this study was carried out on 2200 men and women aged 20-70 years in isfahan who participatd in isfahan cardiovacular risk facor survery, in order to find prevalence of cigarette smoking in this population and estimate the relation of smoking with other cad risk factors. all information was obtained by standard questionnaires mainly concerning smoking habits of subjects and their personal chara...

background: to determine the protective impact of efficient serum copper concentration on bmd in women and to asses its impression on bone. methods: six hundred healthy women through a national project in iran, imos, were selected via a cluster random sam pling and enrolled the study. they were divided to pre menopausal (404/600, 67.7% of total) and post menopausal (190/600, 32%of total) groups...

background: hypertensive patients are highly susceptible to oxidizability. although hypertension is common among iranians, few data are available about lipid oxidation status in the involved people. the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between serum lipids levels and susceptibility of lipids to oxidation in hypertensive patients. materials and method: fasting serum lipids and ...

conclusions some other small studies have proved that statins were effective in regression of endometriosis implants and we have also proved that the levels of serum lipid profile was higher in patients suffering from endometriosis, perhaps higher levels of lipid profile has a significant etiologic role in pathogenesis of endometriosis. results we had 25 patients in endometriosis group and 50 i...

nowadays, cell -based and tissue engineered products have opened new horizons in treatment of incurable nervous system disorders. the number of studies on the role of schwann cells (sc) in treating nervous disorders is higher than other cell types. different protocols have been suggested for isolation and expansion of sc which most of them have used multiple growth factors, mitogens and fetal b...

in this research, the magnetite nanoparticles (fe304) were prepared by coprecipitation of fe3+ andfe solution in alkaline medium. two kinds of surfactants, cetyl tri methyl ammonium bromide(ctab) and cetyl pyridinum chloride (cpc) were used in the synthesis. fe304 nanoparticles werecoated with human serum albumin (hsa) and bovine serum albumin (bsa). characteristics ofcoated magnetic nanopartic...

introduction and goal: today, the researchers have found that many recent diseases are due to cellular oxidative stress which is caused by the imbalance of the formation and neutralization of free radicals. including weak immune system, cancers, inflectional diseases, aging body and diabetes. diabetes is the most common endocrine disease in the world that is referred to as the mother of the dis...

conclusions according to this result, regular exercise in case of fasting in ramadan led to some changes in serum osmolarity index, electrolytes and water. therefore, it is important for female athletes to consider applying a suitable nutritious diet and sufficient water consumption during ramadan results the mean differences were as follows: significant weight loss, bmi, whr, in two groups at ...

background: inflammatory process has a substantial contribution in the development of anemia in chronic hemodialysis patients. low serum albumin in hemodialysis patients is considered a marker of inflammation. the present longitudinal study aimed to determine the relationship between low baseline serum albumin and future development of anemia. methods: the population of this study consisted of ...