This study examined the effectiveness of Ballates training (strengthening of the central core musculature by the inception of balance techniques) compared to more traditional exercise programs, such as step aerobics and walking, on balance in women aged 50- 75 years. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three supervised training groups (1 hour/day, 3 days/week, 13 weeks), Ballates (n =...

BACKGROUND Demographic, geographic, environmental and genetic factors influence lipids. In many countries, the normal lipid ranges for laboratory tests are based on references from American children and adolescents. In this work, we determined the reference intervals (RIs) for total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (nHDL-c)...

BACKGROUND Poverty and low socioeconomic status are the most important reasons of increasing the global burden of tuberculosis, not only in developing countries but also in developed countries for particular groups. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between socioeconomic factors and the number of tuberculosis patients using quantile regression for count data. METHODS Thi...

BACKGROUND Before estimating smoothed percentiles of weight-for-height and BMI-for-age to construct the WHO growth charts, WHO excluded observations that were considered to represent unhealthy weights for height. OBJECTIVE The objective was to estimate the effects of similar data trimming on empirical percentiles from the CDC growth-chart data set relative to the smoothed WHO percentiles for ...

background: prenatal care is performed in order to diagnose high risk cases. researchers have shown the significant relationship between high serum ferritin levels and preterm delivery. preterm labors are one of the major risk factors in prediction of preterm delivery. hence we performed this study in order to determine the frequency distribution of serum ferritin level and the relationship bet...

The southeastern Brazilian coast is a vulnerable region to the development of severe storms, mainly caused by passage cold fronts and extratropical cyclones. In last decades, there has been an increase in occurrence subtropical This study investigates trends climatic variations, analyzing surface meteoceanographic series at six grid points from reanalysis databases ERA-Interim ERA5 (European Ce...