introduction: muslims fast from dawn to dusk during ramadan. the effects of prolonged food deprivation on endocrine hormones have been studied in healthy adults but no previous study has investigated this effect on children. this study aimed to evaluate the feasible changes in serum level of thyroxin (t3), tetraiodothyronin (t4), thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh) and body composition in pre-men...

OBJECTIVE To investigate vitamin D status and its association with components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescent girls attending high school in Boukan, Iran during winter 2012. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING High schools of Boukan city, Iran. SUBJECTS A sample of 216 girls aged 14-17 years was selected by multistage random sampling from four districts of Boukan. Weigh...

Background. Serum ghrelin levels may be related to metabolic and clinical changes in patients with psoriasis. Objective. This study was performed to determine the possible effects of serum ghrelin in patients with psoriasis. Methods. The study population consisted of 25 patients with plaque psoriasis. The patients were questioned with regard to age, gender, age of onset, duration of disease, he...

Malnutrition is a prevalent condition in hospitalized children. Our aims were to evaluate the nutritional state and to validate the STRONGkids risk assessment tool in a hospitalized paediatric population in Romania. This is a prospective single-centre study in a tertiary teaching hospital in Romania (May 2011-January 2012). We calculated the STRONGkids score and measured the children's height a...

objective: the aim of this study was to determine the oxidative stress; serum level of total antioxidant capacity (tac)and malondialdehyde (mda) level and the depression score among the depressed rotational shift workers in shahid tondgouyan refinery in tehran (iran). methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among all the 189 shift workers in shahid tondgouyan oil refinery who were eligib...

Increasing evidence points to the role of hypoadiponectinemia on the insulin resistance in obesity. This study aimed ) to investigate the relationship between serum adiponectin level and metabolic parameters and other adipokines (leptin, resistin and visfatin) 2) to clarify the usefulness of serum adiponectin level as a diagnostic marker of metabolic syndrome(MS) in obese children. A total of 2...