Relationship between adiponectin, inflammatory markers and obesity in type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic Trinidadians.

Aim: To determine and study the relationship between adiponectin and inflammatory markers in obese, non-obese, type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic Trinidadians.

Methods: It was a cross-sectional study comprised of 133 subjects of Trinidadians. Anthropometric indices were measured and adiponectin, inflammatory marker levels, lipid profiles and glucose were measured in fasting blood samples.

[Lightning injuries in high mountain areas. Report of 29 cases].

Lightning, usually scarce, is a frequent phenomenon in high mountains. Due to our location at the foot of the Mont-Blanc, we have been able to examine twenty nine cases of people struck by lightning in the Chamonix Hospital. Lightning that has interested people since old times is the result of complex meteorological phenomenons, able to deliver a huge instant power.