AIMS To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of a gestational diabetes (GDM) recall register on the long-term screening uptake postpartum and to evaluate the prevalence of prediabetes postpartum. METHODS Evaluation of a GDM recall register implemented in 66 obstetrical centers in the northern part of Belgium from 2009 to 2016. Registrants receive yearly reminders to have a fasting plasma glu...

12 month photoperiod cycle, normal yearly cycles compressed into 9 and 6 months, and a constant 12 hour light/12 hour dark regime and the effects of these experimental photoperiod regimes on the times of spawning of both male and female rainbow trout. Spawning was advanced by 6 weeks under the 9 months photoperiod regime, and by 12 weeks under the 6 month regime in comparison with the normal cy...

Herpes infections are among the most common sexually transmitted diseases and are the most common cause of genital ulcer disease in the United States. This study addresses the changing distribution of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 in patients presenting for evaluation of herpetic infections. Viral culture results from the University of Kentucky Clinical Microbiology Laboratory w...

BACKGROUND The outcome of aortic regurgitation conservatively followed in clinical practice is poorly defined. METHODS AND RESULTS Long-term outcome of 246 patients with severe or moderately severe aortic regurgitation diagnosed by color Doppler echocardiography was analyzed. With conservative management, mortality rate was higher than expected (at 10 years, 34+/-5%, P<0. 001) and morbidity w...

BACKGROUND Overt diabetic nephropathy is accompanied by a progressive decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR). In this study we have investigated if a reduction of GFR already during the transition from normo- to microalbuminuria is associated with glomerular structural changes. METHODS Seventeen adolescents (11 girls/6 boys) with 10.5 (3.3) (mean, SD) years of IDDM were studied. GFR was ...

In order to study the effect of irrigation interval, N fertilizer and superabsorbent on yield and qualitative traits of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.), a split-split-plot experiment was coducted in a farm in Khusf of Birjand, Iran in 2009 on the basis of a Randomized Complete Block Design. The main plot was devoted to irrigation interval at three levels of 6, 12 and 18 days, the sub-plot was devot...

Inter-annual crop yield variation is driven in large parts by climate variability, wherein the climate components of temperature and precipitation often play the biggest role. Nonlinear effects of temperature on yield as well as interactions among the climate variables have to be considered. Links between climate and crop yield variability have been previously studied, both globally and at regi...

BACKGROUND Influenza A virus vaccines undergo yearly reformulations due to the antigenic variability of the virus caused by antigenic drift and shift. It is critical to the vaccine manufacturing process to obtain influenza A seed virus that is antigenically identical to circulating wild type (wt) virus and grows to high titers in embryonated chicken eggs. Inactivated influenza A seasonal vaccin...