OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of smoking on in-hospital morbidity and mortality in patients who have experienced acute myocardial infarction and to assess the association between smoking and other cardiovascular risk factors and clinical data. METHODS A prospective cohort study analyzed 121 patients, including 54 smokers, 35 ex-smokers, and 32 nonsmokers. RESULTS Using the chi-square test ...

A 29-year-old white man presented with a 2-day history of progressive dyspnea and chest tightness. He was from Minneapolis, MN (altitude, 0 m), and had arrived in Winter Park, CO (altitude, 2,750 m), 1 day before his symptoms began. One week prior to travel, he had symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection including fatigue, diaphoresis, fever, and productive cough. He was an otherwise h...

These studies compared the ability of specific secretory IgA (sIgA) and IgG antibodies to promote phagocytosis of viable pseudomonas aeruginosa by human alveolar macrophages. Macrophages were obtained by lung lavage of normal adult smoker and nonsmoker volunteers and were maintained as in vitro cell monolayers. Both immune sIgA and IgG agglutinating antibodies were demonstrated to coat and opso...

OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the status of lipid peroxidation, both in control subjects and in coronary heart disease patients. METHODS Serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and malondialdehyde levels were determined in 46 patients with coronary heart disease and 50 age matched control healthy subjects. 29 male cor...

A previously healthy 70-year-old white woman was admitted with symptoms of obtundation, delirium and a blood glucose level of 45 mg percent. She had been having periods of weakness ft)r six weeks and had two episodes of hypoglycemic coma. She was a nonsmoker and had no exposure to mining or asbestos. Physical examination findings were normal apart from decreased breath sounds at the right lower...

We tested the effect of a fermented papaya preparation (FPP; ORI, Gifu, Japan) on redox balance gene expression in 11 healthy nonsmoker, teetotaller individuals subjected to a detailed dietary and lifestyle questionnaire who refrained from any multivitamin supplement or fortified food. Redox status was assessed by erythrocyte and plasma parameters together with related leukocyte mRNA (glutathio...

This study aimed to verify habitual smoking effects on cardiopulmonary function in taekwondo athletes. Subjects were university taekwondo athletes aged 20-24 years in nonsmoker (n= 9) and smoker (n= 6) groups. Subjects underwent an exercise examination for their ventilation threshold, minute ventilation, oxygen uptake, maximum volume of minute oxygen consumption, heart rate, and oxygen pulse du...

irregular borders ( fig. 2 ). It was histologically diagnosed as a pure nonmucinous bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) ( fig. 3 ). The patient was alive without signs of tumor recurrence 6 months later. BAC is known for low FDG uptake presumed to be secondary to the lower proliferation rate of these tumors [1] . Particularly low metabolic activity is observed in pure BAC, unifocal and mucin-con...

Diagnosis of asbestosis and bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma was made in a 55-year-old Turkish woman who was a nonsmoker. She originated from and was living in an area with a high prevalence of environmental diseases attributed to tremolite asbestos. Mineralogic analysis of lung tissue revealed very high concentrations of asbestos bodies (1.64 x 10(6)/g of dry tissue) and tremolite fibers (173.7 x...

Mr. SS, a 32 year old Chinese male, is a known case of moderately severe persistent asthma since the past 17 years. He is a palm oil plantation worker for the past 6 years. He is a nonsmoker, non-hypertensive and has no history of diabetes mellitus. There is a family history of bronchial asthma in both his mother and maternal grandfather. On examination, the patient appears tachypnoeic, with a ...