OBJECTIVE To assess clinical and histopathologic risk factors for reoperation after laparotomic myomectomy due to leiomyoma recurrence. METHODS A case-control study was conducted of patients who underwent their first myomectomy for leiomyoma without receiving gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues at Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, between January 2000 and December 200...

background chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a prevalent, progressive, and treatable disease. however, lack of enough data about its prevalence in iran is a major obstacle for its early detection. in order to determine the prevalence of the disease in the country, it is necessary to conduct epidemiologic studies especially on populations with ethnic diversity; hence, this study aimed at determini...

background: musculoskeletal symptoms are the main cause of loss of working time, and increase in labor costs. poor posture is the most important risk factor for work-related musculoskeletal symptoms. this study aimed at evaluating the role of ergonomic risk factors in different surgical (open surgery, laparoscopy, and microsurgery) in the frequency or resonance frequency of musculoskeletal symp...

background : this study was designed to investigate whether there was an association between abo blood groups and car­diovascular risk factors in healthy population. methods : in this cross-sectional study, risk factors screening for cardiovascular disease(cvd) on 5000 healthy persons of go­lestan province, northern iran, in 2005 was estimated by a questionnaire that included age, sex, physical...

objective the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and the most common risk factors of motor developmental delay in infants. materials & methods following ethical approval, a study was carried out on the prevalence and risk factors of infants with motor developmental delay. the first stage was conducted through a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of motor develo...

background: deep vein thrombosis (dvt) can be an ethnicity related disease and an important health issue for health-care systems. thus, domestic recognition of risk factors and disease characteristics seem to be inevitable. this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiology, basic characteristics, and risk factors in patients with dvt. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectiona...

the study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions (hrs) to drugs in workers. the data consisted of 1152 questionnaires obtained from adult men that consisted of questions on hrs induced by drugs. the prevalence of self-reported drug hrs was 3.6% for all reactions. hrs were most common to beta-lactam antibiotics (51.2%) followed by ...

background: although the risk factors of ischemic strokes are well defined, there is slight information about their relations with the etiologies of ischemic strokes. this study investigated the distribution of ischemic stroke risk factors and their connections to diverse etiologies of cerebrovascular attack (cva) and specific ischemic regions of brain. methods: in this cross sectional study , ...

background : the aim of this study was to demonstrate similarities and differences between mothers and daughters regarding dietary and non-dietary risk factors for bone fractures and osteoporosis. methods : the study was carried out in 2007-2010 on 712 mothers (29-59 years) and daughters (12-21 years) family pairs. in the sub-sample (170 family pairs) bone mineral density (bmd) was measured for...