Objective: One of the most common side effects spinal anesthesia (SA) is hypotension. The aim study was to evaluate efficacay inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter measurements, perfusion index (PI) and pleth variability (PVI) values in determining risk developing hypotension after SA. Materials Methods: This conducted on 81 patients who underwent transurethral prostatectomy. Before administration ...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION The influence of overweight/obesity on the clinical efficacy and safety of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors is unclear. We carried out a pooled analysis to examine the impact of body mass index on the efficacy and safety of ipragliflozin. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient-level data were pooled for five Japanese double-blind trials (NCT00621868, NCT01057628, NCT0113543...

ed by: African Index Medicus (WHO), CAB Abstracts, Index Copernicus, Global Health Abstracts, Asian Science Index, Index Full-text available at www.ajbrui.com & www.bioline.br/md Received: August, 2006 Accepted (Revised): November, 2006 Published January, 2007 Full length Research Article Antagonistic Effect of Vitamin E on the Efficacy of Artesunate against Plasmodium berghei Infection in Mice...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of domestic marketing on the organizational innovation through mediation of the staff self-efficacy. the statistical population of this study includes 150 members of emersam company where the sample members were selected randomly. in order to collect the research data, three questionnaires have been used. these include the questionnaire of...

abstract confused flour beetle, tribolium confusum duval (col.: tenebrionidae) is one of the most important stored product pests of flour in iran. in this research the effects of insect growth regulators (igrs): teflubenzuron, hexaflumuron and pyriproxyfen were studied on larval and imago nutritional indices of confused flour beetle. the results showed that they were more effective on relative ...

Sedentarism is a serious health concern in industrialized countries throughout the world. We examined whether a text message-based intervention, targeted at increasing daily levels of physical activity, would be more effective than a standard psychoeducational intervention and a control condition. Sixty-three individuals (43 women) with a mean age of 23.7 years participated in the study. They w...

AIM This study examined the relationships between health literacy, self-efficacy and preventive care utilization among older adults in Taiwan. METHODS The data were from a longitudinal survey, "Taiwan Longitudinal Study in Aging" in 2003 and 2007. A total of 3479 participants who completed both two waves were included for analysis. Health literacy first was constructed through education, cogn...