materials and methods totally, 410 students including 204 males and 206 females studying in grades 9 to 12 and aged between 15–18 years old were studied. the instruments used to collect data were a self administered demographic questionnaire and the scale of adolescent health promotion (ahp). results the mean age of participants was 16.5 (sd = 1.34) years. the mean score of adolescent health pr...

Objective: Evaluate the appropriateness of colonoscopy indication for neoplastic lesion detection in patients under age 50 with hematochezia. Methods: Retrospective and cross-sectional study in patients who underwent colonoscopy, from 2002 to 2009. Inclusion criteria included patients with hematochezia over 20 years old. Exclusion criteria were: history of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), poly...

The goal of our study was to describe the age-specific distribution of HPV genotypes and related disease among females under the age of 25 years. A prospective cohort study was carried out. We enrolled 85 young females aged 16 25 years (30 aged 16 19 and 55 aged 20 25 years) referred to our colposcopic unit after a repeated abnormal Pap smear result. Every patient underwent an HPV DNA testing, ...

To investigate whether exercise training can reverse age-related impairment of myogenic vasoconstriction in skeletal muscle arterioles, young (4 mo) and old (22 mo) male Fischer 344 rats were randomly assigned to either sedentary or exercise-trained groups. The roles of the endothelium and Kv1 channels in age- and exercise training-induced adaptations of myogenic responses were assessed through...

A case of basilar artery occlusion in a 16-year-old-girl has been reported. Reports of 20 such cases occurring in children have been reviewed. In children, basilar artery occlusion is more common in males; no previous case above the age of 3 years has been reported in females. There were preceding TIA's and RIND in the vertebro-basilar territory.

Microbial diversity and their activity in the rhizosphere bulk soil areas were measured a long-term field trial (started 1956), where maize has been grown for last 20 years with without N fertilisation. Various microbial groups substrate feeding strategies (i.e. demonstrating activities) identified through phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) analysis ?13C values. abundance (esp. fungi) remained un...

BACKGROUND To evaluate agreement between cardiovascular risk in sedentary patients as estimated by the new Framingham-D'Agostino scale and by the SCORE chart, and to describe the patient characteristics associated with the observed disagreement between the scales. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was undertaken involving a systematic sample of 2,295 sedentary individuals between 40-65 years of ...