Background and Objectives Chronic inflammation is associated with the development of various diseases, including atherosclerosis diabetes. The aim this study was to investigate effect longterm selected aerobic exercises on changes in cystatin C homocysteine inactive overweight middle-aged women. Subjects Methods Thirty non-athlete women (mean age: 46.06±6.97 years, weight: 71.82±9.11 kg, height...

we have studied the patients who had a neck mass on presentation in five medical centers of tehran univ. of medical sciences (infectious disease department, ent department, dentistry faculty, cancer institute) during a period of 14 months. sixty patients, 20 women and 40 men, were eligible for our study. all patients underwent clinical and paraclinical work up and finally had histologic diagnos...

OBJECTIVE Vaccination of young women (15-25 years of age) against human papillomavirus (HPV) has been shown to be very efficacious in preventing the development of moderate or severe cervical precancerous lesions associated with HPV-16 or -18. As the highest rates of new infections with high-risk (i.e., oncogenic) HPV types occur in the first years following sexual debut, most existing guidelin...

Arterial velocity pulse index (AVI) and arterial pressure-volume index (API), new indicators of arterial stiffness, are risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease. Regular aerobic exercise decreases arterial stiffness. In fact, pulse wave velocity (PWV), index of arterial stiffness, is lower in endurance-trained than in untrained young adults. However, the effect of regular aero...

Clinical and necropsy findings are described in 37 patients with grossly visible myocardial infarcts. At the time of the first infarct, the 31 men ranged in age from 25 to 72 years (mean, 47) and the 6 women, from 50 to 70 years (mean, 56). The interval from the first clinically apparent acute myocardial infarct to death varied from 2 to 28 years (mean, 13) and was >or=10 years in 24 of 32 pati...

in this study which was carried out in 1974 in isphahan, 3,000 married women between the ages of 15 to 44 who were the residents of the city of isphahan and a similar group of women who were residents of the villages surrounding the city were interviewed. results indicate that the average and the median of age at the first marriage had been increasing steadily since 1959 for the city women and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of and risk factors for preterm labor (< 37 weeks of gestation) among young pregnant women in Brazil. METHODS A national cross-sectional study was conducted among parturient women aged 15-24 years attending Brazilian public maternities in 2009. Questionnaires were administered by interviewers during parturient admission to the maternity clinic (or soon af...

background: inhibitory antibody to exogenous factor viii (fviii) is a major complication of hemophilia treatment. this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of inhibitor antibody directed against fviii.methods: from may 2010 to may 2011, 52 patients with severe hemophilia a admitted in amirkola children’s hospital were evaluated. those who had abnormal mixing study, antibody against f...