Background Fetal growth restriction is the second leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. The incidence of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is estimated to be approximately 5 percent in the general obstetric population. Abnormal uterine artery suggest a maternal cause for the growth restriction where as normal uterine artery Doppler studies suggest that a fetal cause. Use of u...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of protein whey isolate supplementation on antioxidant status during a resistance training program in overweight young men. 30 individuals (body mass index between 25-30 kg.m2) participated in this study and were randomly divided into three groups (each 10 subjects): experimental group 1 (supplement + six weeks of resistance training) (w), exp...

Objective: The aim of the present study is assessment of insulin resistance (IR) in obese women by TyG-Index and compared with the HOMA-IR index. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 61 obese women aged 18-45 years. Weights, height, waist circumference (WC) were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated and recorded. A sample of fasting serum was collecte...

The resistance distance between any two vertices of G is defined as the network effective resistance between them if each edge of G is replaced by a unit resistor. The Kirchhoff index Kf(G) is the sum of resistance distances between all the pairs of vertices in G. We firstly provided an exact formula for the Kirchhoff index of the hypercubes networks Q n by utilizing spectral graph theory. More...

background endothelial injury is a well-known complication in chronic kidney disease (ckd) and hemodialysis. one of the sites in which early vascular changes may be detected is the retina. of course, these flow changes may not be detected in ophthalmologic exams, but it seems that color doppler sonography of retinal arteries may be helpful in these cases. objectives in previous studies on ckd p...

Insulin resistance associated with dyslipidemia enhances cardiovascular risk. Several atherogenic indexes have been suggested to give more precise information about the risk. The aim of our study was to estimate, which atherogenic index correlates better with parameters of insulin resistance. Furthermore, we compared the parameters of lipid metabolism and insulin resistance between smokers and ...

OBJECTIVES The study was designed to compare upright and supine cephalometric measurements in snorers and to evaluate the effects of mandibular position and nasal resistance on pharyngeal dimensions. Anthropometric, rhinomanometric, and cephalometric measurements were used to investigate predictors of apnea-hypopnea index. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional. METHODS Forty consecutive...