obesity and its consequences, affected by modern sedentary life style, are growing constantly. numerous researches in the western world countries have illustrated the influences of city form on the physical activity rate and subsequently on health status and body fitness of populations. in spite of the fact that the iranians obesity rate is not at significant variance with the west countries, t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate and trend of attrition from a surgical residency programme and to identify the reasons for attrition. METHODS A questionnaire-based survey was conducted at a university hospital. Separate questionnaires were designed for residents and programme directors (PDs). The residents who left the training voluntarily from one of the five surgical residency programmes (i...

introduction. practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. this study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. methods. all attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the aim ...

Methods Adult sheep (40kg) were subjected to ischemia reperfusion injury (LAD for 45 min). Six animals underwent invivo CMR 10 days after surgery and were euthanized on the next day for exvivo CMR and histopathological examination. Invivo CMR included: black blood T2 and 2D LGE (in-plane resolution 2mm). Animals were euthanized 10 min after injection of Gadolinium. Heart specimens were sliced a...

PURPOSE To define the time needed by urology residents to attain proficiency in computer-aided robotic surgery to aid in the refinement of a robotic surgery simulation curriculum. METHODS We undertook a retrospective review of robotic skills training data acquired during January 2012 to December 2014 from junior (postgraduate year [PGY] 2-3) and senior (PGY4-5) urology residents using the da ...

one of the most important issues in today&rsquos; urban world is increasing use of cars and its noise pollution, which is now one of the most important affecting pollutants on health and quality of lives of residents in urban areas. noise pollution effects on various aspects of human and the community health as well as the high cost of treatment, thus more studies in this field is needed. hence...

Seroepidemiological status of toxoplasmosis among the residents of Jeju island was surveyed and evaluated by ELISA with crude extract of Toxoplasma gondii. The sera of 2,348 residents (male 1,157 and female 1,191) were collected and checked for the IgG antibody titers, which showed 13.2% positive rate (309 sera). The positive rates were increasing gradually according to the age from 4.3% in tee...