Using data from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, we prospectively examined the relationships between height, body mass index, waist and hip circumferences, and risk of total and advanced (extraprostatic and metastatic) prostate cancer. In addition, we assessed adiposity during childhood, adolescence, and early, middle, and late adulthood using pictograms in relation to prostate cancer ...

BACKGROUND Hodgkin lymphoma in young adults is inexplicably linked to economic development. METHODS We conducted a nested case-control study of the 656 servicemen with Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed between ages 17 to 32 while on active duty in the U.S. military during 1950-68. Controls, chosen randomly from the servicemen on duty at the time, were matched on service, birth year, and induction da...

Breast cancer (BC), the leading cancer in women, is increasing in prevalence worldwide, concurrent with western metabolic epidemics, that is, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes, and shares major risk factors with these diseases. The corresponding potential for nutritional contributions toward BC prevention is reviewed and related to critical stages in the life cycle and their implication...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown the association of disproportionate body size measurements with noncommunicable diseases like diabetes. This concept is described in Ayurveda (1500 BC), which uses Anguli Parimana (the breadth of one's own finger as 1 unit) to measure the body proportions. Excessive tallness or shortness (deviation from the reference value of Anguli Parimana) indicated deran...

good perception of relation-sheep among plant morphological traits and resistance to fusarium head blight of wheat is quite effective to make a good success in plant breeding project. in this experiment this relation has been checked out. the morphological traits were included plant height, peduncle length and spike density. we used 28 spring wheat genotypes and 2 durum genotypes. there was sig...

The analysis of literature data allowed to highlight the importance plant Prunus spinosa L. as a valuable source material in selection stone crops and its fruits raw materials for food pharmaceutical industries. Leading scientists have obtained significant number forms varieties terrain, particular Ukraine created variety Donets’kyy krupnyy, CIS such Desertnyy, Velykoplidnyy, Sverkhobilnyy, Sla...

Predicates such as ‘to be tall’, ‘to be related to Chomsky’ or ‘to know Latin’, which intuitively denote permanent properties, are called individual-level predicates (henceforth: i-predicates); predicates such as ‘to be available’, ‘to talk to Chomsky’ or ‘to study Latin’, which denote properties not necessarily permanent, are called stage-level predicates (henceforth: s-predicates). An impress...

Anthropologists recognized the tallness of nations in the Dinaric Alps long time ago. As the modern Bosnian and Herzegovinian fall more into the Dinaric racial classification, the purpose of this study was to examine the body height in Bosnian and Herzegovinian adults as well as the relationship between arm span as an alternative to estimating the body height and body height, which vary in diff...

The etiology of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) is poorly understood. Recent epidemiological findings suggest that, TGCT risk is determined very early in life, although the available data are still conflicting. The rapid growth of the testes during puberty may be another period of vulnerability. Body size has received increasing attention as possible risk factor for TC. To clarify the relat...

the evaluation of gene bank germplasm collection for morpho-physiological traits is important in the breeding programs. although phenotypic variation was considered, it is likely that this phenotypic variation is largely genetic and therefore directly useable for breeders, especially for those traits with high heritability such as heading and maturity time, plant height, kernel number and weigh...