BACKGROUND In rural Gambians, the season of birth strongly predicts adult mortality. Those born during the harvest season have longer life spans than do those born during the hungry season, and the deaths associated with infectious diseases suggest permanent early-life influences on immunity. Thymic measurements showed significantly smaller thymuses in infants born during the hungry season than...

Angel Blanchab* & Silvia Soléc a Department of Psychology, University Lleida, Spainb Institute Biomedical Research (IRB Lleida), Spainc Nursing and Physiotherapy, Spain

New evidence for cattle husbandry practices during the earliest period of the southern Scandinavian Neolithic indicates multiple birth seasons and dairying from its start. Sequential sampling of tooth enamel carbonate carbon and oxygen isotope ratio analyses and strontium isotopic provenancing indicate more than one season of birth in locally reared cattle at the earliest Neolithic Funnel Beake...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between congenital hypothyroidism and several variables using two different adjustment methods. methods: this matched case-control study was conducted in hamadan province, the west of iran, in 2012 enrolling neonates born between 2005 and 2011 and covered by screening program for congenital hypothyroidism. the neonates with t...

The well established phenomenon 0/ seasonality 0/ birth dates (winter excess) and admission dates (summer excess) o/patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder was re-examined in a Southern A/rican study 0/ ill-patients. Monthly and seasonal analyses relpectively resulted in a May (late autumn and winter) excess o/schizophrenic male births and a March (late summer and autumn) excess among ...