OBJECTIVE The mechanisms underlying the association between adult attachment and health are not well understood. In the current study, we investigated the relationship between attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, inflammation, and length of hospital stay in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients. METHOD 167 CABG patients completed an attachment questionnaire prior to surger...

Problems of sleep initiation and maintenance occur in 15% to 25% of children and adolescents. Studies of the benefits of melatonin for sleep disorders have been published for healthy populations, for children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, for children and youth with autism, and for several other special populations. These studies demonstrate benefit with minimal...

spontaneous coronary artery dissection (scad) is a rare and important cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. various etiologies are thought to be responsible for this condition, among which underlying atherosclerosis seems to be the most common. scad is predominant in women and is usually diagnosed via coronary artery angiography. therapeutic interventions include medical th...

conclusions gargling a green tea solution, an anti-inflammatory, natural, and harmless substance, can reduce the pain of sore throat in patients after endotracheal extubation. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of green tea gargling on sore throat after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg). patients and methods this was a single-blind, randomized clinical trial, in...

background for coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) sternotomy should be performed. the pain after surgery is severe and requires medical intervention. use of the analgesics is limited by their side effects and studies suggest that prevention with some medications before surgery is effective in controlling the postoperative pain. objectives we investigated the efficacy of pregabalin administr...

conclusions high prevalence of the increased cimt in patients undergoing cabg highlights the significance of cimt measurement in early diagnosis of the systemic atherosclerosis. moreover, although traditional cardiovascular risk factors were important they could not explain the extension and the severity of cimt. it seems that some ultrasonographic features such as the associated carotid plaque...

results a total of 235 patients (135 women) with a mean age of 59 ± 9.2 years (range = 29 to 79 years), mean bmi of 27.3 ± 4.2 (range = 17 to 40), and mean waist circumference of 101.2 ± 14.7 cm (range = 55 to 145 cm) were included. by the third postoperative month, wound infection had significantly increased in patients with bmi ≥ 30 (p = 0.022). in-hospital and late morbidity and mortality ra...