studies have shown that some personal characteristics such as perfectionism are associated with cardiovascular diseases. hence, this study was designed with the aim of doing a comparative evaluation of perfectionism in coronary heart disease patients and healthy individuals referred to shahid faghihi hospital in shiraz.   materials and methods: this is a case-control study carried out on 80 car...

in order to evaluate the effect of piriformospora indica fungi inoculation on antioxidant systems and photosynthetic pigments of stevia under salt stress, an experiment was conducted in a factorial based completely randomized design with four replications under in vitro culture conditions. factors include salinity at six levels (0, 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 mm of nacl) and inoculation of mycorr...

Previous approaches to the measurements of pulmonary diffusing capacity (DL) and pulmonary capillary blood flow (QC) utilized either the rebreathing or the single inhalation technique in conjunction with radioisotope gas and mass spectrometry. In the present study, we utilized a newly developed rapid infrared analyzer in conjunction with the slow single exhalation technique on 100 healthy volun...

Communications to the Editor this device in a previously reported randomized study.’ The methods we used2 to perform MV were nearly the same as those used in that study, but the strategies of tracheal aspiration and instillation were quite different. We performed tracheal aspiration systematically at least every 4 h. This strategy led us to instill 30±12 mIld in the heated-humidifier (Hil) grou...

AND JUDITH A. SHINOGLE PH.D. W orksite wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular among U.S. employers. In 2011, 74 percent of employers offered health benefits and some form of worksite wellness programs, including weight-loss programs, gym membership discounts, on-site exercise facilities, smoking cessation programs, personal health coaching, classes in nutrition or healthy living, o...