Body Height - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Nutritional status at admission of children with cancer in Malawi.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Malnutrition at diagnosis is found in 10-50% of children with cancer in industrialized countries. In developing countries a large proportion of the normal paediatric population is undernourished and children with cancer often present ... Read more...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm events in the women's health initiative: cohort study.

12 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between potential risk factors and subsequent clinically important abdominal aortic aneurysm events (repairs and ruptures) in women. DESIGN: Large prospective observational cohort study with mean follow-up of ... Read more...

Longitudinal changes in obesity and body mass index among adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

29 Sep 2008 PURPOSE: We examined the rate of increase in the body mass index (BMI; kg/m(2)) after final height attainment in survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and a noncancer comparison group. METHODS: Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) is a ... Read more...

Learn Faster Today      Improve your study skills

Latest indexed articles for 'Body Height'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nutritional status at admission of children with cancer in Malawi. 30 Oct 2008
• Time to step up to the plate: adopting the WHO 2006 growth curves for US infants. 30 Oct 2008
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm events in the women's health initiative: cohort study. 12 Oct 2008
• Longitudinal changes in obesity and body mass index among adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 29 Sep 2008
• Can we predict neuropathy risk before stavudine prescription in a resource-limited setting? 29 Sep 2008
• Higher dose of docosahexaenoic acid in the neonatal period improves visual acuity of preterm infants: results of a randomized controlled trial. 29 Sep 2008
• Effect on growth of long-term treatment with intranasal triamcinolone acetonide aqueous in children with allergic rhinitis. 29 Sep 2008
• Weight, height, body mass index and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: a case-control study. 28 Sep 2008
• Confidence intervals for P(Y1>Y2) with normal outcomes in linear models. 18 Sep 2008
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 29-2008. A 19-year-old man with weight loss and abdominal pain. 16 Sep 2008
• Child-to-adult body mass index and height trajectories: a comparison of 2 British birth cohorts. 16 Sep 2008
• Screening rules for growth to detect celiac disease: a case-control simulation study. 9 Sep 2008
• Food frequency information--relationships to body composition and apparent growth in 4-year-old children in the Pacific Island Family Study. 3 Sep 2008
• Immediate postnatal growth is associated with blood pressure in young adulthood: the Barry Caerphilly Growth Study. 31 Aug 2008
• Malocclusion traits and orthodontic treatment needs in prematurely born children. 30 Aug 2008
• The impact of constipation on growth in children. 30 Aug 2008
• Self-reported illness and birth weight in the Philippines: implications for hypotheses of adaptive fetal plasticity. 30 Aug 2008
• Mixed-longitudinal growth of breastfeeding children in Moroto District, Uganda (Karamoja subregion). A loss of biological resiliency? 30 Aug 2008
• Secular changes in stature and body mass index for Chinese youth in sixteen major cities, 1950s-2005. 30 Aug 2008
• Dietary intake, overweight status, and perceptions of food insecurity among homeless Minnesotan youth. 30 Aug 2008

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Body Height'

Definition: The distance from the sole to the crown of the head with body standing on a flat surface and fully extended.

Descriptor UI: D001827

Alternative terms: Body Height; Body Heights; Height, Body; Heights, Body;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects; ethnology;

Tree Number: E01.370.600.115.100.160.100; E05.978.077.160.500; G07.100.100.160.100; G07.700.320.249.314.100;

Technical Notes: human only; for height or length of animals use animal /anat (IM) + BIOMETRY (NIM)