OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to highlight the clinical association of baseline levels of conjugated dienes in low-density lipoprotein (LDL-BCD) and nitric oxide (NO) with immunoglobulins (Igs) and T helper (Th)1/Th2 ratio in patients with newly diagnosed B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-two newly diagnosed patients with aggressive B-cell NHL and 25 age-, s...

To examine the distribution and cardiovascular risk correlates of serum triglycerides, a cross-sectional population study based on annual health examinations at the workplace was performed in 2199 young Japanese adults aged 23 to 37 years. Triglyceride levels showed significant sex (male > female) differences, and the percentages of those with high triglycerides (> or = 150 mg/dl) were 9.4% for...

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...

OBJECTIVE To determine in children the association between waist circumference (WC) and insulin resistance determined by homeostasis modeling (HOMA-IR) and proinsulinemia and components of the metabolic syndrome, including lipid profile and blood pressure (BP). METHODS Eighty-four students (40 boys) aged 6 to 13 years and matched for sex and age underwent anthropometric measurements; 40 were ...

[1] The generation of a posteriori distribution of a statistic of propagation loss conditioned on observed radar sea clutter is described. The statistic u is the 20th percentile level of the two-way propagation loss at a 5-m height over the 10–60 km range interval. A discrete implementation of the Bayesian paradigm is employed. The forward mapping from the space of environmental parameters into...

BACKGROUND We introduce a new criterion, the percentile inclusion probability, for comparing methods for calculating reference intervals. The criterion is compared with a previously published measure of reliability suggested by Linnet (Linnet K. Clin Chem 1987;33:381-6), the ratio of the width of the confidence interval for the percentile to that of the reference interval. METHODS Data were s...

There are conflicting data about the ability of peer review percentile rankings to predict grant productivity, as measured through publications and citations. To understand the nature of these apparent conflicting findings, we analyzed bibliometric outcomes of 6873 de novo cardiovascular R01 grants funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) between 1980 and 2011. Our outcom...

OBJECTIVE To determine the percentiles of weight for age in cerebral palsy according to gender and Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level and to identify weights associated with negative health outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study consists of a total of 102 163 measurements of weight from 25 545 children with cerebral palsy who were clients of the California Department ...

In the context of long memory, the finite-sample distorsion of statistic distributions is so large, that bootstrap confidence intervals (percentile and percentile-t) for the long memory parameter do not perform better than the corresponding asymptotic confidence interval. In this paper, we propose confidence intervals based on inverting bootstrap tests proposed by Davidson and MacKinnon [2001] ...

Context: There has been an increasing interest in epidemiological and clinical studies concerning the role of uric acid cardiometabolic diseases, especially children adolescents. However, these potential relationships remain undiscovered; accordingly, its pathophysiological mechanisms unrecognized. This study aimed to assess association between Serum Uric Acid (SUA) levels risk factors a popula...