conclusions small-group education in patients undergoing hemodialysis leads to a decrease in interdialytic weight gain, and systolic blood pressure, but has no effect on diastolic blood pressure. results the mean, and standard deviation of interdialytic weight gain of participants was 3.64 ± 0.88 kg, before the education, and significantly decreased to 1.34 ± 0.61 kg, and 1.71 ± 0.72 kg one wee...

the objective of this study was evaluation of excessive pregnancy weight gain effect in non-diabetic women with normal pre-pregnancy bmi on macrosomia of neonate. in a descriptive cross-sectional study, neonate weighs of all term pregnancy in non-diabetic women with normal pre-pregnancy bmi delivered from 2002 to 2004 in shaheed sadoughi hospital in yazd, were evaluated. compared with mothers w...

in order to determination the methionine requirement of arian broilers chickens during the starter period, a trial with 700 broiler chickens in a completely randomized design with 7 treatments, 5 replicates and 20 chicks in each experimental units was performed. experimental groups were consisted of 0.38, 0.43, 0.48, 0.53, 0.58, 0.63 and 0.68  % of methionine. other amino acids provided higher ...

Lambs were given a diet of oaten chaff-sucrose-fishmeal (48:48:4, w/w) and either 60 (diet A) or 120 (diet B) g urea/kg sucrose in the diet. All animals were defaunated and half were refaunated. Each group of lambs (faunated and defaunated) was then divided into two groups and given diet A or diet B. Feed intake, wool growth and live-weight change were monitored over a 182 d period. The level o...