Objective.To evaluate the risk factors associated with treatment abandonment by overweight or obese children and adolescents.Methods.A cross-sectional study, conducted in 2011, at the Childhood Obesity Center, in Campina Grande, Brazil, Spreads with the records of 208 children and adolescents, between three and 18 years of age, divided into two gro
Abstract Background In China, a rapid expansion of Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) Track Jacket outbreaks has occurred since 2004 and HFMD has become an important issue for China.However, people are still only concerned with human enterovirus 71(HEV-71) and coxsackie virus A16 (CV-A16).Much of what is known about the other enterovirus infectio
Abstract Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is a rare side effect of the oral polio vaccine but can be associated with outbreaks and permanent disability in patients harboring circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPVs).With the advancement of polio abolition in a glimpse, cVDPVs are causing outbreaks and slowing the polio eradication process.The
Objective: To assess the role of Insulin growth factor-I (IGF-I) in females selected for assisted reproductive technique (ART).Methods: In this cross-sectional study 133 infertile females were recruited for Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).The antral follicle count (AFC), Display Console Assembly pre-ovulatory follicle count (PFC), total dos