We report a case of dengue myocarditis involving young male athlete with good recovery. A 14 year-old gentleman presented with a 5-day fever with chest discomfort and typical viral fever presentation. His preliminary diagnosis of dengue fever was confirmed via positive non-structural protein-1 and the ensuing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) confirmed dengue virus serotype DEN 1. He had myocardi...

Population dietary guidelines have started to include information about the environmental impacts of food choices, but more quantifiable evidence is needed, particularly about the impacts associated with discretionary foods. This paper utilised the 2011-2012 Australian Health Survey food intake data along with a highly disaggregated input-output model to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions (G...

To determine reference values for ectopic activity 147 actively employed healthy men aged from 15 to 65 years were examined by 24 hour Holter monitoring during their ordinary daily activities. Age was the only risk factor significantly associated with supraventricular and ventricular extrasystoles. During a six year follow up only two men died. In both the frequency of ventricular extrasystoles...

We read with interest the study by Ghahremanfard et al.1 This interesting study observed the changes in thrombocytopoiesis and platelet morphological parameters in healthy male smokers. We would like to take this opportunity to share our scientific views on this wonderful published article. It was not stated clearly what was the rationale behind excluding the subjects who consumed anti-platelet...

Diffuse normolipemic plane xanthoma is characterized by thepresence of yellowish-orange plaques on the eyelids, neck, uppertrunk, buttocks and flexural surfaces of the extremities in patientswith a normal lipid profile. It mainly affects adults of both sexes.Diffuse normolipemic plane xanthomas are usually associatedwith reticuloendothelial system disorders, such a...

Lifestyle modification is the first step in hypertension management. Our objective was to assess adherence to lifestyle recommendations by individuals who were aware of their hypertension and to identify characteristics associated with non-adherence. Using data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted in 2010-2012, we compared the adherence to six lifestyle reco...

serum alpha-tocopherol of98(62 male and 36 female) cancer patients and 30 (13 male and 17 female) control healthy subjects was investigated. the cancer patients showed a significantly low level of alpha-tocopherol as compared to control healthy subjects. also, significantly higher levels of serum alpha-tocopherol were found in complete remission patients as compared to the partial response pati...