Objective: This cross-sectional study investigated the association among resilience, self-efficacy and motivation in 135 dancers from Theatre Guaíra School of Dance (21,5% men, 26,6±14,3; 78,5% women 17,3 ± 9,7 years old). Methods: The instruments used included Resilience Scale (RS), General Self-Efficacy (GSE), Sport Motivation II (SMS-II). Data analysis was carried out by using Pearson Correl...

CONTEXT Somatoform disorders are an important determinant of medical care utilization, but their independent effect on utilization is difficult to determine because somatizing patients frequently have psychiatric and medical comorbidity. OBJECTIVES To assess the extent of the overlap of somatization with other psychiatric disorders; to compare the medical utilization of somatizing and nonsoma...

Paternal half-sibling Rambouillet ram lambs (n = 18) representing two muscle phenotypes were slaughtered at 54.5 kg to evaluate the effect of the callipyge gene on muscle mass. Lambs were produced from a sire that was heterozygous for the callipyge gene. Nineteen muscles were dissected from the right side of each carcass to evaluate muscle weights relative to carcass weight. Excised muscle mass...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the changes in apolipoproteins, glycemic status, and body composition after 3 months using a culturally sensitive diabetes education program, En Balance, in diabetic Hispanics. METHODS Thirty-four (9 males, 25 females) Hispanic diabetics participated in the En Balance program over three months. Body composition was determined by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), f...

BACKGROUND Hospitalists' increased role in perioperative medicine allows for examination of their effects on surgical patients. This study examined the effects of a hospitalist service created to medically manage elderly patients with hip fracture. METHODS During a 2-year historical cohort study of 466 patients 65 years or older admitted for surgical repair of hip fracture, we examined outcom...

BACKGROUND The literature on upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) has been limited to small, single center studies. A large series of patients treated with radical nephroureterectomy for UTUC were studied, and variables associated with poor prognosis were identified. METHODS Data on 1363 patients treated with radical nephroureterectomy at 12 academic centers were collected. All pathologic ...

The main risk factor in the study for general language problems was a family history of language problems, p< .001. However, being male, p= .004, and being shy, p= .001, were the main risk factors for specific delays in speech. The other important risk factors were health problems in early childhood, especially recurrent otitis, p= .012, having a mother with a low educational level, p= .003, an...