BACKGROUND Weight loss and increased physical fitness are established approaches to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. We studied the reduction in BMI z-score associated with improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight and obese children and adolescents treated with a combined hospital/public health nurse model. We also examined how aerobic fitness influenced the results. METHO...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term changes in bone density profile among survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. patients and methods: this was a 5 year prospective study comprised of thirty-one survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a mean age of 11.8 (4.6) years, who completed therapy at least 1 year previously (according to the all-...

OBJECTIVES To compare maternal cardiac function between pregnancies complicated by normotensive and pre-eclamptic intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). METHODS Two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography and Doppler tissue imaging (DTI) were used to examine 19 pregnant women with IUGR and 17 with pre-eclampsia complicated by IUGR at 20-38 weeks of gestation. Indices were converted into differe...

The paper discusses bankruptcy prediction model in the UK during the two last decades. My study is provided to support that the Original Altman’s Z-score (1968) might not valid to predict bankruptcy since the business environment changed a lot. However, there are many firms go to bankrupt recently and there is a need to study and improve the bankruptcy predictive ability. And the result shows t...

BACKGROUND While exercise testing is increasingly used as a prognostic indicator in cystic fibrosis (CF), it is reported to be underused in UK CF centres, particularly in children. Here, we evaluated the cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) results in children and young people with CF at CF annual review and its possible clinical value. METHOD An observational study comparing CPET results ...