A longitudinal study of idiopathic exudative lymphocytic pleural effusion in older people.

Objectives: To assess the long-term prognosis of older patients with idiopathic exudative lymphocytic pleural effusion.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: A university-affiliated tertiary care center.

Increase in intranuclear nuclear factor kappaB and decrease in inhibitor kappaB in mononuclear cells after a mixed meal: evidence for a proinflammatory effect.

Background: In view of the stimulatory effect of glucose on reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, we investigated the possibility that a mixed meal stimulates ROS generation and possibly induces concomitant proinflammatory changes.

Objective: The objective was to determine whether the intake of a 900-kcal mixed meal induces an increase in ROS generation by leukocytes and an inflammatory response at the cellular level.

Design: Nine normal-weight subjects were given a 900-kcal mixed meal, and 8 normal-weight subjects were given 300 mL water after an overnight fast.