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Implications for the future of obstetrics and gynaecology following the COVID-19 pandemic: a commentary.
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. At the time of writing, more than 261,184 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the UK resulting in over 36,914 directly attributable deaths.1 The National Health Service (NHS) has been confronted with the unprecedented task of dealing with the enormity of the resultant morbidity and mortality. In addition, the workforce has been depleted as a direct consequence of the disease, in most cases temporarily, but in some tragic cases permanently
Estudo da técnica de denervação da cåpsula articular coxofemoral no tratamento da dor em cães com displasia coxofemoral: resultados preliminares
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Germplasm Acquisition and Distribution by CGIAR Genebanks
The international collections of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA)
hosted by 11 CGIAR Centers are important components of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organizationâs global system of conservation and use of PGRFA. They also play an important
supportive role in realizing Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper analyzes
CGIAR genebanksâ trends in acquiring and distributing PGRFA over the last 35 years, with a
particular focus on the last decade. The paper highlights a number of factors influencing the Centersâ
acquisition of new PGRFA to include in the international collections, including increased capacity
to analyze gaps in those collections and precisely target new collecting missions, availability of
financial resources, and the state of international and national access and benefit-sharing laws and
phytosanitary regulations. Factors contributing to Centersâ distributions of PGRFA included the
extent of accession-level information, usersâ capacity to identify the materials they want, and policies.
The genebanksâ rates of both acquisition and distribution increased over the last decade. The paper
ends on a cautionary note concerning the potential of unresolved tensions regarding access and
benefit sharing and digital genomic sequence information to undermine international cooperation to
conserve and use PGRFA
Paternal Body Mass Index (BMI) Is Associated with Offspring Intrauterine Growth in a Gender Dependent Manner
Background: Environmental alternations leading to fetal programming of cardiovascular diseases in later life have been attributed to maternal factors. However, animal studies showed that paternal obesity may program cardio-metabolic diseases in the offspring. In the current study we tested the hypothesis that paternal BMI may be associated with fetal growth. Methods and Results: We analyzed the relationship between paternal body mass index (BMI) and birth weight, ultrasound parameters describing the newbornâs body shape as well as parameters describing the newborns endocrine system such as cortisol, aldosterone, renin activity and fetal glycated serum protein in a birth cohort of 899 father/mother/child triplets. Since fetal programming is an offspring sex specific process, male and female offspring were analyzed separately. Multivariable regression analyses considering maternal BMI, paternal and maternal age, hypertension during pregnancy, maternal total glycated serum protein, parity and either gestational age (for birth weight) or time of ultrasound investigation (for ultrasound parameters) as confounding showed that paternal BMI is associated with growth of the male but not female offspring. Paternal BMI correlated with birth parameters of male offspring only: birth weight; biparietal diameter, head circumference; abdominal diameter, abdominal circumference; and pectoral diameter. Cortisol was likewise significantly correlated with paternal BMI in male newborns only
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