Prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in young Greek males.
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.
Department of Vascular Surgery, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Vassilios
V
Tzilalis
Nikolaos
N
Panagiotopoulos
George
G
Papatheodorou
Efstathios
E
Rallis
Dimitrios
D
Kassimos
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011928:Raynaud Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000379:methods; D012907:Smoking; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use
D014665:Vasodilator Agents