background: health status of children and adolescents is determined to a larger extent by their nutritional status. there are no published studies available on the influence of thinness on childhood morbidity using new world health organization‑body mass index (who‑bmi) for age criteria. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted in primary, high schools, pre‑university and degree colleg...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to identify determinants of 20-year change in left ventricular (LV) mass (LVM) and LV geometry in black and white young adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 2426 black and white men and women (54.7% white) aged 43 to 55 years with cardiovascular risk factor data and echocardiogram...

conclusions in this city, a great proportion of children are susceptible to hepatitis a and it’s complications at an older age. this decrease in seropositivity may be caused by elevated hygien level. according to our results hepatitis a vaccination is recommended at early childhood such as that of other regions where low prevalence of hepatitis a infection is found. patients and methods this cr...

background: ewing sarcoma family of tumors (esfts) is the second most common primary tumors of bone in childhood. the decision regarding the optimal modality for achieving local tumor control remains uncertain. the aim of this study was to report the clinical features and outcome as well as reviewing risk factors in patients. materials and methods: this retrospective study included 75 esfts pat...

The growth of 361 children with congenital hypothyroidism diagnosed by screening was assessed by estimating mean values for height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and head circumference on each birthday up to the age of 4 years. In the group of children with severe congenital hypothyroidism (pretreatment plasma thyroxine < or = 30 nmol/l), the mean heights at 1 and 2 years were less than standa...

BACKGROUND The initiation of the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study in 1996, and subsequent follow-up of the cohort 5 years later, provided longitudinal body mass index (BMI) data for a random sample of Canadians. METHODS Height and weight were measured at baseline and 5 years and used to calculate BMI and assign one of six weight categories. Multiple imputation was used to adjust for mi...

background: myopia has different prevalence rate worldwide and there is controversial points about its environmental risk factors. the prevalence of myopia in medical interns atshirazmedicalschool and its probable risk factors were studied.   method: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, three hundred interns (7 th -year medical students) at shiraz university of medical sciences were exa...