how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, ghazavi a. comparison of deflazacort and prednisone in duchenne muscular dystrophy. iranianjournal of child neurology 2012;6(1):5-12. objective duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) is a degenerative disease that usually becomes clinically detectable in childhood as progressive proximal weakness. no cure is yet available for dmd, but the use of steroids impro...

T he termination of the estrogen-progestogen trial of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study in July 2002 was a milestone in the history of postmenopausal hormone therapy. In response, The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) convened an expert Hormone Therapy (HT) Advisory Panel to prepare a report on hormone therapy. After approval from the 2001-2002 NAMS Board of Trustees, the report w...

introduction: reviewing previous studies related to the mental health of different universities in iran show that mental disorders prevalence among students vary in different studies. this study aimed to determine the rate of psychiatric disorders of first year students in kermanshah university of medicals sciences during 2002. materials & methods: 423 first year students (314 females and 109 m...

A 2-yr field trial (2001 and 2002) and 1-yr semifield trial (2002) were conducted to evaluate the effect of transgenic herbicide (glyphosate) -tolerant canola Brassica napus L. pollen on larval and adult honey bee, Apis mellifera L., workers. In the field trial, colonies of honey bees were moved to transgenic or nontransgenic canola fields (each at least 40 hectares) during bloom and then sampl...

OBJECTIVE To assess long-term outcome in bipolar disorder, subjects were prospectively followed after receiving acute treatment for bipolar depression. METHOD Eighty-three outpatients with DSM-IV bipolar depression who were enrolled between March 1996 and November 2002 and were treated in a 10-week acute double-blind antidepressant treatment trial agreed to participate in a 1-year double-blin...

Laboratory Biosphere is a 40 m3 closed life system that commenced operation in May 2002. Light is from 12,000 W of high pressure sodium lamps over planting beds with 5.37 m2 of soil. Water is 100% recycled by collecting condensate from the temperature and humidity control system and mixing with leachate collected from under the planting beds. Atmospheric leakage was estimated during the first c...

developed draft recommendations on the use of vitamin supplements to prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease, drawing on systematic reviews of the evidence available from randomized trials and well-conducted observational studies. The evidence pertaining to vitamin supplementation and cancer was originally summarized for the USPSTF in a manuscript covering publications through the end of 1999...

OBJECTIVE To calculate the global warming potential, in carbon dioxide (CO(2)) equivalent emissions, from a sample of pragmatic randomised controlled trials. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. Data source Internal data held by NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre. Studies included All eligible pragmatic randomised controlled trials funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessmen...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to report toxicity and long-term survival outcomes of 2 prospective trials evaluating mitomycin C (MMC) with 5-fluorouracil-based adjuvant chemoradiation in resected periampullary adenocarcinoma. Methods and materials From 1996 to 2002, 119 patients received an adjuvant 4-drug chemotherapy regimen of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, MMC, and dipyridamole with ...

(Woody community dynamics in two fragments of “cerrado” stricto sensu over a seven-year period (1995-2002), MA, Brazil). This study was conducted in two fragments of “cerrado” stricto sensu in the Gerais de Balsas Colonization Project, located in southern Maranhão, Brazil. The objective was to evaluate the dynamics of the woody plant community, over seven years (1995-2002). Four transects of 16...