OBJECTIVE The recovery period in ischemic cerebrovascular disease is sometimes long and complicated. It is thought that a systemic inflammatory response plays an important role in this process. Therefore, promising studies have reported that neopterin and other cytokines serve as indicators of the inflammatory response. The present study investigated the effects of cerebrovascular diseases on p...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to investigate whether patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) make movements that are of smaller amplitude when required to attend to a secondary task at the same time as performing a motor task. METHODS Thirteen patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (mean age, 67.1 yrs) and 14 healthy control subjects (mean age, 66.2 yrs) were tested. The motor task was repeated...

OBJECTIVES Using prospectively collected registry data to investigate sick leave (sickness benefit and sickness compensation) over a 7-yr period in patients with AS in comparison with population-based controls matched for age, sex and residential area. METHODS We investigated 122 (21 women and 101 men) outpatients with AS in South Sweden, born 1942 or later, from rheumatology specialist care ...

Adolescence is a period of rapid change and opportunities. It is a coming up of age as children grow into young adults. It constitutes 10-19 yrs of age. In Nepal 23% of the population are adolescents. Across-sectional community based study was carried out in 3 schools in Jhaukhel (Bhaktapur) to determine the prevalence of anemia and the effect of IEC in female adolescents. Does IEC effect impro...

According to current guidelines, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is diagnosed when mean pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa) exceeds 25 mmHg at rest or 30 mmHg during exercise. Issues that remain unclear are the classification of Ppa values <25 mmHg and whether Ppa >30 mmHg during exercise is always pathological. We performed a comprehensive literature review and analysed all accessible data...

The aim of the present study was to describe clinical features and long-term survival in childhood sarcoidosis. In total, 46 ethnic Caucasian Danish children (aged <16 yrs, 24 males) with sarcoidosis were identified in 1979-1994. In 33 (72%) children, diagnosis was verified by histology and, in the remaining 13, by clinical and radiological findings. In total, 37 subjects had a follow-up examin...

The purpose of this study was to compare Emotional Unstability among district level, state level and national Field Hockey Players. To obtain data, the investigators had selected Ninety Nine (N=99), Female subjects between age group 12-28 years (Mean±SD: Age 16.90±3.80 (yrs), Body Height 161.41±4.97 (cm), Mass 52.36±5.35 (kg)). For evaluating levels subjects, Singh Bhargava’s (1988) Maturity Sc...

BACKGROUND The long term adverse effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a viral disease, are poorly understood. METHODS Sleep physiology, somatic and mood symptoms of 22 Toronto subjects, 21 of whom were healthcare workers, (19 females, 3 males, mean age 46.29 yrs.+/- 11.02) who remained unable to return to their former occupation (mean 19.8 months, range: 13 to 36 months follow...

Snoring is a common sleep-related behaviour. Increased body mass index (BMI), cranio-facial anatomical features, and older age have been linked to the occurrence of snoring. While mostly middle-aged populations have been studied for the occurrence of snoring and sleep-related breathing abnormality, this study was designed to assess the subjective report of snoring and the objective measurement ...

the purpose of this study was to survey of the physiologic and anthropometric profile of professional male gymnasts in kerman and guilan provinces and comparing them with the norm. subjects included 20 professional male gymnasts from kerman and guilan provinces with mean age 15.2±2.2 yrs, weight 51.35±13.24 kg and height 161.80±11.36 cm. data were analyzed by using descriptive and inference sta...