abstract: introduction: psychiatric disorder is a disease in which patients suffer from emotional problems that these are visible in all aspect of patient’s life. studies show that there is a major difference between the prevalence of this disease in different countries and also show that this disorder is increasing. the aim of this study is to find the possible relationship between psychiatric...

The health consequences of obesity are well known. Obesity is the leading predisposing factor to the development of type 2 diabetes. A study released by Nevious and colleagues from Sweden on February 24, 2009, in the British Medical Journal has highlighted the danger of being obese.1 These investigators reported that obesity increases the risk of premature death at the same rate as cigarette sm...

Pulmonary diffusing capacity (lung transfer factor for carbon monoxide) has been assessed by the single breath (TLCOSB) and steady state (TLCOSS) techniques in well matched 90 females, 31 non-smoker and 29 smoker males, 18-50 years of age. Both TLCOSB and TLCOSS are significantly lower in females compared to non-smoker males (P < 0.001). Tobacco smoking statistically significantly reduces TLCOS...

BACKGROUND Despite being the second largest tobacco producer in the world, Brazil does not have prevalence studies about green tobacco sickness (GTS). METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out on a sample of Brazilian tobacco workers. The sample was described according to socio-demographic, behavioral, and occupational variables. Gender-stratified multivariate analyses examined variable...