OBJECTIVE To determine the distribution of Thai neonatal birthweights classified in gestational age and sex to create standard intrauterine growth curves of Thai neonates. MATERIAL AND METHOD A retrospective study was performed in Thai singleton pregnant women with confirmed gestational age between 24 and 42 weeks (168-294 days), delivered at Rajavithi Hospital. Birthweights were graphed as 5...

Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. In 2020, the Society Maternal Medicine American College Obstetricians Gynecologists redefined fetal from estimated weight (EFW) less than 10th percentile to EFW or abdominal circumference (AC) percentile. our study, we seek assess rate abnormal umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry in fetuses with FGR diagnose...

OBJECTIVES To examine the distribution of total prostate-specific antigen (tPSA) and percentage of free/total PSA (%f/tPSA) values in patients undergoing prostate cancer screening in Canada. METHODS The data from 4 consecutive annual prostate cancer screening events held in Montreal, Canada were examined with respect to age, tPSA, and %f/tPSA in 3222 men. RESULTS Within the entire cohort, t...

BACKGROUND Telomere length <1st percentile-for-age in leukocyte subsets by flow cytometry with fluorescence in situ hybridization (flow FISH) is highly sensitive and specific in diagnosing patients with dyskeratosis congenita (DC), a telomere biology disorder. METHODS We evaluated the clinical utility of the high-throughput quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) relative telomere length (RTL) meas...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the perinatal outcome with the abnormal umbilical cord coiling index. STUDY DESIGN This prospective study was carried out in the department of OBG at Adichunchangiri Institute of Medical Sciences, B.G.Nagara, Mandya, Karnataka, India from January 2008 to August 2010. 200 patients who were in active labour with term gestations, irrespective of their parities, who had sin...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether contemporary solvent exposures in the vehicle collision repair industry are associated with objectively measured neuropsychological performance in collision repair workers. METHODS The RBANS battery and additional tests were administered to 47 vehicle collision repair and 51 comparison workers randomly selected from a previous questionnaire study. RESULTS Collis...

Abstract. To better understand the role of atmospheric dynamics in modulating surface concentrations fine particulate matter (PM2.5), we relate anticyclonic wave activity (AWA) metric and PM2.5 data from Interagency Monitoring Protected Visual Environment (IMPROVE) for period 1988–2014 over US. The observational results are compared with hindcast simulations past 2 decades using National Center...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to define body fat percentiles for German children and adolescents aged 3-16 years using the largest German database. METHODS The study population included 11,632 girls and 11,604 boys. Data were pooled from: i) Kiel Obesity Prevention Study (KOPS), acquisition period: 1996-2008, n = 12,237; ii) 'Better diet. More exercise. KINDERLEICHT-REGIONS', acquisitio...

We use slave voyage data from 18th century Great Britain and France to answer two questions: 1) How important was the managerial quality of owners and captains in slave trading? and 2) What explains the substantial variation in managerial quality? Utilizing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, in which we observe the performance of owners and captains in each of their voyages, we follow the...