PURPOSE The morning is the most bothersome period for COPD patients. Morning symptom severities in different Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages are not well studied. Furthermore, factors that are associated with morning symptoms, especially the associations with objectively measured physical activity, are also not well described. MATERIALS AND METHODS The aim...

This study aims to investigate the relationships of personality and social support with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traffic accidents.The 90 Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were completed 1 week after trauma. The Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) was surveyed 3 months after discharge.PCL-C score of 38 was used as cutoff point. The older age...

BACKGROUND Research on quality and satisfaction with care during palliative chemotherapy in oncology patients has been limited. The objective was to assess the association between patient's satisfaction with care and symptom severity and to evaluate test-retest of a satisfaction survey in this study population. METHODS A prospective cohort of patients with recurrent gynecologic malignancies r...

Dear Editor, A 45-year-old man was transferred to our stroke unit due to acute right-sided weakness, right hemianopsia, and global aphasia at 390 min after symptom onset [National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score=20]. Computed tomography (CT) angiography (CTA) performed at another institution revealed occlusion of the left proximal middle cerebral artery (MCA) due a giant aneurys...

Bladder pain syndrome (BPS) causes decreased mental and physical quality of life. The diagnosis treatment BPS must be made effective; however, the was still not satisfactory for most patients. Two cases were presented to urology clinic treated with a combination hydrodistention intravesical hyaluronic acid (HA) periodically. After 3-8 hydrodistension instillation, patients showed symptom improv...

BACKGROUND The chronic bronchitis (CB) phenotype has been associated with poor quality of life and an increased risk of disease in patients with COPD. However, little information exists regarding the relationship between the CB phenotype and the COPD assessment test (CAT) score. The goal of this study was to reveal the different pattern of CAT scores between CB and non-CB patients. Moreover, we...

BACKGROUND Being diagnosed with gynaecologic malignancy certainly will have different sequelae which can hamper quality of life (QOL).This study aimed to assess health related quality of life (HRQOL) among gynaecologic cancer patients attending at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital (TASH), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS This study employed facility-based cross-sectional study design on 153 gyn...

PURPOSE Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy in the world. Beta glucan may improve quality of life in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The aim of this trial was to determine the effect of Beta glucan on quality of life in women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. METHODS This study was conducted on 30 women with breast carcinoma. The eligible participants were ran...

INTRODUCTION Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is the pathological reflux of gastric contents into the oesophagus. The oesophagus and the upper respiratory tract have a common origin from the foregut. There is increasing evidence for multiple associations of GORD with the upper respiratory tract. OBJECTIVES To study the presence of and association of upper respiratory symptoms (URS) wi...