background: this study examined the association between incident pulmonary tuberculosis (tb) and social and behavioral characteristics in almaty oblast, kazakhstan from 2012 to 2013. methods: we used a matched case-control design to estimate the role of factors for acquiring pulmonary tb. totally 324 individuals were recruited from sep 2012 to mar 2013. participants included 110 tb index cases ...

introduction: andropause is a common clinical entity of advanced age, with a decline in androgen levels in males. many of the signs of male aging are results of this condition with significant decline in their quality of life and adverse effects on multiple organ systems function. androgen deficiency of the aging male (adam) questionnaire is one of the most applied screening tools for androgen ...

abstract: background and aim:cardio vascular diseases (cvds) are important cause of morbidity and mortality in world wide and constitutes a major public health problem in iran . due to increase of cvd in this contex ,the bjective of this study was to describe the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors amony gonabad urban population. materials and methods:in this cross sectional study , a tot...

high blood pressure control (hbpc) is a common goal of who and the world hypertension league (whl). the two important strategies in hbpc are identifying cardiovascular (cvd) risk factors and planning to modify controllable factors. this study was accomplished to determine the cvd risk factors in high blood pressure (hbp) patients of the rural population, residing in the babol region, north of i...

background it is known that risk factors related to neonatal bacterial sepsis are complex. objectives the current study aimed to determine the risk factors of neonatal sepsis. materials and methods this study was conducted on 1023 neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units (nicus) in south sinai governorate hospitals from january 2010 till september 2014. demographic data of the neonate...

This cohort study was conducted to report on the incidence, timing and risk factors for stavudine (d4T)- and nevirapine (NVP)-related severe drug toxicity (requiring substitution) with a generic fixed-dose combination under program conditions in Kigali, Rwanda. Probability of 'time to first toxicity-related drug substitution' was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and Cox-proportional haza...