objective: cardiac diseases are psycho-somatic disorders, and psychological aspects play an essential role in their initiation and exacerbation. the aim of this study was to gain appropriate knowledge in the epidemiology of co-morbid depression and anxiety disorder in cardiovascular outpatients. method: this study is descriptive with a sample of patients attending a cardio-vascular clinic. 238 ...

Ttiis is a useful book, in which the place of cortisone and other steroid drugs in the treatment of the rheumatic diseases is reviewed. The book falls naturally into two parts. The first section conisists of five chapters, and is concerned with the use of cortisone in rheumatoid arthritis. The second section consists of two chapters, the first of which decribes the general use of cortisone in d...

background: the present study is the one in which a wide range of socio-psychological risk factors were analyzed with a focus on patients with cardio vascular diseases (cvd) in kermanshah, iran. the aim of this study is to assess psycho-social risk factors status in patients with cvd in kermanshah. methods: in this survey 308 subjects (168 men and 140 women), who had been diagnosed as cvd patie...

Morbidity and mortality in cardio-vascular diseases can be described as an ongoing epidemic, although a very protracted one, lasting more than 100 years. Cardiovascular diseases still top mortality rates in the world today, accounting for about 30% of all deaths around the globe. But it is in the industrialized world that cardio-vascular diseases dominate, although differences are great among v...

The aim of the review is to study the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases which is used to compare the influence of classic cardiovascular risk factors on the development of Acute Coronary Syndrome & Ischemic Stroke . Hypertension , hyperlipidemea, diabetes and obesity are some of the major cardiovascular risk factors . Cardiovascular diseases usually affects older adults, who are the desce...

Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in Japan and other Westernized countries. Over 50% of the ESRD patients die from cardiovascular events. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) in ESRD patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) are implicated in the endothelial dysfunction caused by hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension, and in the vascular calcification of i...