background respiratory syncytial virus (rsv) can cause acute respiratory infection (ari) in infants and young children. objectives this study was conducted to determine the incidence of rsv infection and its subgroups among children with ari. materials and methods a total of 100 throat samples were collected from hospitalized children with ari in different hospitals across the khuzestan provinc...

abstract   background : noise is the most common hazard in the workplace and noise induced hearing loss considered to be the most common occupational disease as well. cigarette smoking, in some studies, has been known to induce hearing loss. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of contemporary exposure to occupational noise and cigarette smoking on hearing.   methods : 478 assem...

introduction: mild cognitive impairment can be considered as an intermediate clinical state between normal cognitive aging and mild dementia. elderly people with this impairment represent an at-risk group for the development of dementia. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults by mini-mental state examination (mmse) and ...

BACKGROUND We examined the association of impaired lung function and respiratory symptoms with measures of health status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among US adults. METHODS The sample included 5139 participants aged 40-79 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2010 who underwent spirometric testing and responded to questions about respiratory sympto...

Sao Paulo Med J. 2007;125(4):215-9. O R IG IN A L A R T IC L E Karla Luciana Magnani Antônio José Maria Cataneo Respiratory muscle strength in obese individuals and infl uence of upper-body fat distribution Department of Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (FMB), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Pulmonary dysfunction in obese indi...

INTRODUCTION Availability of objective criteria for predicting successful extubation could avoid unnecessary prolongation of mechanical ventilation and/or inadvertent premature extubation, but the predictors of successful extubation in children are unclear. This study was performed to detect and validate respiratory function predictors of successful extubation in children admitted to the pediat...

significant advances have been made in diagnosis and therapy of demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system. the most common entities of this disorders in adults – multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica were initially thought to be different phenotypes of more or less the same disease. during the last ten years, this view was subsequently changed and the term neuromyelitis optica...