Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a persistent maladaptive reaction provoked by the impact of traumatic event. Recently, investigations cause-and-effect relationships PTSD with main risk factors, course and prognosis cardiovascular diseases has become more relevant. Many studies have shown that patients higher developing in general adverse events such as myocardial infarction, stroke, he...

dental caries is one of the most preventable yet prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. our objective was to evaluate the effect of family structure and behavioral and eyesight problems as they relate to caries severity in schoolchildren.this research was carried out on 845 primary schoolchildren aged 9 yr in kerman, iran, in 2012. ten variables, including health records, family structure inform...

background : chronic liver disease comprises a wide range of diseases characterized by inflammation of the liver and progression of cirrhosis. this study aims to assess the relationship between behavioral disorders and quality of life in patients with liver cirrhosis. materials and methods : the available sampling method was used to divide participants into two groups of 100 patients and 100 he...

toxoplasmosis is one of the most common parasitic diseases worldwide. although estimated that one third of the world's population are infected with toxoplasma gondii , but the most common form of the disease is latent (asymptomatic). on the other hand, recent findings indicated that la­tent toxoplasmosis is not only unsafe for human, but also may play various roles in the etiol­ogy of different...

Perturbation of an organism's homeostasis by stress can trigger biological or behavioral adaptation and accelerate onset and course of several diseases. Signaling triggered by norepinephrine or epinephrine (via adrenergic receptors) and cortisol (through glucocorticoid receptors) has profound effects on dampening immune responses, accelerating cancer progression and increasing the risk of cardi...