PURPOSE Advanced cancer patients with disease progression develop cachexia. Nevertheless, cancer patients at nutritional risk have shown improved body weight and quality of life with oral nutritional supplements. METHOD This was a randomized controlled trial in adult female cancer patients (n = 63) attending palliative clinics, with symptoms of cachexia. Eligible patients were randomly distri...

background: in recent decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased in iran and other countries. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of obesity and its associated factors among high school students of karaj city, iran. methods: a total of 700 students in different age groups were selected by random sampling method. the study samples were divided into 2 gr...

enhanc ing management of mothers during adolescence of their daughters in guidance schools of urmia     ahangrzadeh rezaei s [1] , khalilzadeh h [2]     received: july 27, 2011 accepted: september 23, 2011     abstract   background and aims: adolescence and puberty is one of the most sensitive periods of human life that causes the person feel and behave differently. undoubtedly adolescence dire...

Introduction: Obesity and overweight are the most dominant chronic non-communicable pathologies of century, causing metabolic diseases, such as Diabetes Mellitus Arterial Hypertension. With WHO data indicating that since 1980 it has more than doubled worldwide, in 2008 1.5 billion adults were overweight, this number 200 million men obese 300 women. Such is impact declared obesity a worldwide ep...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) predicts mortality in ESRD, yet adoption of HRQOL monitoring is not widespread, and regulatory authorities remain predominantly concerned with monitoring traditional biologic parameters. To assist with future efforts to adopt HRQOL monitoring while acknowledging the importance of biomarkers, this study sought to establish which do...

background and purpose: health related quality of life (hqol) has different dimensions and many factors affect it. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between lifestyle satisfaction and health- related quality of life in the population aged 40 year old and over. the question is, if there is not lifestyle satisfaction, how should be the pattern of tendency to behavioral chan...

OBJECTIVES (1)To assess the nutritional status of chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) and dialysis patients using the subjective global assessment (SGA) method. (2) To validate SGA in assessing the nutritional status of this group of patients. PARTICIPANTS The nutritional status of 81 patients was evaluated using dietary recall, anthropometry, biochemical parameters and SGA. There were 51 males...

Objective. This study aims to evaluate the effect of daily dietary nutritional supplement on somatic, psychological, and urogenital symptoms in postmenopausal women. Material and Methods. In this study 28 healthy, symptomatic, peri- and postmenopausal women of 47-67 years of age were allocated to use the nutritional supplement JuicePLUS+®. Primary research parameters: Menopause Rating Scale (MR...

Anthropometry is the hallmark technique that deals with the study of body proportion and absolute dimensions that vary widely with age and sex within and between racial groups. Over the centuries, there have been remarkable changes in Anthropometric measurements due to geographical, cultural, genetic and environmental factors as well as worldwide mingling of races. The aim of this study was to ...