OBJECTIVE To study whether free triiodothyronine (FT3) within normal range has effects on the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in different gender and age groups. METHODS A total of 4206 euthyroid patients were consecutively enrolled and divided into CAD group (n = 3306) and non-CAD group (n = 900). All patients underwent coronary angiography (CAG). Gensini score (GS) wa...

the objective of this review to be submitted in two independent parts, for steel frames and for rc frames, is to compare their structural performance with respect to the proposed n2-method, and so also of the consequent convenience of using pushover methodology for the seismic analysis of these structures. a preliminary investigation is presented on a pushover analysis used for the seismic perf...

in this work, removal of c. i. acid red 14 was investigated by pumice stone as a low cost adsorbent. various parameters such as initial dye solution, contact time and ph were studied. removal of dye were increased by increasing of contact time and initial dye solution and deceased by increasing of ph. three isotherm models were studied. linear and non-linear regression analyses were used for de...

Physical properties of cotton yarns are affected by the characteristics of cotton fibers such as fineness, length, maturity and strength. This relationship has been worked out by means of multivariable regression and stepwise method for an open-end spun (NeC 20) cotton yarn. Moreover, with the help of linear programming, it was made possible to determine the percentage of different cottons in t...

The paper discusses penalised spline (P -spline) smoothing for hazard regression of multivariable survival data. Non-proportional hazard functions are fitted in a numerically handy manner by employing Poisson regression which results from numerical integration of the cumulative hazard function. Multivariate smoothing parameters are selected by utilizing the connection between P -spline smoothin...

Background: Although the triggering role of both opium use and elevated plasma homocysteine level for progressing atherosclerosis and, therefore, appearing coronary heart disease has been clearly determined, no study are available with respect to the relation between these to risk profiles. In the present study and for the first time, we hypothesized that the opium addiction can be potentially ...