BACKGROUND The average dietary sodium intake of Koreans is 2.6 times higher than the World Health Organization's recommended amount. The effect of a diet high in sodium on the skeletal system, especially osteoporosis, has not previously been examined in Korean postmenopausal women with low bone mass. We assessed the daily sodium intake, and determined the impact of sodium intake on urinary calc...

statement of the problem in recent years, amalgam has been considered a danger for dentistry personnel due to toxicity of mercury (hg) purpose this study aimed at investigating the relationship between scientific indices and dentists’ urine hg level through measuring its concentration rate among dentists with over four years of experience materials and methods thirty dentists with over four yea...

objective(s)lupus nephritis (ln) is frequently associated with a poor long-term prognosis. renal biopsy is the diagnostic method of choice in this condition. urine biomarkers have been mentioned in the diagnosis of ln. the study,s purpose was to evaluate the performance of urinary monocyte chemoattractant protein 1(umcp-1) as a biomarker of renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus.mate...

background: measuring the 24-hour urine protein ≥300 mg is the standard threshold value for diagnosis of preeclampsia. objective: this study was intended to determine if a patient’s 4-hour urine protein correlate with the 24-hour value for diagnosis of preeclampsia. materials and methods: this was a cross sectional study performed on 84 women with suspected preeclampsia due to positive urinary ...

background & objective: urinary tract infection (uti) is a common disease in adults that early diagnosis and proper treatment of it has high importance. this study was performed for analysis of type and antibiotics resistance of isolated bacteria from urine of adult in different sex and ages for help in choose of antibiotics in empirical therapy.method: data of patients (gender, age, kind o...

a simple, precise, inexpensive and sensitive voltammetric method has been developed for the determination of gemifloxacin mesylate (gem) in the presence of tween 80 in the bulk, farmaceutical dosage forms and human urine at gold nanoparticles modified carbon paste electrode (gncpe). the electrochemical behavior of gem has been investigated by using cyclic voltammetry (cv) and differential pulse...

pregnant women are at increased risk for urinary tract infection (uti) but in many cases infection is asymptomatic. this study was performed to determine the incidence of asymptomatic bacteriuria and pyuria in pregnant women. a total of 86 pregnant women during first trimester and 56 nonpregnant women were evaluated. all subjects were clinically identified to have no signs and symptoms of uti. ...