Does insurance status predict curve magnitude in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis at first presentation to an orthopaedic surgeon?
Patients with private insurance presenting for evaluation of idiopathic adolescent scoliosis were significantly more likely to present as a second opinion than those with government insurance. In this group of 642 patients, no significant differences were found in major Cobb angle at presentation or eventual need for surgery.
A diet rich in fish oil results in proarrhythmia compared to a control diet during regional ischemia in pigs. Myocardial excitability is reduced in the fish oil and sunflower oil group during the early phase of arrhythmogenesis. In the late phase of arrhythmogenesis, excitability is more reduced in the control group than in the fish oil and sunflower oil group.