria severity in diabetics.

Aim To asses relation of serum high sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) level with albumin concentration in daily urine in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM). Methods The prospective study included 69 patients with T2DM, both sexes (24 males, 45 females), aged 30-82 years. They were divided into two groups: patients with T2DM and normoalbuminuria(T2DM-NA; n=40) and patients with T2DM and microalbuminuria (T2DM-MA; n=29).