BACKGROUND Although many studies have discussed health risks in neonates with a low birth weight, few studies have focused on the risks in neonates with a high birth weight. The objective of this study was to determine whether differences in the incidence of dental caries in early childhood are associated with birth weight status. METHODS A total of 117,175 children born in Okinawa Prefecture...

Purpose To explore the value of whole-lesion apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) histogram and texture analysis in predicting tumor recurrence of advanced cervical cancer treated with concurrent chemo-radiotherapy (CCRT). Methods 36 women with pathologically confirmed advanced cervical squamous carcinomas were enrolled in this prospective study. 3.0 T pelvic MR examinations including diffusi...

OBJECTIVES To (a) assess the association between dietary diversity (DD) score, socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal body mass index (BMI), and (b) the variation of the effects of DD and SES at different points of the conditional distribution of the BMI. METHODS The study used Demographic and Health Surveys round 5 data sets from Ghana, Namibia and Sao Tome and Principe. The outcome variabl...

The effects of a 24-h fast on serum lipids and lipoprotein profiles in commercial laying hens were investigated. Blood was analyzed at 34 and 46 weeks of age from Single Comb White Leghorn hens that had been either fed ad libitum or had been fasted for 24 h prior to collection. At 12 weeks, birds were divided into 16 biological isolation units, with 8 replicate units assigned to each treatment ...

BACKGROUND We present normograms for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) regression in patients with high-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) successfully treated with multiagent chemotherapy in order to predict treatment resistance. PATIENTS AND METHODS We collected data for 46 patients with high-risk GTN treated with EMA/CO (etoposide, methotrexate, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide...

The aim of the paper was to estimate histologically the effect of alcohol consumption by rats during pregnancy on the parietal cortex neurons development in their offspring. Female Wistar rats consumed a 15% solution of ethanol as a single source of drinking (3.64 ± 2.2 g/kg/day) throughout pregnancy, control rats received equivolume amounts of water. The offspring were decapitated on the 2-, 5...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to use two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound (US) during routine prenatal surveillance to develop normative estimated placental volume (EPV) growth curves. STUDY DESIGN Patients ≥ 18 years old with singleton pregnancies were prospectively followed from 11 weeks gestational age (GA) until delivery. At routine US visits, placental width, height, and thickness...

Improving the assessment and prediction of soil organic nitrogen (N) mineralization is essential: it contributes significantly to N nutrition crops remains a major economic environmental challenge. Consequently, network 137 fields was established in Brittany, France, represent wide diversity soils cultivation practices this region. The experimental design developed measure net for three consecu...

background: at the present there is no growth reference for iranian children, and cross-sectional studies indicate that iranian children grow at a lower percentile curve than western children. aim: the present longitudinal study was undertaken: 1. to establish a growth standard for iranian children and, 2. to compare their growth with western norms.   methods: weight, length, height, and head c...