Background: Ramadan fasting is an obligation for many Muslims around the world who abstain from eating and drinking for one month, which has different medical and physiological effects, such as reducing blood pressure, lipid profile, blood glucose, and body weight. It has also been hypothesized that Ramadan fasting may induce some changes in the hematologic parameters. Thus, we aimed to investi...

The difficulty in assessing the activity of the disease process in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease is apparent from the large number of laboratory tests which have been used from time to time. In a previous study (Eastham, Szekely, and Davison, 1958) we have attempted to assess the value and limitations of the C-reactive protein test as a measure of rheumatic activity in a group of ...

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the use of serologic testing as a screening test for inflammatory bowel disease compared with erythrocyte sedimentation rate and hemoglobin in a referred patient population with suspected inflammatory bowel disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS.A retrospective study was performed, reviewing medical charts of patients who had inflammatory bowel diseas...

examination of all patients, has been outstanding in the minds of cancer specialists and public health authorities for years . Bolen' has advocated the gross and microscopic (low power) morphology of' dried drops of blood as sufficiently diagnostic to fill this need in many instances. Bolen employs the technic of Goldbergera as a rapid bedside test for measuring the blood sedimentation rate . G...