conclusions although older patients need more self-care and the quality of this self-care originates from their attitude toward cvd risk factors, their lack of awareness about the main risk factor of their condition is a major challenge for secondary prevention measures. in addition, younger patients’ significant emphasis on biological risk factors as uncorrectable factors can reduce their sens...

background and aim: more than 50% of road fatalities occur in the 15 to 44-years old which are the young and active group of the society. one of the effective ways to reduce road accidents is using safety belts. in this study the rate of seat belt use and its associated factors have been estimated in the 15 to 44-years old of kerman. materials and methods: this study was a cross-sectional descr...

background : the pathologies classified as urinary tract infections (uti) can have a deleterious effect on patients who have undergone a renal transplantation.  often recurrent utis will occur, leading to high morbidity, failure of the grafting process overall and even death.  the study presented here seeks to expand the knowledge of recurrent utis in the context of renal transplantation, what ...

BACKGROUND Severe necrotizing pneumococcal pneumonia may progress to the development of bronchopleural fistula (BPF). The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical courses and identify risk factors for the development of bronchopleural fistula in children with pneumococcal pneumonia. Histopathologic features of children receiving surgical resections of the lung because of BPF were anal...

background there is evidence of a possible etiological role of human papillomaviruses (hpvs) in the development of colorectal cancer. loss of p53 tumor suppressor gene function has been found in many malignancies and it can occur in a variety of ways, including gene mutation and interaction with the e6 protein of oncogenic hpvs. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of hpv...

conclusions this study showed that some lifestyle factors, particularly exposure to radiation, chemicals, pesticides, and contact with pets or livestock, can play an important role in etiology of leukemia. results exposure to radiation (p = 0.0001), chemicals (p = 0.02), pesticides (p = 0.01), and contact with pets or livestock (p = 0.0001) were associated with the risk of leukemia, but a histo...

conclusions our study showed severe neonate indirect hyperbilirubinemia is still prevalence in fars province and ethnic and cultural background of the mothers was more effective than school education in preventing hyperbilirubinemia complication. patients and methods all infants less than 28 days referred due to severe indirect hyperbilirubinemia were included. complete history, physical examin...

objective: the study focuses on psychosocial variables related to suicide ideation in young soldiers. method: 1329 soldiers were randomly selected from the infantry forces in different regions. all the soldiers were requested to complete the beck scale for suicide ideation (bssi) as well as general health questionnaire (ghq-28). data were analyzed using correlation tests. results: the results r...

background: anemia in pregnancy is associated with increased rates of maternal and perinatal mortality. objective: to study the prevalence and risk factors of women with anemia during pregnancy in kerman iran. materials and methods: a retrospective cross-sectional study was performed based on 2213 pregnancies delivered during the years 2005-2007 in kerman iran. women with hemoglobinopathies suc...

Immunohistochemical reactivity with OKT9 (antitransferrin receptor) monoclonal antibody was studied in 58 surgically resected adenocarcinomas of the lung. The cell surface and cytoplasm of the tumor cells were stained in 44 cases (76 percent). The expression of the transferrin receptor (TrfR) in tumor cells was compared with histopathologic prognostic factors, such as TNM factors, degree of his...