Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a time-efficient and cost-effective method for estimating body composition. We hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the Stayhealthy BC1 BIA and the selected reference methods when determining body composition. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to determine the validity of estimating percent body fat (%BF) using the...

BACKGROUND Repeatability of the oral sugar test (OST) has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that OST glucose, insulin, active (aGLP-1) and total (tGLP-1) glucagon-like peptide 1, and high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin results would be repeatable. ANIMALS Fifty-three horses from a Tennessee research facility (n = 23) and private practice in Missouri (n = 30), including anim...

BACKGROUND Augmenting validated paper versions of existing outcome measures with an equivalent online version may offer substantial research advantages (cost, rapidity and reliability). However, equivalence of online and paper questionnaires cannot be assumed, nor can acceptability to respondents. The aim was to test whether online and written versions of the Roland Morris Disability Questionna...

INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE Use of electronic questionnaires to collect health-related quality-of-life data has evolved as an alternative to paper questionnaires. For the electronic questionnaire to be used interchangeably with the validated paper questionnaire, measurement properties similar to the original must be demonstrated. The aim of the present study was to assess the equivalence between t...

In a prospective study, 232 neonates were examined sonographically using the methods of Graf and Terjesen. In order to determine the reproducibility of the methods, 50 hips were evaluated by two skilled examiners. In an inter-observer study, five physicians and five medical students evaluated 24 images, which were evaluated on ten occasions at two-weekly intervals by one of the authors. Statist...

Stature data accuracy is very important in hospital care. However, the condition of patient that does not allow standing makes actual stature measurement difficult. This study aimed to compare results measuring with a stadiometer and estimated using Chumlea, Cheng, Tanchoco, Shahar Pooy, Fatmah knee height formula for adult patients Indonesia. The design was cross-sectional internal medicine ag...

The aim of this study was to analyse a designed brief iodine dietary intake questionnaire based on a food frequency assessment (IOdine Dietary INtake Evaluation-Food Frequency Questionnaire-IODINE-FFQ), including the assessment of validity and reproducibility in a group of 90 Polish women aged 20-35 years. Participants collected 3-day dietary records and filled in the IODINE-FFQ twice (FFQ1-dir...

Introduction: Diffusion weighted imaging is a powerful tool for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. In radiotherapy, delineation of the tumor for dose escalation is an important issue. Therefore, clear tumor boundaries have to be distinguished. In tumors, the diffusion direction of water is thought to be isotropic. The fractional anisotropy in the peripheral zone and central zone is reported to b...

This article presents a reliable, effective and easy procedure for measuring glutathione peroxidase (Gpx) activity. Enzyme samples were incubated with phosphate buffer, which included the appropriate concentrations of (GSH) peroxide as substrates, to determine Gpx In CUPRAC method, reagent Cu(Nc)22+ was added stop enzymatic reaction after sufficient period incubation. The unreacted substrates a...

PURPOSE To assess the inter-device agreement of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements by 2 spectral domain Cirrus HD optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices in healthy Korean subjects. METHODS Eleven eyes of 11 healthy volunteers were enrolled in the present study. Each eye was scanned with the Optic Disc Cube 200 × 200 scan of 2 Cirrus HD OCT devices for pe...