An assumption based on the Jarman-Bell principle suggests a positive relationship between body size and the digestive efficiency in animals, where smaller animals are less effective at digesting fibrous food due to shorter digesta passage. To examine the effect of body size within a species and explore a potential physiological background of ontogenetic diet shifts, we measured food intake, dig...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate an effective, community based, multiagency course (involving doctors, nurses, non-health statutory workers, and voluntary organisations) for all Leicester medical students, in response to the General Medical Council's recommendation of preparing the doctors of tomorrow to handle society's medical problems. DESIGN Survey evaluating a task oriented, problem sol...

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The most useful knowledge when attempting to prevent a chronic disease is that of the factors influencing its attack rate. A knowledge of the factors relating to mortality rates and prevalence rates is less valuable for this purpose, as both are secondary indices, mortality varying directly with attack rate and case fatality rate, and prevalence varying directly with the attack rate and indirec...

objective (s):rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder, primarily targeting the synovium and articular cartilage that leads to joint damage. recent reports have suggested the role of adipocytokines in mediating joint damage; however it still is a matter of debate. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between serum values of adiopocytokines (lept...

background: psoriasis is a disease which may have a direct impact on the psychological and social aspects of the patient, particularly due to its visibility. to date, we are unaware of any study showing a relationship between psoriasis and psychological parameters such as psychological vulnerability and coping strategies . objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of psoriasi...

objective: pulmonary air-leakage especially pneumothorax (ptx), is a severe complication in neonates. the aim of this study was to assess the predisposing factors and frequency of ptx among the low birth weight (lbw) premature infants, under mechanical ventilation. methods: this cross sectional study was performed in 121 lbw intubated premature infants at neonatal intensive care unit of a child...

introduction: chronic liver diseases consist of wide spectrum disorders that may be complicated by cirrhosis and therefore need to transplantation. the pediatric end-stage liver disease (peld) score and model of end-stage liver disease (meld) score has been used as predictors of mortality chronic liver diseases listed for liver transplantation. the aim of this study is evaluation of relation be...

aim: this study aimed to assess the relationship of screen time and metabolic syndrome (mets) among iranian adolescents. materials and methods  in this nationwide study, the propensity score (ps) was used in a matched case-control study design. the data was obtained from 5,625 students aged 10-18 years, who participated in a national school-based surveillance program. mets was defined according...

caviar is one of the valuable and most popular fish products all over the world that are obtained from sturgeons. nowadays, the wild resources of these fishes are diminished, therefore, to meet the demand for the product, farming sturgeons has been considered. the chemical composition and the amino acids profiles of the wild and farmed roe obtained from beluga (huso huso) were compared and the ...