Background & Aims: Attachment styles result from a child’s early relationships with their primary care provider. We should bear in mind that there is a significant correlation between these styles and emotional disorders (death anxiety) occurring throughout an individual’s life. If these connections are not formed correctly during early childhood, the individual will most likely suffer mental a...

Metabolic Syndrome and Early Death To the Editor: The editorial by Franks and Olsson1 highlights the heterogeneous nature of definitions of the metabolic syndrome, which results from the number of different combinations of risk factors that equate with a diagnosis of the syndrome. However, the situation is even more complex than indicated in Figure 2 of their editorial. There are, in fact, 16 p...

We appreciate the acknowledgement that the foreign gas rebreathing method is highly accurate for measuring the effective cardiac output (the blood flow to ventilated lung). This technique and its development are reviewed in great detail in an outstanding paper by Laszlo (5). Investigators at our institution, UT Southwestern, developed the most common modification of this technique, which made i...

this study is carried out to determine effective risk factors for early death and their causes in those who died due to intra cerebral hemorrhage within 30 days.materials and methods: from patients who have been admitted in neurologic ward of imam khomeini hospital in tabriz, we enrolled 100 patients with intra cerebral hemorrhage and the causes and risk factors effective in early death were ev...