AIM The overall aim of this pilot study was to establish the role of dental practitioners in identifying patients at risk of osteoporosis from panoramic radiographs. METHODS The pilot study evaluated 32 randomly selected postmenopausal women with no known secondary cause of bone loss. A panoramic radiograph of each patient was taken and qualitative and quantitative radiomorphometric indices w...

Objective: The objective of this article was to explore gender inequality and its relationship with health expenditure and maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A unique analysis was used to correlate the Gender Inequality Index (GII), Health Expenditure and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR). The GII captured inequalities across three dimensions – Reproductive health, Women empowerment a...

background: there is a fundamental correlation between follicles and endometrium in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi) cycles. objective: to assess the relation between perifollicular perfusion and sub endometrial parameters in doppler ultrasonography and outcome of in icsi cycles. materials and methods: in this prospective deh1ive pilot study 10 patients were enrolled. strict inclusion cr...

Gingivitis and pedodontitis are usually reve~ible conditions in children and should be detected early and treatment rendered promptly. Hence appropriate clinical indices must be available to record these conditions accurately and to assess treatment success or failure. This paper reviews the existing gingival and periodontal indices and discueses their potential for clinical use in children. In...

in order to study the response of different chickpea genotypes to drought stress and determination of drought resistant genotypes, this experiment was conducted with 18 kabouli type chickpea genotypes including of susceptible check (ilc 3279) and local check (jam). the experiment was performed in a rbc design with three replications under rained and irrigated conditions during 2001-2 cropping s...

BACKGROUND The increasing use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has kindled the need for scientific evaluation of the mechanism of action of CAMs. Although, licorice, a common ingredient in many Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has attracted great attention for its antitumor and immunomodulatory activities, the mechanism of action of its polysaccharides is still unclear. Here we...

Guidelines recommend defining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by airflow obstruction and other factors, but no studies have evaluated the ability of existing multicomponent indices to predict mortality up to 10 years. We conducted a patient-based pooled analysis. Survival analysis and C statistics were used to determine the best COPD index/indices according to several construct var...

Sustainable water resources management is essential since it ensures the integration of social, economical and environmental issues into all stages of water resources management. The development and application of water sustainability indices to achieve sustainable water management has been successfully done in the last few years. Although existing water sustainability indices have successfully...

abstract background brucellosis is endemic in iran, and is seen in all age groups, including children. its diagnosis in childhood needs a high index of suspicion. the diagnostic methods currently in use need evaluation for analytical performance. objective the present study tries to evaluate the hematological indices, serologic markers of inflammation and symptoms in patients suspected of bruce...