Juvenile dyslipidemia as early risk factor for atherosclerosis. Analysis of a sample of school age boys.

Atherosclerosis appears already in the first years of life. Several factors may accelerate the age of onset and the gravity of its symptoms. Particular importance is attributed to lipid metabolism in youth. Ther Authors studied the rates of cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglycerides, apolipoproteins AI and B100, lipoprotein a and several anamnestic and anthropometric parameters in a group of 103 young people of Rome, between 16 and 19 years of age. They processed these data statistically and compared them with those of a similar American group. The results showed a tendency to fatness in the Italian sample, and to dyslipidosis in the American group. Besides, the subjects who had been breast-fed presented higher blood levels of cholesterol and apolipoprotein B100

Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung presenting as pyopneumothorax in eighteen-year-old woman

Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of the lung is an uncommon developmental abnormality usually presenting as respiratory distress in the neonatal period. Presentation in adhulthood is rare. We report a case presenting as a pyopneumothorax in a 18 year old woman