objective: the aim was to evaluate gender differences in depression scores of iranian and german medical students. methods: two hundred iranian medical students (100 men and 100 women) and 200 german medical students (100 men and 100 women) were selected randomly and completed the english form of the self-rating beck depression inventory (bdi). results: analysis gave a mean rating of 10.7 ± 6.6...

introduction: ureaplasma uriealyticum is one of the most important causes of nongonococcal and nonspecific urethritis (ngu & nsu) in men. mycoplasma hominis too has a causal role in ngu & nsu. this study aimed to investigate whether it is possible to detect mycoplasma hominis and ureaplasma uriealyticum in first voided urine samples in men suffering from ngu & nsu without complaints of urethral...

AIM The evaluation of the activity of selected elements of the immune system in depression. METHOD Lymphocyte subsets evaluation (CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, CD16+, CD19+, CD4/CD8) was performed in 32 patients with depression (21 women and 11 men in the age from 21 to 66 years) using the flow cytometry method. The cytokine evaluation (sIL-2R, IL-4, IL-6) was performed in 39 patients with depression (23...

Background: Infertility is a major worldwide problem which is caused by several factors such as environmental, physiological, and genetic conditions. Lycopene is considered to be one of the most important antioxidants that can contribute to reducing or preventing the psychological damage that leads to infertility. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of lycopene supplementatio...

introduction: based on the serious complications which are followed, hypertension is a common and asymptomatic health problem. this study aims to present a general statistics of the rate of the prevalence of systolic and diastolic hypertension in iranian men and women based on the age range through the systematic review and meta-analysis method. materials and methods: in this study of systemati...