BACKGROUND Childhood obesity has become a serious public health threat worldwide due to its many short- and long-term adverse health effects. We assessed the association between weight status and metabolic co-morbidities among South Korean children using nationally representative data. METHODS Data from the 2007-2008 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys for 1,526 children a...

Clinical Presentation: A 5-year-old girl of Ashkenazi origin was referred to our pediatric endocrine clinic because of short stature. The child generally had good health aside from several episodes of otitis media. She was born at term after a normal pregnancy and delivery; birth weight was 2400 g, and birth length was not recorded. There was no history of intrauterine infection, toxemia, or ex...

BACKGROUND The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts for the United States include population reference data for body mass index (BMI)-for-age (ages 2-19 y) and weight-for-stature (from 77 to 121 cm). For younger children, either set of reference data could be used. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare BMI-for-age with weight-for-stature. DESIGN We us...

SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS 1958 further infant died later from pneumonia; there was no autopsy. Of the fourteen surviving children, twelve have been followed up for periods of 1-4 years. All twelve are free from symptoms and have apparently recovered completely. Two are still below the third percentile of weight for their age, three are in the 10th percentile, three in the zgth, and four in the 50th...

Background Small for gestational age (SGA) refers to newborns whose birth weight is less than the 10th percentile for gestational age. The aim of this study was to provide a comparative assessment of ultrasound placental findings in SGA and normal-weight fetuses in singleton pregnant women. Materials and Methods In...

Guidelines for suggested intake of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are limited in youth and rely primarily on age. However, body weight varies considerably within age classifications. The current analyses examined effects of body weight and body mass index (BMI) on fatty acid accumulation in 64 youth (7-14 years) with a diagnosed mood disorder in a double-blind randomized-controlled tri...

The patient, a girl, was born after a normal full-term pregnancy. Her birth weight was 8 lb. 4 oz. (75th percentile) and at 12 months, when she was apparently normal, her weight was 24 lb (75th percentile). Two months later she was brought to hospital because of her rapid gain in weight and increasing irritability. During this period she had gained 4 lb. 14 oz. and weighed 28 lb. 14 oz. (97th p...

the aim of this paper is to project extreme precipitation events in an arid and a semiarid station. in order to project climate change based on general circulation models (gcms), we have applied lars-wg[1] downscaling tool. this stochastic weather generator down-scaled the climate of two synoptic stations using hadcm3 model and a2 emission scenario for 2040. we extracted extreme precipitation e...

CONTEXT The prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents in the United States appeared to plateau between 1999 and 2006. OBJECTIVES To provide the most recent estimates of high BMI among children and adolescents and high weight for recumbent length among infants and toddlers and to analyze trends in prevalence between 1999 and 2008. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPAN...