GESTATIONAL - AGE - SPECIFIC REFERENCE INTERVALS FOR BLOOD PRESSURE IN NORMAL PREGNANCY IN A SOUTHERN CHINESE POPULATION

Gestational - age - specific reference intervals for blood pressure in normal pregnancy in a Southern Chinese population

Abstract Objective Physiological blood pressure changes in pregnancy are insufficiently defined.This paper describes the blood pressure changes across healthy pregnancies in a Southern Chinese population to present gestational - age - specific blood pressure ranges with smoothed centiles (3rd, 10th, 50th, 90th, and 97th).Methods Antenatal blood pre

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Cacao quality index for cacao agroecosystems in Bahia, Brazil

Brazil is increasingly committed to developing research on the quality of cacao.The objective of this work was to develop a new Cacao Quality Index (CQI) methodology with cacao industry, chocolate flavor, human health and food safety functions, and to show its results in different cacao agroecosystems from the humid region of Bahia.The typical Dyst

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Chinese and Indian Public Pension Systems and Universal Old-age Security in Times of Rapid Demographic Changes

India and China have become countries of rapid economic growth and at the same time of socio-economic contrast.The classical old-age security arrangement has focused mainly on the formal sector and excluded a majority of the population working in the informal sector.Consequently, along the road of economic growth, increasing living standards and hi

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