BACKGROUND There are no data regarding the relationship between maternal adiposity and interaction and feeding of infants and possible contribution to childhood obesity. In this study we determined the relationship between maternal body weight and composition and infant feeding patterns and maternal-infant interaction during 24-hour metabolic rate measurements in the Enhanced Metabolic Testing ...

PURPOSE Very little is known about the prevalence of regurgitations in human milk-fed infants in the first days of life. The authors aimed to compare the frequency of regurgitations in formula- and breastfed infants in the first 2 days of life. It was hypothesized that human milk-fed infants experience less episodes of regurgitations than their formula-fed counterparts. DESIGN, SAMPLE, AND OUTC...

Background Use of cellular phones emitting radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) has been increased exponentially and become a part of everyday life. This study aimed to investigate the effects of in vitro RF-EMF exposure emitted from cellular phones on sperm motility index, sperm DNA fragmentation and seminal clusterin (CLU) gene expression. MaterialsAndMethods In this prospective stud...

OBJECTIVES To determine the factors associated with failure of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) in patients presenting with acute respiratory failure to the emergency department (ED). METHODS The authors retrospectively analyzed patients admitted to the ED for acute respiratory failure (defined as a PaCO2 level >45 mm Hg, and pH < or = 7.35 or a PaO2/FiO2 ratio < 250 mm Hg) an...

The findings of 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiography and monitoring with the Cardiomemo, a device recording 32 seconds of electrocardiogram during symptoms, were compared in 20 patients with symptoms suggestive of arrhythmia. Ambulatory electrocardiography showed arrhythmia in seven patients, extrasystoles in six, and normal findings in seven. Nine patients failed to transmit any Cardiomemo r...

OBJECTIVES (a) To test the sensitivity and specificity of measuring fasting plasma glucose levels (FPG) as a screening test for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). (b) To compare predicting levels of FPG levels with the one-hour, oral 50g non-fasting glucose challenge test (GCT) for predicting GDM. METHODS One thousand and six hundred pregnant women from the Health Centres, antenatal clinics...

Aim—In suspected adrenal insuYciency, the ideal test for assessing the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis is controversial. Therefore, three tests were compared in patients presenting with symptoms suggestive of adrenal insuYciency. Method—Responses to the standard short Synacthen test (SSST), the low dose Synacthen test (LDST), and the 08:00 hour serum cortisol concentration were measured in 3...

The reductive carboxylic acid cycle, the autotrophic pathway of CO(2) assimilation in prokaryotes (photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic autotrophic bacteria), was investigated in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii F-60, an algal mutant lacking a complete photosynthetic carbon reduction pathway (C(3)) due to a deficiency in phosphoribulokinase. Evidence was obtained consistent with the presence of the re...

Severe sepsis still remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality, claiming between 36,000 to 64,000 lives annually in the UK, with a mortality rate of 35%.[1,2] The project aims to measure the management of severely septic patients in acute medical unit (AMU) in a district general hospital against best practice guidelines, before and after a set of interventions aiming to optimise patient m...

BACKGROUND Associations between left ventricular (LV) geometry and the insulin resistance syndrome have been found, mostly in small studies of middle-aged hypertensives. The purpose of this study was to elucidate these associations through the use of a large sample of elderly men. METHODS AND RESULTS We investigated 475 men (157 hypertensives) 71 years of age who were attending a population-b...