QUESTIONS Does inspiratory muscle training improve maximal inspiratory pressure in intubated older people? Does it improve breathing pattern and time to wean from mechanical ventilation? DESIGN Randomised trial with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis. PARTICIPANTS 41 elderly, intubated adults who had been mechanically ventilated for at least 48 hr in an intensive care unit...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between pediatric otitis media with effusion and obesity, as determined by body mass index (BMI) (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) and serum triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC) concentrations. DESIGN A prospective, nonrandomized, case-control study. SETTING University-affiliated hospital. SUBJECTS The...

background: dyslipidemia is the major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in world and herbal medicines play an important role in the treatment of dyslipidemia. there are a few studies of sour tea ( hibiscus sabdariffa l.) effects on human. thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of sour tea consumption on the lipid profile in dyslipidemic subjects. methods: a randomi...

Introduction and Objective: liver is an important body organ without which life is impossible. Cyclophosphamide is an alkylating agent widely used as an anti-cancer (“antineoplastic” or “cytotoxic”) chemotherapy drug. The present study aimed to find a suitable antioxidant and examine the effect of vitamin E and selenium on reducing the side effects of cyclophosphamide on liver as a vit...

Introduction and Objective: liver is an important body organ without which life is impossible. Cyclophosphamide is an alkylating agent widely used as an anti-cancer (“antineoplastic” or “cytotoxic”) chemotherapy drug. The present study aimed to find a suitable antioxidant and examine the effect of vitamin E and selenium on reducing the side effects of cyclophosphamide on liver as a vit...

Background and Objective: Compared to the general population, psychiatric problems are more prevalent in Type 1 Diabetes patients and can affect the success of diabetes treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of group reality therapy in decreasing depression/anxiety and increasing treatment compliance in patients with Type 1 Diabetes in Zanjan in 2017. Materials a...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction on pessimistic attribution style about negative events in children with dyslexia. methods: the study was experimental with pre-test-post-test and control group. the statistical population consists of all dyslexic students of maktab ali school in tehran city. forty students were selected by convenie...

It has been shown that maternal hyperthyroidism can affects on neonatal outcomes such as spontaneous abortion, intrauterine growth retardation. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of hyperthyroidism on formation of cerebellar cortical layers in the rat embryos. Thirty Sprague-Dawley female sexually mature rats weighting 200 ± 20 g were used in the study. Female rats were rand...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...