the aim of this article is to review health-related aspects of ramadan fasting in normal individuals and diabetics. during fasting days of ramadan, glucose homeostasis is maintained by meal taken bepore dawn and by liver glycogen stores. changes in serum lipids are variable and defend on the quality and quantity of food consumption and changes in weight. compliant, well controlled type 2 diabet...

background: ferroportin (fpn), a regulator of iron homeostasis is a conserved membrane protein that exports iron across the enterocytes, macrophages and hepatocytes into the blood circulation. fpn has also critical influence on survival of microorganisms whose growth is dependent upon iron, thus preparation of fpn is needed to study the role of iron in immunity and pathogenesis of micoorganisms...

background: to investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (mets) in young chinese population and assess the as­sociation between homa-ir and different components of mets in young chinese men. methods: overall 5576 young chinese subjects (age range [19-44 yr], 3636 men) were enrolled in, who visited our health care center for a related health checkup from march to december 2008. the intern...

background: omega 3 and vitamin e are two critical nutrients which include beneficial effects in coronary artery disease (cad). the aim of this study was to assess the effects of omega 3 alone supplementation or in combination with vitamin e on serum glucose and lipid levels and insulin resistance in cad patients. methods: participants of this clinical trial included 60 male patients with cad w...

abstract objective: homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (homa-ir) is a simple and practical method for estimation of insulin resistance (ir), but a reliable reference interval (ri) of homa-ir is needed to deduce the threshold level to define ir. this ri has been controversial in different populations and even more divergent when considering factors like age, gender and body mass ...

this study aimed to determine the relationship between suturing and electro-cautery methods of post-tonsillectomy homeostasis in imam khomeini hospital- kermanshah. an analytical study was performed on admitted patient's profiles from 2002-2004. data collection sheet was applied to extract all variables. descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. during that period 915 ...

35 epileptic patients, aged 10 to 58 years (mean 23), who were taking anticonvulsant drugs were studied. The patients exhibited a 34% reduction in serum calcium levels, a 41 % increase in serum alkaline phosphatase activity and a slight but insignificant decrease in serum phosphate, compared to untreated controls. These changes appear to be related to the anticonvulsant drug taken, in the ...

35 epileptic patients, aged 10 to 58 years (mean 23), who were taking anticonvulsant drugs were studied. the patients exhibited a 34% reduction in serum calcium levels, a 41 % increase in serum alkaline phosphatase activity and a slight but insignificant decrease in serum phosphate, compared to untreated controls. these changes appear to be related to the anticonvulsant drug taken, in the follo...