ABSTRACT
Effects of Norethisterone Enanthate (an injectable contraceptive) on body weight, blood pressure, blood cell count, level of haemoglobin, fasting blood sugar and serum cholesterol were studied in 31 women. It was observed that in the successful acceptors the pregnancy rate was nil. No appreciable change could be found in the body functions studied.
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Adult , Blood Cells/drug effects , Blood Glucose , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Body Weight/drug effects , Cholesterol/blood , Family Planning Services , Female , Humans , Injections, Intramuscular , Norethindrone/pharmacology , Parity , PregnancySubject(s)
Adult , Bangladesh , Calorimetry , Diet , Eating , Employment , Energy Intake , Energy Metabolism , Humans , Social ClassSubject(s)
Animals , Aspirin/administration & dosage , Female , Hysterectomy , Luteolytic Agents/administration & dosage , Pituitary Hormones, Posterior/administration & dosage , Prostaglandins F/administration & dosage , Pseudopregnancy/drug effects , Rats , Reserpine/administration & dosage , Tissue Extracts/administration & dosage , UterusABSTRACT
No information is available on energy expenditure and dietary intake of Bangladesh population carried out simultaneously. As a preliminary step in this direction, forty volunteers mostly from the low socio-economic groups were subjected to these studies for a 3-4 day period. Indirect calorimetric method was used for the measurement of oxygen consumption and energy expenditure. Actual weighing of food articles were carried out before consumption and values calculated from standard tables. It was found that values obtained during rest like sitting and lying including basal metabolic rate (BMR) fell within values reported in the literature. Resting energy expenditure, however, tended to rise in the later part of the day and the degree of physical activity carried out by the subjects. Rickshawpedalling required 6.66 Kcal/min to be expended without passenger and 7.84 Kcal/min with two passengers. Cartpulling required 5.5 Kcal/min without load compared to 6.08 Kcal/min with a load of 350 kg. The small difference was obviously due to a reduction in the speed of cartpulling. This was, however, not true with rickshawpedallers. Dietary intake showed that all the subjects were getting a low protein and low fat diet and that carbohydrates were the main source (over 80%) of calories. The doctors were the only group receiving some animal protein and the cartpullars eating almost none. The number of calories taken were consistent with their activities. One rickshawpedaller had an unusually high intake of over 6000 calories daily.