Food intake and high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels changes during ramadan fasting in healthy young subjects.

During the holy month of Ramadan, it is obligatory for all adult healthy Muslims to abstain from food, drink and smoking each day from dawn to sunset. The aims of our study were to evaluate the effects of Ramadan fasting on plasma lipids, lipoproteins and the change of food consumption in healthy subjects. Thirty young healthy and normal weighted adults (9 males and 21 females) were evaluated during three periods: 3 weeks before Ramadan (T0); the 4th week of Ramadan (T1) and 3 weeks after the end of Ramadan (T2).

[Hypothalamic-pituitary Langerhans cell histiocytosis in adults].

Introduction: Langerhans cell histiocytosis is a rare entity. Involvement of the pituitary region is frequently delayed and rarely studied.

Cases: We report some clinical and paraclinical particularities of the disease in four women.