AIM To investigate the relationship between the severity of the patient's care dependency on the one hand, and causes of death, co-morbidity, and survival on the other, and to find out which of these factors might be longitudinal predictors of survival. METHODS A two-year follow-up study started in 1994 in the Netherlands. Subjects were 130 female nursing-home patients with Alzheimer's diseas...

BACKGROUND Fluid restriction has been reported to improve survival of infants without chronic lung disease (CLD), but it remains unknown whether it reduces CLD in a population at high risk of CLD routinely exposed to antenatal steroids and postnatal surfactant without increasing other adverse outcomes. AIM To investigate the impact of fluid restriction on the outcome of ventilated, very low b...

This paper presents the population pyramid dynamics model (PPDM) to study evolution of a determined country or society, deducing as crucial objective its exact analytical solution. The PPDM is first-order linear partial differential equation whose unknown variable density (population per age unit) depending on time and age, jointly an initial condition in boundary given by births zero age. In a...

Introduction: Changing lifestyle, physical inactivity, and obesity lead to increased diabetes prevalence in the elderly. Diabetes management involves self-care activities, such as medical nutrition therapy, physical activity, use of pharmacologic agent, self-monitoring of blood glucose, foot care, and smoking cessation. Physiological, biological, mental changes that show up with aging and the p...

background: suicide has constituted a critical public health problem for many decades. the number of completed suicide is traditionally high in iran. the objective of the present study was to describe the patterns of methods of suicide among registered deaths due to suicide in hamada, western iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, all completed suicide cases (n=146) were included from ma...