1. Dept. of Nutrition, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Oncopathology Research Center, Dept. of Hematology-Oncology, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Hematology-Oncology, Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, ...

1 Full Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran; and is the corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Scienc...

of evidence • Patients undergoing various bariatric surgical procedures lost an average of 61.2% of their excess weight (varying from 47.5% for gastric banding to 70.1% for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch procedures) • Perioperative mortality was relatively low (varying from 0.1% for banding, 0.5% for bypass, to 1.1% for biliopancreatic diversion or duodenal switch) • Most patients...

Obesity imposes devastating health and financial tolls on society and those who suffer from it. Despite the growing awareness of the problem, the obesity epidemic, along with its associated complications, continues to expand at an alarming rate (1). The current nomenclature used to measure an individuals degree of obesity is BMI, which is calculated by dividing weight (in kilograms) by the squa...

Since severe obesity is frequently associated with serious metabolic, cardiovascular and psychological co-morbid conditions, and given the usually unsuccessful results of conservative therapeutic approaches, surgical treatment based on gastric restriction procedures is increasingly recognized as a treatment of choice for morbidly obese persons. Among several surgical approaches designed to prom...

are said to be " found most often on the lips or tongue," although the majority of observers regard tonsillar chancre as the commonest extra-genital primary lesion. The characters of the secondary " snail-crawl" ulceration are not made plain, and Hutchinson's teeth are described as " wider at the margins than the base," which, if by margin is meant the cutting edge, is certainly inaccurate. Man...

The rising prevalence of morbid obesity and the increased incidence of super-obese patients (BMI >50 kg/m2) seeking surgical treatments has led to the search for surgical techniques that provide adequate EWL with the least possible morbidity. Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) was initially added as a modification to the biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) and then combined with a duodenal switch (DS) in 1988...

BACKGROUND Multi-morbidity due to diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains challenging for current health-systems, which focus on single diseases. As a first step toward health-care improvement, we explored the perspectives of patients and their carers on factors influencing the health-care of those with co-morbid diabetes and CKD. METHODS In this qualitative study participants with ...

OBJECTIVE Children with severe obesity have greater risk of adverse health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to assess trends in the prevalence of morbid and severe obesity in Australian children between 1985 and 2012. METHODS Secondary analysis of four national Australian cross-sectional surveys of measured height/weight in 7-15 year olds: Australian Health and Fitness Survey 1985 (n =...

Department of Mycology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 13164 Tehran, Iran Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran Department of Mycology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-331 Tehran, Iran Department of Medicinal Plants and By-Products, Research Institute of Forest and Rangelands, 13185 Tehran, Iran Medicinal Chemistry L...