EACH YEAR, MORE THAN 730 000 Americans experience a new or recurrent stroke, with resulting direct and indirect health care costs totaling $35 billion and $21.8 billion, respectively. Up to 85% of the approximately 566 000 stroke survivors experience hemiparesis, resulting in impairment of an upper extremity immediately after stroke, and between 55% and 75% of survivors continue to experience u...

Background: Complications from type II diabetes mellitus (DM) are especially serious for older people. Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy upper limb ergometry against lower in reducing blood glucose levels elderly women. Materials and methods: Forty female patients, aged 60-70, with DM took part study. Pre-treatment, mean ± SD values were 279.9 60.99 mg/dl group A ...

background dialysis vascular access complications are considered as significant causes of morbidity in chronic hemodialysis patients. objectives the aim of the present study was a comparison of axillary loop and straight grafts patency and its complications in hemodialysis access. patients and methods in this cohort study conducted at shahid beheshti medical university, 77 patients who underwen...