BACKGROUND Despite widespread cultural vilification, lactation-pregnancy overlap remains common. Its actual adverse effects remain uncertain. PURPOSE This study compared rates of success in reaching full-term delivery and newborn birth weights between two groups of multiparous pregnant women: those who breast-fed during pregnancy and those who did not. METHODS This was a comparative study c...

OBJECTIVE To study narcotic drug abuse, particularly opiate addiction, and other risk factors in patients with acute cholecystitis. METHODS In this prospective cross sectional study, variables such as age, gender, weight, narcotics drug abuse, hormone taking, number of pregnancies, and coexistent disease(s) were recorded in pre-designed forms for 100 consecutive patients who underwent operati...

BACKGROUND Diabetic men have been claimed to have lower serum free testosterone (FT) concentrations than non-diabetic men. The aim of this study was to investigate if serum FT, luteinizing hormone (LH), and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) concentrations are different in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus compared with healthy men and to identify factors associated with low serum testoste...

Objective: Carpal tunnel symptoms are typical outside nerve involvement and a significant reason of inability. This syndrome often causes weakness and pain in the affected hand. Therefore, the researchers decided to perform a study that aimed to investigate the therapeutic effects of Wrist Splint (short wrist splint) in patients admitted to the neurology clinic of Vali Asr Hospital of Birjand w...

BACKGROUND The first step toward organizing research activities is to obtain a correct perception of available capabilities. This study was conducted to investigate the researchers' views about barriers affecting research activities. METHODS This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted using the census method. The population consisted of the faculty members of Birjand University of M...

introductionclimate change has played an important role in all aspects of human life. therefore, climatepredictions in atmospheric general circulation models (gcm) will have particular importance.in this study, downscaling by a1b scenarios, ipcm4 and bcm2 of atmosphere generalcirculation models in lars-wg model are used for analysis of climate change impacts onmaximum and minimum temperature, s...

Background and aims: Among all cancers, colon cancer is common and deadly, yet preventable. The estimated worldwide incidence of colon cancer is more than one million new cases per year. This study was done to identify the epidemiological features and risk factors of colon cancer in different regions of Birjand. Methods: This retrospective, descriptive an...