BACKGROUND Recently, hepcidin expression in adipose tissue has been described and shown to be increased in patients with severe obesity. We tried to assess the effect of obesity on hepcidin serum levels and treatment outcome of iron deficiency anemia in children. METHODS This was a case control study included 70 children with iron deficiency anemia "IDA" (35 obese and 35 non-obese) and 30 hea...

Integrin αvβ3 is a molecular marker for the estimation of tumor angiogenesis and is an imaging target for radiolabeled Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) peptides. In this study, the authors investigated the clinical efficacy and safety of a novel radiolabeled RGD peptide, 99mTc-IDA-D-[c(RGDfK)]2, for the imaging of integrin αvβ3 expression, as a measure of tumor angiogenesis in lung cancers and brain tumors. F...

There are both quantitative and methodological techniques that foster the development and maintenance of a cumulative knowledge base within the psychological sciences. Most noteworthy of these techniques is meta-analysis, which allows for the synthesis of summary statistics drawn from multiple studies when the original data are not available. However, when the original data can be obtained from...

Iron deûciency anemia (IDA) and beta-thalassemia trait (BTT) are the common causes of microcytic hypochromic anaemia. Several discrimination indices have been introduced to discriminate quickly these similar entities via parameters obtained from automated cell counter. The purpose of the study was to compare the value of two discrimination indices, red cell distribution width index (RDWI) and r...

Parallel disks can improve I/O performance in a manner analogous to the use of parallel processors to improve computation times. However, due to their data storage function, reliability issues become very important for these parallel disk systems. Currently proposed schemes use shadowing or parity to achieve reliability in parallel disks. In this paper we introduce the idea of using the Informa...

We present AIDA*, a generic adaptable scheme for highly parallel iterative-deepening search on large-scale asynchronous MIMD systems. AIDA* is based on a data partitioning scheme, where the di erent parts of the search space are processed asynchronously in parallel. Existing sequential solution algorithms can be linked to the AIDA* routines to build a fast, highly parallel search program. Takin...

This study assessed the prevalence of, and risk factors for, iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) among participants of the fifth Korean Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2010. Of 8,958 participants, 6,758 individuals ≥10 yr had sufficient data for the analysis of anemia and iron status. ID was defined as a transferrin saturation <10% or serum ferritin <15 µg/L. The prev...

PURPOSE The increasing prevalence of breast feeding has led to concerns about vitamin D deficiency (VDD) and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in children. We evaluated the prevalence of VDD in a population of Korean children with IDA and assessed the risk factors for VDD in these children. METHODS A total of 79 children who were diagnosed with IDA were prospectively surveyed from April 2010 to Ma...

Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques with unique biological signatures are responsible for most major cardiovascular events including acute myocardial infarction and stroke. However, current clinical diagnostic approaches for atherosclerosis focus on anatomical measurements such as the degree of luminal stenosis and wall thickness. An abundance of neovessels with elevated expression of integrin α...

BACKGROUND Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) due to occult gastrointestinal (GI) blood loss usually remains unnoticed until patient become symptomatic. There is sparse data in IDA patients without gastrointestinal symptoms. This study was designed to find out the frequency and predictors of endoscopic lesions in IDA without gastrointestinal symptoms. Cross-sectional study performed on a convenience...