primary dysmenorrhea refers to painful cramps during menstruation with no organic reason. with respect to its high incidence and adverse outcomes in quality of life and some evidences regarding the sedative and antispasmodic effects of melissa officinails on smooth muscles as an herb, this double-blind clinical trial was conducted to determine the effects of its capsules on severity of dysmenor...

the prevalence of both obesity and asthma has increased in recent years. thus we decided to investigate the relation between obesity and asthma severity. we undertook a cross-sectional study in outpatient asthma clinics of 2 tertiary hospitals in tehran. obesity was defined as a body mass index greater than 30. asthma severity was defined by using the guide for asthma management and prevention ...

introduction: comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) has been reported among patients with schizophrenia in other countries. but, the literature is not well-documented on this issue in iran (persia). the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of ocd and some of its related factors in a group of patients with schizophrenia in iran.  methods: this is a cross-sectiona...

introduction: to study the effects of polarized polychromatic noncoherent light (bioptron) therapy on patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (cts). methods: this study was designed as a randomized clinical trial. forty four patients with mild or moderate cts (confirmed by clinical and electrodiagnostic studies) were assigned randomly into two groups (intervention and control goups). at the beginn...

background: ingestion of caustic substances is the main reason for referral to philippines national poison management and control center among other causes of acute poisoning. rapid assessment of severity of injury is important for treatment and prognosis of these cases. this study was aimed to investigate the correlation of clinical factors with severity of gastrointestinal (gi) mucosal injury...

Background The assessment of mitral regurgitation (MR) severity is often based on echocardiographic criteria and clinical assessment. MRI can also quantify MR severity, indirectly as the difference between left ventricular (LV) stroke volume and forward flow. In clinical practice these imaging modalities can be discordant. The purpose of this prospective, multicenter trial is to compare the two...

this is an observational case series study on penetrating trauma admissions in three teaching hospitals in tehran from 1996 to 1997. in order to describe the epidemiology and determine the ways of improving treatment of penetrating injuries, we selected 410 patients with penetrating injuries and injury severity scores (iss) of more than 7 (the maximum iss is 75) out of 3580 trauma patients, hos...

Background: Clinical trials of primary axillary hyperhidrosis (AHH) require rigorous measurement AHH severity from the patient’s perspective. Previously, we reported conceptualization and item content development for Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Measure-Axillary (HDSM-Ax) scale. Objective: To evaluate psychometric performance estimate clinically meaningful change scores HDSM-Ax in a Phase IIb...

context celiac disease (cd) is defined as a permanent intolerance to ingested gluten. the intolerance to gluten results in immune-mediated damage of small intestine mucosa manifested by villous atrophy and crypt hyperplasia. these abnormalities resolve with initiationa gluten-free diet. evidence acquisition pubmed, ovid, and google were searched for full text articles published between 1963 and...

Objective: to determine the association between knowledge about chronic venous insufficiency and clinic severity in women attending a family medicine unit. Methods: cross-sectional analytical study 280 with insufficiency. The instrument Chronic Venous Insufficiency Knowledge, which evaluates theoretical disease, was applied. clinical of disease determined by means Clinical Severity Score instru...