BACKGROUND Although recent advances in knee osteoarthritis (OA) treatment and evaluation were achieved, to the best of our knowledge, few studies have evaluated the longitudinal effect of therapeutic modalities on the functional exercise capacity of patients with knee OA. The purpose was to investigate the effects of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy on functional exercise capacity, evaluated u...

traffic fatalities are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in iran. occupational sleep medicine field needs more cost-effective and applicable tests for screening purposes. this study reports on a pilot screening study for drowsy drivers in an urban iranian sample of commercial drivers. the maintenance of wakefulness test (mwt) measures the ability to remain awake objectively. sleep latenc...

OBJECTIVE Osteoporosis may significantly impair the final result of lung transplantation. The purpose of study is to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis with the regard to risk factors for osteoporosis in patients awaiting lung transplantation. MATERIAL AND METHODS We determined bone mineral density (BMD) in 48 patients (12 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), 15 with other form idi...

A Restricted Selection Index was constructed to genetically evaluate animals using a dataset composed of body weights Shami kids at the ages birth, weaning, and 6-month. The variance-covariance matrix (VCV) generated used estimate genetic parameters for index construction after adjusting fixed effects; year, birth month, kid sex, type (single, twin or triplet) doe age, kidding (KW), (BWT) weani...

Background: The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) for the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) is debated in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) quality-of-life (QoL) assessments. This study aimed to determine whether there a predictors of significant improvement between traditional (value 4) and newly proposed MCID SGRQ 7) after climatic rehabilitation treatment. ...

BACKGROUND New parameters in the 6-minute walk test (6 MWT) are required for comprehensive analysis of exercise capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of the present study was to apply a novel index, the desaturation distance ratio (DDR), to clinical research on COPD as an estimate of exercise capacity and to examine whether DDR is a potential parameter ...

Minimum Weight Triangulation problem (MWT) is to nd a set of edges of minimum total length that triangulates a given set of points in the plane. Although some properties of MWT have been proved and many heuristics proposed, polyno-miality (and)/or NP-completness of MWT problem is still unsolved. The problem belongs to the few open problems from the book GaJo]. In this paper we present results i...

OBJECTIVE: Cardiac Rehabilitation Program (CRP) is a comprehensive program developed specifically for the patients aims to improve functional exercise capacity, quality of life, and psychosocial status. This study investigate effect CRP in retrospectively on who went through percutaneous coronary interference (PCI) with artery disease (CAD) diagnosis bypass graft (CABG) history.MATERIAL AND MET...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of preemptive analgesia on the inflammatory response and rehabilitation in TKA. 75 patients with unilateral primary knee osteoarthritis were conducted in this prospective study. All patients were randomly divided into two groups (MMA with/without preemptive analgesia group). The following parameters were used to evaluate analgesic efficacy: k...

Abstract Introduction In the phase 3 REST-ON trial (NCT02720744), mean sleep latency on Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) was significantly improved vs placebo with investigational, extended-release once-nightly sodium oxybate (FT218 [ON-SXB]; P< 0.001). This post hoc analysis assessed response to treatment and improvement in excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). Methods Participants (...