Delayed Bone Age Might Accelerate the Response to Human Growth Hormone Treatment in Small for Gestational Age Children with Short Stature by Jung-Eun Moon, Cheol Woo Ko

“…There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of gestational age and weight at birth, height SDS, IGF-1 SDS, and growth hormone dosage at the beginning of therapy. …”
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Mitochondria in White, Brown, and Beige Adipocytes by Miroslava Cedikova, Michaela Kripnerová, Jana Dvorakova, Pavel Pitule, Martina Grundmanova, Vaclav Babuska, Dana Mullerova, Jitka Kuncova

“…Three types of adipose depots can be identified in mammals, commonly classified according to their colour appearance: the white (WAT), the brown (BAT), and the beige/brite/brown-like (bAT) adipose tissues. WAT is mainly involved in the storage and mobilization of energy and BAT is predominantly responsible for nonshivering thermogenesis. …”
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THE EXISTENTIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL IN THE EXISTENTIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF G. MARCEL AND E. MINKOWSKI by A. S. Zinevych

“…Thus, horizontal level of our private existence, as the process of movement from birth to death, is supplemented by vertical of human, universal ideals and images. …”
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Pathological Vaginal Discharge among Pregnant Women: Pattern of Occurrence and Association in a Population-Based Survey by Tânia Maria M. V. da Fonseca, Juraci A. Cesar, Raúl A. Mendoza-Sassi, Elisabeth B. Schmidt

“…All women living in the city of Rio Grande, Southern Brazil, who gave birth in 2010 were included in the study. A standardized questionnaire was administered to collect information on demographic, reproductive, and health-related factors and morbidity during pregnancy. …”
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A Relationship between Epithelial Maturation, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Abraham B. Roos, Tove Berg, Magnus Nord

“…Moreover, there is increasing concern that lung immaturity at birth may increase the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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Evaluation of Plasma Amino Acid Levels in Preterm Infants and Their Potential Correlation with Retinopathy of Prematurity by Yasin Ozcan, Gumus Huseyin, Kenan Sonmez

“…This is a randomized controlled study of 55 infants born at gestational age (GA) ≤32 weeks or birth weight (BW) ≤1500 grams. Serum samples were obtained from two groups: Group A comprised of 26 preterm infants with ROP and Group B comprised of 29 preterm infants without ROP. …”
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Prophylactic Administration of Surfactant in Extremely Premature Infants by Lutz Koch, David Frommhold, Bernd Beedgen, Peter Ruef, Johannes Poeschl

“…In our retrospective analysis, we compared premature infants (23 + 0 to 26 + 6 weeks) receiving 200 mg/kg surfactant (curosurf0𝑥000𝑎𝑒) within five minutes after birth (prophylactic group, 𝑁=31) with those infants who received surfactant therapy for established RDS (selective group, 𝑁=34). …”
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Financial Literacy: a Comparative Analysis Between Employees and Farmers by Suwandi Suwandi, Muhammad Syarif

“…The ability to understand then becomes the forerunner to the birth of financial literacy, which is interpreted as a person's ability to process economic information and make the right decisions related to financial planning. …”
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Reflections of adolescent motherhood on infant and young child feeding practices: the case of Uganda by Gözde Zeynep Yeşiloğlu, Suzan Yalçin, Sıddika Songül Yalçin

“…Conclusion Adolescent mothers and women who give birth during their teenage years are particularly vulnerable to inadequate infant and young child nutrition practices. …”
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Demographic Characteristics of World Class Jamaican Sprinters by Rachael Irving, Vilma Charlton, Errol Morrison, Aldeam Facey, Oral Buchanan

“…Questionnaires administered to 120 members of the Jamaican national team and 125 controls elicited information on place of birth, language, ethnicity, and distance and method of travel to school. …”
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Orthopedic Manifestations of Bruck Syndrome: A Case Series with Intermediate to Long-term Follow-Up by Adolfredo Santana, Geovanny Oleas-Santillán, Jeanne M. Franzone, L. Reid Nichols, J. Richard Bowen, Richard W. Kruse

“…All had contractures at birth and genotypic findings including mutations in PLOD2 or FPKB10. …”
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Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurements Can Be Used to Measure Bilirubin Levels during Phototherapy by Saad Abdullah Alsaedi

“…The mean gestational age was 38.8 weeks and birth weight was 3.1 kg; 53% were male. Before starting phototherapy, TSB and TcB were 183.8±41.6 and 190.5 ± 43 μmol/l, respectively. …”
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A Case-Control Study for Assessing Risk Factors for Congenital Anomalies among Children in Sulaimani City by Niaz Mustafa Kamal, Nasih Othman

“…Congenital anomalies comprise a wide range of abnormalities in body structure or function that are present at birth and are of prenatal origin. These are defined as structural changes that have significant medical, social or cosmetic consequences for the affected individual, and typically require medical intervention. …”
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Familial Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis Early in Life by Johannes Wirbelauer, Helge Hebestreit, Alexander Marx, Eugene J. Mark, Christian P. Speer

“…The first girl presented with increased O2 requirements shortly after birth and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). She subsequently developed progressive respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension and died at the age of five months. …”
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Incidence of ophthalmic manifestations in congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) by Jennifer L. Rossen, Abdelhamid Hindi, Safa Rahmani, Brenda L. Bohnsack

“…Methods Retrospective review of pediatric patients (< 18 years old, 2010–2023) with a diagnosis of congenital CMV and at least 1 eye examination. Gestational age at birth, systemic findings, and ophthalmic findings at initial and final eye examinations were collected. …”
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Clinical Outcomes in Patients Receiving Originator Follitropin Alfa and Follitropin Alfa Biosimilars in Real-world Clinical Practice: A Retrospective Study by Nayana Hitesh Patel, Niket H. Patel, Molina Niket Patel, Harsha K. Bhadarka, Kairavi Sunilkumar Vyas

“…Pregnancy rates and live birth rate (LBR) were the primary main outcome measures in this study. …”
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Classification of Stages 1,2,3 and Preplus, Plus disease of ROP using MultiCNN_LSTM classifier by Ranjana Agrawal, Sucheta Kulkarni, Madan Deshpande, Anita Gaikwad, Rahee Walambe, Ketan V. Kotecha

“…Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a retinal disorder that can cause blindness in premature infants with low birth weight. Early detection and timely treatment are crucial to prevent blindness associated with ROP. …”
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Circulating Levels of Inflammatory Markers in Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Theodora Boutsikou, George Mastorakos, Marialena Kyriakakou, Alexandra Margeli, Demetrios Hassiakos, Ioannis Papassotiriou, Christina Kanaka-Gantenbein, Ariadne Malamitsi-Puchner

“…We conclude that the lack of difference in hs-CRP, PAI-1 and S100B levels, between IUGR and AGA fetuses/neonates—despite the lower birth weight, reflecting reduced fat mass in the former—might indicate more intense adipose tissue and nervous system inflammation in IUGRs. …”
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Type II Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformation in an Esophageal Lung by Blanca Estela Martínez-Martínez, María Elena Yuriko Furuya, Irma Martínez-Muñiz, Mario H Vargas, Rosalinda Flores-Salgado

“…A seven-month-old girl, born prematurely (birth weight 1000 g) from a twin pregnancy, was admitted to hospital due to recurrent pneumonia and atelectasis. …”
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Inflammatory cytokines in newborn infants by A. Sarandakou, G. Giannaki, A. Malamitsi-Puchner, D. Rizos, E. Hourdaki, E. Protonotariou, I. Phocas

“…Serum levels of IL-1β, IL-6 and TNF-α were measured in 48 healthy, termed neonates on the 1st (N1), 5th (N5) and 40th (N40) day after birth, compared with those in maternal serum (MS), umbilical cord (UC) and adult controls. …”
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