Methods Thirty-six adolescents with SLE were evaluated to determine the characteristics of the disease. SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI) was used to assess SLE status. Beside routine laboratory investigations of SLE, measurement of follicle stimulating hormone(FSH), leutinizing hormone (LH) and estrogen (E2) for females or testosterone for males before and 4 hours after LH releasing hormone ...

To assess the prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia among Jordanian postmenopausal women attending the National Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Genetics (NCDEG), and to determine the potential associated risk factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted at (NCDEG) in Amman, Jordan. A total of 1079 Jordanian postmenopausal women aged between 45 and 84 years were included in this st...

BACKGROUND Current K-DOQI recommendations call for an assessment of dialysis adequacy that depends critically on an estimate of total body water (TBW). Such estimates are problematic in children since the range of patient size is large, and often formulas derived in normals are not validated in end-stage renal disease. Gold standard methods of TBW measurement, such as deuterium dilution ((2)H(2...

Introduction: Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is one of the most widely used methods measuring periprosthetic bone mineral density (BMD). Several reports have presented the precision of DEXA when used at the hip, whereas similar reports on factors influencing the precision at the knee are sparse. There are two noticeable aspects when measuring BMD at the knee. First, no software specifi...

OBJECTIVE To determine bone mineral density (BMD) using the posteroanterior L2-L4 (PA) and lateral L3 (LAT-L3) projections of dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and to evaluate the relationship between BMD and the presence of syndesmophytes. METHODS Twenty men with AS were studied. BMD was measured by femoral neck DEXA, PA DEXA, and LAT-L3 DE...

Children and adults with the most aggressive form of brain cancer, malignant gliomas or glioblastoma, often develop cerebral edema as a life-threatening complication. This complication is routinely treated with dexamethasone (DEXA), a steroidal anti-inflammatory drug with pleiotropic action profile. Here we show that dexamethasone reduces murine and rodent glioma tumor growth in a concentration...

Body Mass Index (BMI) is a good indicator for measurements of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) which measures the density of minerals present in the bones using a special scan. This study was conducted to assess the association between BMI and status of BMD among 101 individuals who underwent Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scan. 39 subjects had normal and 62 had low bone mineral density. BMD...