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Abstract available in the Proceedings of Ninety-first Annual Meeting Medical Library Association, Inc. San Francisco, California May 31-June 6, 1991

Plasma-Vitamin E and Low Plasma Lipoprotein Levels in Sickle Cell Anemia Patients.

Increasing evidence suggests that in vivo lipid peroxidation may be an important factor in sickle cell anemia (HbSS). Vitamin E is the major lipid-soluble antioxidant in plasma, and this vitamin, as well as cholesterol, is transported in plasma almost exclusively by lipoproteins. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if vitamin E and plasma lipoprotein-cholesterol levels in sickle cell anemia (SCA) patients are interrelated. We found that low plasma-vitamin E levels in SCA patients were accompanied by low levels of plasma-cholesterol. The mean plasma-vitamin E/plasma-cholesterol ratio was similar in 12 SCA patients (6.1 +/- 0.7 micrograms vitamin E per mg plasma-cholesterol) and 21 controls (6.5 +/- 0.7 micrograms/mg). Our results suggest that the low levels of plasma-vitamin E in SCA patients may be related to decreased levels of lipoprotein carriers. The low plasma-cholesterol levels in SCA patients (139.1 +/- 9.9 mg/dL) were due to low levels of both high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-cholesterol of 35.0 +/- 1.0 mg/dL) and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-cholesterol of 97.8 +/- 9.2 mg/dL). The atherogenic index, defined as LDL-cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol, was similar in the SCA patients (2.9 +/- 0.2) and the controls (3.0 +/- 0.4)

Creating and using a faculty interests database.

Academic librarians routinely assist faculty seeking information on diverse topics. Librarians may overlook potentially useful information, however, if they are unaware of faculty interests that are not mentioned in a specific request. At the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Medical Library, a team of librarians developed a faculty interests database to improve reference services and collection development. This paper describes the creation and implementation of the database and the faculty response