background: toxocariasis is a common disease around the world. our objective was to determine toxocara seroprevalence in humans in the city of isparta, southwest turkey, in respect of some determinants such as age, socio-economic level, residence in city center or rural area etc. methods: five hundred and thirty four individual participants from isparta center and 85 from asagi gokdere village ...

introduction: severe early childhood caries is the presence of smooth-surface caries in children younger than three years of age. this rampant form of dental caries exerts a negative impact on the quality of life of both the child and the family .the purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors for severe early childhood caries (s-ecc) among 2-3 year-old children in rasht. material...

background development of complications during gynecologic laparoscopic surgery depends on many factors such as history of previous laparotomies. this factor usually increases the veres and first trocar complications. objectives in this study, we compared all operative complications between the patients with and without previous abdominal surgery. patients and methods all operative complication...

conclusions in conclusion, oral l-arginine supplementation appears to improve anthropometric parameters, blood pressure values, and some blood biochemical indices associated with cardiovascular disease prevention. results significant decreases in anthropometric parameters, blood pressure (sbp, dbp), fbs, hba1c, ldl, mda (p < 0.001), tg (p = 0.02), and tc (p = 0.002) and a significant increase i...

objective: the purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of project respect in reducing sexual risk behaviors of male to female transgender patients. methods: in an interventional, quasi-experimental and case-control study, 30 transgenderpatients (male to female) with high-risk sexual behaviors were selected and divided into two experimental and control groups. transgender...

introduction: hyperlipidemia is a major cardiovascular risk factor. this survey has been performed to determine the prevalence of hyperlipidemia in the 17th zone of tehran. methods: 1573 individuals 25-64 aged were recruited from the inhabitants of the 17th zone of tehran through one stage cluster sampling. standard questionnaires were filled out for all of the participants. lipid profile was c...

over a period of four years, we followed 200 male cases (female patients were excluded from this study because from early childhood, the majority of iranian girls have their ears pierced which tends to distort the ear lobe and renders the diagnosis of the crease difficult) of proved coronary artery disease (angina pectoris, coronary insufficiency, and myocardial infarction) in a private clinic ...

a cross-sectional study with children&apos;s and parents&apos; self-completed questionnaires was carried out to evaluate parents&apos; ideas on children&apos;s risk-takjng behaviours and children&apos;s risky activities after school hours by age (7 and 9 years) and sex. nine elementary schools were randomly selected and 476 puphs aged seven and nine years and 471 parents were studied. most pare...

conclusions according to the results obtained, the largest numbers of deaths and illnesses were due to the high average pm10 concentration or an increase in the number of days of exposure to this pollutant. background particulate matters have harmful effects on human health and can intensify mortality and disease. objectives the purpose of this study was to evaluate the health impacts of partic...