it seems that endometriosis plays an important role in female factor infertility but a clear causal relationship has yet to be established. this case-control study was conducted to determine and compare the frequency and severity of endometriosis in 100 infertile women and 120 fertile multi-para women as control group. descriptive statistics, student t test and chi square test were used in anal...

Numerous studies have documented a significant association between symptom severity and cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder (BD). These findings advanced speculations about a potential link between the physiological stress associated with illness severity and cognitive dysfunction. To explore this hypothesis, the current study employed heart rate variability (HRV) as a physiological measu...

www.chestpubs.org pathogen and 332 patients with no identifi ed pathogen ( Table 1 ) and found no association. Bacterial documentation of our population was representative of pathogens isolated in patients with severe CAP. A part of unidentifi ed pathogens might have been viral pneumonia, which is not usually searched in clinical practice. 4 These results showing thrombocytopenia for a high pe...

PURPOSE To examine whether apparent advantages following training in meditation over exercise can be attributed to specific symptoms, functional impairments, or quality-of-life indicators assessed by the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-24). METHODS Results from the randomized controlled trial "Meditation or Exercise for Preventing Acute Respiratory Illness" showed mean globa...

objective: psychological capital is a new concept which has been raised since the third millennium and entered in organizational field since 2006. given the unique role of this concept in the production of corporate wealth it has been changed into a research basis for researchers and scholars. therefore, the present study aims to design a model for promotion of psychological capital with an emp...

in december 2015, the world health organization (who) published the first ever report on the estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, which included diseases related to chemical exposures in foods such as peanut allergy. in the report, the burden of disease related to peanut allergies was measured for the european, american and west pacific regions. the report showed that unlike ot...

Abstract In order to support vaccine development, and aid convalescent plasma therapy, it would be important understand the kinetics, timing persistence of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies (NAbs), their association with clinical disease severity. Therefore, we used a surrogate viral neutralization test evaluate levels in patients varying severity illness, those prolonged shedding mild/asympto...