Growth impairment is commonly seen in children with thalassemia despite regular blood transfusions and desferrioxamine treatments. We investigated the growth velocity of 26 prepubertal patients with beta-thalassemia or HbE-beta thalassemia who were transfusion dependent aged between 2 and 13 years. The prevalence of impaired growth velocity (ie, growth velocity less than the third percentile) a...

The competition between cancer cells and immune system in inhomogeneous conditions is described at cell scale within the framework of thermostatted kinetic theory. Cell learning reproduced by increased activity during favorable interactions. fluctuations are controlled a thermostat. direction velocity changed according to stochastic rules mimicking dense fluid. We develop Monte Carlo...

BACKGROUND Studying prenatal influences of early life growth is relevant to life-course epidemiology as some of its features have been linked to the onset of later diseases. METHODS We studied the association between prenatal maternal characteristics (height, age, parity, education, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), smoking, gestational diabetes and hypertension) and offspring weight traje...

PURPOSE To investigate whether growth was adversely affected in 137 young competitive female artistic gymnasts involved in different training volumes. METHODS This was a 2-yr prospective cohort study in which height, sitting height, leg length, weight, skinfolds, and pubertal status were measured in competitive advanced (20-27 h x wk(-1)) and intermediate (7.5-22 h x wk(-1)) training level fe...