Background and purpose: Preeclampsia is one of the three main causes of death in pregnant women in which multiple causes may be involved including lifestyle, stress, and sleep disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between pre-eclampsia and restless legs syndrome. Materials and methods: This case-control study was conducted in 150 pregnant women with pre-eclam...

‏‎this study investigated the effect of prior knowledge on the listening comprehension performance of fl learners. twenty students, male and female, drawn from the two intact groups of the senior and junior english language and literature majors were chosen as the participants of this study . the two groups were then randomly assigned into the experimental and control group. the experimental gr...

Background: In addition to adequate nutrition and balance of nutrients in the pregnant mother's diet, maternal weight gain during pregnancy has a major impact on maternal health and fetal well-being. The purpose of this study was to compare pre-gestational BMI and gestational weight gain on GDM according to the new definition of GDM. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional stud...

Doubled haploid production is one of the best breeding methods to produce homozygous (pure) lines. Microspore culture technique is the most efficient method for production of doubled haploid plants. This research was carried out to study the effect of genotypes, stress pre-treatments and culture media on the callus induction and plant regeneration from microspores of anthers in barley (Hordeum ...

The pre-eclampsia/eclampsia is one of the commonest conditions peculiar to pregnancy, to describe the occurrence of hypertension, proteinuria and edema in pregnancy. It is about seven times more frequent in first gestation and uncommon before 20 week's gestation. Serum BhCG levels were prospectively determined in 260 midtrimester singleton pregnancies where admitted from October 1999 until Sept...

  Background : Pre-eclampsia is one of the most serious complications in pregnancy and is one of the major causes of maternal death during pregnancy. Therefore, its prediction has special importance and many studies have been performed on different materials, which may be useful for its prediction. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the urine calcium to creatinine ratio for predic...