BACKGROUND Achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 is dependent on significantly reducing neonatal mortality. Low birth weight is an underlying factor in most neonatal deaths. In developing countries the missed opportunity for providing life saving care is mainly a result of failure to identify low birth weight newborns. This study aimed at identifying a reliable anthropometric measurement for ...

OBJECTIVE To see whether reduced rates of fetal growth are related to raised serum cholesterol concentrations in adult life. DESIGN Follow up study of men and women whose size at birth had been recorded. SETTING Jessop and Northern General Hospitals, Sheffield. SUBJECTS 219 men and women born in the Jessop Hospital during 1939-40. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Serum concentrations of total chol...

PURPOSE To evaluate whether midsagittal (abdominal) obesity in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), waist circumference (WC) and body fat percentage are associated with lumbar disc degeneration in early adulthood. METHODS We obtained the lumbar MRI (1.5-T scanner) of 325 females and 233 males at a mean age of 21 years. Lumbar disc degeneration was evaluated using Pfirrmann classification. We ana...

Background: Birth weight is largely influenced by the mother's parity, gender of baby, conceptus number, and maternal environment. The heavier seen for male babies at full-term compared to females, in singleton twins, later-born first baby. Low-weight are mothers lower socioeconomic status. In urban group closest correlation with neonatal calf circumference. Aim: present study was conducted per...

background: obesity is a worldwide health problem which is associated with a lot of complications. one of these comorbidities is the metabolic syndrome that is in correlation with abdominal fat thickness and waist circumference. various methods were used to reduce abdominal fat thickness such as liposuction. a noninvasive method is the topical agent. in this study, we investigated the effective...

BACKGROUND In Sasang medicine, patients are treated with herbal prescriptions based on Cold-Heat patterns induced by conditions of physiological equilibrium among internal organs, which also induce differences in body circumferences. The objective of the current study was to elucidate the relationship between Cold- and Heat-prescription types and body circumferences. METHODS Data from suitabl...

Objective: The main aim of the study was to determine best surrogate anthropometric measurement to determine low birth weight newborns among institutional deliveries in district Hoshiarpur, Panjab (India). Subjects: Subjects comprises of 504 newborns of singleton pregnant women delivering in reputed hospitals of Hoshiarpur, Panjab (India). Methods: Singleton pregnant women were booked in last t...

The lipochromic mosaic canary is a cage bird breed present with different coat colors, red, and yellow, this presents significant sexual dichromatism. Dichromatism in canaries explained by differential carotenoid degradation the integument, rather than sex-specific variation physiological functions such as pigment uptake or transport. Males have an intense color compared to females especially a...