Methods This is a retrospective cohort study consisting of 669 pregnant women conducted between September, 2010 and December, 2013. The outcomes of the 297 pregnant women with primary vaginal bleeding between 14th and 22nd gestational weeks were assessed. After ruling out patients without follow-up and pregnancies ending in a spontaneous abortion, we examined 232 pregnancies compared with 327 p...

Low birth weight is a prospective marker of future growth and development and a retrospective marker of mothers nutritional and health status. This study is undertaken to find out proportion of low birth weights in institutional deliveries and factors influencing birth weight of baby. To assess the socio-demographic, maternal and obstetric factors related with birth weight of newborn. Hospital ...

This study examines the application of Chi-Square test in time series data which considers mixed model structure and linear trending curve. The is applied to seasonal variances Buys-Ballot table. emphasis assess validity using empirical examples. One hundred simulated numerical examples are used illustrate applicability test. Using example, successfully recorded 100% times for model. expresses ...

Objective: to assess the lipid profile and associated factors in obese or overweight children and adolescents. Methods: cross-sectional study developed from April to November 2009 including 217 overweight children and adolescents aged from two to 18 years from the public health system of Campina Grande-PB. Nutritional status was classified according to percentile as: overweight (85 < BMI < 95),...

Entrepreneurial development is highly significant in the economic growth of a country. Not many studies were conducted on entrepreneurial motivation of physically challenged students which is the core issue researched in this paper. The study further intends to (i) weigh the significant relationship between curricula and entrepreneurial motivation, (ii) contrast the impact of the push and the p...

Objective: To compare the efficacy of Topiramate in reducing Heroin withdrawal symptoms in Iranian paients. Design: Double blind placebo-controlled trial. Place & Duration of Study: Study was conducted in Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, Mashad, Iran in a period of two years i.e., 2006-07. Subjects & Methods: The study was carried out on 149 patients with Heroin dependency (74 in Topiramate group and 75 in...

Refractive errors are a common worldwide problem. Several hypotheses explain a relationship between hypermetropia and intelligence. This study is done to study the Intelligence Quotient in school children with hypermetropia and compare that to children with normal vision. This study was done in Department of Physiology in subjects attending the Ophthalmology Out Patient Department, Department o...

AIM: To assess the prevalence of dental abrasion and its association with tooth brushing frequency among patients attending O.P.D. in H.P.Government Dental College and Hospital, Shimla. Materials and methods: The study was carried out on 100 adults (53 male and 47 female) aged 20 years and above who attended the O.P.D. in H.P.Govenment Dental College and Hospital. The assessment was done using ...

This workshop will introduce the R programming environment for statistical analysis. Contrary to SPSS which is procedure-oriented (commands are verbs, e.g. “compute”), R is object-oriented (objects are nouns, e.g. “factor”). In this workshop, we will try to ease the learning curve of using R for your data analysis. Experience with statistical software is NOT required! We will use data simulatio...