conclusions our study obtained some evidences on the association of micro albuminuria with diastolic dysfunction in obese normotensive no diabetic individuals. nonetheless, more assessment is necessary for obtaining a causal relationship between micro albuminuria and diastolic dysfunction. background recently, an association between impaired diastolic function and increased urinary albumin excr...

Background Exposure to cigarette smoke has numerous health risks for infants and children. Home smoking ban is a simple way to reduce the detrimental impacts of cigarette smoke. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of cigarette smoking bans in homes as well as associated factors in families with infants in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods This study was a population-based cross-secti...

BACKGROUND Elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are associated with poor cardiovascular outcomes, even after accounting for traditional cardiovascular risk factors. We sought to analyze the relationship between levels of CRP and coronary plaque subtypes as assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography. METHODS AND RESULTS We evaluated 1004 asymptomatic South Korean subjects (mea...

BACKGROUND There is a high prevalence of cognitive impairment in dialysis patients. The prevalence of cognitive impairment after kidney transplantation is unknown. METHODS Study Design: Cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Single center study of prevalent kidney transplant recipients from a transplant clinic in a large academic center. INTERVENTION Assessment of cognition using...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To examine if commonly recommended assumptions for multivariable logistic regression are addressed in two major epidemiological journals. METHODS Ninety-nine articles from the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and the American Journal of Epidemiology were surveyed for 10 criteria: six dealing with computation and four with reporting multivariable logistic regression re...

In this research, the effect of different parameters of coal composition (coal chemical properties) were studied, to estimate the coal HGI values index. To estimate the HGI values artificial neural networks (ANNs) and linear multivariable regression methods were used for 400 data. In this work, ten input parameters, such as moisture, volatile matter (dry), fixed carbon (dry), ash (dry), total s...

OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the clinical factors and heritability associated with inflammation measured as circulating levels of soluble-intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) in a community-based cohort. BACKGROUND Several prospective studies indicate that circulating sICAM-1 is predictive of future cardiovascular events. However, in some studies this predictive value is lost afte...