background: metabolically obese normal-weight (monw) children and adolescents are characterized by body mass index (bmi) lower than +1sd with metabolic disorders such as hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and/or hypertension. this study wants to determine prevalence of monw, metabolically benign normal weight (mbnw), metabolically abnormality obese (mao) and compare the components of metaboli...

abstract  background: low birth weight neonates are confronted with some problems after  birth, they should be followed up and evaluated at different ages of life.the aim of this study was to determine the impact of birth weight on the risk of sensorineural hearing impairment on children.  method: this cross sectional and retrospective study determined the prevalence  of hearing problems in low...

Background A recent publication on the topic of normal weight obesity [1] has received media attention. The investigators used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey database, containing information on body mass index (BMI), percent body fat and metabolic problems related to obesity from over 13,000 adults age 20-80. Using the traditional BMI cutoff values of 25 kg/m for normal w...

A combinatorial method is used to reconstruct a surface by integrating a field of surface normals. An affinity function is defined over pairs of adjacent locations. This function is based on the surface’s principal curvature directions, which are intrinsic and can be estimated from the surface normals. The values of this locally supported function are propagated over the field of surface normal...