OBJECTIVE The quality and radiation dose of different tube voltage sets for chest digital radiography (DR) were compared in a series of pediatric age groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-five hundred children aged 0-14 years (yr) were randomly divided into four groups according to the tube voltage protocols for chest DR: lower kilovoltage potential (kVp) (A), intermediate kVp (B), and higher k...

OBJECTIVE To investigate growth of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS) before and after initiation of treatment with methylphenidate at titrated doses (average, 14.2 mg/day) administered three times daily, 7 days/week for asymptotically equal to1 year. METHOD The heights and weights of 140 children with ADHD were measured ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Tobacco use among school children is becoming a serious problem in developing countries. The early age of initiation underscores the urgent need to intervene and protect this vulnerable group from falling prey to this addiction. The present study was thus undertaken to assess the prevalence of tobacco habits among school children, determine the age of initiation of these...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) has recently become a management option for pediatric tachycardia. We reviewed the records of a total of 100 patients (aged 10 months to 19 yr) who had undergone RFCA, from March 2000 to June 2004. Types of arrhythmia (age, acute success rate) were as follows: atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia (AVRT, 9.0+/-3.7 yr, 66/67), atrioventricular nodal reent...

UNLABELLED A better understanding of overall survival among patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) in the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is critical to inform PCa treatment decisions, especially in light of data from the Prostate Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT). We sought to describe patterns of survival for all patients with clinically localized PCa tre...

Obesity prevalence and trends of PBF related to age were defined on a sample 8100 people among whom, 4955 male (Age = 31.2 ± 10 yr) 3145 female 32.1 11.3 yr). Body structure measurements performed using standardized method multichannel bioimpedance analysis (BIA), body analyzer - InBody 720. The total was divided into two subsamples according sex, where every subsample five different groups.Th...

Limited data are available about the incidence of hypertension over the 5-yr in non-hypertensive subjects. The study subjects were 1,806 subjects enrolled in a rural area of Daegu, Korea for a cohort study from August to November 2003. Of them, 1,287 (71.3%) individuals had another examination 5 yr later. To estimate the incidence of hypertension, 730 non-hypertensive individuals (265 males; me...

We report an 18-yr-old Japanese boy with a 48,XXYY karyotype and extreme tall stature (194 cm). A GnRH test at 12.5 yr of age showed hypergonadotropism (LH, 4.2 → 72.2 mIU/mL; FSH, 28.9 → 61.7 mIU/mL), and an hCG test at 15.5 yr of age revealed a normal testosterone response (1.67 → 4.08 ng/mL). The tall stature is remarkable, because the mean adult height of Caucasian 48,XXYY patients is 181 c...

Patients with psoriasis have an increased incidence of arthritis. Information on the incidence of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is sparse. The present study covered those subjects who were entitled under the nationwide sickness insurance scheme to receive specially reimbursed medication for PsA in 5/21 central hospital districts in Finland (population basis ~ 1 million adults) in 1990. A total of 6...

Fetal exposure to synthetic glucocorticoids in sheep results in increased fetal hepatic 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11beta-HSD1) and corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG) protein levels and insulin resistance in postnatal life. The aim was to determine whether these changes persisted to adulthood and whether alterations in mediators of hepatic glucocorticoid and glucose regulati...