BACKGROUND Physical activity in the elderly is influenced by aspects of aging that cause personal, mental, environmental, and social changes. Increases in factors that are barriers to activity cause physical energy expenditure to decrease. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to survey the relationship between energy expenditure in metabolic equivalent units (MET) and factors that are ...

Background Different studies have been conducted to find the best adjuvant therapies for depression management. There are controversies over the effects of aspirin as an adjuvant therapy for depression. Objective To determine the effects of combined sertraline and aspirin therapy on depression severity among patients with major depressive disorder. Methods This randomized clinical trial was...

BACKGROUND Urban traffic accidents are an extensively significant problem in small and busy towns in Iran. This study tried to explore the epidemiological pattern of urban traffic accidents in Kashan and Aran-Bidgol cities, Iran. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess various epidemiological factors affecting victims of trauma admitted to a main trauma center in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS Du...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a common inflammatory papulosquamous disease of the skin with unknown aetiology that may be associated with the abnormal T-cell function. AIM This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions and their associations with severity of psoriasis in psoriatic patients attending the dermatologic clinic of Shahid Beheshti Teaching Hospital at Kashan, Ir...

From the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and George Washington University, Washington, DC (P.J.H.); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre and the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Liverpool, United Kingdom (D.H.M.); the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, London (A.F.); the International Trachoma Initiative, New York ( J.K.)...

The authors acknowledge the support of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, which is operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory; the University of Colorado-Boulder; the Colorado School of Mines; Colorado State University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University. The ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern 3010, Switzerland. 2 Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece. 3 Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. 4 Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 5 Deutsches Herzzentrum, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany. 6 DZHK (German...

1 The Global Health Network, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland, 3 Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C., United ...

From the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and George Washington University, Washington, DC (P.J.H.); Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre and the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, Liverpool, United Kingdom (D.H.M.); the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Imperial College London, London (A.F.); the International Trachoma Initiative, New York ( J.K.)...

1 and Midazolam in Healthy Adult Subjects 2 3 4 5 Helen Winter 6 Erica Egizi 7 Ngozi Erondu 8 Ann Ginsberg 9 Doris J. Rouse 10 Diana Severynse-Stevens 11 Elliott Pauli 12 Daniel Everitt 13 14 15 16 17 1 School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9045, New Zealand 18 2 Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, 40 Wall Street, 24 Floor, New York, NY 19 10005, USA 20 3 RTI Internat...