Prenatal exposure to phthalates negatively affects the offspring's health. In particular, epigenetic alterations, such as DNA methylation, may connect phthalate with health outcomes. Here, we evaluated association of di-2-ethylhexyl (DEHP) in utero cord blood epigenome-wide methylation 203 mother-child pairs enrolled Hokkaido Study on Environment and Children's Health, using Illumina HumanMethy...

Introdução: A obesidade é uma doença crónica, de origem multifatorial, associada a diversas complicações médicas, provocando um declínio significativo na saúde dos indivíduos. Em indivíduos com IMC≥40kg/m² ou IMC≥35kg/m² com, pelo menos, comorbilidade, cirurgia bariátrica o tratamento eleição e pode ser realizado em cirurgias do tipo restritivas e/ou malabsortivas. Objetivos: Realizar revisão d...

To assess the usefulness of continuous wave Doppler ultrasonography as an antenatal screening tool for the detection of intrauterine growth retardation and fetal compromise 2097 singleton pregnancies were studied. Umbilical artery velocity waveforms were obtained at 28, 34, and 38 weeks of gestation, from which the pulsatility index, A/B ratio, and resistance parameter were calculated. No abnor...

Two new problems of bivalent propositional logic are proposed here: firstly, to distinguish the sense of propositions, besides the logical value and secondly, to analyze the ”ponderal” difference between two parts of a proposition: subject-predicate. 1 Relational projections and extensions Let r = (A1, A2, A3, R) be a ternary relation (see [3]). Starting with this, we may define three binary re...

The ponderal growth of the larynx was studied in human fetal period between the 9th and 38th weeks post-conception (w.p.c.). The larynx weight (in grams - g) was related with body weight (in grams -g) using the allometric equation Y= ax(b). Our results indicated that relative growth of the larynx is allometric negative (b= 0.55, p < 0.001). These data are important in estimating the fetal gesta...

A meta-analysis was performed to study the relationship between ovine fetal BW and body length during the last month of pregnancy in sheep gestated under normal conditions and under different natural and experimental maternal- placental- and fetal- directed constraints. Means of crown-rump length (CRL) and BW records, as well as means of calculated G index (GI, BW/CRL1.5), body mass index (BMI,...