OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to determine the concordance between the PROCAM (Prospective Cardiovascular Münster) and Framingham scales in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in HIV-positive male population who use HAART in a national reference hospital located in Lima, Peru. To evaluate the concord...

INTRODUCTION: Patient satisfaction becomes more important in our modern health care system. The assessment of satisfaction is difficult because it is a multifactorial item for which no golden standard exists. One of the potential methods of measuring satisfaction is by using the well-known visual analogue scale (VAS). In this study, we validated VAS for satisfaction. PATIENT AND METHODS: In th...

PURPOSE To evaluate the intra- and inter-observer variability of the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial (NASCET) and Warfarin-Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease (WASID) criteria for the evaluation of middle cerebral artery (MCA) stenosis using digital subtraction angiography (DSA). MATERIALS AND METHODS DSA images of 114 cases with 131 stenotic MCAs were retrospecti...

BACKGROUND The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS) is a self-administered questionnaire developed in the United States to evaluate the severity of the common cold and its reliability has been validated. We developed a Korean language version of this questionnaire by using a sequential forward and backward translation approach. The purpose of this study was to validate the Korean ...

The vermicompost using earthworms (Eisenia Fetida) was produced from food waste and chemical parameters (EC, pH, carbon to nitrogen contents (C/N)) and germination bioassay was examined in order to assess the stability and maturity indicators during the vermicomposting process. The seed used in the germination bioassay was cress. The ranges of EC, pH, C/N and germination index were 7.5-4.9 mS/c...

Previous attempts at defining other correlation measures mostly tried to generalize the inner product definition used in Pearson’s correlation coefficient. This does allow for certain useful correlations, like the Greatest Deviation, or Gini’s. In this work the idea in Gideon and Hollister (1987) of seeing correlation as the difference between distance from perfect negative and perfect positive...

Previous attempts at defining other correlation measures mostly tried to generalize the inner product definition used in Pearson’s correlation coefficient. This does not allow for certain useful correlation’s, like the Greatest Deviation, or Gini’s. In this work the idea in Gideon and Hollister (1987) of seeing correlation, as the difference between distance from perfect negative and perfect po...

BACKGROUND This study's aim was to design and validate a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for assessment of fruits and vegetables (FV) consumption in adults of Isfahan by comparing the FFQ with dietary reference method and blood plasma levels of beta-carotene, vitamin C, and retinol. METHODS This validation study was performed on 123 healthy adults of Isfahan. FV intake wa...

Methods First trimester (1113+6 weeks’ gestation)TA and TV Doppler measurements of UtA were performed prospectively in 87 and 54 women, respectively. All examinations were performed blindly, by 3 FMF accredited operators and repeated twice. Operator A performed all measurements, operator B and C, who were less experienced, performed 21 and 53 measurements, respectively. To assess generalizabili...