A recent decision by several Australian State politicians to support a parliamentary review of artificial water fluoridation has an intensified debate on the public health intervention. While there is a majority agreement among Australian dentists and other health professionals that adequate enamel fluoride is essential for dental health, the ethics of artificial fluoridation of public water su...

for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to measure high-priority health-risk behaviors among adolescents at the national, state and local levels.6 We address three questions in this article: What were the trends in sexual behavior among U.S. high school students during the early 1990s? How does sexual behavior vary by race and ethnicity, and how have these differences changed over time? And fi...

INTRODUCTION The Third National Health and Morbidity Survey Malaysia 2006 includes a nutritional status assessment of children. This study aimed to assess the inter- and intra-examiner reliability, the technical error of measurement and the validity of instruments for measuring weight, height and waist circumference. METHODS A convenience sample of 130 adults working in a selected office sett...

There are few historical data on final or adult heights after the completion of long-term growth hormone (GH) therapy in children with GH deficiency (GHD). Adult height has been defined as that achieved at chronologic ages ranging from 18 to 30 years, at bone ages >/=13 years (girls) and >/=15 years (boys), at growth velocities </=1 to 2 cm per 6 to 12 months, at the "cessation of growth," at "...

BACKGROUND Estimation of the nares-to-epiglottis and nares-to-vocal cords distances would facilitate the selection of properly sized nasopharyngeal airways and appropriate positioning of a fibreoptic bronchoscope in young children. The purposes of this study were to measure the nares-to-epiglottis and nares-to-vocal cords distances and to create an algorithm to predict these distances based on ...

BACKGROUND Assessment of pubertal stages should be related to updated and reliable referance data from the same background population. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to provide normative data for the onset and tempo of puberty in Turkish girls and analyze the growth parameters in puberty. METHODS The analyses are based on data that were collected and evaluated biannually on 1020 Turkis...

Received 24 February 1995 Revised version accepted for publication 25 May 1995 Abstract This report describes a 12 year 10 month old girl with short stature and a non-mosaic 46,X,Xp + karyotype. Her height remained below -2 SD of the mean, and her predicted adult height (143 cm) was below her target height (155.5 cm) and target range (147-5 cm-163-5 cm). Cytogenetic and molecular studies showed...

A prospective study was carried out to establish normative data for splenic dimensions in North Indian population and their correlation with physical standard on abdominal CT of 21 patients aged between 20 and 70 years having no splenic disorders. Splenic volume was measured by two methods-volume and surface rendering technique of Able 3D doctor software and prolate ellipsoid formula. Volumes m...