OBJECTIVE In this study we compared fasting insulin and measures of insulin sensitivity (M) based on fasting insulin and glucose (i.e., homeostasis model assessment [HOMA], quantitative insulin sensitivity check index [QUICKI], and fasting glucose-to-insulin ratio [FGIR]) or triglycerides to the insulin clamp in a cohort of children/adolescents. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The subjects were M...

Objective. To establish the percentile charts of birth weights for gestational age and sex within the Cameroonian population. Methods. A review of medical records of infants born between January 2007 and December 2011 at the maternities of two hospitals in Cameroon, Central Africa. Multiple pregnancies, births of HIV infected women, stillbirths, and births with major fetal malformations were ex...

The modern soliton theories [DJKM, SN, SS], which were developed in ending of last century, are known as the infinite dimensional analysis and gave us fruitful and beautiful results, e.g., relations of soliton equations to universal Grassmannian manifold, Plücker embedding, infinite dimensional Lie algebra, loop algebra, representation theories, Schur functions, Young diagram, and so on. They s...

INTRODUCTION Birth weight is considered to be the best predictor of an infant's health status in the neonatal phase. In the Americas, several studies have set the foundation for determining references birth weights. In Cuba there is a report on anthropometric patterns in neonates in 1990 from a maternity ward in Havana, but there are no updated neonatal weight distribution curves by gestational...

BACKGROUND The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts included lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) parameters intended to calculate smoothed percentiles from only the 3rd to the 97th percentile. OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate different approaches to describing more extreme values of body mass index (BMI)-for-age by using simple functions of the CDC growth charts. DES...

BACKGROUND The assessment of growth is crucial in child care and reference data are central to growth monitoring. As the pattern of growth of a population changes with time it is recommended that references be updated regularly. OBJECTIVE To produce contemporary growth curves for Indian children from 5-18 years for height, weight and BMI. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Multicentric, Scho...

the aim of this paper is to project extreme precipitation events in an arid and a semiarid station. in order to project climate change based on general circulation models (gcms), we have applied lars-wg[1] downscaling tool. this stochastic weather generator down-scaled the climate of two synoptic stations using hadcm3 model and a2 emission scenario for 2040. we extracted extreme precipitation e...

BackgroundWe aimed to investigate the application of Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) percentile curves, using preoperative postoperative data patients with knee osteoarthritis undergoing total arthroplasty (TKA).MethodsWe used Longitudinal Leiden Orthopedics Outcomes Osteo-Arthritis study between 45 65 years primary TKA. KOOS scores (0-100) were obtained preoperatively 6, 12...