BACKGROUND Viral warts are a common infectious disease and liquid nitrogen cryotherapy is one of the most common methods for treatment of these warts. Hand-foot viral warts frequently recur and reduce quality of life as well. OBJECTIVE To find the ideal treatment interval between cryotherapy sessions that can influence not only the cure rate but also the recurrence rate for hand-foot viral wa...

BACKGROUND Psychological distress is one of the most common psychological symptoms in elderly cancer patients. However, many of these patients do not receive any treatment for distress management. Therefore, we aimed to assess the effect of a communication program on the psychological distress of elderly cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This two-group clinical trial with a before and af...

results from a total of 32 elderly women, 29 cases completed the study. no significant differences were found between the two groups in terms of demographic characteristics. the mean happiness scores before the intervention between the two groups were not significantly different (p = 0.824). comparison of the mean happiness scores of the intervention group in the four measurement times revealed...

abstract background: peritoneal dialysis has a number of complications including increased blood glucose. although exercise has been suggested to resolve this complication, most patients are not active. the present study aimed at determining the effects of twice-weekly, 40-min sessions of pedaling on a stationary bicycle on mean fasting blood sugar (fbs) and 2-h postprandial blood sugar (ppbs) ...

Importance More research is required to clarify the association between physical activity and health in "weekend warriors" who perform all their exercise in 1 or 2 sessions per week. Objective To investigate associations between the weekend warrior and other physical activity patterns and the risks for all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer mortality. Design, Setting, and Parti...

Objective: Radial shock wave therapy (RSWT) has increasingly been utilized in the treatment of spasticity recently. The purpose current study is to assess effectiveness RSWT ankle plantar flexor muscles stroke patients by pedobarography and clinical evaluation.
 Materials Methods: A total 23 were enrolled into study. Patients received an initial sham RSWT, followed three separate intervent...

the aim of this study was to examine the effect of 12 weeks of concurrent training on rbp4 andinsulin resistance levels in obese middle-age men. for this purpose, 20 obese middle-age men voluntarily participated in this study and were assigned to concurrent training group (n=10, mean age 51.2 ± 2.25 yr and bmi 31.44 ± 0.81 kg/m²) and control group (n=10, mean age 50.3 ± 2.11 yr and bmi 30.32 ± ...

AIM To assess the survival of the primary arteriovenous fistula created for dialysis in 463 chronic hemodialysis patients, because the main causes of morbidity among such patients are associated with vascular access-related complications. METHOD We analyzed 269 (58%) men and 194 (42%) women with median age of 58 years (range 12-83), who underwent 0-14,784 (median 1,584) hours of hemodialysis....

Introduction Depression is the disease with greatest burden of disability. Despite pharmacological options, up to 30% depressions are considered resistant treatment (RTD). Theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS) on dorsolateral prefrontal cortex allows application shorter protocols and longer-lasting effects than conventional TMS. Its implementation in Public Health System requires ...

Twitter is the fastest growing social media network. It offers participants the ability to network with other individuals. Medical societies are interested in helping individuals network to boost recruitment, encourage collaboration, and assist in job placement. We hypothesized that the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) successfully used Twitter to create a network between participants and i...