Personality traits associated with eating disorders and obesity in young Argentineans.

Purpose: Few studies have been conducted on Latin American population to explore how facets of personality, eating disorders, and obesity are related. The main purpose of this study was to explore the personality traits among patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa (n = 23), bulimia nervosa (n = 32), and obesity (n = 16), in comparison to control group (n = 82).

Methods: A total of 153 individuals participated in the study, 125 were female (81.

[Lithogenic risk index in urinary lithiasis patients and their evolution after treatment.].

Objective: To determine the lithogenic risk index and its evolution after treatment of paraguayan lithiasic patients.

Methods: This experimental study of temporal series included 28 lithiasic patients of both sexes that attended to the Instituto de Prevision Social in 2012. Basal evaluation included metabolic study and urinary saturation indexes determined by EQUIL software.

[Lithogenic risk in patients from Paraguay with urolithiasis].

Unlabelled: The lithogenic risk profile is a graphical representation of metabolic factors and urinary saturation involved in the stone formation with their respective critical values.

Aim: To determine the lithogenic risk profile in patients with urolithiasis.

Material And Methods: Personal data such as anthropometric, history of diseases and family history of urolithiasis were recorded.

[Enteric parasitic disease in children under 5 years of age, indigenous and non-indigenous, from rural communities in Paraguay].

Background: Official figures of mortality in children under five years of age in the Americas, report that infectious and parasitic diseases caused most of the deaths.

Objective: To evaluate the frequency of intestinal parasites in vulnerable children, indigenous and non-indigenous, and their socio-environmental characteristics.

Patients And Methods: We evaluated 247 children under five years of age, of both sexes.

Rigid analogues of the α2-adrenergic blocker atipamezole: small changes, big consequences.

We report the discovery of a new family of α(2) adrenergic receptor antagonists derived from atipamezole. Affinities of the compounds at human α(2) and α(1b) receptors as well as their functional activities at hα(2A) receptors were determined in competition binding and G-protein activation assays, respectively. Central α(2) antagonist activities were confirmed in mice after oral administration.