OBJECTIVE To estimate the situation of breastfeeding in Surat among infants and to determine variables associated to major risks for early weaning. DESIGN AND SETTINGS Mothers coming to the well baby clinic for immunization of infants at Government Medical College and Hospital were interviewed using pretested questionnaire. SUBJECTS Mothers with their infants who have not completed one year...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of breed, sex and plane of nutrition on the growth response to zeranol in Angus and crossbred calves prior to weaning. Eighty-eight heifers and 118 steers received either a high or low plane of nutrition using a first and last grazing technique. Half of the calves in each nutrition group received a zeranol implant (36 mg) at an average age of ...

Introduction: Evidence about risk factors of Stunting is useful to design appropriate policies and strategies control health problems. Objective: A cross-sectional study was conducted among children aged 6-59 months in Paktia Regional Hospital. Material Methods: total 400 were included the study. Data collected using a structured questionnaire anthropometric measurement. The interview with pare...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of stroke patients have to be supported by mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICU), with a relevant proportion of them requiring gradual withdrawal from a respirator. To date, weaning studies have focused merely on mixed patient groups, COPD patients or patients after cardiac surgery. Therefore, the best weaning strategy for stroke patients remains t...

BACKGROUND Many years of bracing represent a burden to the patients. Early weaning may be the result of poor compliance, but may also be planned in patients with a long expected treatment time and a reduced stable primary curve during bracing. The aim of the present cohort study was to compare curve size, health related quality of life and surgical rates at long-term follow-up after ordinary br...

AKDAG, F. and O. H. MUGLALI, 2008. The influence of different weaning methods on piglet growth performance in commercial herd in Turkey. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 14: 335-340 This study was carried out to determine the effects of different weaning methods on survival, growth performance and live weight gain of piglets from 84 piglets divided into three groups as control and two treatment group. In ...

A low birth weight (LBW) leads to a higher risk of metabolic syndrome in adulthood. Literature suggests that citrulline supplementation in adulthood prevents the effect of a high fructose diet on energy metabolism. Whether neonatal citrulline supplementation would alter early growth or energy metabolism in the long-term in rats with LBW is unknown. LBW pups born from dams fed a low (4%) protein...

The present study aims to ascertain whether dietary supplementation with a mixture of vitamins C and E may prevent the maternal-age-associated decrease in both the number of ovulated oocytes after exogenous ovarian stimulation and embryo development in vitro in the mouse. Experimental females were fed a standard diet supplemented with i) high doses of vitamins C and E from the first day of wean...

Thirty-seven pigs were used to evaluate the effects of age and weaning on the level of protease in the gastric mucosa and trypsin, chymotrypsin, amylase and lipase in the pancreas. There was a positive allometry of the pancreas and gastric mucosa associated with age and with weaning to a solid diet. Increases with age in total activity of chymotrypsin, trypsin, amylase and gastric proteases wer...