objectives: weight loss as a consecution of losing appetite in post-operative patients and those suffering from hiv, cancer, cachexia and inflammatory diseases are the main inducements of morbidity and mortality. there is an increasing demand for more efficacious and endurable appetite stimulating treatment for patients with cachexia. health economics is influenced by the malnutrition which was...

introduction deafness is one of the most important sensory disturbances at birth. hearing loss can affect the development of speaking and learning during life. early diagnosis and intervention improve language outcome. the  current study aimed to determine the frequency of profound congenital hearing loss in healthy newborn infants in fars province. methods in a multicenter prospective study, f...

abstract:background : hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most common cause of congenital sensory neuronal hearing loss. these patients are screened by auditory brainstem response (abr) test at bilirubin levels higher than 1% of gestational weight. aim: to determine whether hyperbilirubinemia less than 1% of gestational weight could induce hearing loss and abnormal auditory brainstem response (abr...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: diabetes mellitus is one of the most important epidemics of our era. complications of this disease are diverse and include retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. this study has been designed to evaluate hearing loss patterns in young children suffering from iddm and define risk factors for this complication. ...

in this research, the effect of different storage conditions (cold, semi technical and traditional storages) at 180 days after storage on the qualitative and quantitive properties of garlic populations were investigated. white and pink populations were packaged in wooden boxes and net pockets and factors i. e. weight loss, moisture content, spoilage, firmness and total pyruvic acid were measure...

conclusions significant difference in the fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer, silence duration, friction duration, vocalization duration, and vocal cords contact quality index between the two groups was observed (p < 0.01). results the mean of fundamental frequency for the hearing loss children and the control group were 323.04 hz and 267.53 hz, jitter 10.05% and 1.52%, shimmer 17.24 and 5....

background: military personnel are usually exposed to high levels of impulse noise (in) which can lead to hearing loss. objectives: the purpose of this study was to assess the effects of relatively low level exposure of impulse noise (in) during shooting practice on hearing using pure tone audiometry (pta) and transiently evoked otoacoustic emission (teoae) in military personnel. materials and ...