Methods Clinical trial of a consecutive sample of 26 JIA (ILAR) patients of the Oligoarticular (46,2%), Polyarticular (23,1%) and Systemic (30,7)% subtypes, with an average 11,2±4,1 years of age. The patients participated in a standard physiotherapy program twice a week for 6 months. The Chi-square test has been used in order to evaluate the attendance to the program. The HRQL has been assessed...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study examines the independent effect of wealth, income, and education on stroke and how these disparities evolve throughout middle and old age in a representative cohort of older Americans. METHODS Stroke-free participants in the Health and Retirement Study (n=19,565) were followed for an average of 8.5 years. Total wealth, income, and education assessed at baseli...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSdParticipants underwent a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) between 24 and 32 weeks. GDM was diagnosed post hoc using International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups criteria. Neonatal anthropometrics and cord serum C-peptide were measured. Adverse pregnancy outcomes included birth weight, newborn percent body fat, and cord C-peptide .90th perce...

Introducción: El crecimiento físico, en términos de peso, altura e índice masa corporal (IMC), es un parámetro relevante que refleja el patrón y desarrollo una comunidad. Objetivo: Construir curvas referencia para la IMC niños adolescentes (2-18 años) departamento Huila, Colombia. Materiales métodos: Estudio analítico transversal realizado con datos 130 599 (varones, n=65 467; mujeres, 132) reg...

PURPOSE To determine the risk factors and clinical presentation of primary omental torsion (POT) in children. METHODS Histopathology records of a pediatric hospital from January 1993 to March 2003 were reviewed to identify cases of POT. Hospital charts of patients diagnosed with POT were reviewed for demographic data and clinical presentation. RESULTS A diagnosis of POT was recorded in 12 o...

Standard texts in neuropsychology, forensic, and educational psychology recommend the use of percentile rank scores (PRs) in reports and in oral "feedback" on the grounds that percentiles are easily understood by nonpsychologists. This study tested that assumption, testing predictions that errors would be made consistent with misunderstanding PR values as units of equal intervals. Four hypothes...

quantitative ultrasound (qus) is a noninvasive, inexpensive and portable method for bone densitometry. it may measure some other parameters in addition to bmd, like elasticity and micro architecture. this study designed to determine the relation between reproductive factors and calcaneus qus parameters in normal women of tehran. bmd of heel in 151 normal women, 20-72y/o (participator of iranian...

BMI has been recommended for evaluating overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in the clinical setting. Definitions of overweight and obesity are based on percentile cutoff points. There are both strengths and limitations of BMI for this use. The strengths include the fact that BMI is cheap and relatively easy to use. The weaknesses include the fact that BMI percentiles are not wide...