Serum Cholesterol in Rheumatic Diseases

Fasting and rheumatic diseases

Fasting is one of the important religious practices of Muslims, in which the individuals abstain from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset. Fasting is not obligatory or even not allowed, in case it causes health problems to the fasting individual. Rheumatic diseases are a major group of chronic diseases which can bring about numerous problems while fasting. The aim of this article is to revi...

Serum immunoreactive prolyl hydroxylase in inflammatory rheumatic diseases.

Serum immunoreactive prolyl hydroxylase protein (S-IRPH) was measured in 56 patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases, and the values were compared with those in 32 control subjects. S-IRPH was above the 95% confidence limit of the controls in about 70% of the patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, Reiter's syndrome, Sjögren's syndrome, polyart...

Glucocorticoid therapy decreases serum lipoprotein(a) concentration in rheumatic diseases.

Lipoprotein(a) has been strongly suggested to be a risk factor for atherosclerosis. However, its metabolism and/or regulation by drug treatment still remain unknown. We therefore studied the effects of glucocorticoid therapy on serum lipoprotein(a) in rheumatic diseases. Although the glucocorticoid treatment increased the total serum cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipo...

Serum globulin fractions in chronic rheumatic diseases; an electrophoretic study.

STUDY oi’ THE SERUM protein patterns in patients with chronic rheumatic diseases has already been reported in an earlier publication (1). In that work the proteins were separated by a salting-out technic and the fractions estimated by the biuret reaction. The results confirmed that hyperglobulinemia is a frequent finding in chronic rheumatic conditions, being often accompanied also, though in l...

Plasma and serum proteins in chronic rheumatic diseases.