The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of regular exercise training on insulin sensitivity in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) using the pooled data available from randomised controlled trials. In addition, we sought to determine whether short-term periods of physical inactivity diminish the exercise-induced improvement in insulin sensitivity. Eligible trials included ex...

A study of newborn thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels was undertaken to determine whether a quantitative relationship exists between TSH values obtained between the 12th to 24th hours of life and the 48th to 72nd hours of life. The study was designed to: (a) measure TSH levels in full term newborns between the 12th - 24th hours of life, (b) measure TSH levels in the same set of newborns a...

BACKGROUND The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine the associations among psychological factors and pain reports of children and their parents over the 12 month period after pediatric surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Included in the study were 83 children aged 8-18 years undergoing major surgery. In each case, the child and one of their parents completed measures of pain intensity an...

140 hypernatermic dehydrated infants aged 2-24 months, were hospitalized during at 21 month period. they were treated with oral electrolyte solutions a and b in which the concentration of sodium and potassium was equal (50 mmol/l sodium and 30 mmol/l potassium) but he sodium bicarbonate content differed. the serum sodium concentration returned to normal 48 hours after treatment. seven cases bec...

PURPOSE To analyze the small intestinal mucosa ultrastructure, and to characterize the enterocyte lesion severity caused by mechanical intestinal obstruction combined or not with an ischemia of the mesenteric marginal vessels arch. METHODS It was used 47 Wistar rats divided into 4 groups as follows: Group 1- Control rats (C), Group 2- sham rats (S), Group 3- rats submitted to intestinal obstr...

The experiment was conducted in local field conditions of Dera Ghazi Khan during the 2021 Kharif season on three different sites. core objective this is to manage Jassid cotton crop a major pest. Five insecticides Dinotefuran, Thiamethoxam, Nitenpyram, Dimethoate and clothianidin were evaluated at recommended doses. treatments laid out randomized complete block designs with replications. Data r...

background: postoperative periorbital edema and ecchymosis are common after rhinoplasty. we studied the effect of local injection of lidocaine/adrenaline immediately before osteotomy on prevention of post-operative periorbital edema and ecchymosis in rhinoplasty. m aterials and methods: thirty healthy candidates for rhinoplasty were enrolled in the self-controlled clinical trial study. lidocain...

background: the effects of high dose steroids for the treatment of methanol optic neuropathy was evaluated in this study. methods: in an interventional case series, 9 patients with a history of sudden visual loss after an ingestion of homemade alcoholic beverages were included in the study. the patients received 250 mg intravenous methyl prednisolone every 6 hours for 4 days continued with oral...

Normal, marginal, and central ischemic regional myocardial function were evaluated in a canine model of myocardial infarction during 90 minute left circumflex coronary artery occlusion in 25 anesthetized dogs randomly assigned to intravenous ibuprofen infusion (n = 13,5.36 mg/kg/h beginning 1 hour before occlusion) or vehicle solution as control (n = 12) and in 15 conscious, unsedated dogs 48 a...