background lack of independence and unwanted dependence on others for activities of daily living (adl) and decreased functional capacity affect nutritional status of the elderly. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the impact of functional capacity on malnutrition status in hospitalized elderly patients in the qazvin city of iran. patients and methods this cross sectional study wa...

Despite increasing complexity of neurosurgical procedures; they have become safer over the last few decades which can be clearly attributed to rapid advancement in technology coupled with dramatic improvement in radiological imaging. Today neurosurgical treatment is increasingly benefitted by rapid developments in radiological imaging and post processing techniques leading to decreased invasive...

assessing effects of asthma on patients’ functional status and life     m arash [1] , msc m shogi [2] , msc m tajvidi [3] , msc    received: 23 april, 2010 accepted: 3 may, 2010    abstract:   background & aims : asthma is an inflammatory disease in respiratory system with ill effects on psychological, social and economic status. this study was conducted to assess of effects of asthma disease o...

objectives: the current study was performed to investigate the relationship between mental impairment and each component of activity of daily living (adl) in elderly residents of the kahrizak charity foundation. methods & materials: standardized iranian mini mental examination and barthel index were used to assest cognitive status and adl in 184 elderly residents of kahrizak, respectively. resu...

b a ckground:  nutrition status is an important constituent of health in an elderly and  evaluation  of  these  groups  are  necessary  for  development  of  treatment protocols. the study aimed to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition with mini nutritional assessment (mna)  tool  in  the  elderly living in  nursing homes.  in addition, the association of mna results and functional status was...

Background:HbA1c is an established diagnostic index which is used to assess diabetes mellitus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between HbA1c level with the types of stroke as well as the extent and functional status of ischemic stroke (IS) and hemorrhagic stroke (HS) in patients. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated 120 pa...

background: depression is common in chronic medical illnesses including hf. it has been established that depression has different rates in different races and the reported depression rates among hospitalized patients range from 13% to 77%; nevertheless, there is remarkably little information on the prevalence of depression and the   impact of demographic and health status in the north of iran ....