Heart weight is a routine measurement during post-mortem examination. An increased heart associated with preexisting disease and sudden cardiac death. In cases where the partially fragmented, it may be hard to obtain an accurate by weighing it. If compromised/fragmented size can approximated, assessing dimensions provide estimation. This study examined 46 fresh Caucasian adult hearts found high...

conclusions the findings indicated that older women with low bmi were at higher risk of low bone mass. body weight, bmi and aging may be important predictors of bmd, but they are not the only factors affecting bone loss. therefore, it is recommended to assess other risk factors with a larger number of patients. results the mean bmd of women older than 50 years compared to those younger than 50 ...

estimating fetal weight in utero, for better management of pregnancy and appropriate timing of delivery especially in high-risk pregnancies is necessary. our purpose to evaluate a simple method in estimating fetal weight in iranian pregnant patients and also to compare was with a previous western study. this study was carried out in arash hospital, tehran university of medical sciences in 1996-...