BACKGROUND The determination of cutoff points for healthy waist circumference (WC) is of paramount importance for prevention, optimum management, and prognostication of obesity, the metabolic syndrome (MetS), type 2 diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease. The aim of this project was to establish the cutoff level for WC in rural Basrah in Iraq, one of the eastern Mediterranean and Middle ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of cancer antigen CA15-3 in the diagnosis, prognosis, followup and treatment of breast cancer. METHODS The case-control study was done from October 2009 to February 2011 at the Al-Basrah Hospital in Basrah, Iraq. Blood samples were collected from 30 women with primary breast cancer before the invasive procedure. Another set of blood samples were collected from 2...

english abstracts / 11 ibn anbari s principles and style in the book al-ensaf fi masael al-khelaf eisa motaghi zadeh * majid mohammadi ** abstract after combing arabic language with non arabic and expanding the issue of diction, linguists tried to preserve the quran language, consequently they decided to legislate some special rules for facilitating the teaching of arabic grammar. very soon, su...

annina mesopotamica (ahmed, 1971), from iraq (shat-al-arab river bank, basrah) is redescribed. a. mesopotamica can be distinguished from other species of the genus in having a pair of short and blunt dorso-lateral horns on the male pereonite 2. a revised generic diagnosis is provided for the genus annina.

901 2014 June 16 Accepted 2014 une J 5 Received Abstract The Mycoplasma found most frequently in genital tract and play their putative roles urogenital tract of women. In this study, three species of mycoplasma represented by M. pnumoniae, M. primatum and M. pirum were isolated from urogenital tract. In this study, one hundred vaginal swabs were taken from pregnant, non pregnant and cont...

Hydatid disease is an important zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution. In the Middle East, as well as in some other parts of the world, it has always been a serious economic and public health problem. The disease is endemic and enzootic in Iraq. In Iraq, the disease is caused by Echinococcus granulosus but a multilocular hydatid cyst of E. multilocularis has been recovered from the liv...