background: chronic graft versus host disease (cgvhd) is one of the most serious potential complications of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. study design and method: we analyzed the incidence of cgvhd and its associated risk factors in a group of 161 iranian recipients of hla-identical sibling transplants, with at least 90 days post-transplantation survival. in the majority of cases (n=7...

OBJECTIVE This study was to determine the optimal dosage of ondansetron for preventing maternal hypotension during cesarean delivery. METHODS One hundred and fifty parturient women scheduled for elective cesarean section were randomly assigned to five groups (n=30). Five minutes prior to spinal anesthesia, women were injected with 5 ml of physiological saline (S), 2 mg (O2), 4 mg (O4), 6 mg (...

background crocus sativus l. (saffron), which belongs to the iridaceae family, is widely cultivated in iran. cardiovascular effects of saffron has been established in some studies but the effects of chronic administration of saffron (c. sativus) stigma aqueous extract on blood pressure has not been investigated. objectives in this study the effects of saffron (c. sativus) stigma aqueous extract...

background: there are many controversies reported about the association between blood lead levels and blood pressure among lead exposed workers. studies have suggested incorporating lifestyle factors along with blood lead levels. the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of lead exposure on blood pressure changes among lead exposed workers in contemplation of lifestyle factors. materials a...

BACKGROUND We investigated the association between maternal anthropometric measurements in prepregnancy and at the end of pregnancy and their children's systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure at 11 years of age, in a prospective cohort study. METHODS All hospital births which took place in 1993 in the city of Pelotas-Brazil, were identified (5,249 live births). In 2004, the overall...

AIMS To determine the factors that affect why some infants receive higher exposures relative to the mother's body burden than do others. METHODS A total of 159 mother-infant pairs from a cohort of women receiving prenatal care at Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA from 1992 to 1995 provided blood samples at delivery for lead determination. The difference between cord and maternal blood l...

An accumulating body of evidence suggests that offspring of mothers with preeclampsia have higher blood pressure during childhood and young adulthood compared with women without preeclampsia. However, the evidence with regard to offspring glucose metabolism and lipids is more scant. We examined whether maternal hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (preeclampsia and gestational hypertension) are ...

BACKGROUND Maternal blood pressures in pregnancy is an important determinant of offspring size at birth. However, the relationship between maternal blood pressures and offspring's size at birth is not consistent and may vary between ethnic groups. We examined the relationship between maternal peripheral and central blood pressures and offspring size at birth in an Asian multi-ethnic cohort, and...

This study aims to determine whether variables reflecting an adverse intrauterine environment are associated with childhood blood pressure. The authors conducted a secondary analysis of data from a prospective cohort of children born to healthy, nulliparous women enrolled in a randomized controlled trial. A total of 518 children were traced in 1995-1996 from 614 eligible children born in a clin...

Maternal effects on blood pressure response to high salt diet were evaluated using inbred Dahl salt-sensitive (S/JR) and inbred Dahl salt-resistant (R/JR) rats. A cross-fostering experiment did not yield any evidence for a consistent effect of strain-specific fostering environments on the subsequent blood pressure response of S/JR or R/JR rats. A small increment in blood pressure seen only in m...