Background: Interpreting the electrocardiography (ECG) recording in young athletes is challenging for sports doctor. Changes intraventricular conduction and early ventricular repolarization observed during training are not always confirmed literature. We test healthy people look irregularities their ECG records. The study aims to draw attention ST-Elevation (STE) as a variant of White Athlete's...

OBJECTIVE To determine the distribution of serum lipids in children and adolescents of Florianopolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. To determine the association between undesirable levels for total cholesterol (>170 mg/dL) and others coronary heart disease risks factors. METHODS A questionnaire, physical examination and blood analyses were collected from randomized sample from school kids age...

We evaluated the topographic distributions of regional cerebral blood flow in 51 normal subjects (mean age 41 years) by the xenon-133 inhalation technique. Forty-five of these subjects were divided by age into young normals less than 30 years old (mean age 24 years), middle-aged normals 30-50 years old (mean age 40 years), and elderly normals greater than 50 years old (mean age 62 years); there...

Previous narrative research by TANESA found rural primary school students in Mwanza Region to be sexually active from the age of 12 years. The Regional Education Office established a program to protect primary school girls from sexual abuse following 1995-96 reports to the rural School AIDS Committees (SACs) that female students were being sexually harassed and abused by primary school teacher...

conclusions based on our study, the prevalence of myopia is more than other types of refractive error, which is similar to that reported in previous studies on other school-age populations in some asian countries. the high prevalence of refractive error among school-age children indicated that untreated refractive error is one of the most common public health problems. patients and methods in t...

introduction: in order to make a dimensional proportion between human and equipment or environment, anthropometric data bank is essential. anthropometry has an important role in industrial management and ergonomic design. this information is needed to be collected regularly in every society. the purpose of this study was to determine arm length to height ratio according to gender in adults, bet...

parathyroid hormone (pth) is the major factor of calcium homeostasis. this hormone increases calcium uptake in intestines through stimulation of the active formation of vitamin d and eventually increases bone density. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of one session of resistance and endurance activity on pth and alp in untrained young girls (mean age 21.9±1.23 yrs, height 161...