OBJECTIVE To compare associations of maternal glucose and A1C with adverse outcomes in the multinational Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study and determine, based on those comparisons, if A1C measurement can provide an alternative to an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in pregnant women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Eligible pregnant women underwent a 75-g OGTT at 24-32 w...

BACKGROUND Whilst there seem to be available data on blood pressure profiles of South African children, especially in urban areas, few data exist on rural children. The aims of this study were to determine the blood pressure profiles of rural South African children residing in Thohoyandou; and to examine the relationship between body mass index and blood pressure among the children. METHODS T...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE ADC as a marker of tumor cellularity has been promising for evaluating the response to therapy in patients with glioblastoma but does not successfully stratify patients according to outcomes, especially in the upfront setting. Here we investigate whether restriction spectrum imaging, an advanced diffusion imaging model, performed after an operation but before radiation th...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a risk factor for end-stage renal disease. Renal hyperfiltration, defined as an abnormally high glomerular filtration rate (GFR), is a link in the causal chain between diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Whether obesity is associated with hyperfiltration in the non-diabetic general population, remains unresolved due to a lack of consensus regarding the definition of hyper...

Background: Umbilical coiling index (UCI) is the number of coils in cord divided by cordlength centimeters. .On basis UCI umbilical cords have been grouped as: hypocoiled,( UCILess than 10th percentile ) normocoiled ( between 10th–90th percentile) and hypercoiled (UCIMore 90th percentile). Various reports shown that abnormal associated withadverse perinatal outcomes.There a wide variations amon...

Background: The children’s body composition status is an important indicator of health condition evaluated through their body mass index (BMI). We aimed to provide standardized percentile curves of BMI in a population of Iranian children and adolescents. We assessed the nationally representative of sample populations from Tehran. Materials and Methods: A total sample of 14,865 children aged 7-1...

BACKGROUND The diagnosis of hypertension in children is complex because based on normative values by sex, age and height, and these values vary depending on the environment. Available BP references used, because of the absence of local data, do not correspond to our pediatric population. Accordingly, our study aimed to provide the BP threshold for children and adolescents in Lubumbashi (DRC) an...

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 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...