H (HT), diabetes mellitus (DM) and obesity are in the forefront of the epidemic of non-communicable diseases. Kearney PM et al estimated the global burden of hypertension a s 2 6 p e r c e n t o f t h e w o r l d adult population.1 In India, HT prevalence is 17 to 21 percent with marginal rural – urban difference.2 Percentage of Blood pressure (BP) goal achievers have increased from a 29 percen...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the severity of pure restrictive ventilatory impairment that results in right ventricular (RV) dilatation, increased RV wall thickness, and pulmonary hypertension. Two dimensional (2-D) echocardiography, Doppler measurements of pulmonary flow, and spirometry were performed on 26 unselected patients (17 female, 9 male) with a pure restrictive ve...

The new jun io r class o fficers are L isa Catenacci and her run ­ ning mates. The sophomore run-o ff election was won by the M aggie Be lin ticke t, said Thompson. “ The P arrish ticke t received 50 percent plus two votes,” said Thompson, expla in ing tha t “ in order to w in a run-o ff election, the pa rty must receive 50 per­ cent of the vote plus one vote.” The Buch ticke t including Carol ...

in order to evaluate the effect of water deficit and different fertilizer levels on yield and some agro-morphological characteristics of moldavian balm, a split plot experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications at the research farm of shahrekord university during 2013-2014 growing season. main factor was three levels of irrigation regimes including: 100...

Pulmonary arterial pressure-flow relation was studied in 142 patients with artrial septal defect (ASD) and was compared with that of 139 patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and was compared with that of ductus arteriosus (PDA). The incidence of pulmonary arterial mean pressure (PAm) over 25 mmHg was 21 percent in ASD, 36 percent in VSD and 43 percent in PDA, and that over 40 mmHg was ...