Background The purpose of this study was to analyze mortality trends in Bangladesh from 2000 to 2008, to identify the main causes of death, and categorize them by sex and age group. Methods This study used vital registration, maternal and child health data collected from Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh, in 2000, 2004 and 2008.The data were collected and published by Health and Demographic Su...

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a complex cardiac malformation in neonates suffering from congenital heart disease and occurs in 1 per 5000 births [1]. HLHS is uniformly fatal within the first hours or days after birth as the severely malformed anatomies of the left ventricle, mitral and aortic valves, and ascending aorta are not compatible with life. The regularly implemented treatme...

BACKGROUND Since most complications related to the operation of prosthetic heart valves is due to disturbances of flow, its hydrodynamic characterization is a useful aid in the design of new prostheses. Simulations of pulsatile flow in cardiac prostheses began nearly 40 years ago, through the development of different mock human circulatory systems, improving the clinical results interpretation....

This manuscript is the result of ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology survey on the Hezar Mountain in SE of Iran. Traditional botanical medicine is the primary mode of healthcare for most of the population of this region. The plants were collected in and around Hezar mountain from 2008-2010. The authors have conducted an interview of total 75 informants; The traditional uses of 92 species belongin...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness learning cycle instruction on preservice elementary teachers’ understanding human circulatory system concepts, attitudes towards biology and motivations. Human Circulatory System Concepts Test, Attitude Towards Biology Scale, Science Process Skills Test Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire were used collect data. test was ...

BACKGROUND Remote sensing (RS) is increasingly used for exposure assessment in epidemiological and burden of disease studies, including those investigating whether chronic exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with mortality. OBJECTIVES We compared relative risk estimates of mortality from diseases of the circulatory system for PM2.5 modeled from RS with that for P...

background: in response to the need for diagnosis and treatment, medical radiation has been increasingly used worldwide. this study investigated the medical utilization of radiation-related diseases among radiological technologists (rts) and factors that influence such diseases. materials and methods: data were collected from the taiwan national health insurance research database. a panel study...

A previously validated cardiovascular system (CVS) model and parameter identification method for cardiac and circulatory disease states are extended and further validated in a porcine model (N=6) of induced endotoxic shock with hemofiltration. Errors for the identified model are within 10% when the model is re-simulated and compared to the clinical data. All identified parameter trends over tim...