PURPOSE: Urine sampling has previously been evaluated for detecting dehydration in young male athletes. The present study investigated whether urine analysis can serve as a measure of dehydration in men and women of a wide age span. METHODS: Urine sampling and body weight measurement were undertaken before and after recreational physical exercise (median time: 90 minutes) in 57 volunteers aged ...

Body weight and fluid input/output are usually monitored for checking fluid balance in case of intravenous hyperhydration during nephrotoxic chemotherapy. The reliability of measuring fluid input/output is uncertain. Moreover, this measurement is redundant, complex, labour-intensive and represents an occupational hazard for nurses and other health-care workers handling fluids or body excreta. I...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use and effectiveness of two "in-home" strategies for delivering diabetes prevention programming using cable television. METHODS An individually randomized, two-arm intervention trial including adults with diabetes risk factors living in two US cities. Interventions involved a 16-session lifestyle intervention delivered via "video-on-demand" cable television, offered...

BACKGROUND This study examined associations between sports participation, physical activity, fitness level, and body mass index in ninth-grade girls. METHODS Data were analyzed for 221 participants who completed sports participation and physical activity recall questionnaires, an aerobic step test, and height and weight measurement. RESULTS On average, participants had low physical activity...

BACKGROUND Higher ultrafiltration (UF) rates and extracellular hypo- and hypervolemia are associated with adverse outcomes among maintenance hemodialysis patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently considered UF rate and target weight achievement measures for ESRD Quality Incentive Program inclusion. The dual measures were intended to promote balance between too aggressive...

BACKGROUND Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with elevated weight retention in mothers and might be related to adiposity of their offspring. Little is known if lifestyle intervention during pregnancy has beneficial effects for mothers and children beyond gestation. METHODS A cluster-randomized controlled intervention trial was performed with 250 pregnant women in 8 gynaeco...

Original scientific paper The article presents the prototype version of an original weight scale in which a non-conventional supplying circuit of strain gauge load cells is applied. The paper discusses construction of an electrical circuit, the way of strain gauge transducer connection and the measuring procedure. As far as the authors know, this novel electrical circuit and its application in ...

OBJECTIVE Our goal was to test the hypothesis that infants who were breastfed more intensively during early infancy (< or = 6 months) will be less likely to have excess weight during late infancy (> 6 months) and to examine the independent impact of infant-initiated bottle emptying and mothers' encouragement of bottle emptying on infants' risk for excess weight. METHOD The sample consisted of...

The objective of the study focused on weighted based frequent item set mining. The base paper has proposed multi criteria based frequent item set for weight calculation. Contribution towards this project is to implement the global profit weight measure and test the performance over utility based mining. For this project the data consist of 90 products from automobile shop including unit price, ...