Using a modified National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) definition of the metabolic syndrome (MS) with body mass index instead of waist circumference, we examined the associations of the MS with the risk of developing ST-T abnormalities in 3405 Japanese men aged 35-59 yr who did not have a history of cardiovascular disease or ST-T abnormalities. Of 3405 participants, 3166 men without typ...

Introduction: Medical uses of radiation have grown very rapidly over in the past two decades, medical uses represent the largest source of exposure to people, The most important methods in medical diagnosis are the useses of diagnostic radiology exams. Although the use of these methods is very beneficial for the treatment of patients, but ionizing radiation produces ion pairs, ...

BACKGROUND Infarct border zone (IBZ) geometry likely affects inducibility and characteristics of postinfarction reentrant ventricular tachycardia, but the connection has not been established. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine characteristics of postinfarction ventricular tachycardia in the IBZ. METHODS A geometric model describing the relationship between IBZ geometry and...

introduction: metabolic syndrome (ms) is a common disorder which is characterized by abdominal obesity, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, low high-density lipoprotein (hdl) and hyperglycemia that might lead to periodontitis by suppressing the immune system. due to the availability of a limited number of studies and discrepancies in the results of previous studies, this study was undertaken to...

introduction high doses of ionizing radiation can lead to adverse health outcomes such as cancer induction in humans. although the consequences are less evident at very low radiation doses, the associated risks are of societal importance. this study aimed at assessing entrance skin doses (esds) in patients undergoing selected diagnostic x-ray examinations at public hospitals of akwa ibom state,...

BACKGROUND Various types of multiple sclerosis (MS) related pain have been discussed. One concept is that deafferentation secondary to lesions in the spino-thalamo-cortical network can cause central pain. However, this hypothesis is somehow limited by a lack of a robust association between pain episodes and sites of lesion location. OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that temporary tissue alt...

Artemisia capillaries Thunb, Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, and Rheum officinale Baill have been combined to treat jaundice for thousands of years. Studies have revealed that these herbs induce anti-hepatic fibrosis and anti-hepatic apoptosis and alleviate hepatic oxidative stress. This study aims to determine the quality and quantity of an herbal formulation (Chinese name: Yin-Chen-Hao-Tang) usin...