Prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in young Greek males
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Vassilios Tzilalis & Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos & George Papatheodorou & Efstathios Rallis & Dimitrios Kassimos
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
The aim of this paper is to study the prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in young males. Young males were examined prospectively in a district hospital, and laboratory tests were performed on the basis of the clinical history. Young males (3.912), age 18–28 years old, were examined. Raynaud's phenomenon was present in seven men (1,79 per 1.000, 95% CI 0.72–3.68). Three of them had at least one member in their family diagnosed with Raynaud's phenomenon. Three were smokers. All had negative immunological test. Five patients reported having severe attacks and two had only mild ischemic attacks. The treatment was conservative for all patients, two of them necessitated vasodilators. Very low prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon was observed in this young male group compared with the previous studies
Clin Rheumatol (2011) 30:57–59 Received: 2 August 2010 / Revised: 30 October 2010 / Accepted: 3 November 2010 / Published online: 1 December 2010
