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... of the present study was to evaluate the association between the dietary intake of different fish species, the dietary intake of PUFAs (omega-3 and omega-6) and vitamin D and the prevalence of ... had a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity and were less educated than women with less or no experience of Page of 13 psychotic-like symptoms Furthermore, a higher proportion of the women ... levels of PUFAs in brain tissue, red blood cells and skin fibroblasts and with a low intake of fish and PUFAs [16,29-31] Finally, supplementation of PUFA, especially EPA, has been reported to be of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... data of the prevalence of overweight and obesity and associated early risk factors in a very young age group (6– to 72–month–old) of Singapore Chinese children The prevalence of overweight and ... conducted on all ethnicities of preschool-aged children in Singapore to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and to compare the prevalence of overweight and obesity in preschool children ... teams of paediatricians at two study sites (located at the northeast and south of Italy) The study achieved a high response rate of 89.6% and children were randomly selected from the registers of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... 60–72 months) with the skewness of 2.29, 1.62 and 2.35 and kurtosis of 15.53, 5.27 and 13.72, respectively On the other hand, the age groups of 6–11.9, 12–23.9 and 24– 35.9 months showed normal ... Distribution of Skinfold (Triceps) measurements of boys by age groups Figure 12 Distribution of Skinfold (Triceps) measurements of girls by age groups 78 3.4 Prevalence of overweight and obesity ... years (1,159 boys and 1,097 girls) were involved in the analysis of prevalence of overweight and obesity This is because the “CDC and IOTF BMI for age” definitions define the cutoffs from to 20...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... South-Western part of Singapore (Bukit Batok, Clementi and Queenstown) and Western parts of Singapore (Jurong East and Jurong West) of Housing Development Board (HDB) apartments These parts of Singapore ... for children years old and above, were calibrated once a year 42 2.4.1 Measuring Height and Weight of Child years old and above For a child years of age and above who can stand without support, ... the adult cut-off points of BMI of 25kg/m² and 30kg/m2 at 54 age 18 year as overweight and obesity, respectively, and (3) the “Singapore BMI for age” reference which defines BMI at and above 90th...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... overweight and obesity which intersect the adult cut-off points of a BMI of 25kg/m² and 30kg/m2 at age 18 years, respectively.43 The cut-off points proposed by the IOTF are age and sex specific, and ... population-based study of the prevalence of obesity in preschool children was conducted in China in 2000 Liu et al (2007)54 found a prevalence of 7.4% of overweight and obesity in a large population of 262,738 ... Netherlands, Brazil and Singapore.43 Although these cut-off points are recommended for international comparisons, the cut-offs are mainly representative of Western countries and less reflective of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... observation of cyclic edema demonstrated the success of the treatment and the need for its control, but we had no idea of the high prevalence of edema in the more advanced grades of cellulite The lack of ... complaints of any type of venous disease and had associated diagnoses of cellulite were included in the study Patients with body mass indexes > 25, Grade I cellulite and other causes of edema were ... retention of interstitial fluid 8,9 The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of concomitant idiopathic cyclic edema and Grade II or III cellulite Method All patients treated for Grade II and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... (OAB, LUTS and/ or BPH) Furthermore, those with OAB had a worse quality of life score Mean quality of life score for those with OAB was 3.4 of 6, and those without OAB 1.6 Thus, the 48% of men with ... Xu B and Song J Prevalence and risk factors of overactive bladder syndrome in Fuzhou Chinese women Neurourol Urodyn 2006; 25:717 Teleman PM, Lidfeldt J, Nerbrand C, Samsioe G, Mattiasson A and ... 5-country population study reported the prevalence of any LUTS to be 62.5% whereas the prevalence of OAB to be 10.8% Our study found that 95% reported urinary frequency and 85% nocturia The increase in...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:35

... standard was used These results demonstrated that age had a significant influence on the prevalence of hyperopia and myopia: as age increased, the prevalence of hyperopia markedly decreased, and ... ages and are the critical ages for occurrence of myopia Similarly, we found that age had a significant influence on the prevalence of hyperopia and myopia As age increased, the prevalence of hyperopia ... adhered to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki for research The Bureau of Education and Bureau of Health in Yongchuan District approved the implementation of this study Eye Examination...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... frequency range of stopband is < F < Ws, the passband is Wp < F < 1, and Wp > Ws For bandpass and bandstop filters, Wp and Ws are two-element vectors that specify the transition bandages, with ... Chebyshev type II, and elliptic filters, respectively The parameters Wp and Ws are the normalized passband and stopband edge frequencies, respectively The range of Wp and Ws are between and 1, where ... passband and the stopband The Butterworth filter has a completely flat magnitude response over the passband and the stopband It is often referred to as the `maximally flat' filter This flat passband...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 05:15

... health services are expanding and quality improving, gaps in access and deficient quality of some interventions persist The Ministry of Public Health adopted a Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) ... based on the finding of 20% prevalence of respiratory symptoms among patients over years of age (World Health Organization 2004) and attendance for the 24 clinics; a sample size of 1500 patients ... Institutional Review Boards of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, San Diego Two male–female respiratory survey teams of medical professionals completed...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... (9) reported similar prevalence of biopsy- proven CD and Jaeger et al (7) reported similar rates of seropositivity of IgAtTG positivity between first-degree relatives of T1DM and control groups, ... (Table 1) The prevalence of seropositivity for CD was higher in patients with T1DM than their relatives (siblings and parents of diabetic children) and healthy controls (p=0.007 and 0.00005, respectively) ... frequency of serologic test positivity in the relatives of diabetics was close to that of the control group and healthy Turkish children In children with T1DM, increased prevalence of CD is well...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... southwestern part of Sweden (figure 1), the most populated part of the county of Scania The study area contains 840 000 of Sweden's total population of 8.9 million, and has a population density of 170 inhabitants ... analyses and wrote the main part of the manuscript ES: Performed GIS analyses and wrote part of the manuscript PM: Designed and conducted the survey and made revisions on drafts UN: Designed and conducted ... have been shown to be potent inducers of local inflammation [41,42], and their levels are high in the Scandinavian countries due to the use of traction sand and studded tires very heterogenous...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... (with mean age of 37 + years) and 278 (69.5%) were females (mean age of 32 + years) with male to female ratio of 0.4:1 The lowest and the highest age of the study participants were 18 and 70 years ... profile of study subjects The majority of study participants 285 (71.3%) had CD4+ lymphocyte count of less than 349 Cells/mm3 and 115 (28.7%) of study participants had CD4+ lymphocyte count of ... conception and design of the study, data collection, analysis and interpretations of the findings, reviewed the manuscript DM: participated in the design of the study, analysis and interpretations of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... NMR structure of SUMO-1 and the crystal structure of yeast B D Fig Photographs and electron density maps of the SUMO-2 crystals Shown in (A) and (B) are two different crystal forms I and II obtained ... Model geometry and crystal contacts were analysed using the programs PROCHECK and AREAIMOL of the CCP4 package [21] Results and Discussion Structure determination and refinement Analysis of the diffraction ... charged and neutral polar residues are coloured blue, red and magenta, respectively, and nonpolar residues are shown in green The views in (C–F) are similar to that of Fig 3A and those of (A) and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... of the authors and not necessarily reflect the views of the Of ce of Naval Research This research is also partially funded the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (TIN200914659-C03-01) and ... task of the study was the annotation of the constituents of each referring expression, as well as the function (distinctive or descriptive) of each constituent The system generated a first pass of ... function of the referring expression This is by no means a trivial problem – this sort of aggregation interferes with referring and coherence planning at both a local and global level (Cheng and Mellish,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... direct and indirect costs of care also play a major role in influencing the social, psychological and physical wellbeing of the caregiver and of his/her family Caring is held to be very demanding and ... interviewed, 29% claim to be unable to accept the situation and wish to abandon their home Mean values of MMSE, ADL and IADL of the patients and CBI of the caregivers are outlined in Table At the same ... psychological condition, and, therefore, anxiety and depression of the caregiver, are closely related to the values of the MMSE, ADL, IADL and to the several phases of the cognitive and physical deterioration...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:29 Background In the period following wars and other forms of armed conflict, health and quality of life of mothers is a major concern ... the viewpoint of quality of mental health support and prevention of material hardships List of abbreviations CI: Confidence interval; DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ... least of re-experiencing symptoms, at least of avoidance symptoms, and at least of arousal symptoms Hardships with regard to basic needs Experience of hardships over the last decade consisted of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... between 65 and 84 and group C, those above the age of 85 The type of surgery and post operative care determined by the type of fracture, age, co-morbid medical status and general level of mobility ... number of patients developing a hip fracture in the elderly A previous meta-analysis of 16 case series has demonstrated that in females between the ages of 50 and 60, and in men over the age of 70, ... Outcomes of Hip Fractures: A Prospective Cohort Study of 1177 patients Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2011 6:5 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... elongational flow [47] The reflections at 2h = 11 and 21° are -201/200/001 and 020 of the c form, respectively, and the reflections at 2h = *20 and 23° are 200 and 002 of the a form, respectively [47] The ... MWNT/nylon-6 nanofibers with acid-treated MWNTs, and studied the effect of collector speed on the morphologies of the nanofibers and the crystal structures of the nylon-6 In the present study, we employed ... curves Results and Discussion Functionalization of MWNTs Functionalization of MWNTs was performed as indicated by literature procedure [33] Figure shows the FT-IR spectra of the P-MWNTs and the F-MWNTs...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20