BACKGROUND Monitoring secular trends in blood pressure (BP) among children is important in predicting subsequent hypertension and cardiovascular disease. We investigated secular trends in BP using data from population-based annual screenings of Japanese schoolchildren. METHODS The participants were 10 894 children (all fourth graders between 1994 and 2010 and all seventh graders between 1997 ...

The Seventh-Day Adventist population abstains from smoking and drinking; about 50% follow a lac to-ovo-vegetanian diet; and most avoid the use of coffee, tea, hot condiments, and spices. Existing data on cancer mortality in Seventh-Day Adventists clearly document mortality rates that are 50 to 70% of general population rates for most cancer sites that are unrelated to smoking and drinking. Seve...

We studied the variations in the ventral rami of 152 brachial plexuses in 77 Korean adults. Brachial plexus were composed mostly of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cervical nerves and the first thoracic nerve (77.0%). In 21.7% of the cases examined, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cervical and the first thoracic nerves contributed to the plexus. A plexus composed of the fourth...

High-resolution numerical simulations of stationary inverse energy cascade in two-dimensional turbulence are presented. Deviations from Gaussian behavior of velocity differences statistics are quantitatively investigated. The level of statistical convergence is pushed enough to permit reliable measurement of the asymmetries in the probability distribution functions of longitudinal increments an...

introduction: the interest in probiotic products have been increased recently by the consumers. milk and dairy products are natural sources of b group vitamins in the human diet. this study was carried out in order to investigate the level of riboflavin (vitamin b2) and niacin (vitamin b3) in probiotic yogurt and the results were compared with the traditional yogurt during refrigerated storage....

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to compare the effect of fifth and seventh generation bonding agent on sealant success. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-four school children aged six to nine years received sealants in four permanent molars in a split mouth design, such that each patient received sealant in the first permanent molar with fifth generation bonding agent in one arch and seventh ge...

In this paper we examine the orthogonal wavelet decomposition of ECG signal obtained using computationally efficient IIR perfect reconstruction quadrature-mirror filter (QMF) banks. The decomposition is done using the lowpass branch iterated filter banks. The fifth order Butterworth and elliptic filters are employed. IIR filters’ polyphase components are two real all-pass structures of the firs...