زمینه و هدف: افزایش عوامل التهابی متعاقب چاقی از دلایل اصلی مرگ‌ومیر است. اگرچه نقش تمرینات ورزشی، محدودیت کالریک مکمل‌های ضداکسایشی در این گزارش شده است، اثر همزمان هر سه مداخله مورد توجه پژوهشگران زیادی ازاین‌رو هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی هشت هفته تمرین تناوبی شدید، کالری مکمل اسپرولینا بر بافت قلب موش‌های صحرایی تحت رژیم غذای پرچرب بود.مواد روش‌ها: 45 سر موش نر چاق‌شده با غذایی (60 درصد چربی، 20 پ...

Background: Cobalamin deficiency and peripheral neuropathy (PN) are commonly seen in HIV-infected adults. The level of urine methylmalonic acid (UMMA), a reliable indicator of tissue cobalamin status, was determined in HIV infected subjects with and without PN to establish this association. Methods: One hundred and ninety-eight (198) consenting HIV infected subjects with and without PN were rec...

We decompose the Lorenz curve and its associated concentration curve by population subgroups. To illustrate these decompositions, we examine changes in earnings inequality among West Germans, East Germans, and foreign guest workers during the recent German unification. We show that East German earnings have become less concentrated in the lower deciles of the overall German earnings distributio...

BACKGROUND Health professionals, policy-makers and researchers need to be able to explore potential associations between prevalence rates and quality of care with a range of possible determinants including socio-economic deprivation and morbidity levels to determine the impact of commissioning and service delivery. In the UK, data in England are only available nationally at practice postcode le...

INTRODUCTION Medical schools are in general over-represented by students from high socio-economic status backgrounds. The University of Western Australia Medical School has been progressively widening the participation of students from a broader spectrum of the community both through expanded selection criteria and quota-based approaches for students of rural, indigenous and other socio-educati...