Experimental studies suggest that vitamin D modulates the activity of adipocytes. The authors examined baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) level in relation to prevalent and cumulative incident obesity in Norway. A cohort of 25,616 adults aged 19-55 years participated in both the second and third surveys of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT 2 (1995-1997) and HUNT 3 (2006-2008)). Se...

BACKGROUND To investigate the relationship between adiponectin, metabolic and hor- monal parameters, and insulin resistance in patients with non-treated polycystic ovary syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional observational study, 81 patients admitted to out-patient clinic with complaints of menstrual irregularity, hirsutism and obesity were enrolled. Serum adiponectin, bioche...

Precocious puberty can cause several adverse effects on final growth and social behavior in girls. Recently studies showed that low serum vitamin D levels might be associated with precocious puberty. The aim of  this research was to investigate the association between serum vitamin D levels and central precocious puberty in girls. Girls with central precocious puberty under the age of 8 we...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the zinc nutritional status and the factors associated with serum zinc concentration in the elderly patients in two nursing facilities: body mass index (BMI), the level of care, the grade of bedriddenness, and the grade of cognitive function. The estimations of the hematological constituents, physical index, and dietary survey we...

Experimental studies suggest that vitamin D modulates the activity of adipocytes. The authors examined baseline serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) level in relation to prevalent and cumulative incident obesity in Norway. A cohort of 25,616 adults aged 19–55 years participated in both the second and third surveys of the NordTrøndelag Health Study (HUNT 2 (1995–1997) and HUNT 3 (2006–2008)). Ser...

abstractbackground: previous studies revealed that maternal serum level of vitamin d can influence neonatal outcomes. in this controlled trial, we evaluated the effect of vitamin d supplementation during pregnancy on birth weight.methods: in this interventional study, we enrolled 67 pregnant women (gestation: 10 weeks), who referred to seyyedal shohada hospital during two years (from january 20...

Background: Chemotherapy or irradiation is associated with impaired fertility. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible protective role of testosterone enanthate (TE) on the proliferative activity, plasma testosterone level and morphometry of epithelial cells of seminal vesicles in busulfan-induced spermiotoxicity. Materials and Methods: Sprague- Dawley rats were divided into 4 gro...

Marker enzymes such as acid phosphatase(ACP), alkaline phosphatase(ALP) and aspartate transaminase(AST) levels were estimated in the serum of 60 fibroid patients and 60 non-fibroid patients from UTH, Ado-Ekiti . The age, weight and height of the patients were also considered. Results obtained showed a significant increase in the level of ACP (12.15±6.02μ/L), significant decrease in AST (10.24±3...

2. A b s t r a c t D iscou rse R e v i s i o n : I t iteratively applies revision operators to the abstract discourse plan to create a draft tree, where each node is a draft that was derived from its parent by applying a revision operator. Figure 4: Example sentential specification 3. D iscourse P l a n G r o u n d i n g : I t reconstitutes abstract discourse plans as ground level discourse pla...