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Obesity in children and adolescents and their parents: correlation of patients' body mass index with that of their parents and siblings recorded in the multicentre APS study
No full textBackground: Obesity in children and adolescents is moving into the focus of public interest. Genetic as well as environmental factors are important in the etiology of obesity. The aim of this multicentre study was to correlate the weight of overweight or obese children and adolescents with that of their parents and siblings. Patients and Methods: Anthropometric and other data - comorbidities, various influencing factors and treatment - were collected from the adiposity data acquisition system for prospective surveillance (APS). Currently 125 medical centers and pediatric care clinics in Germany, Austria and Switzerland use the APS documentation. Until February 2008 data on a total of 37,062 children and adolescents had been collected. Results: Data to calculate the Body Mass Index (BMI) were obtained from both parents of 11,074 (29,9%) children and adolescents. The mean BMI Standard Deviation Score (SDS) of these children and adolescents was 2.46. Their mean age was 11.9 years-, 46% were males. The mean BMI-SDS of these children and adolescents correlated significantly with the BMI-SDS of both the mother (r=0.29 [Spearman's rank correlation coefficient]) and the father (r=018, both p<0.0001). The correlation with the father's BMI was closer in adolescents (15-20 years, r=0.20) than in young children (<10 years: r=0.12). The correlation with the mothers BMI was independent of age. A multivariate model including the BMI of the parents as well as age and sex of the children and adolescents explained 10.0% of the variance. Significant influencing factors were BMI of the mother, sex and the relationship between BMI of mother, age and sex. Data for the BMI of siblings were available of 3,933 (10.6 %) children and adolescents. The correlation of the BMI of the children and adolescents with that of their siblings was +0.17 (p<0.0001). This correlation was highest in adolescence (<10 years.: r=0.17, 15-20 years.: r=0.24, both p<0.0001). Conclusion: The patient's weight correlated more strongly with the mother's than the father's weight or that of the siblings
UDPgalactose epimerase in lens and fibroblasts: Activity expression in patients with cataracts and mental retardation
No full textThe birth and early years of INA, the International Neurotoxicology Association
No full textAbstractThe International Neurotoxicology Association (INA) is a scientific society whose members have interest and expertise in the discipline of neurotoxicology. The idea of forming INA was born in 1984, as a follow-up to a NATO-sponsored meeting on Toxicology of the Nervous System. INA held its first meeting in the Netherlands in 1987 and has had continuous meetings every other year since then. INA is registered as a scientific society in the Netherlands, and is an affiliated society of IUTOX. This paper presents a personal account of the events that led to the birth of INA, and of the first fifteen years of this association
Koło się zamyka
No full textIna Söllner was one of Schulz’s young sitters. As an adult person, she discovered in her autograph book a portrait of her mother, Ina, made by Schulz. The drawing called The King of Frogs [Żabi król] and a dedication referring to her mother sitting provoke the author to analyze her family connections with Schulz. Even though she does not remember her meeting with the artist, she reconstructs Schulz’s place in her biography and the circumstances under which they might have met
Pioneering Doktormutter Remembering Ina-Maria Greverus
No full textThe author reconsiders German scholar Ina-Maria Greverus as a committed feminist supporter of female doctoral students and early career academics. Greverus acted as an innovator especially in the realms of anthropology and aesthetics, and initiated a new international dialogue forum with the Anthropological Journal or European Cultures, which she founded in 1990 together with Christian Giordano.</p
The Circle Closes
No full textIna Söllner was one of Schulz’s young sitters. As an adult person, she discovered in her autograph book a portrait of her mother, Ina, made by Schulz. The drawing called The King of Frogs [Żabi król] and a dedication referring to her mother sitting provoke the author to analyze her family connections with Schulz. Even though she does not remember her meeting with the artist, she reconstructs Schulz’s place in her biography and the circumstances under which they might have met
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle discusses the life of the author and her family after homesteading in Logan County, Oklahoma Territory. Ina Robinson discusses the difficulties faced on the frontier, the people they encountered there, education available, and social life
La Cañada Drive, River Road to Ina Road
No full texttableOfContents: The Pima County Department of Transportation proposes to widen approximately 2.7 miles of La Cañada Drive from a two-lane arterial road into a four-lane arterial road between River Road and Ina Road. The project also includes the installation of a closed stormwater collection and conveyance system, installation of culverts to create an all-weather roadway, and addition of curbs, sidewalks, bike lanes, and a public use trail
Ina M. McCausland Correspondence
No full textEntry is a letter from the Maine State Library in receipt of a book for the Maine Author Collection
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