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Animals ; Epididymis* ; Male ; Mice* ; Muscle Cells*

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Thyroid Gland* ; Thyroid Neoplasms* ; Trachea*

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Adenocarcinoma*

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Esophagectomy* ; Stomach*

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Humans

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Urinary Tract Infections* ; Urinary Tract*

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Hydranencephaly*

OBJECTIVE: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy(ARVC) is a progressive cardiac muscle disease characterized as progressive fibrofatty replacement of the right ventricle, severe ventricular arrhythmia, and sudden death. However, there is no report of ARVC as a cause of sudden death in Korea. METHODS and RESULTS: Postmortem studies were done to 115 cases of sudden unexplained death at department of legal medicine, school of medicine, Kyungpook national university in year 1999. We identified 7 cases(6%) of typical ARVC with no other identifiable cause of sudden death. The subjects included 5 males and 2 females, ranging in age from 19 to 41 years (mean 29.7 years). All were found dead at bed (5 cases) or workshop (2 cases). Five cases were fibrofatty types and two cases were fatty types. Right ventricular aneurysm, inflammatory infiltrates and left ventricular involvement were found in 4, 2 and 1 cases, repectively. Two cases had family history of sudden death before age 40. No one was suspected of having cardiovascular disease or ARVC before death. CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that ARVC in Taegu-Kyungpook area may be more frequent than previously thought. ARVC may be a major cause of sudden unexplained death.
Aneurysm ; Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia* ; Cardiovascular Diseases ; Death, Sudden ; Education ; Female ; Forensic Medicine ; Gyeongsangbuk-do ; Heart Ventricles ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Myocardium

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery diseases (CAD) are increasing in recent years among Korean due to change of socioeconomic status. Even though death rates due to CAD has increased in Korea, few epidemiologic studies have been done about risk factors of CAD. We conducted a case-control study to analyze risk factors for CAD among Korean. METHODS: The case series comprised 166 patients with angiographically confirmed CAD, who were admitted to Division of Cardiology in Asan Medical Center. The controls were 137 persons composed of patients with normal coronary arteriogram or patients with normal myocardial SPECT for chest pain. We surveyed life style habits, measured anthropometric variables, and analyzed biochemical markers among CAD patients and controls. RESULTS: In univariate analysis adjusted for age and body mass index (BMI), age, obesity, abdominal obesity, hypertension, low HDL-cholesterol, low apolipoprotein A1, and high lipoprotein (a) were associated with CAD in men and women. Smoking, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia were associated with in men only. Exercise and high HDL-cholesterol were inversely associated with CAD both in men and women. In multivariate logistic regression analysis, smoking, abdominal obesity, low apolipoprotein A1, and high lipoprotein (a) were found as independent risk factors of CAD among men. Abdominal obesity, low apolipoprotein A1, and high lipoprotein (a) were found as independent risk factors among women. CONCLUSION: These finding suggest cessation of smoking and weight control for abdominal obesity are important for prevention of CAD among Korean. The detection of low apolipoprotein A1 and high lipoprotein (a) could be useful for prevention of CAD.
Apolipoprotein A-I ; Biomarkers ; Body Mass Index ; Cardiology ; Case-Control Studies* ; Chest Pain ; Chungcheongnam-do ; Coronary Artery Disease* ; Coronary Vessels* ; Epidemiologic Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Hypercholesterolemia ; Hypertension ; Korea ; Life Style ; Lipoprotein(a) ; Logistic Models ; Male ; Mortality ; Obesity ; Obesity, Abdominal ; Risk Factors* ; Smoke ; Smoking ; Social Class ; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

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Female ; Humans ; Osteoporosis* ; Uterine Prolapse*