objective: patients with bipolar mood disorder constitute a relatively large number of individuals hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals. this disorder is highly co-morbid with other psychiatric disorders and may effect their clinical course. the goal of this study was to determine the co-occurrence rate of anxiety disorders and substance abuse with bipolar mood disorders and their impact on cl...

Fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a neoplastic disease that affects marine turtles worldwide, especially green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). FP tumors can develop on the body surface of marine turtles and also internally in the oral cavity and viscera. Depending on their quantity, size and anatomical distribution, these tumors can interfere with hydrodynamics and the ability to feed, hence scoring sy...

BACKGROUND the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Severity Score (IBSSS) is a questionnaire only available in English that classifies IBS patients according to the severity of their symptoms and can be used to guide and monitor the treatment. AIMS to adapt and validate into Spanish the English version of the IBSSS questionnaire. METHODS the Spanish version of the questionnaire was obtained through a ...

INTRODUCTION Renal involvement is the major cause of mortality and morbidity in children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura. The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive factors of Henoch-Schonlein nephritis (HSN) and correlations between clinical and pathologic findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS Demographic characteristics and clinical manifestations of 105 children with Henoch-Schonlei...

Learning disease severity scores automatically from collected measurements may aid in the quality of both healthcare and scientific understanding. Some steps in that direction have been taken and machine learning algorithms for extracting scoring functions from data have been proposed. Given the rapid increase in both quantity and diversity of data measured and stored, the large amount of infor...

Background: Psoriasis is a T cell-mediated autoimmune disease with elevated level of pro-inflammatory cytokines belonging mainly to Th1 pathway. We investigated whether treatment with micronutrients along with methotrexate (MTX) is able to modulate mRNA expression of Th1 and Th2 patterns and its correlation with disease severity. Methods: Thirty plaque type psoriasis patients with Psoriasis ...

decision trees as one of the data mining techniques, is used in credit scoring of bank customers. the main problem is the construction of decision trees in that they can classify customers optimally. this paper proposes an appropriate model based on genetic algorithm for credit scoring of banks customers in order to offer credit facilities to each class. genetic algorithm can help in credit sco...

Aim: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a frequent reason for patient presentation in emergency department. It hard to assess objectively the grade of disease due wide range clinical signs terms determination need intensive care or surgical intervention. At this stage there not unique, unified scoring system that determines severity disease. In study we aimed compare clinically used AP systems; Ranson,...