background: cardiovascular disease (cvd) is one of the leading causes of death in the world. one of its most insidious forms is coronary heart disease (chd) which decreases patient's quality of life. research indicates that psychological factors are interrelated with coronary heart disease patients' quality of life. in the present study, the role of type d personality and emotional intelligence...

investigations have been carried out on the indoor air pollution in .different workshops of food processing plants in iran. in order to evaluate the exposure of workers to the three most commonly used indices of air pollution ten food processing plants representing ten groups of food industry with 2.816 workers were selected. air borne contamination of different origins such cotton seed. barley...

Children are particularly susceptible to the health effects of air pollution because they spend more time outdoors, have higher respiratory rates, and breathe in a greater volume of air relative to their body weights. Babies may be especially sensitive to the effects of air pollution because their immune, respiratory, and central nervous systems are not fully developed. To date, infants’ respir...

D espite recent advances in the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), adverse event rates remain high with >50% mortality at 5 years (1). The progressive nature of HFrEF coupled with high mortality and rehospitalization rates (2) mandates greater attention to previously underappreciated etiologies of heart failure (HF) exacerbation, including environmental exposures...

development of a green belt with suitable plant species around the source of emission can mitigate the atmospheric contamination. selection of such plant species are required to combat air pollution based on their tolerance level. present study was undertaken to evaluate the tolerance level of higher plants in east of esfahan city, iran, during 2011 in terms of assessing air pollution tolerance...

Children are particularly susceptible to the health effects of air pollution because they spend more time outdoors, have higher respiratory rates, and breathe in a greater volume of air relative to their body weights. Babies may be especially sensitive to the effects of air pollution because their immune, respiratory, and central nervous systems are not fully developed. To date, infants’ respir...

neuro-inflammation is a growing concern that is the result of nervous tissue inflammation. some common causes that induce this problem are toxic metabolites, aging, autoimmunity, air pollution, et cetera. glial cells and a group of proteins which are called cytokines are associated in neuro-inflammation. some nervous diseases such as: parkinson's disease, alzheimer's disease and multi...