Differences and Relationship between Body Composition and Motor Coordination in Children Aged 6-7 Years.

Background: The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between body composition and motor coordination performance, and the secondary goal was to determine sex differences in body composition and motor coordination of preschool children.

Methods: Forty-eight children (23 boys and 25 girls) underwent assessments for body composition and motor coordination using the Köperkoordinationstest für Kinder (KTK).

Results: Linear regression analysis revealed significant associations between body composition and motor coordination in boys ( < 0.

Association of age at menopause and age at menarche with later-life skeletal fragility fractures in Bosnian postmenopausal women.

Aim To investigate the effects of estrogen-related events (age at menopause, age at menarche) on later-life skeletal fragility in Bosnian postmenopausal women. Methods A total of 100 postmenopausal Bosnian women, aged between 55 and 75 years, were included. The women in the study group (n=50) had fragility fractures, and in the control group (n=50) were without fragility fractures.

Differences in Driving Anger among Professional Drivers: A Cross-Cultural Study.

Public transport systems have a vital role in achieving sustainable mobility goals, diminishing reliance on private individual transport and improving overall public health. Despite that, transport operators are often in situations that require them to cope with complex working conditions that lead to negative emotions such as anger. The current study represents a segment of the permanent global research agenda that seeks to devise and test a psychometric scale for measuring driving anger in professional drivers.

Serum levels of nitric oxide and endothelin-1 in vasculopathy managed with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

Roles of nitric oxide (NO) and endothelin-1 (ET-1) in the local regulation of blood flow under physiological conditions are important and well known, while data on their effects and interactions in conditions of hyperbaric hyperoxia is still insufficient. This was a prospective observational study which included patients who underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in accordance with existing therapeutic protocol for peripherial arterial disease (PAD) during time period of six months, between january and july of 2016. Clinical stage of PAD according to Fontain was taken into account, as well as risk factors, demographic, anthropometric and clinical characteristics of studied patients.

The Effect of Hypoalbuminemia on the Therapeutic Concentration and Dosage of Vancomycin in Critically Ill Septic Patients in Low-Resource Countries.

Purpose: To determine whether severe hypoalbuminemia (<25 mg/L) has a significant effect on serum levels of vancomycin and whether it can effect vancomycin dosage regimen and the loading dose administration.

Material And Methods: Prospective, cohort, and a single-center study included 61 patients whose vancomycin serum levels were measured in steady state. Vancomycin trough levels ( ) that were in the range 15 to 20 µg/mL were considered therapeutic and trough levels higher than 15 µg/mL were considered potentially nephrotoxic.

Predictive significance of tissue hypoperfusion markers in different shock types in low income countries.

The most common condition that brings patients to the medical intensive care unit (MICU) is hemodynamic instability, accompanied by tissue hypoperfusion. In order to make easier and quicker diagnosis of this syndrome marker tissue hypoperfusion is monitored. The aim of this study is to determine the prognostic significance of the level of lactate, lactate clearance, central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO) and venous-to-arterial carbon dioxide difference (∆pCO) in two time periods in critically ill patients with acute circulatory failure in low income countries.

Microorganisms Profile and Antibiotics Sensitivity Patterns in the Only Medical Intensive Care Unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Treatment of critically ill patients entails a great risk for intrahospital infections. Systematic monitoring of intrahospital infection data is a widely used practice in developed countries, while in developing and underdeveloped countries these data are scarce. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, a developing country, precise data cannot be found; hence, this study was created with the aim to monitor the profile and resistance patterns of microorganisms isolated from patients being treated in the only medical intensive care unit (MICU) in the country.

Gender Representation of Osteoporosis in Patients with Urolithiasis.

Introduction: A great number of clinical studies has indicated that the patients with calcium urolithiasis have a reduced mineral bone density.

Aim: The aim of our research was to establish representation of osteoporosis, by measuring mineral bone density using the DEXA method, in patients with calcium urolithiasis, by gender.

Material And Methods: The research was a prospective one, performed at the University Hospital of the Clinical Center of Banja Luka, at the Urology Clinic and Clinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases.

Self-reported and observed seat belt use--A case study: Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The issue of seat belt use in middle- and low-income countries is strongly evident and has as a result higher rates of fatalities and seriously injured on the roads. The first systematic field research of the seat belt use while driving was carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2011-2012. Research methodology consisted of two mutually conditioned parts (observation and self-reported behavior).