Childhood obesity has been growing at an alarming rate and is the most common nutritional problem among children in developed as well as in developing countries. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, including cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine and psychosocial morbidities. This unhealthy trend will progress to adulthood and is expected to lead to huge...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) remains one of the most serious public health concerns owing to its increased morbidity and mortality in untreated cases. The current study aimed estimate hematological chemical parameters among VL Sudanese patients ElGadarif State Whole blood samples 39 were collected for complete count clinical chemistry parameters, Complete Blood Count (CBC) was performed, carried...

aortoenteric fistula is a rare but significant clinical entity associated with high morbidity and mortality if remain untreated. clinical presentation and imaging findings may be subtle and prompt diagnosis can be difficult. herein, we present a patient who initially presented with abdominal pain and computed tomography showed an aortic aneurysm compressing duodenum without any air bubbles. one...

asthma is the major chronic respiratory inflammatory disease in all ages. the validity and predictability of revised jones morbidity index (jmi) as a simple and practical tool for asthma evaluation morbidity has not yet been tested in iran. this study aimed to evaluate the predictability and validity of a revised jmi in northern iran. as a one-year follow up study, 210 adult asthmatic patients ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether an intervention programme based on existing school and community resources can reduce school absence and improve participation in games lessons and sport in children with unrecognised or undertreated asthma. DESIGN Parallel group controlled intervention study. SETTING 102 primary schools in Nottingham: 49 were randomised to receive the intervention and 53 to b...

A study was conducted in order to determine whether children that slept under untreated bednets were protected against both malaria infection and clinical disease compared with children not sleeping under bednets. The study was conducted in Kilifi District, Kenya, during the malaria season (June-August, 2000) and involved 416 children aged < or = 10 years. Data collected from a cross-sectional ...

background: the presence of small intestine in the radiation field during pelvic cancers treatment causes an interruption in radiotherapy. a non-invasive method was developed to exclude small intestine during conventional radiotherapy. materials and methods: the incidence of the radiation therapy interruption is highly dependent upon the area of the small intestine included in the portals and i...

aortobronchial fistula (abf) is a rare and late complication of cardiac surgery. if untreated, mortality rate is approximately 100% secondary to exsanguinations haemoptysis. early diagnosis and treatment are essential for successful management. open surgical repair is associated with high morbidity and mortality rate, ranging from 25% to 41%. endovascular treatments of abf is a less invasive tr...