COVID-19 in Italy: Is the Mortality Analysis a Way to Estimate How the Epidemic Lasts?

When an epidemic breaks out, many health, economic, social, and political problems arise that require a prompt and effective solution. It would be useful to obtain all information about the virus, including epidemiological ones, as soon as possible. In a previous study of our group, the analysis of the positive-alive was proposed to estimate the epidemic duration.

Proposal of a Mathematical Model to Monitor Body Mass over Time in Subjects on a Diet.

Nowadays, slimming diet methodology works within a reduction of body mass using a decrease of dietary energy intake. However, there is no suitable method for understanding the dynamic process of body mass metabolic transformation over time. In the present paper, we have developed a biomathematic model to explain the temporal trend of body mass and its variations of people who have undergone a change in their diet using the solving equation of the model.

Are There Any Parameters Missing in the Mathematical Models Applied in the Process of Spreading COVID-19?

On 11 March 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). As of 12.44 GMT on 15 January 2021, it has produced 93,640,296 cases and 2,004,984 deaths.

The BFMNU method as an alternative to the methods in use based on energy: study of the correlation between food energy and body mass.

Introduction: to establish slimming guidelines and any other changing treatments is useful to know the individual's energy expenditure due to the fact that, nowadays, the incidence of many diseases related to the loss of lean mass and the accumulation of adipose tissue has increased. The dietary treatments are carried out on calculating the energy contained in food, and then put in relation to the total energy expended by the body in order to produce changes in body mass.

Objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the food energy and body mass of different subjects in various pathophysiological conditions.

Assessment of body composition, through anthropometric and non-anthropometric methods, of university students from valencia (Spain).

Introduction And Objective: The valuation of anthropometric and nutritional status of the university population is important to detect risk groups and so make nutritional recommendations. The aim of the study was to analyze the body composition and the fat component in a group of university students and to evaluate their basal metabolism to see if there was a correlation with the body composition. The study was carried out through different methods, to determine if the results obtained are comparable.

Reversal of bone marrow hypoplasia in anorexia nervosa: case report.

Background: Bone marrow hypoplasia seems to be uncommon in anorexia nervosa. This marrow abnormality is rapidly reversible with intensive nutritional rehabilitation. The patient described in this case report had anorexia nervosa.

Body size perception and dissatisfaction in female subjects of different ages.

The relationships between age and both body size estimation and body dissatisfaction were assessed by Distorting Television Image Method (DTIM) and Body Cathexis Scale (BCS) in a sample of 96 female subjects of ages ranging from 7 to 65 years. We found that there were no significant body distortion differences between different age ranges, although the most accurate perception seemed to occur during adolescence. As far as DTIM assessment of body dissatisfaction was concerned, adolescents showed no significantly greater aesthetic preoccupation than subjects of other age groups.

Diethylhexylphthalate (DEHP) and triethylhexyltrimellitate (TEHT) PVC plasticizers assay in blood.

The interest in the PVC biocompatibility of the apparatus used both for dialysis and any other extracorporeal blood circulation is so real that a method to determine PVC plasticizer concentration in blood is properly needed. The described method might be easier than other ones we are allowed to use at the moment.

[Blood prolactin-lowering activity of dihydroergocristine].

The prolactin lowering activity of dihydroergocristine, a dihydrogenated ergopeptine derivative, was evaluated in male rats. The drug caused a significant decrease of prolactin levels both in the normoprolactinemic animals and in reserpine-induced hyperprolactinaemia at 5 mg/kg p.o.

Rifamycin SV in the Treatment of Knee Synovitis.

Rifamycin SV, injected intraarticularly at dosages of 500 mg weekly, induced a complete removal of persistent knee effusions in 57 of 60 rheumatoid patients, and in all patients with effusions due to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (three), ankylosing spondylitis (three), psoriatic arthritis (10), intermittent hydrarthrosis (two) and chondromatosis (two). One rheumatoid patient did not respond to treatment, and two dropped out because of local side effects. The number of infiltrations varied between three and 12, and was correlated with activity grade of local synovitis (P < .

Serum kinetics and urinary metabolism of dimethophrine in rat.

The serum kinetics and urinary metabolism of an a-sympathomimetic amine 1-(3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-monomethyl-amino-ethanol (dimethophrine) were studied. For serum kinetics, seven groups of 6 rats were sacrificed at 0.083, 1, 2, 2, 4, 6 and 12 H, respectively, after tail administration of dimethophrine-7-3H.