BACKGROUND Clinical determination of mid-parental height is an important part of the assessment of a child's growth, however our clinical impression has been that parents cannot be relied upon to accurately report their own heights. Therefore, we conducted this study to assess the accuracy of parental height self-reporting and its effect on calculated mid-parental target height for children pre...

Greater adult height, which reflects a combination of early nutrition, exposure to androgens, growth hormones, and other factors during growth and development, as well as heredity, has been associated with increased prostate cancer risk in several observational studies, but findings have been inconsistent. We examined this relationship in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention St...

BACKGROUND Respiratory dependence of tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a long-held concept suggested by murmur variation, remains unproven and of unclear mechanisms. METHODS AND RESULTS In 41 patients with mild or greater TR (median age, 67 years), we performed triple Doppler echocardiographic quantification (TR severity, right ventricular, and right atrial quantification) with simultaneous respi...

Background—Respiratory dependence of tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a long-held concept suggested by murmur variation, remains unproven and of unclear mechanisms. Methods and Results—In 41 patients with mild or greater TR (median age, 67 years), we performed triple Doppler echocardiographic quantification (TR severity, right ventricular, and right atrial quantification) with simultaneous respiro...

Longitudinal standards for height and height velocity are essential to monitor for appropriate linear growth. We aimed to construct standards in Korean children and adolescents through the population-based longitudinal Kangwha study. Our study was a part of a community-based prospective cohort study from 1986 to 1999 with 800 school children. Height and height velocity were recorded annually fr...

In order to standardize the results of different biomechanical studies concerning stresses on lumbar discs, it may be useful to estimate the disc dimensions of the examined subjects and to refer the stress values to a unit surface area (square centimeter). The association between anthropometric parameters and discal areas at the L3-L4, L4-L5 and L5-S1 levels, examined by computed axial tomograp...

background: dystocia is one of the important causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in low-income countries. this study wasaimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of maternal anthropometric measurements as predictors for dystocia in nulliparous women. materials and methods: this prospective cohort study was conducted on 447 nulliparous women who referred to omolbaninhospital. several mat...

Height growth velocity curves between 4.5 and 17.75 years were estimated, using smoothing spline functions, for 112 boys and 110 girls from the Zurich Longitudinal Study (1955--1976). Parameters characterizing the growth process, such as peak height velocity and age at peak height velocity, were calculated directly from the estimated curves. The variability of parameters describing the adolesce...

cm jejunal segment proximal (n=6) and a 40 cm ileal segment distal (n=6) to a GCDC infusion port were measured. During GCDC infusion (60 pimoVmin) jejunal and ileal transit were markedly (p<005) delayed (31.6 (7.7), mean (SEM) v 14.5 (3.8) min and 37.0 (5.7) v 21-0 (3.5) min, respectively), segment volumes increased (141.1 (30.2) v 59.2 (9.9) ml and 173.2 (26.3) v 83.9 (9.5) ml; p<0 05), while ...