The practice of pediatric laboratory medicine involves unique challenges related to development, nutrition, growth and diseases during different periods of infancy, childhood and adolescence. Pediatric patients require a unique medical approach, as significant differences exist in disease frequencies, specimen collection, test performance and test interpretation. In the last two decades, clinic...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated a correlation between first-trimester size and birth weight. It is not known, however, whether low birth weight is related to first-trimester growth. We sought to determine whether the risk of low birth weight and birth weight that was low for gestational age is related to the size of the embryo or the fetus in the first trimester. METHODS From a ...

The serum concentration of lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], lipids, lipoproteins, apolipoprotein A-I, and apolipoprotein B were determined in 228 patients with cerebral infarction, composed of 87 cases of asymptomatic lacunar infarction, 99 cases of lacunar infarction, and 42 cases of atherothrombotic infarction, and in a control group of 138 healthy subjects with normal MRI. Observations were made on t...

This project examined the performance of classical and Bayesian estimators of four effect size measures for the indirect effect in a single-mediator model and a two-mediator model. Compared to the proportion and ratio mediation effect sizes, standardized mediation effect-size measures were relatively unbiased and efficient in the single-mediator model and the two-mediator model. Percentile and ...

The goal of this research is to develop and verify elicitation methods to assess counterterrorism values that could be of interest for the purpose of planning defensive strategies (but are difficult to estimate because of insufficient historical data) by combining the judgments of multiple domain experts. In particular, the project focused on producing reliable estimates from the opinions of mu...

introduction: the idea that factors during early critical periods of life affect on long term health is now a major public health concern. in this study, in addition to investigating obesity prevalence among female high school students in yazd, the relationship between obesity and birth weight was examined. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 312 female high schoo...

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by poor motor skills leading to a significant impairment in activities of daily living. Compared to typically developing children, those with DCD are less fit and physically active, and have increased body fat. This is an important consequence as both sedentary lifestyle and obesity are risk factors for ca...