Impact of dietary folate intake on depressive symptoms in young women of reproductive age.

Introduction: Folate deficiencies may be linked to depressive disorders among persons suffering from neurological and psychiatric problems. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impact of dietary folate intake on depressive symptoms in young Japanese women of reproductive age.

Methods: The study was conducted in Japan in 2009 with 141 Japanese women aged 18 to 28 years.

Risk factors for term small for gestational age infants in women with low prepregnancy body mass index.

Aim: The purpose of our study was to investigate the association between low maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) less than 18.5 kg/m(2) and the incidence of small for gestational age (SGA) infants.

Material & Methods: This was a cross-sectional study.

Diagnosis of pancreatic tuberculosis by combined, contrast-enhanced sonography and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration.

A 79-year-old woman complaining of epigastric pain was examined by her local physician, who found an abdominal mass and referred the patient to our department. Abdominal plain computed tomography revealed a mass, 50 mm in size, with slight calcification on the ventral side of the head of the pancreas. On abdominal ultrasound, the mass lesion consisted of an aggregation of hypoechoic masses, with a heterogeneous hyperechoic region at its center.