INTRODUCTION Symptomatology, nasal endoscopy and Computerised Tomographic (CT) scan have been used to diagnose chronic rhinosinusitis. The value of disease severity score in the assessment of chronic rhinosinusitis has not been well investigated. Hence, this study aims to correlate the pre-operative symptom severity score as well as overall disease severity score of patients with chronic rhinos...

background: we aimed to evaluate the effects of pimpinella anisum (anise) from apiaceae family on relieving the symptoms of postprandial distress syndrome (pds) in this double-blind randomized clinical trial. materials and methods: totally, 107 patients attending the gastroenterology clinic, aged 18-65 years, diagnosed with pds according to rome iii criteria and signed a written consent form we...

introduction: menopause is the most important event in middle-age. women, in this period, face several changes. vasomotor symptoms and skin changes are prevalent in the middle-age. this study, mainly, was performed identifying the vasomotor symptoms and skin changes in menopausal women. materials and methods: study sample was consisted of 150 women who have visited the healthcare centers, exper...

dopamine agonists, particularly nonergot dopamine agonists such as pramipexole, have become the mainstay of therapy for patients with symptoms of restless legs syndrome (rls). this study was designed to evaluate the factors affecting the efficacy of pramipexole in patients with rls. fifty-nine eligible rls patients referred to neurology clinic of rasoul-e-akram hospital (tehran, iran) were recr...

OBJECTIVES 1) To investigate the association between binge eating scores, anxiety and depression symptoms, and body mass index (BMI), and 2) to assess the presence of differences in severity of anxiety symptoms, severity of depression symptoms, and BMI in women with and without binge eating disorder. METHOD The sample comprised 113 women aged between 22 and 60 years (39.35±10.85) enrolled in ...

Background and aims Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric comorbidities of Internet addiction (IA); however, the possible mechanisms that contribute to this high comorbidity are still under debate. This study aims to analyze these possible mechanisms by comparing the effect of IA severity and childhood ADHD on inattention, hyperactivity, and impul...

conclusions high quality research is needed to establish the true portray for the prevalence and severity of vasomotor and sexual symptoms associated with distress in iranian women. context the aim of this study was to systematically review published articles reporting on the prevalence of vasomotor and sexual symptoms in iranian women. evidence acquisition five databases including medline, psy...

AIMS This study aims to evaluate the cognitive functions of patients with delirium using Hindi Mental Status Examination (HMSE), to study the correlation of cognitive functions assessed by HMSE with noncognitive symptoms as assessed using Delirium Rating Scale-Revised 1998 (DRS-R-98) and to study the association of cognitive functions assessed using HMSE and DRS-R98. METHODS A total of 76 con...

BACKGROUND A correlation between decreased blood coagulation factor XIII activity and the severity of organ disorders in pediatric Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) has been demonstrated, but possible correlations in adult HSP have not been thoroughly investigated. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between factor XIII activity with varying clinical severities of HSP and the severity of o...