BACKGROUND AND AIM: Malocclusions are major traits whose prevalence should be noticed, by gender, among high school students to program oral health status in a society and clarify the needs and demands of this orthodontic field. METHODS: In a cross-sectional population-based study, using a stratified random cluster sampling design, a sample of 1338 students of Shiraz, aged 14-18 years from 15 h...

This paper seeks to investigate whether improvement in sex ratios translate into better health and nutritional outcomes for the girl child through an in depth study of these indictors in the region of Punjab. In recent years, both the child and overall sex ratios have shown improvement in the state. We analyze whether this improvement has narrowed gender discrimination against the girl child in...

Background Spina bifida (SB) is the most common abnormalities in neural tube defects in Iran. The aim of this study was to assess health-related quality of life in mothers of children with spina bifida and to compare their quality of life with mothers of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Materials and Methods Two-hundred and three mothers were recruited using the convenience sampling strategy...

In 2009, more than 2.8 million housing units in the U.S. received a foreclosure notice. That represents about 1 in every 45 properties and a 120% increase in the number of foreclosed properties since 2007. Real estate experts predict even more foreclosures in 2010 as high unemployment continues. The cascading effects of the foreclosure crisis on the U.S. economy are all too clear; the effects o...

Rheumatologists and other interested professionals at the OMERACT II conference formed small groups to discuss whether it was sensible to use a generic health status instrument in musculoskeletal disease trials. These instruments promise the possibility of comparison of health status between disease states. However, data is lacking on validity of the current generation of instruments to support...

ONCE upon a time the overstressed executive bellowing orders into a telephone, cancelling meetings, staying late at the office and dying of a heart attack was a stereotype of modernity. That was before the Whitehall studies, a series of investigations of British civil servants begun in the 1960s. These studies found that the truth is precisely the opposite. Those at the top of the pecking order...

research has shown that shift work, in particular night work, can have negative effects on the health, safety and well-being of workers. our study assessed, in a hospital setting, the effects of bright light (bl) on general health and psychological problems during night shift work. in an experimental design, 15 female nurses at a general hospital that located in tehran were exposed to moderate ...

abstract: introduction: asthma is a common disorder that affects children. only a limited number of studies have investigated the effect of asthma on dental caries. the purpose of this study was to determine the dental caries status in children with bronchial asthma. methods and materials: in this crossectional study, 75 asthmatic and 75 non asthmatic children who were matched according to age ...

Periodontal disease has not been well characterized in the cat, and it is not known if foline tooth resorptions (FR) are equivalent to those observed in humans and dogs. The aim of this study was to investigate the difforent patterns of periodontal inflammation in cats, and to evaluate their prevalence in a standardized healthy population (n=109). Particular emphasis was placed on the potential...