Objective: The idea that different sports and physical training type results in different cardiac adaptations has been widely accepted. However, this remodelling process among different sport modalities is still not fully understood. Thus, the current study aims to investigate the heart morphology variation associated with a set of different modalities characterized by distinct models of prepar...

The calculation of body surface area (BSA), creatinine clearance and ideal body weight (IBW) is central to accurate dosing of many drugs, especially, but not exclusively, chemotherapy. Calculations can be time consuming and may lead to random and/or systematic errors. Computers on the other hand are ideal for carrying out repetitive calculations with consistent, reliable results. This lead to e...

Tritiated digoxin (0.5 mg) was given intravenously to five elderly men (mean age, 77 years) and nine young men (mean age, 27 years). The elderly were not in congestive heart failure. The serum creatinines of the old and young were not different. However, the creatinine clearance averaged 56 ml/min/ 1.73 m2 in the old and 122 ml/min/1.73 m2 in the young (P < 0.001). Digoxin clearance averaged 53...

A practical method was developed to assess the extent of burns suffered by elephants caught in bush fires. In developing this method, the surface areas of the different body parts of juvenile, subadult and adult elephants were first determined using standard equations, and then expressed as a percentage of the total body surface area. When viewed from a distance, the burnt proportion of all bod...

Results Hyponatremia ([Na] < 135 mmol/L) was observed in 70% of the rowers. The highest incidence amounted to 43% at day 18, when training volume was highest. [Na] decreased from 143 ± 8.7 mmol/L (baseline) to 134.5 ± 5.4 mmol/L (day 18, p< 0.01). Hyponatremia was associated with body mass gain in the preceding 24 hours (p<0.01). [Na] returned to normal values at day 28 (139.8 ± 3.9 mmol/L). Re...

Zorab, P. A., Clark, S., Harrison, A., and Seel, J. R. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 763. Hydroxyproline excretion and height velocity in adolescent boys. The height velocity of 122 boys of 11 to 17 years is compared with their urinary total hydroxyproline excretion and a close relation is shown. The importance of this is discussed in relation to undersized children and to those...

PURPOSE Somatic growth is an important indicator of health in children. Adequate organ growth is essential in growth and directly related to body growth. We consider renal length as a surrogate of organ growth in growing children. Measurement of weight, height, and many anthropometric indices, such as body surface area (BSA), body mass index (BMI), and Rohrer and Kaup indices, are used to evalu...

Seventy-seven clinically normal children with kidneys of normal size were examined sonographically. Renal parenchymal volumes were calculated and related to age, height, body weight and body surface area; growth charts were constructed. A significant correlation was found between the renal parenchymal volume and the body somatometric parameters. The present report thus provides norms for renal ...

Objective To assess the normal levels of nasal nitric oxide (NNO) and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) in healthy Chinese young people, and to determine whether the obtained values were associated with age, sex, height, weight, BMI (body mass index) or BSA (body surface area). Methods One hundred and twenty healthy people were selected from a total of 436 Chinese young people based on t...

BACKGROUND Published reference values for echocardiographic measurements of right-heart dimensions and function do not stratify for gender and body size. The aim of this study was therefore to assess the impact of gender and biometric characteristics on right-heart dimensions and function. METHODS From the echocardiography database at a tertiary care center, 1,625 subjects (mean age, 44 ± 14 ...