this study was conducted to determine the causes and outcomes of burn in patients referred to shahid mohammadi hospital in bandar abbass, southern iran, in which 212 burned patients were assessed from march 2007 to march 2008 .mean age of patients was 22.14 yr. heat contact was the main cause of burn with 92.5%. 49.1% of total burns occurred among less than 20 yr old people. mortality rate was ...

The purpose of the study was to assess straight sprinting, change of direction ability and horizontal jump performance in youth runners according to age and gender. Two hundred and fifty-five youth runners (116 boys and 139 girls) participated in this study. The athletes were divided according to their age into five groups: under 8 yr (U8), under 10 yr (U10), under 12 yr (U12), under 14 yr (U14...

Association of Tooth Loss with Psychosocia l Factors in Male Japanese Employees: Naoji HAYASHI, et al. Department of Preventive Dentistry, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University—It would seem that good psychosocial conditions would have a positive effect on oral health, but few data exist regarding the association of psychosocial factors with tooth loss. The association between psychoso...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of aerobic training on serum leptin levels and iron status in obese women. twenty eight obese women were volunteered and randomly divided into two groups: aerobic training (n = 14, age 37.1 ± 4.9 yr, weight 82.0 ± 10.2 kg, body mass index 34.2 ± 4.3 kg/m2 ) and controls ((n = 14, age 37.5 ± 5.3 yr, weight 79.9 ± 9.5 kg, body mass index ...

It is currently unclear whether age-specific equations should be used for assessing body composition from bioelectrical resistance. Kushner et al. (Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 56: 835-839, 1992) showed that the relationship between height2/resistance and total body water (TBW) is robust across a wide age range, although uncertainty remained over the relationship in preschool children. We therefore cross...

The growth-promoting effect of continuous GH treatment was evaluated over 5 yr in 79 children with short stature (height SD score, less than -1.88) born small for gestational age (SGA; birth length SD score, less than -1.88). Patients were randomly and blindly assigned to 1 of 2 GH dosage groups (3 vs. 6 IU/m2 body surface-day). GH deficiency was not an exclusion criterium. After 5 yr of GH tre...

BACKGROUND In children, the incidence of injection pain at i.v. anaesthetic induction with Etomidate-Lipuro is low when compared with propofol mixed with lidocaine (5%). However, the incidence of involuntary myoclonic movements (MM) after induction of anaesthesia is higher compared with propofol (85% vs. 15%). In adults, the incidence of MM is reported to be significantly reduced if a small pri...

We have investigated the effect of age on thoracic extradural dose requirements in 62 patients aged 20-79 yr. Fifteen millilitre of 2% mepivacaine was administered at a constant rate (1 ml s-1) by syringe pump through an extradural needle at the T9-10 interspace. A mean of 15.5 (SD 4.2) spinal segments were blocked 15 min after completion of the administration. The extradural dose requirement d...

The efficacy and safety of 8 yr of GH treatment was assessed in 44 Japanese children with small for gestational age (SGA) short stature who met the criteria for GH treatment initiation (height SD score (SDS) <-2.5 SD) of the Japanese guidelines. Height SDS in subjects improved throughout the study period, and average height SDS improved from -3.5 to -1.6 and from -3.4 to -1.9 in the 0.033/0.067...

Obesity has become a pandemic, with more than a billion people affected worldwide (1). Over the past 30 yr, the frequency of overweight children, defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than the 85th percentile for age and sex, has tripled (2). More than 30% of children in the United States are overweight or obese (BMI 95th percentile) (3). Data from the International Obesity Task Force indi...