in this study, we aimed to conduct a meta-analysis on the results of eligible studies to estimate the prevalence of asthma, copd, and chronic bronchitis in iran. international and iranian databases including pubmed, scopus, web of science, iranmedex, and scientific information database (sid) were searched for population–based studies that had reported the prevalence of asthma and copd from 1990...

background: obesity may lead to various morbidity including liver diseases. the present study was done to determine which obesity indices, including body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist to hip ratio (whr), and waist to height ratio (whtr) have the stronger association with rising levels of alanine aminotransferase (alt). material and methods: of 6143 subjects aged ≥ 10 years o...

background:  the  current study examined race and ethnic differences in the separate and combined (additive) effects of anxiety, depression and problem drinking on the baseline and trajectory of subjective health among adult men in the united states. methods:  this longitudinal study used data from the fragile families and child well-being study. we included 4655 men, composed of 2407 blacks, 1...

Introduction: The use of exercise along with herbal supplements is one of the recommended methods for controlling obesity and its complications, but its effects have been controversial due to the diversity of training programs and also herbal supplements. Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of 10 week ginger and progressive resistance training on C-reactive prot...

the aim of the current research is to investigate relationship between domineering behavior of male and female teachers and rating of their performance and likeability by school managers. the sample consists of 79 school teachers and 79 school managers (including men and women). instruments used are wiggins(1995) interpersonal adjective scale, wayne & liden (1995) teachers performance assessmen...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to explore differences between male and female patients entering a rehabilitation program at a pain clinic in order to gain a greater understanding of different approaches to be used in rehabilitation. METHOD 1371 patients referred to a specialty pain rehabilitation clinic, completed sociodemographic and pain related questionnaires. They rated their pain accep...