In Iran, the last National Nutrition and Dietary Survey [1] showed that about 80% of Iranians do not meet the estimated average requirement for calcium. While foods are not generally fortified in Iran, dietary supplement may be a convenient way to prevent nutritional deficiency in high-risk population groups including the elderly [2, 3]. There is however, no data on supplement usage by older ad...

BETWEEN 1975 AND 1978, under the regime of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia experienced massive killings and starvation, large-scale population transfers, forced labor on collective farms, and an almost complete destruction of the country’s school system. The extreme atrocities endured by the Cambodians have been documented and identified as genocide; yet few studies have quantified the extent or meas...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study describes educational differences in decreases in leisure time physical activity among an adult, physically active population and additionally attempts to identify predictors of these differences from information on health status and individual and environmental factors. DESIGN Prospective population based study. Baseline measurement were carried out in 1991 and fol...

BACKGROUND Health expectancies vary worldwide according to socioeconomic status (SES), with health disadvantages being evident among lower SES groups. Using educational attainment as a proxy of SES, we seek to identify trends in SES differentials in health by gender, with a particular focus on individuals with low educational attainment in the adult Catalan population (Spain) aged 55 or older. ...

This paper attempted to explore the expectation level of individuals to match themselves with the career offers and their awareness level to make the right decision in choosing right career in an economy of unemployment problems especially among the educated persons. This descriptive analytical research work is done on the basis of perceptions of students of different levels of education. The s...

The incontrovertible scientific evidence about tobacco use causing serious health consequences is now accepted even by the tobacco industry. Research continues to enlarge the spectrum of diseases caused by tobacco use among users as well as among nonusers exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke. This review attempts to illustrate the greater risk to adverse health outcomes among the less educated d...

OBJECTIVES We sought to measure the difference in employment rates between HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative persons and to establish whether this difference varied according to the HIV-infected persons' socioeconomic position as defined by education level. METHODS We used data from the VESPA (VIH: Enquête Sur les Personnes Atteintes) study, a large cross-sectional survey conducted among ...

Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is frequently used in the intensive care setting for the treatment of acute kidney injury. Dosing guidelines for many commonly used antibiotics were established during intermittent dialysis or in studies examining CRRT at lower blood and dialysis flow rates than are used in common practice. Herein we present data demonstrating frequent subtherapeutic ...