There is paucity of data on magnitude and risk factors associated with asthma in developing countries like India. The study aims to assess the prevalence and factors associated with asthma. A cross sectional study was conducted among 275 school children aged 12-15 years age group using modified International study on Allergy and Asthma in childhood (ISAAC) questionnaire in rural Puducherry. Dat...

The increasing disease burden due to coronary artery disease (CAD) can be minimized by an early detection using a valid risk factor. Aim of this study was to determine the level of apolipoprotein AI(ApoAI), apolipoprotein B(ApoB) and ApoB/ApoAI ratio in CAD patients with or without type II diabetes mellitus(DM) and to analyze whether these parameters can be used as a more accurate lipid risk fa...

background: antiphospholipid antibodies (apl) are a heterogeneous family of anti-bodies associated with thrombosis and other complications. objective: to study the prevalence of apl in patients with thrombosis at aleppo university hospitals, syria. methods: one hundred and fifty-seven patients with venous and arterial thrombosis and 63 healthy controls were studied. anticardiolipin antibodies (...

cost by considering earnings quality for accepted companies in tehran stockexchange. this survey investigates a population of 76 companies during the timeperiod of 2009-2014. the results show that under high earnings quality, the marketrisk factor, the book risk to market factor, and the size risk factor have positiveeffects, and the profit risk factor has negative effects on shareholders equit...

In this article, we have elaborated a study over the nature of financial intermediation in Islamic banks by comparison to those of conventional ones. We have found a striking difference between two kinds of intermediation. We tried, from another side, to study the relationship between the capital level and deficiency risk relying on econometric model, and we have obtained a positive and signifi...