introduction: andropause is a common clinical entity of advanced age, with a decline in androgen levels in males. many of the signs of male aging are results of this condition with significant decline in their quality of life and adverse effects on multiple organ systems function. androgen deficiency of the aging male (adam) questionnaire is one of the most applied screening tools for androgen ...

abstract: background and aim:cardio vascular diseases (cvds) are important cause of morbidity and mortality in world wide and constitutes a major public health problem in iran . due to increase of cvd in this contex ,the bjective of this study was to describe the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors amony gonabad urban population. materials and methods:in this cross sectional study , a tot...

high blood pressure control (hbpc) is a common goal of who and the world hypertension league (whl). the two important strategies in hbpc are identifying cardiovascular (cvd) risk factors and planning to modify controllable factors. this study was accomplished to determine the cvd risk factors in high blood pressure (hbp) patients of the rural population, residing in the babol region, north of i...

background it is known that risk factors related to neonatal bacterial sepsis are complex. objectives the current study aimed to determine the risk factors of neonatal sepsis. materials and methods this study was conducted on 1023 neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units (nicus) in south sinai governorate hospitals from january 2010 till september 2014. demographic data of the neonate...

Background The main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the Iranian context.   Methods Exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in Iranian hea...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) has risen rapidly worldwide, including in South Korea. Factors related to lifestyle are closely associated with the development of MetS. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between MetS and a number of factors positively influencing health, namely non-smoking, low-risk drinking, sufficient sleep, regular exercise, and t...

In terms of pellet mill operations, the conditioning process has greater influence on pellet quality than does die specification. A great deal of attention must be paid to steam quantity and control, moisture content, retention time and mixing action within the conditioner. In general, most feed manufacturers have not optimized the conditioning process but try to solve pellet quality issues usi...

This review gives an account of some of the factors affecting the transport of oxygen from the lungs until its final discharge in the tissues. The sequence of physiological and metabolic processes to be described may be considered collectively as the 'coarse adjust-ment' of oxygen transport. The 'fine adjustment' will be discussed in the succeeding chapter which surveys the local factors influe...

no. ISTN3X; 96% identical), comprising one of Tn3-like inverted repeats and putative coding regions for transposase, resolvase (also called repressor), and ampicillin resistance. The resistance gene encodes a TEM-1 type β-lactamase. (The sequence has been registered to DDBJ/GenBank/ EMBL with accession no. AB103092.) Conjugative transferability of p981123 between S. Enteritidis strains was exam...