BACKGROUND The epidemiological evidence supporting a causal link between Mediterranean diets and body weight is contrasting. We evaluated the effect of Mediterranean diets on body weight in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) using a meta-analysis. METHODS We searched English and non-English publications in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from in...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Three missense mutations clustered on the carboxyl-terminal portion of the MEFV gene (M680I, M694V, and V726A) have been observed in over 80% of affected alleles in several ethnic groups of familial Mediterranean fever patients. Several immunologic abnormalities were found both in cellular and humoral components in Mediterranean fever patients. Those observations have pointed th...

case presentation a ten-year-old iranian boy was referred to our department with history of recurrent abdominal pain followed by fever, chills, arthralgia and scrotal edema. he suffered from hematuria and gastrointestinal bleeding. his physical exam revealed fever (axillary temperature: 38.7°c), hypertension (150/90 mmhg), hepatomegaly (liver span: 13 cm), orchitis and subcutaneous painful nodu...

background: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is a major public health problem worldwide. smoking is the number one cause of copd; however, genetic, environmental and dietary factors contribute to the etiology of this disease. in this study, we assessed the association between three diet quality indices -the healthy eating index-2005 (hei-2005), the healthy eating index-2010 (hei-201...

background: this study conducted as part of a screening program for the promotion of community health in the primary care setting of ormos korthi in andros, greece. the objective of this study was to identify the levels of glucose and total cholesterol in individuals without major cardiovascular problems in order to identify cases of undetected dyslipidemia and high blood glucose levels, in a r...

Little is known about the factors which might influence the adherence to a Mediterranean diet in non-Mediterranean European countries. Thus, the main purpose of this study was to determine the associations between socioeconomic, psychological, and physical factors on a Mediterranean diet. In this cross-sectional study, participants were 14-18-year-old adolescents (N = 3071) from two non-Mediter...

Several individual components of the Mediterranean diet have been shown to offer protection against prostate cancer. The present study is the first to investigate the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and the relative risk of prostate cancer. We also explored the usefulness of the Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS) in a non-Mediterranean population. FFQ data were obtained from...

the east mediterranean region suffers from high levels of air pollution which has a negative impact on pregnancy outcomes. this work systematically reviews the epidemiological evidence on maternal exposure to air pollution and adverse pregnancy outcomes in the region. relevant papers and reports published between 2000 and 2014 were searched. combinations of search terms including countries, exp...

this study reports the concentrations of important tracers of the marine environment, 210po and210pb, in different matrices from field samples collected at central adriatic sea (italy), a non-contaminatedmarine ecosystem. 210po concentration appears to decrease with increasing distance from the coast and asignificant difference in 210po concentrations in seawater samples at two different depths...

Climatological features of mesoscale rain activities over the Mediterranean region between 5 W–40 E and 28 N–48 N are examined using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3B42 and 2A25 rain products. The 3B42 rainrates at 3-hourly, 0.25×0.25 spatial resolution for the last 10 years (January 1998 to July 2007) are used to form and analyze the 5-day mean and monthly mean climatology of r...