patients and methods a total of 553 pregnant females, aged 18 - 40 years, during the third trimester of pregnancy, were included in the study. statistical analysis of pearson correlation coefficient, analysis of covariance for logistic regression and factor analysis were performed using spss software version 23. results in this study, pearson correlation coefficients between test and retest for...

ecotoxicological studies that use histological techniques enjoy descriptive approach in explaining the damages to tissues. in the present study, a rank-based estimation for linear models was used to examine significant difference between levels of cypermethrin on histological changes of the liver in aphanius sophiae . the toxicity of cypermethrin associated with certain environmental factors su...

backgroundcomplementary feeding practices play an important role in growth and development of the children. this study aimed to determine the complementary feeding practices status among children aged 6- 23 months and its association with various socio- demographic factors.materials and methodsthis community based cross-sectional study was conducted at field practice area of urban health center...

self-reported measures of dietary intake are prone to measurement error that may obscure the relationship of diet and disease. this review addresses strategies to decrease errors during collection of dietary data and statistical approaches to deal with measurement issues once the data are collected.  examples from two us studies-- the women’s health initiative (whi) dietary modification trial a...

Objective Despite numerous reports on the effects of meal frequency on biochemical parameters such as plasma lipid profile, glucose and insulin, there is almost no study to investigate the influence of meal frequency on immune system. In the present article, for the first time, the effect of meal frequency on complement components C3 and C4, as key components of the complement system, has been...

BACKGROUND A previous study reported the development a 75-item food frequency questionnaire for Japanese children (CFFQ). The first aim was to examine the reproducibility and validity of the CFFQ in order to assess dietary intake among two groups; 3-11 year old children (YC group) and 12-16 year old children (AD group). The second aim was to use the CFFQ and the FFQ for adults (AFFQ), and to de...

objective to determine the role of ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children. materials & methods sixty six consecutive children (1-16 years old) with intractable epilepsy whose seizure were not neurodegenerative nor febrile in origin were recruited. they received the ketogenic diet and we evaluated its effect on seizure frequency for 3 months. all these children had m...

background: previous studies on the correlation between dietary intakes and stroke have mostly focused on the dietary glycemic index (gi) of potatoes and there is no information regarding the correlation between potato consumption and risk of stroke. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between potato consumption and risk of stroke in an iranian population. methods: ...