To estimate the prevalence and trend of obesity in primary school-age children, obesity survey was performend in children aged 6 to 12 years(5,226 boys and 5,048 girls)in Kwangju in 1991. Obesity was defined as overweight if more than 20 per cent above the median weight for height and age(relative weight>120%). The following results were obtained: 1) The prevalence of obesity that exceeded the weight centiles at each height by more than 97th percentile was 8.78. Boys (9.70%)was not significantly higher than in girls(7.82%)(p>0.05). 2) The prevalence of obesity that exceeded the standard weight for height by more than 20% was 8.82%. Among them, 5.45% were mild obesity and 2.93% were moderate obesity and 0.44% were severe obesity. The prevalence rate of obesity was no significant differences by sex(p>0.05). 3) Regionally, the prevalence of obesity was a lower rate in Kwangiu in 1991 (8.82%)than that in Seoul in 1989(11.68%).
Child* ; Gwangju* ; Humans ; Obesity* ; Obesity, Morbid ; Overweight ; Prevalence* ; Seoul

Additional two cases of Klinefelter's syndrome with a literatural review was presented Two cases were revealed characteristics of Klinefelter's syndrome such as small testes, hyalinization of seminiferous tubules, azoospermia, increased FSH, normal 17-ketogteroid and positive sex chromatin. One case was associated with left inguinal crytorchidism.
Azoospermia ; Hyalin ; Klinefelter Syndrome* ; Seminiferous Tubules ; Sex Chromatin ; Testis

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic disease with medication as the treatment of choice. However, surgical treatment is recommended when no improvement is noted despite aggressive conservative treatment. Synovectomy provides desirable outcomes for RA patients in the early stage with a glenohumeral joint of Larsen grade II or less; conversely, arthroplasty is recommended for patients with a glenohumeral joint of grade III or higher. RA patients often have attenuation and dysfunction of the rotator cuff, and reverse shoulder arthroplasty has been proven to provide favorable outcomes in some patients. RA is often complicated with osteoporosis and bony deformity; therefore, close attention is necessary to prevent fractures during shoulder arthroplasty.
Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Arthroplasty ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Humans ; Osteoporosis ; Rotator Cuff ; Shoulder Joint* ; Shoulder*

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Hemodynamics* ; Hypertension, Pulmonary*

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Chondrodysplasia Punctata*

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Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli* ; Enterotoxins*

Forty one cases of Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were immunohisto-chemi-cally studied for the presence of CD30 antigen on the paraffin embedded formaldehyde fixed tissue by using Ber H2(CD30) monoclonal antibody (Dakopatts, diluted l : 20) and avidin biotin peroxidase complex technique seventy five %(6/8) of Hodgkin's lymphoma and 27% (9/33) of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were CD30 positive. Five of l7 diffuse large cell and immunoblastic lymphoma and one large cell anaplastic lymphoma showed large numbers of CD30 positive cells. Occasional CD30 positive cells were found in one of 2 angiommunoblastic lymphadenopathy-like T cell lymphoma, one of 4 small lymphocytic lymphoma and one unclassified lymphoma. Immunophenotypically l6% of B cell lymphoma and 42% of T cell lymphoma showed CD30 positivity. six cases of Hodgkin's disease except lymphocyte predominance showed positive tumor cells. Our results show that CD30 is more widespread in histologic subtypes of lymphomas and is not specific for the diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.

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Child* ; Epilepsy* ; Humans

BACKGROUND: The hypertension is known to be the most important risk factor for the intracerebral hemorrhage. We analyzed other risk factors associated with hypertension that may contribute in the episode of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS: Medical records of 100 patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage between January 1995 and December 2000 were reviewed and analyzed for age, sex, serum total cholesterol level, regular management of hypertension, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, arrhythmia and left ventricular hypertrophy in ECG. RESULTS: 1) Mean age was 64.1+/-11.3 years old and there were 35 males and 65 females. 2) Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure were 176.9+/-35.9 mmHg and 106.3+/-20.7 mmHg. 3) Mean serum total cholesterol level was 182.6+/-46.4 mg/dL. 35.5% of the patients had serum total cholesterol levels less than 160 mg/dl and 33.4% were between 160-199 mg/dL. 4) Only 16% of the patients had any kind of treatment for hypertension. CONCLUSION: The high blood pressure and the treatment for hypertension were most important risk factors for hypertensive intrace- rebral hemorrhage. Also, 68.9% of the patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage had normal to low serum total cholesterol level. Thus low to normal serum total cholesterol level could be a risk factor of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage.
Arrhythmias, Cardiac ; Blood Pressure ; Cerebral Hemorrhage ; Cholesterol ; Electrocardiography ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular ; Intracranial Hemorrhage, Hypertensive* ; Male ; Medical Records ; Risk Factors