Low plasma level of vitamin D is linked to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and peripheral vascular diseases. Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide problem that involves Iranian population. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first investigation on venous thromboembolism (VTE) subjects that assessed the correlation of vitamin D leve...

purpose: to investigate the levels of klotho and endothelin-1(et-1) in plasma and aqueous humor in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (pes). methods: fifteen individuals with pes and 15 age-matched subjects without pes who were scheduled for cataract extraction participated in the study. samples of aqueous humor and peripheral blood were taken in the operating room just before cataract su...

Morrice, J. J., Taylor, K. M., Blair, J. I., and Young, D. G. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 898. Preoperative plasma glucose level. The plasma glucose level of 25 infants and children who had routine preparation for anaesthesia and operation has been measured immediately after induction of anaesthesia. The mean plasma glucose level was 66 mg/100 ml. 5 patients had plasma glucose...

recently multiple studies have shown that elevated homocysteine levels may be associated with ophthalmic vascular disease. to investigate the role of high plasma levels of homocysteine in the patients with retinal vein occlusion, 21 patients with retinal vein occlusion (rvo) and 20 age and sex matched controls without rvo were included in this retrospective case–control study. information regar...

background beta-2 microglobulin (b2m) is considered as a surrogate marker for middle molecule uremic toxins and a key component in dialysis-related amyloidosis. however, few studies have evaluated role of b2m in patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd). objectives the purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of plasma b2m level with some metabolic and cardiac performance factors ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acute swimming stress on plasma corticosterone and leptin levels in female and male rats. thirty- seven adult male (n=20) and female (n=20) sprague dawley rats (200-250 g weight) were used. the leptin and corticosterone levels were measured following swimming stress (10 minutes) or no stress. plasma leptin and corticosterone were measured b...

the relationship between different indices of the copper deficiency was studied in 136 slaughtered male cattle (< 2 years). copper status has been detected as marginally deficient in 57.4, 36.4, 34.6, and 28.2% of cattle based on the copper concentrations in plasma (5.5-14.5 μmol/l) and liver (19.7-189.1 mg/kgdm), plasma ceruloplasmin levels (85.4 - 178.2 mg/l) and erythrocyte superoxide dismut...

conclusions: these findings suggested that plasma adpn level is inversely associated with gfr and directly correlate with hdl-cholesterol and inversely with some, but not all metabolic factors of ckd patients who were not undergone dialysis. results: plasma adpn level was significantly higher in ckd patients than control group (p = 0.04). it was directly correlated with hdl-cholesterol (r = 0.5...

fibrinogen is one of the plasma proteins synthetzed by the liver.elevated plasma fibrinogen is an independent coronary artery disease(CAD) risk factor and increases the risk of thrombus formation.this study was performed to compare the plasma fibrinogen level in opium addict men with non opium users.each group consisted of 60 males,who didnot smoke cigarettes and were not suffered from diabetes...