MSC: primary 01A70, 54H05 secondary 01-02, 26A21

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of complications in patients suffering from chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM). st th METHODS: This study was done in Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital from 1 March 2010 to 30 June 2013. In this prospective studies 53 patients of Chronic suppurative otitis media were selected. RESULTS: In our study 31(58.4%) male and 22 (41.5%) were female. Age distributi...

We used 28 crossbred wether lambs to determine the effects of dietary forage:concentrate ratio and metabolizable energy intake on visceral organ growth and oxidative capacity of gut tissues in lambs. Lambs were assigned randomly to a factorial arrangement of dietary treatments consisting of pelleted diets containing either 75% orchardgrass or 75% concentrate fed once daily at either .099 or .18...

This prospective study described the trajectory of sexual well-being from before hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) to 3 years after in 131 allogeneic and 146 autologous HCT recipients using Derogatis Interview for Sexual Function and Derogatis Global Sexual Satisfaction Index. Sixty-one percent of men and 37% of women were sexually active pre-HCT; the prevalence declined to 51% (P = .01)...

Figure 1: A typical statistical plot that is welldescribed by vector elements: polygons, rectangles, lines, and text. However, some displays of data are inherently raster . In other words, what is drawn is simply an array of values, where each value is visualized as a square or rectangular region of colour (see Figure 2). It is possible to draw such raster elements using vector primitives—a sma...

Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder triggered after gluten ingestion in genetically susceptible individuals. The major genetic determinants are HLA-DQA1*05 and HLA-DQB1*02, which encode the DQ2 heterodimer. These alleles are commonly inherited in cis with DRB1*03∶01, which is associated with numerous immune-related disorders, in some cases contributing with a different amount...

OBJECTIVE To investigate risk factors for disordered eating among overweight youth, a subset of the population particularly at risk for such behaviors. METHODS A population-based sample of overweight youth (n = 553) self-reported their disordered eating (binge eating, extreme weight control behaviors), depression-related symptoms, body dissatisfaction, and weight-related teasing at 5-year int...

We used placental tissue to compare the imprinted gene expression of IGF2, H19, KCNQ1OT1, and CDKN1C of singletons conceived via assisted reproduction technology (ART) with that of spontaneously conceived (SC) singletons. Of 989 singletons examined (ART n = 65; SC n = 924), neonatal weight was significantly lower (P < .001) in the ART group than in the SC group, but placental weight showed no s...