Much has been written by physicians about patients referred to them because of the discovery of a systolic murmur. Inevitably such consultant physicians have scant opportunity to judge the incidence, character, and significance of murmurs among apparently healthy people. Freeman and Levine (1933) described the systolic murmurs that they had found in a group they had examined of a thousand perso...

BACKGROUND The impact of body mass index (BMI) on the prognosis of patients with colorectal cancer remains largely unknown, particularly in Asian populations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the influence of BMI on clinicopathological characteristics and mortality of Chinese colorectal cancer patients. METHODS The study cohort consisted of 525 patients who were diagnosed with ...

BACKGROUND Bariatric surgery is a complex procedure not exempt of complications. AIM To assess mortality and complications of excisional gastric bypass among morbidly obese subjects. MATERIAL AND METHODS Prospective analysis of 684 morbid obese patients (age range 14-70 years, 525 females) subjected to an excisional gastric bypass. Major postoperative complications and mortality were regist...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth curve 525 monthly body weight data 19 males (n=313) and 8 females (n=212) swamp buffaloes (Bubalus b. carabanensis), from birth slaughter age (25 months). nonlinear models used were: logistic, Gompertz, Von Bertalanffy Brody. parameters were estimated by NLIN procedure, criteria adjustment given Akaike’s information criterion (AIC), Bayesia...

to investigate the appropriate distribution of nitrogen fertilizer application and optimum amount of phosphorus fertilizer to achieve high quality and quantitative yield in edible and seed potato (solanum tuberosum l.) tubers, this experiment was conducted in research farm of the college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran in 2012. the experiment was performed a strip spl...