OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and correlates of anaemia in male and female adolescents in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. DESIGN A cross-sectional community-based study. SETTING Five primary health-care centres in Riyadh. SUBJECTS We invited 203 male and 292 female adolescents aged 13-18 years for interview, anthropometric measurements and complete blood count. Blood Hb was measu...

Background: Heart rate recovery at 1st min (HRR1min) following exercise, an indicator of parasympathetic function is found to be impaired in obese children, adolescents, and elderly people. In adolescents people that HRR1min was significantly associated with females (OF) than males. This study aims establishing the gender difference among young adults (18–30 years age). Aims Objectives: conduct...

Hypercalcaemia has been known to occur in association with granulomatous diseases. The aim of this study was to ascertain the incidence of hypercalcaemia and determine the prevalence of symptoms associated with it in Greek patients with newly-diagnosed tuberculosis (TB), before the initiation of anti-tuberculosis treatment. We prospectively evaluated all patients with newly-diagnosed TB present...

Obesity is associated with lowered brain's grey (GM) and white matter (WM) density as measured by voxel-based morphometry (VBM). Nevertheless, it remains unknown whether obesity has a causal influence on cerebral atrophy. We recruited 47 morbidly obese subjects (mean BMI = 42.2, SD = 4.0, 42 females and five males) eligible for bariatric surgery and 29 non-obese subjects (mean BMI = 23.2, SD = ...

AIM Calf muscle growth in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP) and bilateral cerebral palsy (BCP) is unknown. This cross-sectional study examines the medial gastrocnemius growth rates of ambulatory children with UCP and BCP compared with children with typical development (CTD), aged 2 to 9 years. METHOD Fifty children with UCP (mean age 66mo [SD 18], 29 males, Gross Motor Function Cl...

introduction: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate anthropometric characteristics of weight, sitting & standing height, cormic index and bmi in the adult residents of qazvin, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 300 adult inhabitants aged 18-55 years (180 males and 120 females) of qazvin, iran were evaluated. the participants were selected randomly and without any physical ...

background the purpose of this study was to determine appropriate intensity of activity with fatmax during incremental exercise in the active and sedentary male participants. material and methods in this study, 11 active male students(vo2max42.87±1.75ml.kg-1.min-1,bmi 21.40±1.01 kg.m2) and 9 sedentary male students(vo2max36.57±2.95ml.kg-1.min-1, bmi 24.28±1.83kg.m2) were selected as the active ...

Objective: This study aimed to examine the prevalence of meeting 24-Hour Movement Guidelines among overweight and obese (OW/OB) children from low-income conditions compare this by gender, age, body mass index (BMI) classification. Methods: Accelerometer-based physical activity (PA), self-report sleep duration (SD), screen time (ST) were analyzed in 72 OW/OB eight 12 years old (21 girls) conditi...

BACKGROUND Few large studies in China have investigated total physical activity and sedentary leisure time and their associations with adiposity. OBJECTIVE We investigated determinants of physical activity and sedentary leisure time and their associations with adiposity in China. DESIGN A total of 466,605 generally healthy participants (age: 30-79 y, 60% female) in the China Kadoorie Bioban...

AIM We used diffusion tensor imaging to investigate the association between white-matter integrity and reading ability in a cohort of 28 children. Nineteen preterm children (14 males, five females; mean age 11 y 11 mo [SD 1 y 10 mo], mean gestational age 30.5 wks (SD 3.2), mean birthweight was 1455 g [SD 625]); and nine term children (five males, four females; mean age 12 y 8 mo [SD 2 y 5 mo], ...