background: identifying new ways to decrease adiposity have great importance for human health. we aimed to find out whether l – arginine (arg) and selenium alone or together can increase the effect of hypocaloric diet enriched in legumes (hdel) on anthropometric measures in healthy women with central obesity. methods: this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was undertaken in 84 ...

Objective. A new technique for waist narrowing by means of osteotomy and osteoclasia lower ribs followed fixation in a tightening thoracolumbar corset was proposed patented 2017. The preliminary results showed its high efficiency safety, but data on the morphological changes chest general have not yet been published. purpose this study to analyze patients after using computed tomography (CT). M...

The detection and mapping of segregating quantitative trait loci (QTL) that influence withers height, hip height, hip width, body length, chest width, chest depth, shoulder width, lumbar width, thurl width, pin bone width, rump length, cannon circumference, chest girth, abdominal width and abdominal girth at weaning was conducted on chromosomal regions of bovine chromosome one. The QTL analysis...

BACKGROUND Measurements of chest wall circumference are commonly used by physical therapists in clinical practice in order to determine chest wall mobility. However, the variability in the method for measuring this has not been reported previously among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. OBJECTIVE To analyze the reliability and accuracy of chest wall mobility measurements an...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of phthalate exposure on pregnancy duration and birth outcomes based on the Polish Mother and Child Cohort (REPRO_PL). MATERIAL AND METHODS Phthalate exposure was determined by measuring 11 phthalate metabolites (mono-ethyl phthalate (MEP), mono-iso-butyl phthalate (MiBP), mono-n-butyl phthalate (MnBP), 3OH-mono-n-butyl phthala...

Ligand-dependent nuclear receptor compressor-like (LCORL) encodes a transcription factor, and its polymorphisms are associated with measures of skeletal frame size and adult height in several species. Recently, the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) BIEC2-808543 located upstream of LCORL was identified as a genetic diagnostic marker associated with withers height in Thoroughbreds. In this stu...

BACKGROUND Head and neck injury is relatively common in Rugby Union. Despite this, strength and range-of-motion characteristics of the cervical spine are poorly characterised. The aim of this study was to provide data on the strength and range-of-motion of the cervical spine of professional rugby players to guide clinical rehabilitation. METHODS A cohort study was performed evaluating 27 play...

We have studied the predictive Importance of neck circumference, obesity, and several radiographic pharyngeal dimensions for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), In 66 patients. OSA was quantified as the mean hourly number of >4% dips in arterial oxygen saturation during sleep. Neck circumference (correlation coefficient (r)=0.63, 95% confidence Interval (C.I.) 0.4~.76), obesity Index (r=0.54, 95% C...

Methods Seventy-one singleton infants born at term were classified by birth weight as AGA (10th-90th percentile; n=42) and as LGA (>90th percentile; n=29). Post-natal follow-up until age 1 year was performed with clinical assessments at 3, 6, and 12 months. Assessments included measurement of infants’ weight, length, ponderal index, BMI, as well as head, chest, and abdominal circumference. A su...

Inverse associations between size at birth and blood pressure (BP) in later life are commonly statistically significant only after adjustment for current size, consistent with change in size as the determinant. Few studies have been prospective or have included a range of potential confounders. Using regression models, including maternal and demographic variables, we examined associations betwe...