continuous and lengthy droughts in previous years not only in the southern provinces of iran but also in the whole country necessitate optimized water management. indian ocean and adjacent seas in south of iran are suppliers of part of the humidity in the region and the variation on indian ocean sea surface temperature has an important role in evaporation from oceans and input humidity into atm...

Results: A total of 2016 study subjects completed the questionnaire (response rate 93.7%) with the mean age of 34.2 ± 12.8 years. The overall health literacy was 10.2 ± 4.2 and around 51% of the subjects reported marginal health literacy, while only 0.3% of inadequate health literacy was noticed among males aged 55+ years possessing university education. The overall health literacy and its doma...

Background: Studies have shown that there are striking variations in knee morphology between Asian and Western population. However, most of the existing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) implants are designed to suit the anatomy of Western population. Our study investigated anthropometry of Indian arthritic knees and compared them to international ethnic groups. Methods: Computed tomography was use...

BACKGROUND Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have low bone mineral density (BMD). Dietary calcium is important for them in the prevention of osteopenia and osteoporosis. There are no reports on the status of BMD in Indian patients with IBD. METHODS Dietary calcium intake and cumulative steroid and immunosuppressive drug use was noted in 46 randomly selected patients (mean [SD] ag...

of the Rickettsia spp. we identifi ed. As shown (2), multilocus analysis with ompA–ompB sequences was highly informative about the phylogenetic relationship between Rickettsia spp. and R. conorii strains (Figure, panel B). In Sicily, R. conorii Malish strain has been characterized in MSF patients (4), and R. slovaca DNA was identifi ed in ixodid ticks (5). However, to our knowledge, R. slovaca ...

Two hundred and thirty-three patients with renal amyloidosis were studied in an attempt to identify the incidence and pattern of the disease in northern India. The incidence of amyloidosis was 1.01% of 6431 post-mortems and 8.4% of 1980 renal biopsies from patients who presented with clinical evidence of glomerular disease. Two hundred and three patients (87.1%) had secondary amyloidosis, 22 (9...

Malnutrition inevitably accompanies Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and dialysis. Markers of malnutrition like low serum albumin have been shown to correlate independently with higher mortality in dialysis patients (1).Malnutrition is seen in both Hemodiaysis (HD) and Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) patients. The incidence has been described at 10-70% in HD and 1851% in PD patients (2,3). The causes of m...

Objectives The study aimed to demonstrate the interethnic differences and clinical features of Spondyloarthropathy(SpA) patients in a diverse Middle Eastern Country. Methods A retrospective review of medical records to collect the required data was conducted for SpA patients at two study institutions in the United Arab Emirates. Results Of 141 SpA patients found, 88 AS(Ankylosing Spondyliti...