background: socioeconomic status (ses) is a major determinant of health inequality in children and adolescents. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of ses of family and living region with self-rated health (srh) and life satisfaction (ls) among children and adolescents.   methods: this study was a part of the fourth survey of a national surveillance program, which was conducte...

background monitoring the health status of patients discharged from intensive care units is a crucial method of service evaluation. objectives this study aimed to assess the physical and mental health status of patients immediately after discharge from the icu and 24 hours later. patients and methods this descriptive comparative study was conducted on 104 patients discharged from the icus of a ...

background: the current study estimated the national prevalence rate of intimate partner violence against women (ipvaw) in nepal. besides, the individual level, empowerment level, family and societal level factors were assessed to relate with the victims of ipavw in nepal. methods: nationally representative sample of 4210 women of reproductive age (15-49 yr) were included in the study. househol...

OBJECTIVE It has been hypothesized that abnormal negative feedback of cortisol release in major depressive disorder (MDD) may involve impaired central glucocorticoid receptor (GR) function. Beclomethasone-induced vasoconstriction (BIV) was recently used to test the hypothesis that impaired GR function generalizes to peripheral tissues, and it was reported that BIV was decreased in medicated pat...

Andrea Mazzolini, Marco Gherardi, 3 Michele Caselle, Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, 3, 4 and Matteo Osella∗1 Physics Department and INFN, University of Turin, via P. Giuria 1, 10125 Turin, Italy Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7238, Computational and Quantitative Biology, 15 rue de l’École de Médecine Paris, France CNRS, UMR 7238, Paris, France FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (...

1Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5B4 2Center for Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University of Münster, Domagkstraße 11, 48149 Münster, Germany 3Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA 4Department of...

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Plant Industry, P.O. Box 1600, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia (S.R., Z.L., B.K.H., S.A., M.K.M.); Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Cobbitty, New South Wales 2570, Australia (A.R.); Department of Biological Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University, 4–698–1 Asahigaoka, Kashiwara, Osaka 582, Japan (Y.M.); and Kansai...