the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

 Background: One of the important sites for extrapulmonary TB involvement is the skeleton. Tuberculous spondylitis (Pott’s disease) comprises 50-70% of the skeletal tuberculosis. Methods: In this case series study, we prospectively investigated the result of anterior surgery alone (anterior debridement, fusion and instrumentation) in the patients with spinal tuberculosis. The patients with imma...

Abstract This study determined the choroidal thickness of senior (SN, n = 24) and middle-aged (MA, 17) healthy, mixed-breed mesocephalic dogs, both males (M) females (F), using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). The dogs were divided into two groups for examination: MA (4–7 years old; 6 M, 11 F) SN (8–13 12 F). Choroidal was investigated SD-OCT radial linear scans. software ...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES the association between late-life obesity and late-life cognitive abilities is poorly understood. We studied the association between body mass index (BMI) and cognitive change in longitudinal population-based study spanning over the ninth decade of life. SUBJECTS/METHODS in total, 475 participants free of dementia at baseline from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 (mean age:...

Growth was assessed during the first and second years following bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in 47 children treated by either busulfan plus cyclophosphamide (BU/CY) (n = 24) or cyclophosphamide plus fractionated total body irradiation (CY/TBI) (n = 23). Before transplant, the median height was only 0.2 SD below age- and sex-adjusted means (range, -2.5 to +3.0). Height was greater than 2.0 ...

BACKGROUND Constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) can cause significant psychological distress in adolescent boys. Although testosterone usage in this group has not been shown to affect the final adult height, the effect on the first year height velocity has not been widely reported. OBJECTIVES The aim is to determine whether testosterone treatment improves the first year height ve...

There is increasing evidence suggesting that the cut-off values for defining obesity used in the Western countries cannot be readily applied to Asians, who often have smaller body frames than Caucasians. We examined the BMI and body fat (BF) as measured by bioelectrical impedance in 5153 Hong Kong Chinese subjects. We aimed to assess the optimal BMI reflecting obesity as defined by abnormal BF ...

AIM This study was designed to evaluate the impact of N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2, substrate: aromatic amines) in painters with bladder cancer and controls. BACKGROUND Until the beginning of the 1960s, painters in Germany have used, among others, azo dyes based on carcinogenic aromatic amines. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen painters with bladder cancer and 26 healthy painters (controls) who...