NonST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) represents the majority of ACS. Despite the fact that we pay most attention to ST-elevation-ACS, NSTE-ACS is where logistically the action is, as these patients account for 3 out of 4 hospital ACS discharges. Recent studies have helped to clarify that a strategy of routine catheterization is superior to a conservative strategy of catheterizatio...

Objective(s) The aim of this study was to evaluate antioxidant and hair growth activities of Buxus wallichiana Baill (Buxaceae). Materials and methods Petroleum ether, chloroform, methanol and aqueous extracts of Buxus wallichiana subjected to antioxidant activity by; 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picryl hydrazyl and nitric oxide methods. Methanol extract of Buxus wallichiana at 50, 100 mg/kg, ointment of...

To assess the daily salt intake of people aged 20-74 years based on the 24-hour urinary sodium excretion in urban population of Yazd, a population-based cross-sectional study was conducted. This is a substudy of Yazd Healthy Heart Project in Iran. From 2004 to 2005, two thousand people of the urban population of Yazd city, aged 20-74 years, were enrolled in the main study. Overall, 219 voluntee...

A 24-hr regimen of nimorazole (1 g. orally at 12-hrly intervals for three doses) was compared with metronidazole (200 mg. three times daily for 7 days) in the treatment of trichomonal vaginitis. The two treatment schedules were given to alternate patients, pregnant women being excluded. One hundred cases were treated on each schedule; roughly one-fifth of the patients in each group defaulted. T...