OBJECTIVE Assessment of relation between metabolic syndrome (MS) and Mediterranean diet (MD) adherence. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. ATP III definition of MS was used. Adherence to MD was assessed with a Food Frequency Questionnaire. Intakes of cereal, fruit, legumes, vegetables, fish, nuts, monounsaturated to saturated ratio, alcohol from red wine, whole-fat dairy products and red meat were...

Focal dermal hypoplasia or Goltz syndrome is a rare genodermatosis involving all three embryonic layers. Herein, the first case of this syndrome from Iran will be reported. The main clinical features were fat herniation, reticulate pigmentations, telangiectasia, and skeletal defects.

In this prospective study the effect of low dose methylprednisolone succinate (10mg/kg) on the incidence of fat embolism syndrome and isolated arterial hypoxemia in 99 patients with long bone fracture (52 control and 47 steroid-trated subjects) was studied. Frequency of fractures among the selected patients was as follows: femoral fracture 52.5%, tibial fracture 36.4%, both femoral and tibial f...

Background and Objectives: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating pattern, a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy with a reduced content of sodium, saturated fat, and total fat is introduced as an appropriate diet for hypertension. This eating pattern was basically designed to normalize blood pressure in patients with hypertension, and a large body of d...

BACKGROUND Animal studies have suggested beneficial effects of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in reducing body fat mass and improvement in the serum lipid profile and glycemia. However, these effects are controversial in humans. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of microencapsulated CLA supplementation on body composition, body mass index, waist circumference, and blood p...

Traumatic bone injury frequently results in the release of marrow-derived fatty material into the circulation. This may lead to the syndrome of fat embolism, associated with the generation of free fatty acids, the sequestration of neutrophils in the lungs, and the subsequent development of acute respiratory distress. Neutrophil accumulation in tissues requires their adherence to vascular endoth...

The first clear description of ‘fibrocystic disease of the pancreas’ or Cystic Fibrosis (CF) came in the late 1930s and evidence of vitamin A deficiency was reported in 10 of 49 patients as early as 1939. Indeed, this paper recommended ‘generous dosages’ of vitamin A for these patients. Biochemical evidence of fat-soluble vitamin deficiency occurs early in infants diagnosed with CF by newborn s...

Research Group 2002; Ornish, 2005]. However, it is impossible to draw final conclusions from these studies in that they do not have a higher fat control group, they often incorporated additional lifestyle interventions, and there is difficulty in maintaining the very low fat diets, which leads to high drop out rates. Despite the findings of post hoc analyses of these trials that show that adher...

Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a serious clinical disorder occurring in trauma patients. The diagnosis of fat embolism syndrome may be difficult to establish clinically. We therefore wanted to investigate the usefulness of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in the diagnostic evaluation of fat embolism syndrome. We analysed the presence of fat droplets in BAL cells in 32 trauma patients (7 with full d...