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background: breast milk is important for the overall well-being of infants. although lactation is relatively robust in the face of poor nutrition, the implication of poor nutrition on non-nutritive factors in breast milk is inconclusive. objective: this study was designed to find associations between nutritional and immune factors in maternal blood and breast milk with the aim to improve the ne...

BACKGROUND Most women report negative experience about the symptoms of uterine leiomyoma (UL) in their lives, such as abnormal uterine bleeding and pelvic pain. Many studies have been conducted about efficacy of UL treatment, but little research has been performed about womens health related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS This is a semi-structured, descriptive, observational, qualitative stu...

prioritizing women's health helps achievement of the 4(th) and 5(th) goals of millennium development program. this study aimed to investigate association between social determinants of health and women's health of reproductive age.this population-based cross-sectional study, using multi-stage sampling procedure was conducted on 770, 15 to 49-year-old women residing in any one of the 22 municipa...

background health-related quality of life (hrqol) is an important factor for self-management behaviors of diabetic patients. these behaviors have special importance in preventing complications of diabetes. objectives this study has been conducted to evaluate hrqol of diabetic patients referred to tehran hospitals. patients and methods in this descriptive study patients were selected from diabet...

background: bread is the major food in middle east and iran. recent studies in iran have shown that daily bread consumption was 300gr. also, 40.2% of the total energy per person was obtained from bread. methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 81 bakeries in rafsanjan, iran in 2004. the main objective of this study was to determine some parameters of the bread, such as ph, nacl, dough an...

conclusions the significant improvement in the experimental group’s mean knowledge, hbm structures , and behavior scores indicates the positive effect of the intervention. background using various models of behavior change, a number of studies in the area of nutrition education have confirmed that nutrition habits and behaviors can be improved. objectives this study sought to determine the effe...