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AIM: Description of a clinical case of enteropathic arthritis. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SITE. Health Centre. PATIENTS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS: A clinical case is described, starting with back pain where X-rays perceive no irregularity. Later a diagnosis of Crohn's disease is made. Finally lesions characteristic of anchylo-poyethic spondylitis appear. INTERVENTIONS: Corticosteroid treatment. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN FINDINGS: Clinical investigations and complementary diagnoses. CONCLUSIONS: Way in which spondylitis presents, with no clear X-ray indications. Importance of closely following the development of this type of patient.
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Arthritis/diagnosis , Crohn Disease/diagnosis , Adult , Diarrhea/diagnosis , Humans , Low Back Pain/diagnosis , Male , Spondylitis, Ankylosing/diagnosisABSTRACT
We report the evaluation of a pilot study for the nutritional state carried out at a Health Center in Murcia, using a qualitative foodstuff questionnaire related to the previous 24 hours and the evaluation of anthropometric and analytical data. The evaluated individuals were randomly selected between the persons who had previously consulted. The survey was carried out by an interviewer. An outstanding result was that 90% of the surveyed individuals had ingested, at least one foodstuff from each group. The fat compartment was measured through the tricipital and subscapular fold and Quetelet index, and the protein compartment was measured through the muscular area of the arm. As reference values, the NHANES (USA) and the Alastrue Vidal (Spain) tables were used. It was found that the tricipital fold of the investigated population was underrated in the american tables (p less than 0.01).