BACKGROUND The diagnosis of reactive arthritis is a challenging clinical problem in daily practice. Although there are many triggering infectious agents for reactive arthritis, Toxoplasmosis, a worldwide parasitic infection has not been reported. AIM We investigated the serologic evidence of Toxoplasma gondii ( T. gondii ) infection in patients with newly diagnosed reactive arthritis after si...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic examination of the relationship between depression and crying by reviewing all relevant theory and empirical data including the performance of crying items in measures of depression. METHOD Review of the extant literature on depression and crying using PubMed, PsychInfo and Google Scholar databases. RESULTS Scores on crying items of depression inventories c...

Pain can have a throbbing quality, especially when it is severe and disabling. It is widely held that this throbbing quality is a primary sensation of one's own arterial pulsations, arising directly from the activation of localized pain-sensory neurons by closely apposed blood vessels. We examined this presumption more closely by simultaneously recording the subjective report of the throbbing r...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to investigate a possible relationship between Chlamydia pneumoniae and Parkinson's disease (PD). STUDY DESIGN Serum samples obtained from a cohort of 51 patients with PD and from 37 age- and sex-matched controls were assessed for the presence of antibodies. The control group was selected from healthy people. In both groups, 5 mL of blood was taken and after centrifugat...

Introduction: Pregnancy poisoning or preeclampsia is a serious and specific disorder of pregnancy that affects 8% of the pregnant women. Similar studies conducted in this regard showed disagreements about the association between the vitamin D deficiency and preeclampsia. Hence, due to different results and limited sشtudies in this area, the present study was conducted to evaluate the serum leve...

background: impact of high level of uric acid on stroke is still controversial. we conducted this study to investigate the relationship between acute ischemic non-embolic stroke and serum levels of uric acid. methods: this was a case-control study on patients with acute ischemic non-embolic stroke in rafsanjan, iran. the control group consisted of normal persons who were similar to the case gro...

in this research, role of accruals in elaboration of quality of earning of the companies accepted in mumbai stock exchange has been studied and relationship between quality of earning through accruals and its constituents and abnormal stock return has been studied. the studied sample includes 35 companies in group a of mumbai stock exchange in 2009-2013.fordata analysisandhypothesistesting mult...