background: dietary diversity score (dds) measurement was used to assessment of diet quality in different disease like cardiovascular disease. one way to improve the cardiovascular patient's ability is cardiac rehabilitation program that include exercise training, nutrition consultation and psychological treatment. no study was designed to compare the dds before and after dietary consultation a...

objective: to evaluate the adnexal masses with conventional gray scale and color doppler flow imaging and to assess their diagnostic reliability to differentiate benign and malignant adnexal masses. materials and methods: we evaluated 30 patients with adnexal mass. morphological characterization of the mass was done using sassone score. color doppler parameters noted down in each patient and ca...

the purpose of this study was to analyse the prevalence of postmenopausal osteoporosis risk factors and to analyse the t-score variability in spine and hip according to the associated risk factors.this is a retrospective study (2003-2007) including 177 female patients with postmenopausal osteoporosis. the patients were separated in seven groups according to the number of risk factors per case. ...

serum level of zinc, copper, β-carotene, vitamin a, and concentrations of zn and cu in hoof of 97multiparous holstein dairy cows with different locomotion scores (lss) were evaluated. simultaneously, znand cu concentrations of close up, fresh and high yielding cattle rations were 77, 94, 75 and 31, 28, 22 ppm, respectively. based on lss, despite normal serum copper levels in all three groups, w...

the objective of the present study was to determine factors affecting body condition score (bcs) and its association with productive and reproductive performances in holstein cows. mixed model analysis was performed on monthly records of bcs from april 2006 to july 2012 comprising 34666 records from 3134 dairy cows in a large commercial dairy herd under arid climatic conditions of isfahan in ir...

introduction: hospitals are often considered to be the forefront of countering incidents, some of which result from a wide range of incidents including industrial accidents, natural outbreaks of disease, and regional accidents called chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (cbrn) accidents. this study was conducted to assess the level of preparedness, capacity, and capability of respond...

The protein quality of the liquid diet Two Cal HN was evaluated by plasma amino acid (PAA) ratio and by chemical score. The PAA test was performed in young healthy men, elderly healthy men, and elderly institutionalized, tube-fed men. In all three groups the PAA ratio for tryptophan was negative, indicating a deficiency of this amino acid in the formula's protein. But the amino acid score for t...

In the field of applied researches in heritage science, the use of multivariate approach is still quite limited and often chemometric results obtained are often underinterpreted. Within this scenario, the present paper is aimed at disseminating the use of suitable multivariate methodologies and proposes a procedural workflow applied on a representative group of case studies, of considerable imp...

background: exposure to chemical warfare gases significantly changes the quality of life (qol) of victims and has significant chronic adverse effects. objective: this study sought to assess the health-related qol (hrqol) of chemical victims by means of a tool specifically designed for this purpose. the correlation of their qol with several demographic factors was evaluated as well. patients and...