OBJECTIVE To study the relation between birth weight and systolic blood pressure in infancy and early childhood. DESIGN Longitudinal study of infants from birth to 4 years of age. SETTING A middle class community in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 476 Dutch infants born in 1980 to healthy women after uncomplicated pregnancies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Systolic blood pressure and body weight ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated a correlation between first-trimester size and birth weight. It is not known, however, whether low birth weight is related to first-trimester growth. We sought to determine whether the risk of low birth weight and birth weight that was low for gestational age is related to the size of the embryo or the fetus in the first trimester. METHODS From a ...

OBJECTIVE It is known that the measurement of splenic length in routine clinical practice is a very good indicator of actual splenic size. Knowledge of the normal range of spleen size in the population being examined is a prerequisite. Racial differences in splenic length could result in incorrect interpretation of splenic measurements. The purpose of this study was to establish the range of sp...

this research was conducted to study the length-weight and length-length relationships and condition factor of six cyprinid fish species viz. alburnus atropatena , barbus lacerta , capoeta capoeta , carrasius gibelio , romanogobio macropterus and pseudorasbora parva from zarrineh river (urmia lake basin, iran). a total of 188 specimens ranging from 2.9 to 21.4cm in total length and 0.22 to 176g...

the length-weight relationship (lwr) and condition factors (cf) of 180 the oriental river prawn macrobrachium nipponense collected from southern coasts of the caspian sea from may through september 2012 were studied. shrimp samples were taken and immediately transferred to the laboratory of fish biology at university of guilan for further analyses. length, weight and other external features of ...