Reengineering consultation-liaison psychiatry.
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In comparison with a group of persons with and one without chronic exposition to fluorides we stated the incidence of aortic calcifications on X-ray screen photos. As well in female as in male we found in the group with exposition to fluorides a significantly lower percentage of aortic calcifications as in the group without fluoride exposition.
Measurements of vertebral body heights are suitable for diagnosis of osteoporosis, its progress and also for evaluation of therapeutic effects. Considerable fluoride installation into the vertebral column prevents the compression fracture of the vertebral bodies.
Examinations of subjects with skeletal fluorosis indicated that the long-term deposition of fluorine in the human organism may possibly have a positive influence on the expectation of life.
There are hints, that chronic incorporation of fluorides lasting for decades with fluoride installation into the skeleton possibly predisposes to obtainment an old age.
Report on two patients with coincidence of osteosclerosis caused by fluorides and prostatic cancer. The necessity of co-operation between several fields of medicine in the differential diagnosis of the symptom osteosclerosis is accentuated.