The immunoreactivity of various LH and FSH calibration standards and recombinant preparations in the enzyme-linked immunoassay (EIA) systems for gonadotrophins developed for the Special Programme of Research in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization (WHO) were compared. The preparations tested included three LH and two FSH pituitary standards (calibrated against LH 80/552 and 68/40...

325 female students of zahedan at the average age of 16.2 years old (16-22) were randomly selected to study the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia. hb, hematocrit, mcv, mchc, iron, tibc and ferritin were measured. results showed that in the population studied 3.4%, 27.7%, 4.3%, 11.7%, 25.5%, 11.4% had their hb, mcv, serum iron, tranferrin saturation, ferritin respectively below the who standa...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) recently developed growth standards to overcome the limitations of previous references. AIM The aim of this study was to compare the growth patterns of a cohort of children using the National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), and WHO 2006 references/standards, and to evaluate the implications of adopting W...

OBJECTIVES To compare the difference between the China growth reference and the WHO growth standards in assessing malnutrition of children under 5 years. SETTINGS The households selected from 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in mainland China (except Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao). PARTICIPANTS Households were selected by using a stratified, multistage probability cluster s...

outer percentiles with potential morbidity may be flawed if we use WHO standards. In a recent study from Norway and Belgium, proportions of the healthy children outside the 2 SDs of WHO standards were different than expected. Furthermore, Finnish children are 0.2 to 0.8 SD taller on average than the WHO standards. Thus, the concept of “similarity” of heights among children from different ethnic...

The Assessment of Recruit Motivation and Strength (ARMS) project evaluated whether active duty Army enlistees who exceeded weight and body-fat standards but were able to pass the ARMS physical fitness test were at elevated risk of early attrition relative to the traditional recruit population. Attrition among 1146 overweight and overbody-fat (OBF) recruits who passed ARMS was compared to 10,514...