Inclusion criteria included: (1) presence of anorexia, defined as >3 on a visual analogue scale; (2) loss of 5% or more of their pre-illness body weight; (3) ability to maintain oral intake, (4) normal cognition, defined as a normal Mini-Mental State examination (Periera et al, 1998) for age and level of education and (5) ability and willingness to give written, informed consent.
And the so-called normal weight defined as a body mass index, or B.M.I., of 18 to 25 is impossible for many people to maintain.
The relative duplicate error was used to assess test-retest reproducibility of the PD100Rint, EI (assuming a normal distribution), defined as a standard deviation of the differences divided by the v2 after log transformation (approximates coefficient of variation)[ 18].
In sensitivity analyses, we will evaluate the intervention effect in: 1) patients who are of normal weight (defined as a maximum BMI of 25 kg/m), 2) trials published as full paper articles and 3) trials with a low risk of bias.
There were two intrapartum outcomes: ' epidural/spinal and/or narcotic pain relief during labour'; and a composite maternal measure ' normal birth' (defined as a pregnancy with a gestational duration of 37 to 41 weeks followed by a vaginal birth with vertex presentation after the spontaneous onset of labour) [ 26].
The estimated PAR percentage for being overweight or obese during pregnancy ranged from 23% for Asians to 65% for African Americans, suggesting that the proportion of GDM that could theoretically have been prevented if all women had been normal weight (defined as a BMI <25.0 kg/m) is much lower among Asian women.
Hyperacusis has several definitions, but all of them include intolerance to "normal" sounds [ 1]. "Normal" is defined as an intensity or volume of a perceived sound that would not bother a person with "standard" hearing.
The thresholds for each laboratory test are listed in annex and any elevation or reduction according to the threshold of normal was defined as an abnormality.
The control subjects (n = 58) were frequency matched according to gestational weeks ± 2 weeks and consisted of women with normal pregnancies defined as an uncomplicated progress throughout the whole pregnancy, with delivery after 37 weeks of gestation of an infant not small for gestational age (defined as birth weight >2 SDs below mean birth weight for gestational age of the reference population).
