Objectives: The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between Dysphonia Severity Index (DSI) and disease speech and voice severity of Parkinson disease (PD) patients. Method. This study was a cross-sectional ones, carried out on 45 PD patients with the age range of 50 to 75 years, who were randomly selected. The Hoehn and Yahr Scale (H.Y Scale) was employed to measure the le...

abstract verticillium wilt of olive caused by verticillium dahliae is one of the main constraints to olive production in golestan province. in this research, two defoliating and two non-defoliating isolates of the fungus were inoculated in 16-18 months-old olive seedlings. the seedlings consisted of concervolia, cronaiki, kalamon, zard-roghani, bladi, mission, manzanilla and sevillana. the seed...

 Background: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the second most common lethal autosomal recessive disease. It is a neuromuscular disorder caused by degenerative of lower motor neurons and occasionally bulbar neurons leading to progressive limb paralysis and muscular atrophy. The SMN1 gene is recognized as a SMA causing gene while NAIP has been characterized as a modifying factor for the clinical ...

conclusions this new suggested scale shows a better value to predict patients’ length of hospital stay compared to iss and niss. however, future studies with larger sample sizes and more confounding factors such as prehospital procedures, intubation and other procedures during admission, should be designed to examine these scoring systems and confirm the results of our study. background trauma ...

background: pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy were previously used to increase the quality of life and decrease the severity and frequency of symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). the aim of this study was to compare the effect of using relaxation in addition to pharmacotherapy to reduce the severity and frequency of symptoms and to increase the quality of life in ibs patien...

background: multiple sclerosis is a common and chronic neurologic disorder. this disorder imposes physical, economic, and psychosocial burden on individuals, their families and society. this study aims to analyze the costs of multiple sclerosis disease based on the severity of disability. methods: we performed a cross‑sectional cost of illness study. this study was conducted in 332 patients of ...

BACKGROUND Parthenium dermatitis is the most common type of airborne contact dermatitis in India. It is a chronic disease of a remitting and relapsing course with significant morbidity and distress, but there is no scoring system to assess its severity. AIM To design a scoring system for the assessment of clinical severity of disease in Parthenium dermatitis and to use this scoring system in ...

Introduction: Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease in which abnormal individual immune reactivity plays an important role. Eselectin and P-selectin are adhesion molecules expressed on vascular endothelial cells in several inflammatory skin diseases, including psoriasis. The aim of the present study was to describe selected immunological changes, concerning adhesion molecules status (sEsele...

introduction and aims: although a few studies have done in our country in the field of hepatitis d, its risk factors are not clearly known. this study was conducted with the aim of assessing the relative frequency and risk factors of hdv and the correlation between hdv and severity of liver damage. materials and methods: this was a cross sectional study. 280 hbsag positive subjects (including 1...