OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between food intake and metabolic syndrome (MetS). DESIGN Cross-sectional design conducted from July 2006 to December 2007. SETTING Adolescents assisted by the Family Doctor Program (FDP) in Niterói, a metropolitan area in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. SUBJECTS Survey of 210 adolescents. Individuals with three or more of the following components of Me...

OBJECTIVE The beneficial effect of decompressive craniectomy in the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is controversial, but there is no debate that decompression should be performed before irreversible neurological deficit occurs. The aim of our study was to assess the value of ultra-early decompressive craniectomy in patients with severe TBI. METHODS Total of 127 patients who ...

BACKGROUND The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is consistently implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, and our own work has identified morphological anomalies in the ACC of people with this disorder. AIMS To examine whether ACC morphological anomalies are present in a group at ultra-high risk of psychosis and whether such anomalies can be used to predict the subsequent development...

To explore the practicability, feasibility and wound aesthetics of Gimmi ultra micro instrument in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. retrospective analysis clinical data 75 patients undergoing elective surgery for gallbladder stones with chronic cholecystitis, polyps cholecystitis who were admitted to Department General Surgery, Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University School Medicin...

Objectives: Modi®ed ultra®ltration increases blood pressure and cardiac index following open-heart surgery in children, but it is unclear if this is secondary to an improvement in global left ventricular function. A previous report has suggested that left ventricular systolic function as assessed in a single chord is improved by ultra®ltration (Davies MJ, Nguyen K, Gaynor JW, Elliott MJ. Modi®e...

Low-noise frequency conversion of single photons is a critical tool in establishing fibre-based quantum networks. We show that photonic crystal fibre can achieve by Bragg-scattering four-wave mixing source from an ultra-broad wavelength range engineering symmetric group velocity profile. Furthermore, we discuss how pump tuning mitigate realistic discrepancies device fabrication. This enables hi...