INTRODUCTION The epidemic of childhood obesity has been well-documented. Prevalence of obesity among students in Texas is higher than the US prevalence. Our objective was to understand the combined influence of physical activity and television viewing on weight status of students in Texas. METHODS Students in grades 4, 8, and 11 participated in the School Physical Activity and Nutrition surve...

This study aimed to investigate the association between training load indices and Upper Respiratory Tract Infection (URTI) across different lag periods in elite soccer players. Internal was collected from 15 players over one full season (40 weeks). Acute, chronic, Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio (ACWR), Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages (EWMA) ACWR, 2, 3 4-week cumulative load, strain monoton...

Therapeutic failure in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) occurs in 5% of patients infected by Leishmania braziliensis. This study evaluates the use of topically applied granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) combined with the standard dose of antimony to treat refractory cases of CL. Five patients who had received three courses or more of antimony were enrolled in...

BACKGROUND Current ACSM guidelines recommend that adults should exercise for 20-60 min on 3-5 days.week(-1) (M.L. Pollock, et al., The recommended quantity and quality of exercise for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, and flexibility in healthy adults. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 30 (6) (1998) 975-991.). For individuals constrained by a busy lif...

Objectives Although many studies indicate health effect of breakfast, little is known whether taking breakfast regularly has on intake nutritional supplements. Therefore, this study was performed to examine the relationship between absence frequency and supplement in Koreans. Methods The analysis used data from Korea National Health Nutrition Survey (2018). Main independent variable other valid...

Intervention Patients were allocated to 6 groups for 2 consecutive treatment periods, each lasting 10–14 days. 2 parallel groups received morning treatment with negative ions. 4 groups received light treatment and were crossed over at mid point using the following sequences: morning-evening, evening-morning, morningmorning, and evening-evening (10 000 lux, 30 min/d). 2 groups received negative ...

Infantile colic is a common condition affecting 10% to 30% of infants in the first 3 months of life. Infantile colic can be quite distressing to the parents. The condition cannot be clearly defined because of its variability. Nevertheless, the definition given by Wessel (1954) is still widely accepted. It is based on the rule of three: crying for more than three hours per day, for more than thr...

This study aims to develop a simple dietary score to comprehensively evaluate the role of diet in the risk of oral cancer. A case-control study including 930 oral cancer cases and 2667 frequency-matched controls was performed in Fujian, China. Unconditional logistic regression model was used to estimate the effects of dietary factors on oral cancer. After adjustment for potential confounders, l...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of musculoskeletal pain in the shoulder, arm and hand is high among slaughterhouse workers, allegedly due to the highly repetitive and forceful exposure of these body regions during work. Work disability is a common consequence of these pains. Lowering the physical exposure through ergonomics intervention is the traditional strategy to reduce the workload. An alternati...

Egg hatch and emergence of second-stage juveniles (J2) of Heterodera glycines races 3 and 4 from cysts exposed to soybean root leachate of cv. Fayette (resistant to H. glycines) and H. glycines-susceptible cultivars A2575, A3127, and Williams 82 were determined in three sets of experiments. In the first experiment, cysts of both race 3 and race 4 were exposed to leachate of 8-week-old plants fo...