Because the most prominent risk factor for dementia is aging, the urgent need to address the public health challenges of dementia is heightened by the “greying” of societies worldwide. In 2015, nearly 47 million people around the world had dementia. If age and sex specific prevalence of dementia stays constant over time, there will be 130 million cases by 2050. And yet changes over time in both...

The effects of 2 concentrations of kinetin, i.e., 2 and 4 mM together with 2 levels of drought stress, i.e., moderate (35% soil saturation capacity) and severe (20% soil saturation capacity) were investigated on the growth parameters of tomato including fresh and dry leaf weight, leaf number, leaf surface area, fruit number, fruit weight, and enzymatic antioxidants. To this end, first tomato pl...

Abstract Introduction Health disparity due to socioeconomic status/ethnicity is a well-known issue. Research directed at evaluating these differences has not always found significant differences, Ahmadi et al 2017, did show effects of insurance or ethnicity on thyroid cancer outcomes Hispanic patients in San Antonio. This study focused identifying the ultrasound characteristics vs non-Hispanic ...

Three well - known source rocks of the Zagros basin and the Persian Gulf are Mesozoic in age.The Jurassic Sargelu, Albian Kazhdumi and Neocomian-Coniacian Garau formations have charged the Cretaceous reservoirs of this area. The northwest part of the Persian Gulf is strongly influenced by two major N-S trending paleohighs (Hendijan- Bahregansar-Regesafid-Izeh and Kharge- Mish) and surrounding p...

Endobronchial tuberculosis and chest radiography I read, with interest, the article entitled “Clinical and Para-clinical Presentations of Endobronchial Tuberculosis” by Ahmadi Hoseini H. S. et al. (1) published in this journal. I would like to focus on some details about the chest X-ray of patients as elaborated by the authors in the results section. Accordingly, the findings of chest radiograp...

Background & aim: Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) is among the most common problems in pregnant women. As explained in guidelines, combination of non-drug treatments, including nutritional modifications, lifestyle changes, and use of alternative medicine for the treatment of NVP has been less highlighted. The present study was performed with the aim of determining the effect of an ed...