Method: The study is based upon daily meteorological data including temperature, rainfall, relative humidity and wind speed collected from the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu and hospitalizations including water-borne (enteric fever, diahrreoal diseases and hepatitis), vector-borne (malaria, dengue, encephalitis, leishmaniasis and filarisis), urinary system (chronic kidney di...

BACKGROUND Erection is an hemodynamic event and accordingly, erectile dysfunction is closely related with ischemic heart diseases. Sufficient study has yet to be made of this relation. METHOD Fifty-eight patients with erectile dysfunction participated in the present study. Intracavernous injection tests and color Doppler examination were conducted for assessment of erectile function. For pati...

background : sleep disorder is one of the common problems patients face in icu and ccu and it is usually treated by sleeping pills. nowadays, the complementary medicine is highly considered because of its effectiveness and safety. aromatherapy is one of the holistic nursing cares which sees human beings as a biological, mental and social unit while the psychological dimension has the central ro...

There may be a pathological connection between cardiac failure and ischemic stroke. In this article we describe pertinent research that demonstrates subsequent death of cardiac and neural myocytes in the post ischemic stroke brain. Current stroke therapy overlooks the connection between cardiac and cerebrovascular events and fails to address the shared risk factors. Current pre-clinical stroke ...

Abstract Purpose Cardiac tissue engineering opens up opportunities for regenerative therapy in heart diseases. Current technologies improve engineered cardiac characteristics by combining human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) with non-cardiomyocytes, selective biomaterials, and additional growth factors. Animal models are still required to determine patches’ ove...

Smoking has adverse effects on health, causing ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive lung disease and cancers of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, pancreas, kidney and urinary tract. Smoking causes an acute increase in mean arterial pressure and heart rate. Chronic smoking reduces the renal plasma flow. There is clinical evidence that smoking has adverse effects on renal outcome ...

OBJECTIVES Economic growth and development of medical technology help to improve the average life expectancy, but the western diet and rapid conversions to poor lifestyles lead an increasing risk of major chronic diseases. Coronary heart disease mortality in Korea has been on the increase, while showing a steady decline in the other industrialized countries. An age-period-cohort analysis can he...