AIM To determine whether poor uterine growth may be associated with increased blood pressure and subsequent hypertension in adulthood. METHODS A retrospective cohort study of 756 schoolchildren (mean age 6.5 years) was carried out in six low income areas in Harare city, Zimbabwe. Indices of intrauterine growth and blood pressure were assessed. RESULTS Adjusted for current weight, the childr...

The Multi-Dimensional Blood Phobia Inventory (MBPI; Wenzel & Holt, 2003) is the only instrument available that assesses both disgust and anxiety for blood-phobic stimuli. As inflated levels of disgust propensity (i.e., tendency to experience disgust more readily) are often observed in blood phobia, the MBPI appears a promising instrument for disgust research. First, we examined its psychometric...

Present study was conducted with the objectives of determining the renal vascular resistance in dogs with diabetes mellitus and to study the correlation between the indices of renovascular resistance with glycemic status, systolic blood pressure (SBP) and proteinuria in dogs with diabetes mellitus. This study was conducted on seventeen diabetic dogs and ten apparently healthy dogs. Increa...

Materials and methods: Couples who intend to marry have to undergo these tests as part of a compulsory countrywide program. In this study, the red blood cell (RBC) indices among the study population were measured with an electronic cell counter (Sysmex K800). Th e survey involved the measurement of 2 RBC indices, mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH), and the resul...

OBJECTIVE To assess the acute effects of blood transfusion on insulin sensitivity and pancreatic β-cell function in thalassemia patients. METHODS Fifty children and adolescents with β-thalassemia/HbE disease were enrolled in a prospective cohort study. Hemoglobin, serum ferritin and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) were performed prior to, and one week after blood transfusion. Insulin sensi...

Context: Previous studies correlating electrolytes levels with heart rate variability (HRV) were conducted exclusively in diseased patients and fail to demonstrate significant correlations, except for a few. Whether absence of significant correlations is physiological or hidden by the associated pathologies is uncertain. Aim: To evaluate the effects of electrolytes concentrations on heart rate ...

I t is well known that there is a greater prevalence of hypertension in obese than among normal weight subjects. However, not every obese individual is hypertensive, indicating that obesity is a heterogeneous condition. Although excess fatness may contribute to high blood pressure (BP) in obese patients, the best indices of adiposity which relate to BP are still unclear. Kotchen and colleagues ...

The blood of 104 medical inpatients was examined at various intervals during storage for 72 hours using a Coulter S counter. Over this period remarkable stability of the white cell count, red cell count, haemoglobin, and mean cell haemoglobin was demonstrated. This permits a useful interpretation of indices obtained in routine postal samples sent to the laboratory by general practitioners for s...

A recently developed method for the detection of phase synchronization between several oscillatory processes from one-dimensional signals has been extended to allow estimation of synchronization indices. It has been applied to blood pressure signals from freely moving rats. Each rat underwent four stages: 1) healthy; 2) healthy but challenged by beta-blockers; 3) with stress-induced myocardial ...

BACKGROUND We investigated whether intermittent blood and crystalloid cardioplegia differentially affect myocardial apoptosis and apoptosis gene-related proteins. METHODS AND RESULTS Rabbit hearts were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit buffer on a Langendorff apparatus. Control hearts (n=6) were perfused for 120 minutes without cardioplegic ischemia. Hearts were arrested for 60 minutes with warm ...