Eastern Journal of Medicine EJM

Contents Volume 8, Number 2, Year 2003

	ORIGINAL PAPERS
o Hypertension: a social impact disease		22
Aree Kantachuvessiri
o The comparative effects of pentoxifylline and ursodeoxycholic acid on IL-1b, IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-a levels in nonalcoholic fatty liver		27
İlyas Tuncer, İsmail Uygan, Haluk Dülger, Kürşat Türkdoğan, Ramazan Şekeroğlu
o Serum zinc levels amongst tribal population in a district of Jharkhand state, India: a pilot study		33
Umesh Kapil, Preeti Singh, Priyali Pathak
o Hypoglycemic and hepatoprotective effects of foeniculum vulgare miller seed fixed oil extract in mice		35
Hanefi Özbek, Mustafa Öztürk, İrfan Bayram, Serdar Uğraş, Gülçin Saltan Çitoğlu

	CASE REPORTS
o A rare cause of intestinal obstruction: ileosigmoid knot		41
Nazım Ağaoğlu
o Breast hamartoma: Radiologic appearances		43
Mustafa Harman, Özkan Ünal, Serdar Uğraş, Ömer Etlik, Çetin Kotan

	LETTER TO THE EDITOR
o Assessment of copper status in pregnant women		46
M. Olga Loura, J. Carlos Tutor