There is evidence that increased frequency of chromosomal aberration (CA) in peripheral blood lymphocytes is a predictor of cancer, but further data are needed to better characterize CA as marker of cancer risk. From the archives of 15 laboratories we gathered cytogenetic records of 11,834 subjects who were free of cancer at the moment of blood drawing and who underwent cytogenetic examination ...

abstract:introduction: racial and environmental differences in communities leading cause of differences in serum lipids. it can be said this study aimed in assessing percentile curves of serum lipid profile about 6-18 years old students of birjand.method: the present cross-sectional study was done on 4168 students of birjand aged 6-18 years. they were classified into three age groups 6-10 and 1...

Introduction: The idea that factors during early critical periods of life affect on long term health is now a major public health concern. In this study, in addition to investigating obesity prevalence among female high school students in Yazd, the relationship between obesity and birth weight was examined. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted on 312 female high scho...

Automatic white balancing works quite well on average, but seriously fails some of the time. These failures lead to completely unacceptable images. Can the number, or severity, of these failures be reduced, perhaps at the expense of slightly poorer white balancing on average, with the overall goal being to increase the overall acceptability of a collection of images? Since the main source of er...

Objective Hematoma expansion (HE) is commonly analyzed as a dichotomous outcome in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) trials. In this proof-of-concept study, we propose an HE shift analysis model method to improve the evaluation of candidate ICH therapies. Methods Using data from Antihypertensive Treatment Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage II (ATACH-2) trial, performed response intensive blood pressure low...

BACKGROUND Eight decades ago, the ratio of monocytes to lymphocytes (hereafter, the "ML ratio") was noted to affect outcomes of mycobacterial infection in rabbits. Recent transcriptomic studies support a role for relative proportions of myeloid and lymphoid transcripts in tuberculosis outcomes. The ML ratio in peripheral blood is known to be governed by hematopoietic stem cells with distinct bi...

CONTEXT Lower socioeconomic status (SES) confers heightened cardiovascular risk and mortality, although the mediating pathways are unclear. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the extent to which exercise physiologic characteristics account for the association between lower SES and mortality. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective cohort study of 30 043 consecutive patients living in 7 counties in...

BACKGROUND The association between temperature and mortality has been examined mainly in North America and Europe. However, less evidence is available in developing countries, especially in Thailand. In this study, we examined the relationship between temperature and mortality in Chiang Mai city, Thailand, during 1999-2008. METHOD A time series model was used to examine the effects of tempera...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between health-related quality of life and body mass index (BMI) in preadolescent school-aged children and to provide the possible risk factors among participant characteristics, BMI status, and health-related quality of life. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional analysis of 371 (50% female; 32% minority) children from a community-based sampl...