The demographic landscape of the United States is undergoing a transformative shift. As a nation, we are becoming older (Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for Health Statistics [CDC] 2009; Goulding et al. 2003), less active (Pleis and Lucas 2009), and more overweight/obese (CDC 2010). For example, the proportion of the population aged 65 years or older is projected to i...

Shandong is a large province in northeastern China with a population of over 80 million. There are over 800,000 births annually with newborn screening testing currently being performed in 15 laboratories in city maternity and child health care hospitals. Since 1996, the number of newborns screened has steadily increased until the number screened annually now exceeds 600,000 (over 70%). During t...

Background The National Indonesian Growth Chart (NIGC) is a new growth chart based on population data. To date, the CDC 2000 or WHO 2007 charts have been widely used in Indonesia to assess of 5-to-18-year-old children. Use these reference may lead inaccurate conclusions about children’s nutritional status, particularly when diagnosing short stature obesity. 
 Objective compare assessments ...

AIMS This study evaluated the agreement of growth charts proposed by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/1977), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/2000) and World Health Organization (WHO/2006). METHODS Were assessed children between 0 and 5 years old, hospitalized in the pediatric wards of a Brazilian school hospital. Z-score indexes: stature/age (S/A), weight/age (W...

The clinical significance of positive B-cell complement-dependent cytotoxicity crossmatching (B-CDC) in renal transplant recipients remains unclear. We reviewed 20 recipients with isolated B-CDC positivity at the time of transplantation. We compared the clinical characteristics, acute rejection and long-term graft survival between positive and negative B-CDC patients (n = 602). The number of re...

The capacity of haploid a yeast cells to mate (fuse with a haploid strain of alpha mating type followed by nuclear fusion to produce a diploid cell) was assessed for a variety of temperature-sensitive cell division cycle (cdc) mutants at the permissive and restrictive temperatures. Asynchronous populations of some mutants do not mate at the restrictive temperature, and these mutants define gene...

Control and Prevention (CDC). The results and views expressed are the independent products of university research in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Public Health and Child Health Specialty Clinics and do no necessarily represent the views of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the CDC or the University of Iowa. Executive Summary This report presents information about the health ins...

Rho-type GTPases are key regulators that control eukaryotic cell polarity, but their role in fungal morphogenesis is only beginning to emerge. In this study, we investigate the role of the CDC-42 - RAC - CDC-24 module in Neurospora crassa. rac and cdc-42 deletion mutants are viable, but generate highly compact colonies with severe morphological defects. Double mutants carrying conditional and l...