beta thalassemia major patients receive repeated transfusions in order to compensate anemia and use desferal to remove iron overload. comparing immunoglobulins and complement components in the serum of these patients with normal range shows a significant increase (p<0.001) in igg, iga and igm and a decrease in c3c and c4. the regression analysis confirms a relation between the numbers of transf...

Objective Despite numerous reports on the effects of meal frequency on biochemical parameters such as plasma lipid profile, glucose and insulin, there is almost no study to investigate the influence of meal frequency on immune system. In the present article, for the first time, the effect of meal frequency on complement components C3 and C4, as key components of the complement system, has been...