background: acute myocardial infarction (ami) is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality. considering immense socioeconomic damages of growing ami in developing countries we estimated prognostic value of major risk factors of ami to predict probable in-hospital ami mortality. methods: in a cohort survey from june 2004 to march 2006, 1798 patients hospitalized with proven ami en...

effect of two fattening systems were studied on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of using of 66 fars native male kids in different ages. six kids were slaughtered at the first day of experiment and sixty kids were divided into two groups. the first group were kept in feedlot in individual pens and the second group grazed on rangeland, and after 3 months, were kept in feedlot in i...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of social class in childhood, young adulthood and middle age, and intergenerational mobility, on adult central and total obesity. DESIGN Prospective, population based, birth cohort study. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 1472 men and 1563 women born in 1946 in England, Scotland, and Wales. OUTCOME MEASURES Waist-hip ratio, waist-height ratio, waist cir...

Objective:  Patient satisfaction is one of the most important indicators for measuring the quality of emergency services and health care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the patients’ satisfaction in the emergency department (ED)...

In this study, the Draw-A-Man Test was administered to 183 Iranian children, 96 boys and 87 girls from age of 36 to 119.5 months. The subjects were selected randomly from middle-class families in Tehran. The results show that younger Iranian children scored higher than the older ones. In addition to the age differential on performance, sex differences on drawing a man were tested by means ...

in this study, the draw-a-man test was administered to 183 iranian children, 96 boys and 87 girls from age of 36 to 119.5 months. the subjects were selected randomly from middle-class families in tehran. the results show that younger iranian children scored higher than the older ones. in addition to the age differential on performance, sex differences on drawing a man were tested by means of th...

Background and Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cephalometric changes in Class II division 1 mandibular deficient patients treated with Farmand functional appliance.  Methods and Materials: Twenty-seven subjects (17 girls and 10 boys) with the mean age of 11.1±1.4 years were involved in the present study. All the subjects were treated with Farmand functional ...

This is the first study of growth and age of Sardinella sindensis from coastal waters of Qeshm Island (Persian Gulf) based on the sectioned otolith reading method. In total, 128 fishes were collected randomly from purse seine commercial nets during March 2011 to February 2012. The annual formation of the growth rings were determined by counting the opaque and translucent zones occurrence at the...