background: no comprehensive study has been conducted on risk factors of sexual dysfunction in women with diabetes mellitus. objectives: the aim of this study was to consider all possible influencing variables including hormonal, physical and, psychological status, socioeconomic status, and dietary intake to get more accurate and reliable results. patients and methods: sexual function was asses...

A fraction of the radiation produced by an accretion disk may be Thomson scattered by a wind flowing away from the disk. Employing a simple plane-parallel model of the wind, we calculate the polarization of the scattered radiation and find that its sign depends on the wind velocity, β = v/c. In the case, 0.12 < β < 0.78, the polarization is parallel to the disk normal, i.e., it is orthogonal to...

BACKGROUND To investigate associations of the CA microsatellite and rs35767, rs5742612, and rs2288377 polymorphisms and the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) haplotypes with and without the CA microsatellite in the IGF1 promoter with insulin sensitivity and secretion. MATERIAL AND METHODS The CA microsatellite and SNPs were genotyped in 389 type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. A 75 g or...

PURPOSE To evaluate peripapillary atrophy β (PPA-β) characteristics in highly myopic eyes, using simultaneous confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (cSLO) and enhanced spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS The authors retrospectively analyzed 61 highly myopic (≥ -6.0 D) eyes without myopic retinopathy. cSLO fundus images were used to measure the distances from the fo...

Although immune functions in proestrus females are maintained after hemorrhage as opposed to decreased responses in males, it remains unknown whether such a sexual dimorphism also exists with regard to cardiovascular and hepatocellular functions under those conditions. To study this, male and female (estrus and proestrus) rats underwent a 5-cm midline laparotomy and were bled to and maintained ...

Objetivo: identificar a prevalência de presenteísmo em profissionais saúde e analisar influência variáveis sociodemográficas ocupacionais sobre esse fenômeno, bem como sua o índice capacidade para trabalho. Método: estudo observacional, transversal com abordagem quantitativa, realizado 299 um hospital público ensino. Utilizou-se os instrumentos: Índice Capacidade Trabalho Escala Presenteísmo St...

Because premenopausal women have lower cardiovascular morbidity than postmenopausal women, it has been proposed that estrogen may have a protective role. Estrogen is involved in smooth muscle relaxation both through its specific receptor as well as through calcium channel blockade. This study examined the acute effect of estradiol on invasive cardiovascular hemodynamics in 18 postmenopausal wom...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare stimulated whole saliva 17beta-estradiol of menopausal women with/without oral dryness (OD) feeling, and evaluate the relationship between saliva 17beta-estradiol and severity of OD feeling. METHODS A case-control study was carried out in 76 selected menopausal women aged 41-77 years with or without OD feeling (38 as case and 38 as control) cond...