Both periodontitis and osteoporosis have similar sign of bone resorption in nature. However, the relationship of the severity between these 2 bone-loss diseases is still uncertain.The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the severity of osteoporosis and periodontitis regarding the impact of oral hygiene maintenance. In total, 35,127 osteoporosis patients and 50,498 compa...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of cognitive emotion regulation in predicting high-risk behaviors mediated by the well-being of 14-17 year old girls in Saravan. Methodology: This research was descriptive and correlational by structural equation modeling method based on partial least squares approach. The statistical population included all 14 to 17 year old male stud...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the association between social support and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is scarce and mostly based on cross-sectional data with different types of social support collapsed into a single index. The aim of this study was to investigate whether social support from the closest person was associated with LTPA. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 5395 adults (mean ag...

We reviewed 25 patients in whom a MUTARS megaprosthesis with a conical fluted stem had been implanted. There were three types of stem: a standard stem was used in 17 cases (three in the proximal femur, nine in the distal femur and five proximal tibia), a custom-made proximal femoral stem in four cases and a custom-made distal femoral stem in four cases. The mean age of the patients was 40.1 yea...

Objective Lung cancer patients from ethnic minorities have poorer outcomes than their Caucasian counterparts. We compared lung intervals between culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Anglo-Australian to identify disparities. Methods This was a prospective, observational cohort study comprising patient survey reviews of patients' hospital general practice records. Across three states, 577...

the use of recent technologies for the increase of growth indexes and the plants yields is an important aspects and till now many research works for this has been done. one of these efforts is the usage of magnetic water and zeolite for the increase of yield plants. this research work is an study on the effects of magnetic water and zeolite that has been done on frame work of pore random design...

BACKGROUND The role of pro-brain natriuretic peptide (proBNP) for the prediction of clinical outcome has not been examined in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). METHODS AND RESULTS ProBNP levels were measured in 73 patients with acute PE within 4 hours of admission. Adverse clinical outcome was defined as in-hospital death or the need for at least 1 of the following: cardiopulmonary...

OBJECTIVES To study the epidemiology of gait disorders in community-residing older adults and their association with death and institutionalization. DESIGN Community-based cohort study. SETTING Bronx County and the research center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. PARTICIPANTS The Einstein Aging study recruited 488 adults aged 70 to 99 between 1999 and 2001. At entry and during annu...

a lithium borate thermoluminescence dosimeter with 0.3 wt% of manganese impurityconcentration was prepared for high dose levels in the range of 1-30 kgy for gamma irradiation applications.the tld reader was used for read out purposes from ambient temperature to about 400°c with a heating rate of 6°c/sec. the pre- and post- irradiation anneal temperature was 300°c for 1.5 and 1 hours respectivel...