background the choice of what parameters are needed for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (mets) has been criticized due to the lack of an actual “gold standard” diagnostic test even in adults. this problem seems to be greater in children and adolescents. objectives stability assessment of factor structure underlying metabolic syndrome (mets) components from childhood to adolescence in a pane...

Cryptogenic cirrhosis (CC) is defined as cirrhosis occurring in an individual without an identifiable cause of liver disease, such as excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis infection, hemochromatosis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, chronic intake of medications that could induce cirrhosis, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, Wilson's disease...

BACKGROUND Sensitive and specific detection of liver cirrhosis is an urgent need for optimal individualized management of disease activity. Substantial studies have identified circulation miRNAs as biomarkers for diverse diseases including chronic liver diseases. In this study, we investigated the plasma miRNA signature to serve as a potential diagnostic biomarker for silent liver cirrhosis. ...

Determination of cirrhosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is important as it alters prognosis and management. We aimed to examine whether cirrhosis was diagnosed incidentally or intentionally in patients with NAFLD. We reviewed 100 patients with NAFLD cirrhosis to determine mode of cirrhosis diagnosis (incidental or by intent), severity of liver disease at diagnosis, diagnostician,...

background: seizure is the most common pediatric neurologic disorder. epidemiological studies of childhood epilepsy are of importance to compare incidence and prevalence rates, age distribution, inheritance, seizure types, epilepsy syn­dromes and treatment strategies. since there is little information about prevalence of childhood seizure in iran, this study was aimed to determine the life time...

background asthma is a chronic inflammatory air-way disease with increasing prevalence rate during the recent years. there are studies about the relationship between asthma and infectious diseases, including the association between asthma and helicobacter pylori. according to the latest studies, there is an epidemiological correlation between asthma prevalence and prevalence of h. pylori. objec...

Frequency. Though not frequently met with clinically, the condition is not a rare one if the comparatively large group of cases which are demonstrated only in the post-mortem room is included. Thus Alexander' found only three cases of suppurative pericarditis in 31,016 hospital cases, though Stone2 noted 15 5 per cent. in 300 patients dead of pneumonia. Allbutt and Rolleston3 also stressed the ...

Recent epidemiological data on primary liver carcinoma are reviewed. The highest incidence is reported in African males, in whom the frequency rises rapidly until the 3d decade, after which it remains constant or may even decrease. There is evidence that the increase in liver cancer in Africa and Asia is dependent on an increase in the pro portion of cirrhotic livers which become malignant rath...

Frequency. Though not frequently met with clinically, the condition is not a rare one if the comparatively large group of cases which are demonstrated only in the post-mortem room is included. Thus Alexander' found only three cases of suppurative pericarditis in 31,016 hospital cases, though Stone2 noted 15 5 per cent. in 300 patients dead of pneumonia. Allbutt and Rolleston3 also stressed the ...

Recent epidemiological data on primary liver carcinoma are reviewed. The highest incidence is reported in African males, in whom the frequency rises rapidly until the 3d decade, after which it remains constant or may even decrease. There is evidence that the increase in liver cancer in Africa and Asia is dependent on an increase in the pro portion of cirrhotic livers which become malignant rath...