BACKGROUND Ethnic differences in lung function (LF) are recognised in adults and children. Most prediction equations for LF are derived from whites, so non-whites are at risk of erroneous assessment. It was hypothesised that differences in chest dimensions would explain differences in LF between Asian (Indian) and white schoolchildren. AIMS To quantify the impact of chest dimensions on LF, wh...

Body conformation is the most direct production index, which can fully reflect pig growth status and closely related to critical economic traits. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on body traits in population of 1518 Duroc × (Landrace Yorkshire) commercial pigs. These included length (BL), height (BH), chest circumference (CC), abdominal (AC), waist (WC). Both m...

OBJECTIVE To see whether reduced rates of fetal growth are related to raised serum cholesterol concentrations in adult life. DESIGN Follow up study of men and women whose size at birth had been recorded. SETTING Jessop and Northern General Hospitals, Sheffield. SUBJECTS 219 men and women born in the Jessop Hospital during 1939-40. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Serum concentrations of total chol...

The donkeys, together with other labor animals (mules and hinnies) are the domestic that losing their popularity continually among rural population in Bulgaria. For last decades of donkeys Bulgaria, decreased nearly 10 times, from 328 587 donkey registered 1990 to 35 000 2013. some obvious reasons they were pushed aside, as recent times it is much easier for a smallholder farming cultivate land...

Anthropometry is essential to understand the predisposition of an athlete practice a specific sporting activity, assess their fitness, and in association with functional parameters, identify any correlations between anthropometric profile sport performance. Here, we present profiles athletes Italian national teams, who represented Italy 2019-2020 competitive season following sports: artistic (n...

Background: Biplot simulation using factor analysis with Promax kappa rotation of 90 is used to determine the coordinates length and body circumference dimensions male female mud buffalo in two-dimensional space. So that it can be known which have fast, medium, slow growth rates, also find out at what age rate fast or slow. Methods: This study 3 buffaloes aged 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 months, so ...

OBJECTIVE The present study was conducted to evaluate physical growth and nutritional status of 214 school-going girls ranging in age from 5 to 12 years of rural area in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttaranchal. METHODS Physical growth was evaluated using eleven standard anthropometric measurements viz., height, body weight, sitting height, biepicondylar humerus, bicondylar femur, head circumfer...

Twenty-two measurements were obtained in 1994-1995 from 117 female and 130 male infants aged 1 to 7 living in the central region of Tokyo. The results are summarized as follows: 1) Differences between standing stature and laid-down body length: On the average, the latter was 1.6 cm larger in girls and 1.9 cm larger in boys than the former. But the difference decreased with age until 4 years old...

Physical Fitness Index (PFI), of fifty Residential (Sainik) School children (Mean +/- SD, 13.18 +/- 0.48 yrs) and forty four Non-Residential school children (Mean +/- SD, 13.15 +/- 0.66 yrs) of Bijapur, Karnataka, was assessed by Harvard Step Test. Their height (cm), weight (kg), chest circumference (cm), and mid arm circumference (cm) were recorded as physical anthropometry. Body Mass Index (B...

OBJECTIVE To find the association of maternal energy and protein intake with preterm birth. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Two hospitals at Lucknow in Northern India. PARTICIPANTS Cases (n=350) were defined as mothers (age 18-40 y) of singleton live preterm (<37 wks) neonates. Controls (n=350) were mothers who delivered a singleton neonate, consecutive to enrolled case, after completi...