Background & objectives: Work-related illnesses account for a large number of social problems. According to occupational therapists, occupational diseases are considered as life-threatening factors for workers. The aim of this study was to measure air pollution to suspended particles and to assess the health risk of PM2.5 and PM10 exposure in the textile industry. Methods: This analytical-cros...

Background: Risk factors of non-communicable disease (NCD) origin from early life, and exposure to environmental pollutant may be a predisposing factor. This study aimed to investigate the association of air quality index (AQI) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) with some NCD risk factors in a sample of Iranian children and adolescents. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was con...

Parametric images, showing fully quantitative parameters at the voxel level, can be used to quantify various processes with maximal spatial resolution. Parametric imaging has been validated for myocardial blood flow imaging, but still needs to be extended to other tracers and kinetic models. The aim of this study was to validate parametric images of the reversible one tissue (1T2k) model for [C...

AIM To evaluate the prevalence of alcohol consumption among university students during late adolescence and young adulthood and to identify the associated factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cohort study among university students in Spain (n = 1382). Heavy Episodic Drinking (HED) and Risky Consumption (RC) were measured with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) at ages 18, 20, 22, ...

AIMS Sympathetic denervation typically occurs in the infarcted myocardium and is associated with sudden cardiac death. Impaired innervation was also demonstrated in non-infarcted myocardium in ischaemic and dilated cardiomyopathy (ICMP and DCMP). Factors affecting sympathetic nerve integrity in remote myocardium are unknown. Perfusion abnormalities, even in the absence of epicardial coronary ar...

Title of Thesis: THE ROLE OF FEMININE AND MASCULINE NORMS IN COLLEGE WOMEN’S ALCOHOL USE Aylin Esra Kaya, Master of Arts, 2016 Thesis directed by: Dr. Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Department of Psychology Current literature suggests not only that men and women can conform to both feminine and masculine norms, but that women who adhere to certain masculine norms may be at greater risk for problematic al...

BACKGROUND Children who were only exposed to a mixture of chloromethylisothiazolinone (CMIT) and methylisothiazolinone (MIT) as humidifier disinfectant (HD) components were evaluated for humidifier disinfectant-associated lung injury (HDLI) from 2012. This study was to evaluate the pulmonary function using, impulse oscillometry (IOS) for children exposed to a mixture of CMIT/MIT from HD. METH...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this three-wave longitudinal study was twofold. First, prevalence data on alcohol characteristics (e.g., drinks per day, heavy episodic drinking [HED]) were provided for a community sample of middle-aged adults. Aggregate (or group) and individual levels of stability of these characteristics across a 10-year interval were a major focus. Second, an actor-partner interdep...