Although periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease but some factors of acute inflammation phase are involved in this disease among which is the C-Reactive protein (CRP). To minimize its effects, anti-inflammatory drugs or non-pharmacological approaches such as oral hygiene is recommended. CRP can also be used for the prediction and early detection of periodontal disease. The aim of the pr...

conclusions some results of the correlation coefficients are not the same with visualization. the reason may be due to the small number of data. materials and methods in the foundation-application study, we constructed two-way gene networks using nonparametric methods, such as spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and blomqvist’s measure, and compared them with pearson’s correlation coefficie...

evapotranspiration is one of the most important components of the hydrological cycle which is directly influenced by atmospheric conditions. this study investigated annual and seasonal trends in reference evapotranspiration (et0) and its key influencing climatic variables during 1966-2005 at 10 stations in southern iran (with centrality of fars province). first, multivariate regression analysis...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular risk assessment is usually based on traditional risk factors and risk assessment algorithms. However, a number of risk markers that might provide additional predictive power have been identified. Endothelial function determined by digital reactive hyperemia peripheral arterial tonometry (RH-PAT) and carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) have both been proposed as...

Methods An ambispective cohort study of adult patients consecutively admitted to an ICU exclusively from the ED, from October 2011 to March 2013. Variables recorded were: sex, age, comorbidities, ED length of stay, diagnosis, procedures, complications, severity scores (SOFA and APACHE II), ICU and hospital length of stay and evolution. For the assessment of clinical deterioration a Delta-SOFA s...

introduction: studies have shown the regulatory role of leptin in bone formation, its expression in adipose tissue as well as increased levels in circulation following the adminstration of inflammatory stimuli such as lipopolysaccharides (lps). however, there is little data evaluating the role of leptin in inflammatory periapical lesions. the aim of this study was to evaluate the presence and c...

the occurrence of genotype × environment (ge) interaction has led to the development of several stabilityparameters that can be used to estimate the stability of cultivar performance. repeatability of 20 parametric and non-parametric stability measures across years and yield subsets as well as their association with mean seed yield and interrelationship among them in safflower (carthamus tincto...

Background: Obesity is one of the most important health problems, so it is very important to identify its causes. Shift work is one of the factors that causes people to become obese. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between shift work and obesity in taxi drivers. Methods: In this cross sectional study conducted in 2016, 120 male taxi drivers from Yazd were studied for demog...