background: we investigated coronary angiogenesis and serum vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) and its soluble receptor-1 (sflt-1) concentrations in two-kidney one-clip (2k1c) hypertensive rats before and after reversal of hypertension. methods: the animal groups were: (i) sham-clipped for 12 weeks; (ii) 2k1c for 12 weeks; (iii) sham-clipped for 12 weeks and unclipped for 12 weeks; and (...

BACKGROUND Bladder desensitization has been investigated as an alternative treatment for refractory detrusor overactivity. Most open and controlled clinical trials conducted with intravesical RTX showed that desensitization delays the appearance of involuntary detrusor contractions during bladder filling and decreases the number of episodes of urgency incontinence. Urgency is being recognised a...

ramadan is a holy month for muslims and fasting in this month is the rule for any healthy matured person. nutritional and behavioral changes occurred during ramadan fasting may lead to several physiological change, such as blood pressure (2). studies evaluated the effects of ramadan fasting on blood pressure in hypertensive patients, are scarce and reported inadequate results. in this paper a s...

objective: to find out the effect of physical activities and obesity among ramadan fasting hypertensive patients of karachi. methods: 117 hypertensive patients were selected conveniently from the staff and faculty members of dow university and other locations of karachi. the inclusion criterion was the hypertensive patients with at least 20 days of fasting. the investigators visited three times...

background: hypertension is one of the major chronic disorders. hypertensive patients have various disease-related experiences, based on personal and social characteristics, life style and other effective factors. nurses face different situations during their activities process and presentation of these experiences obtained during working with patients can help them to improve the clinical acti...

In this paper Upgraded Maximum Urgency First (UMUF) scheduling algorithm has been proposed. This algorithm is a further improvement in MMUF algorithm [1] and is a mixed priority scheduling algorithm which combines the advantages of both fixed and dynamic scheduling for better CPU utilization and throughput. The prime objective of this paper is to improve modified maximum urgency first schedulin...

AIM To determine the relation between urgency alone, or in combination with frequency and nocturia, and adaptive behavior in overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome. METHODS We used survey data from the General Longitudinal Overactive Bladder Evaluation (GLOBE) of primary care patients over 40. Participants (n=2,752: 1,557 females; 1,195 males) completed the same survey at two time points, 6 months...