INTRODUCTION Recommendations of adequate total water intake (aTWI) have been proposed by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM)of the United States of America. However, there are differences in the approach used to support them: IOM recommendation is based on average intakes observed in NHANES III (Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) and E...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) modify the relationship between gestational weight gain (GWG) and child birth weight (specifically, presence or absence of low birth weight (LBW) or presence of absence of macrosomia), and estimates of the relative risk of macrosomia and LBW based on pre-pregnancy BMI were controlled in Wuhan, China. METHODS From June 30, 2011 to...

BACKGROUND The adverse effects of alcohol on the developing human represent a spectrum of structural anomalies and behavioral and neurocognitive disabilities, most accurately termed fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The first descriptions in the modern medical literature of a distinctly recognizable pattern of malformations associated with maternal alcohol abuse were reported in 1968 and...

Abstract Background Recent reports show that the pre-operative or post-operative skeletal mass index (sarcopenia) affects survival rates for various cancers; however, link between prostate cancer and sarcopenia is unclear. Therefore, this study examined effect of internal obturator muscle (IOM) on biochemical recurrence (BCR) (PCa) patients who underwent radical prostatectomy. Methods In total,...

ABSTRACT The D/H ratio is a clue to the origin and evolution of hydrogen-bearing chemical species in Solar system materials. has been observed coma many comets, but most such measurements have for gaseous water. We present first situ ratios organic refractory component cometary dust particles collected at very low impact speeds comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter 67P) by COSIMA instrumen...

The current air cargo loading plan handles the Air Cargo Palletization Problem (ACPP) and Aircraft Weight Balance (WBP) separately, which has an impact on optimization of payload aircraft’s center gravity (CG). Thanks to improvements in computer processing power, joint combinatorial ACPP WBP is now feasible. Three integer linear programming models are proposed: a Bi-objective Optimization Model...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study is to review the set of criteria of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for priority-setting in research with addition of new criteria if necessary, and to develop and evaluate the reliability and validity of the final priority score. METHODS Based on the evaluation of 199 research topics, forty-five experts identified additional criteria for priority-setti...

This white paper focuses on the feasibility of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recommendation to support a national cardiac arrest registry. A functional national cardiac arrest registry provides necessary research data to EMS and hospitals for improving cardiac arrest survival rates. This white paper contends the IOM recommendation falls short in considering the issues needed to ensure the s...

OBJECTIVE To verify whether body mass index (BMI) classification proposed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is valid in Japanese women. METHOD A study was conducted in 97,157 women with singleton pregnancies registered in the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) Successive Pregnancy Birth Registry System between January 2013 and December 2013, to examine pregnancy outcomes in fo...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of body mass index (BMI) or pregnancy weight gain on the presence, site, and severity of genital tract trauma at childbirth in nulliparous women. METHODS The present study is a subanalysis of a prospective cohort of healthy nulliparous women recruited during pregnancy and followed through birth. Weight gain during pregnancy and ...