CARDIOMETABOLIC OUTCOMES OF WOMEN EXPOSED TO HYPERGLYCAEMIA FIRST DETECTED IN PREGNANCY AT 3-6 YEARS POST-PARTUM IN AN URBAN SOUTH AFRICAN SETTING.

Cardiometabolic outcomes of women exposed to hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy at 3-6 years post-partum in an urban South African setting.

BackgroundHyperglycaemia first detected during pregnancy(HFDP) has far-reaching maternal consequences beyond the pregnancy.Our study evaluated the cardiometabolic outcomes in women with prior HFDP versus women without HFDP 3-6 years post-partum in urban South Africa.Design and methodsA prospective cohort study was performed of 103 black African wom

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The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and U.S. Hospital Operations

The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 initiated several changes to Medicare payment policy in an effort to slow the growth of hospital Medicare payments and ensure the future of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.Although subsequent federal legislation relaxed some original proposals, restored funds were limited and directed to specific typ

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Chaotic Dynamics by Some Quadratic Jerk Systems

2004 hyundai santa fe catalytic converter This paper is about the dynamical evolution of a family of chaotic jerk systems, which have different attractors for varying values of parameter a.By using Hopf bifurcation analysis, bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov exponents, and cross sections, both self-excited and hidden attractors are explored.The self-e

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Spatial Vantage Points in Norwegian Sign Language

Previous studies on perspective in spatial signed language descriptions suggest a basic dichotomy between either a route or a survey perspective, which entails either the signer being tzora feather light scooter conceptualized as a mobile agent within a life-sized scene or the signer in a fixed position as an external observer of a scaled-down scen

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