background: breast milk is important for the overall well-being of infants. although lactation is relatively robust in the face of poor nutrition, the implication of poor nutrition on non-nutritive factors in breast milk is inconclusive. objective: this study was designed to find associations between nutritional and immune factors in maternal blood and breast milk with the aim to improve the ne...

objective: diabetes is now known as one of the chronic diseases that besides body have negative effects on the psychological status of patients. the present study aimed to assess the physical and mental attributes of patients to evaluate and compare life expectancy and mental health among diabetic patients with normal ones. materials and methods: this was an analytic cross-sectional study, that...

BACKGROUND The study of self-reported mental health is a fairly recent area for economists, although sociologists, psychologists and public health specialists have been studying it for years. One methodological problem with earlier research is that there are many unobserved characteristics of individuals that may be correlated with self-reported mental health. Neglecting these factors may lead ...