OBJECTIVE To assess the growth and sexual maturity of non-handicapped children with birth weight less than 2000 g at 12 years. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Infants discharged from a Neonatal Special Care Unit of a referral hospital with birth weight less than 2000 g between 1987-1989 and followed up till the age of 12 years. METHODS The height, weight and head circumference wa...

BACKGROUND The functional and quality-of-life benefits of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have not been established. PURPOSE To evaluate the changes in functional status and quality of life after TAVR. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from 1 January 2002 to 30 September 2013. STUDY SELECTION Studies of TAVR that reported th...

this research was conducted to compare fiber and follicle characteristics of chios, arkhamerino×moghani, and suffolk×moghani sheep. forty non-lactating ewes (16 heads of chios, 12 head arkhamerino×moghani, and 12 heads of suffolk×moghani) at the age of 22 months were randomly selected and kept for a period of 50 days. at the end of the experimental period, 50 grams of wool was collected from le...

PURPOSE The purpose of this survey were to assess the dental caries prevalence rate among children enrolled in Ohio's Head Start programs and assess factors relating to their dental care access. METHODS Oral screenings were conducted on 2,555 children, ages 3 through 5 years, at 50 Ohio Head Start centers using probability-proportional-to-size sampling. In addition, parental responses to 6 ac...

PURPOSE To examine variation in pediatric trauma head CT imaging protocols in Washington state. METHODS A web-based survey was sent to trauma-designated hospitals in Washington state. Respondents were queried about pediatric head trauma volumes, type of CT scanners, and technical information about the CT imaging protocols. Variation in pediatric trauma volumes, CT dose reduction strategies, a...

OBJECTIVE To identify rates of abusive head trauma and associated clinical risk factors in patients with an apparent life-threatening event (ALTE). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study of infants, 0 to 12 months, admitted for an apparent life-threatening event (ALTE; 1999-2003). Patients with abusive head trauma were identified at presentation or on follow-up; statistical analysis identified char...

Head movements during magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings may lead to inaccurate localization of brain activity. This can be particularly problematic for studies with children. We quantified head movements in 8- to 12-year-old children performing a cognitive task and examined how the movements affected source estimation. Each child was presented auditory word stimuli in five 4-min runs. The...

Previous meta-analyses investigating blood pressure effects of anti-obesity drugs have included studies using non-licensed doses, but not data from head-to-head studies. Furthermore, although diabetes is an important comorbidity in obesity, variation in blood pressure effects across diabetes status has not been investigated. The objective of this study was to estimate the effects on systolic (S...

Fractures of the radial head constitute about 30% of all fractures around the elbow joint [1, 2]. Five to ten percent of all elbow dislocations are associated with peri-articular fractures, most commonly the radial head [3, 4, 5] In comminuted fractures of the radial head anatomic reduction and stable fixation are not always possible. In such cases the treatment is controversial – resection ver...

The political contestation event in the Village Head Election which will be held on October 12, 2021, Cambai Village, Tulung Selapan District, OKI Regency is a form of government authority for village to regulate and manage interests its community following Law Number 6 2014 concerning Villages strengthened by PP Republic Indonesia 72 2005 involves participation rural communities developing dem...