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...

Abstract In July 2011, the Pakistani public learnt that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had used a vaccination campaign as cover to capture Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban leveraged on this information and launched an anti-vaccine propaganda discredit vaccines workers. We evaluate effects of these events immunization by implementing difference-in-differences strategy across cohorts districts. fi...

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS 1958 further infant died later from pneumonia; there was no autopsy. Of the fourteen surviving children, twelve have been followed up for periods of 1-4 years. All twelve are free from symptoms and have apparently recovered completely. Two are still below the third percentile of weight for their age, three are in the 10th percentile, three in the zgth, and four in the 50th...

Dear Editor,In spite of recent advances in treatment of infection and emphasis on adequate nutritional intake, patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) frequently have less than ideal body weight and adults are often shorter than their target height.1Owing to a state of relative growth hormone (GH) insensitivity, the anabolic and growth promoting effects of recombinant human GH (rhGH) treatment have ...

The patient had frontal bossing, micrognathia, depressed nasal bridge, high‐arched palate, multiple impacted supernumerary teeth [Figure 1], barrel‐shaped chest, cup‐shaped distal phalanges and down‐curving nails. Mouth opening was adequate but Mallampati airway grade (MP) was indeterminate. Height (135 cm) was less than 3rd percentile and weight (30 kg) was 10th percentile for her age. She had...

BACKGROUND Symphysis-fundus measurement is used in pregnancy care to detect poor fetal growth. Symphysis-fundus measurement curves (percentile curves) and prediction of fetuses with a birth weight below the10th percentile have been published previously. The percentile curves show the distribution of symphysis-fundus measurements in the reference population and are recommended as the national st...

The objective is to explore the value of preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) histogram analyses in predicting microvascular invasion (MVI) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).Fifty-one patients with histologically confirmed HCC who underwent diffusion-weighted and contrast-enhanced MR imaging were included. Histogram analyses were performed and mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, 1th, 10th, 50th...

The empirical relationship between income and longevity has been addressed by a large number of studies, but most were confined to men. For the first time we analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non-parametric and parametric methods. We find that the relationship between earnings and life expectancy is similar for...

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...