Background. There have not yet been any studies to validate the intubation difficulty scale (IDS) in obese parturients. Objectives of this study were to determine the performance of the IDS in defining difficult intubation (DI) and to identify the optimal cutoff points of the IDS among obese parturients. Methods. This was a prospective observational study. Parturients with a body mass index ≥ 3...

In this research, we investigate Quality of Service (QoS) interaction provisioning between video applications and components of the Di Serv network. QoS interaction is performed through the mapping of video packets based on the relative quality index (RQI), which represents the relative preference in terms of loss and delay, onto the adaptive packet forwarding mechanism in a Di Serv network. To...

The charts of 27 patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) admitted to Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz from January 1991 to October 1998 were reviewed to identify the results of mean peroxidase index (MPXI) values, a measure of neutrophil staining intensity, obtained by the Technicon HI analyzer (Technicon Instruments Corp., Tarrytown, NY) within the first 10 days of the illness 2 separate groups of ...

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the cause of one third of deaths worldwide and this will progress because of increasing CVD's risk factors. The most basic task of dealing with the epidemic of CVD is primary prevention of risk factors. As Atherogenic Index of Plasma (AIP) is a strong marker to predict the risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, we assessed the correlat...

A national epidemiological survey of children aged 5-14 years was conducted in all 5 governorates of Kuwait in 2001 to determine the oral hygiene status of Kuwait in schoolchildren. Clinical examinations were carried out by calibrated dentists according to World Health Organization criteria. The debris index simplified (DI-S) score was used to assess oral hygiene status. Of the 3294 children, 3...

BACKGROUND Several studies have reported an association between sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and hypertension (HT) but there is still a debate as to whether this is an effect of confounders. Some researchers have found an age dependent relationship between SDB and HT with higher risk at lower ages. A case-control study was performed in hypertensive men and non-hypertensive male controls mat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship of items having good difficulty and discrimination indices with their distractor efficiency to find how 'ideal questions' can be affected by non-functioning distractors (NF-Ds). METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at Fatima Jinnah Dental College, Karachi, during Jan-Jun 2009, with 102 First Year dental students (17-20 years). Physiology pa...

OBJECTIVE Avascular necrosis of bone (AVN) is an important complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Corticosteroid therapy has been underlined as a main risk factor for osteonecrosis. However, AVN development in patients who have never received corticosteroid and the absence of AVN in the majority of the patients, who received corticosteroid, propose a role for non-corticosteroid ris...

Angeles Jaen1*, Elisabeth Buira2, Albert Giménez2, Tomás Pumarola3, Teresa Puig4, Jordi Niubó5, Mariona Xercavins6, Daniel Podzamczer5, Bonaventura Clotet4, Josep Maria Gatell3 and David Dalmau1,7 On Behalf of CHRN Group Study 1Fundació Docència i Recerca Mútua Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain 2Direcció General de Salut Pública, Barcelona, Catalonia Government, Spain 3Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS de Barce...

The increasing amounts of official development assistance (ODA) for health have been aimed primarily at fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Neglected tropical diseases (NTD), one of the most serious public health burdens among the most deprived communities, have only recently drawn the attention of major donors. While frequently stated, the low share of funding for NTD control projects...