background and aim: recently some evidence has been presented that periodontal disease is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. the hypothesis of this study is that periodontitis may be associated with elevated blood lipid levels, a known risk factor for atherosclerotic disease. methods & materials: the levels of plasma lipids was measured in 40 subjects with chronic peri...

background the treatment of posterior eye diseases is always challenging mainly due to inaccessibility of the region. many drugs are currently delivered by repeated intraocular injections. objectives the purpose of this study was to investigate the potential applications of natural triglycerides as alternative carriers to synthetic polymers in terms of drug release profile and also biocompatibi...

background: the role of uric acid as a risk factor for vascular disease and acute stroke is controversial and there is little information about it. in this study, we determined serum uric acid levels in patients with acute stroke and assessed its relationship with cerebrovascular risk factors. methods: in this cross sectional study, we assessed patients with acute stroke who were admitted in fi...

background: obesity is caused by several factors while sedentary lifestyle and excessive energy intake are the most important ones. obesity could be due to abnormal calcium metabolism, and a high calcium intake may prevent obesity. studying serum calcium level, albumin, and triglyceride concentrations, we searched for probable correlation between serum calcium level and anthropometric data of t...

background and objective: quality control is one of the most important components in order to improve quality assurance in laboratories during analytical steps. for this purpose, coefficient of variation plays an important role. due to the fast improvement in technology, application of inferential statistics for the comparisons of laboratory techniques, including instrument and chemicals and fa...

possessing putative hypolipidemic effects, teucrium polium (tp) have been traditionally used as a medicinal plant in iran. the aim of the present study was to investigate this effect on the sucrose-induced insulin resistance male rat model. thirty wistar male rats weighting 180 ± 20 g were divided into five groups of six each. four groups were given sucrose 50% in drinking water for 10 weeks. i...