Is endocrine ophthalmopathy related to smoking?

Is stress management related to workforce productivity?

The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between stressmanagement and workforce productivity of Amol Industrial Park located inMazandaran Province. The total population size in the research was 250 from topmanagers, middle managers and supervisors responsible in the before-mentionedIndustrial Park and the sample size was determined through Morgan samplepopulation volume table ...

Smoking and endocrine disorders.

Patients suffering from endocrine disorders, which affect the function of central nervous system, need a special care and approach in the process of smoking cessation. The process of informing about negative effects of smoking addiction, including potential aggravation of the disease, has to be specially tailored to the need of the patient and the type of the disease. The informing physician sh...

Is smoking related to lower sperm count in men?

Thyroid autoimmunity and ophthalmopathy related to melanoma biological therapy.

OBJECTIVE Ipilimumab is a fully human MAB against cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4). CTLA4 negatively regulates immune cell activation. In patients with metastatic melanoma, ipilimumab increases survival time and induces complete remission in some patients. However, immune-related adverse events including endocrinopathies have been reported. Bevacizumab, an angiogenesis inhibitor, has be...

Graves' ophthalmopathy--immunologic parameters related to corticosteroid therapy.

Patients with severe Graves' ophthalmopathy may or may not improve with systemic corticosteroids. In an attempt to find immunologic distinctions to correspond with this clinical phenomenon, we have evaluated various parameters in corticosteroid-responsive and corticosteroid-resistant individuals. Percentages and absolute numbers of thymus-derived active and total rosette-forming cells (A-RFC an...