background: the study was developed in order to find a subset of potential factors, which affect birth distance pattern, regarding consideration on correlation of events of birth in a family and correlation within clusters/centers which other studies omit these correlations. methods: referring to documents that were registered for family in the health care centers on socio-economical zone, we c...

BACKGROUND The study was developed in order to find a subset of potential factors, which affect birth distance pattern, regarding consideration on correlation of events of birth in a family and correlation within clusters/centers which other studies omit these correlations. METHODS Referring to documents that were registered for family in the health care centers on socio-economical zone, we c...

The aim of this study is to determine the anogenital distance in male and female newborns in Zaria and possible causes of variation. The anogenital distance (AGD), serum testosterone and anthropometric measurements of 200 newborns was measured (100 male, 100 female). Data obtained were analysed using Student t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation as applicable. The mean total anogenital distan...

The consequences of lacking birth certificates remain largely unexplored in the economic literature. We intend to fill this knowledge gap studying the effect of lacking birth certificates on immunization of children in the Dominican Republic. This is an interesting country because a significant number of children of Haitian descent face the consequences of lacking proper documentation. We use t...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an association between distance of home address at birth from high voltage power lines and the incidence of leukaemia and other cancers in children in England and Wales. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Cancer registry and National Grid records. SUBJECTS Records of 29 081 children with cancer, including 9700 with leukaemia. Children were aged 0-14...

The anogenital distance (AGD) is the distance between the anus and the base of the penis in males and anus to fourchette (AF) distance in females and is a sexually dimorphic index that, on average, is twice as great in males as in females, so it is used as an indicator of appropiate masculine development. In this study, the anogenital distance (AGD) and anthropometric measurements such as birth...