the purpose of present research was comparing tendency to risky behaviours in secure/insecure attachment in parents (mother/father). the results showed that those showing insecure attachment patterns towards the mother were significantly higher at risk to become cigarette smokers, drug persuasion, and alcohol drinkers compared to those with secure attachment patterns. those showing insecure att...

background: ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide. incidence of ovarian cancer is more common in postmenopausal women. premenopausal onset is rare and the present study described two cases of ovarian clear cell tumors in young women. case presentation: the patients presented with pelvic mass which was confirmed by sonography and laparotomy and final diagnosis was mad...

background: it has been well documented that left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh) is an independent factor for cardiac death in children. the epidemiologic information reveals that there is a very high prevalence of lvh in children with chronic renal failure (crf). the purpose of this study was to evaluate the existence of left ventricular hypertrophy, its severity and other cardiac abnormalities...

conclusions the pattern and number of vessels involved were similar in both groups. based on common prevalence of traditional risk factors among two groups, planning for lifestyle changes is recommended. results of the 112 patients, 51 (45.5%) were in group a and 61 (54.5%) were in group b with mean age of 37.6 ± 4.4 and 63 ± 8.5, respectively. no significant statistical differences were found ...

background: data on premature coronary artery disease (cad) are scarce. the tehran heart center's premature coronary atherosclerosis cohort study (thc-pac) is the first study of its kind in the middle east to assess major adverse cardiac events (mace) in young cad patients. methods: the cohort consists of cad patients, males ≤ 45 years old and females ≤ 55 years old. the participants are reside...

background : st-elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) is a major cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide. there are differences between very young patients with stemi and their older counterparts.   this study investigates the demographics and clinical findings in very young patients with stemi. methods: through a review of the angiography registry, 108 patients aged ≤ 35 years (group i) ...

This project replicates and extends previous work on coarticulation in velar-vowel sequences in English. Coarticulatory data for 46 young adult speakers, 23 who stutter and 23 who do not stutter show coarticulatory patterns in young adults who stutter that are no different from typical young adults. Additionally, the stability of velar-vowel production is analysed in token-to-token variability ...