this systematic review was conducted to develop a conceptual framework that addresses various factors associated with return to work among cancer survivors. databases medline, embase, proquest, pubmed and sciencedirect were systematically searched using medical subject headings [mesh] for studies published in english from 1990 to 2013. studies that described adult cancer patients’ self-reported...

purpose: myocardial infarction is among the most common diagnoses in patients admitted   to hospitals in western countries, and its rapid diagnosis is of utmost importance. this study   was conducted to determine the most sensitive double-marker cardiac isoenzyme of creatinine   kinase, troponin i, and myoglobin for diagnosing acute myocardial infarction.   materials and methods: this was an ob...

abstract background: obesity represents one of the most important nutritional problems worldwide.obesity in childhood can cause variety of health issues such as orthopedic, neurological, pulmonary and gastroenterological disorders in the future, although no side effects were reported from malignant obesity during childhood. in this paper, we presented a computer-aided diagnosis system to predic...

the purpose of this paper was to determine the factors affecting farmers’ satisfaction from water users associations (wuas) in the harran plain-turkey. the data used in this study come from a sample of 378 farmers among 23,204 in the şanlıurfa-harran plain. they were chosen via simple random sampling method and interviewed face to face. sampling was conducted in 52% of the settlements. to analy...

introduction: the aims of the study were to investigate the health-related quality of life (hrqol) in students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences (iran) and to identify factors that might have associated with their hrqol. materials & methods: in 2010, 364 students with a cluster sampling method enrolled in the cross- sectional study. hrqol was assessed by using sf-39 questionnair...