OBJECTIVE To determine if a low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy could reduce the incidence of macrosomia in an at risk group. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Maternity hospital in Dublin, Ireland. PARTICIPANTS 800 women without diabetes, all in their second pregnancy between January 2007 to January 2011, having previously delivered an infant weighing greater than 4 kg. INT...

BACKGROUND Current risk models for predicting long-term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention are restricted to all-cause mortality. We sought to develop novel risk models for the prediction of cardiac and noncardiac mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention. METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively evaluated patients who underwent index percutaneous coronary intervention ...

INTRODUCTION the main objectives of weight-loss interventions are to decrease fat mass while maintaining fatfree mass. OBJECTIVE our aim was to address effectiveness body composition changes in overweight adolescents assessed by different body composition methods following an obesity intervention programme. MATERIAL AND METHODS the life-style intervention was multi-disciplinary, with 13 mon...

The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of oral hygiene education kits (OHE kits) and 0.05% sodium fluoride mouth rinse among visually impaired students (VIS) in Bangkok, Thailand. Seventy-five VIS aged 10-12 years were included in the study and examined for plaque index (PI), gingival index (GI) and mutans streptococci (MS) salivary levels at baseline and after intervention...

BACKGROUND Presentations to hospital with self-harm are common, associated with suicide and have an increased mortality, yet there is no accepted effective intervention. AIMS To investigate whether problem-solving therapy would improve outcomes in adults presenting to hospital with self-harm, compared with usual care. METHOD A Zelen randomised controlled trial was conducted in four district...

OBJECTIVE Midwives may play an important role in oral health promotion of pregnant women, whom they are in close contact with. Our aim was to evaluate an educational intervention on the oral health attitude and practices among the junior midwifery students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2010. MATERIALS AND METHODS The junior midwifery students were divided into intervention (n=29...

Cerebral vascular disease is responsible for nearly 800 000 hospital admissions annually with a total healthcare cost of $34 billion. Neuro-interventional surgery is at the forefront of fast-response assessment and intervention to assess patients’ health using digital subtraction angiography (DSA). Unfortunately, cerebral blood flow cannot be reliably measured with DSA during intervention. In t...

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BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary intervention is an alternative for the treatment of children and adolescent obese. However, the influence of age and menarcheal status in the pattern of metabolic response of obese girls has not been investigated. The following study examined the effects of a 12-week multidisciplinary intervention on metabolic health in overweight girls and the contribution of age a...