Nutrition habits of patients operated because of coronary heart disease: income structure linkage

PURPOSE

The purpose of the above work is description and assessment of nutritional habits of the patient group operated because of CHD in relation to their income sources.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Among 100 patients hospitalized in The Cardiosurgery Clinic of Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, (72 M and 28 F) there were collected data concerning nutritional habits and income sources. To estimate the way of nutrition there was used the method of a direct interview, led individually according to the questions of an anonymous questionnaire. Quantitative biomedical data connected with body mass index (BMI), systolic (RRs) and diastolic (RRd) blood pressure and total cholesterol (CHL) came from the hospital files.

RESULTS

The diet of all investigated people was not consistent with the requirements of rational nutrition in respect of quality (sort of meat, brown bread, fruit and vegetables) and daily quantity of meals. This incorrectness was particularly showed in not working group of people (pensioners, people on unemployment benefits). Almost all measured parameters (BMI, CHL, RRs), except RRd, are higher than commonly admitted referenced values.

CONCLUSIONS

Our investigated category of patients proves how important is adapting to the requirements of rational nutrition, especially in lower socio-economic status societies.

Concentration profile of mRNA of kinine B1 and B2 receptors in the evaluation of colon pathologies

Colon pathologies involve the activation of a number of inflammation mediators: cytokines, prostanoids and kinines. The expression patterns of the genes associated with their activation may provide a very sensitive marker of the physiological condition of the cells. This paper demonstrates certain statistically significant differences (p = 0.008) between the expression patterns of kinine B1 and B2 receptor encoding genes for colitis ulcerosa and a control group. The ratio of kinine B1/B2 concentrations changes significantly, on the average from 1.3 for a tissue assessed as healthy to 6.6 for colitis ulcerosa.

Expression of the histone H3 gene in the evaluation of cellular proliferation in colitis ulcerosa

A comparison of the number of mRNA molecules of histone H3 in 1 microg total RNA extracted from colon sections sampled during colonoscopy was used to evaluate cellular proliferation activity in the rectum and sigmoid, in normal tissue and in colitis ulcerosa. Samples with similar intensity of the disease were selected for the study. Statistically significant differences between both groups of rectal sections were found in the expression of histone H3 encoding genes. The statistically significant result (p = 0.0485) indicates a more active division of cells in the healthy rectum, with no statistically significant differences in the sigmoid (p=0.9575).