BACKGROUND
Buschke sclerodema is a very rare disease. Our objective was to show that persistent scleredema is frequent in certain group of patients at risk.
METHODS
We studied 49 patients, diagnosed between 1995 and 1999 in dermatology, pneumology and endocrinology departments in Martinique.
Lipid, protein and carbohydrate metabolism was studied in patients with alimentary obesity as was the effect on that metabolism of the diets containing horseflesh and beef. The majority of the obese patients showed an increased content of all lipid fractions (phospholipids, cholesterol, free fatty