Background: The nutritional status and systemic inflammation are thought to be associated with outcome in multiple types of cancer. The objective of this study was to determine the prognostic value of pretreatment albumin and fibrinogen combined prognostic grade (AFPG) in prostate cancer (PCa). Methods: 462 prostate cancer patients who had undergone androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) as first-l...

BACKGROUND With its high incidence and subsequent adverse consequences in the intensive care setting, several instruments have been developed to screen for and detect delirium. One of the more commonly used is the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC); however, the optimal cut-off score indicating delirium has been debated. METHODS In this prospective cohort study, the ICDSC thr...

conclusions the prevalence of both fv and fii variants are population based. iran is an ethnically diverse country. therefore, for a comprehensive analysis of a potential association of fv and/or fii mutations with stroke among iranian population, epidemiological studies could be conducted among different ethnic groups. patients and methods the study population consisted of 153 patients of diff...

background work-related injuries are the most important cause of work absence, disability, retirement, mutilation, and even mortality. in iran a great number of work-related injuries are occurred in construction industry. however, less than 12% of total workers are active in the construction sector. objectives this study aimed to determine the incidence rate of work-related injuries, the type o...

background: complete and fast diagnosis, registry and treatment programs are the main effective strategies for controlling infectious diseases. in addition, an organized and extended infectious disease surveillance system is crucial in designing and monitoring communicable diseases control programs. the quality of the surveillance system can be evaluated by several indices such as timeliness, c...

background: cytomegalovirus (cmv) disease is an important cause of death and possibly transplant rejection in kidney transplant (kt) patients. this study was conducted to investigate the incidence and risk factors of cmv disease in kidney transplant patients. methods: all end-stage renal disease (esrd) patients who underwent kidney transplantation during 1998-2014 and their donors were assessed...

background : cancer incidence rate is increasing in the world particularly in developing countries. the awareness regarding cancer incidence and distribution helps policy makers and researchers to design comprehensive plan for controlling cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the incidence rate and trend of cancer in yazd province, centeral iran. methods : data from yazd cancer registr...

background : hamadan is a province with high incidence rate of suicide. the present study was conducted to assess suicide and its associated risk factors in this province. methods : in this cross-sectional study, all cases of suicide occurred in the province, were investigated from april 2008 to march 2010. the data were collected from provincial health center and forensic medicine's databases ...

max (k, n − k)-cut (resp., min (k, n − k)-cut) is a constrained version of max-cut (resp., min-cut) where one has to find a bipartition of the vertex set into two subsets with respectively k and n − k vertices (n being the total number of vertices of the input graph) which maximizes (resp., minimizes) the number of edges going from one subset to the other. In this paper, we investigate the para...