IMPORTANCE Sauna bathing is a health habit associated with better hemodynamic function; however, the association of sauna bathing with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality is not known. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of frequency and duration of sauna bathing with the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD), fatal coronary heart disease (CHD), fatal cardiovascular disease (CVD), and al...

Importance More research is required to clarify the association between physical activity and health in "weekend warriors" who perform all their exercise in 1 or 2 sessions per week. Objective To investigate associations between the weekend warrior and other physical activity patterns and the risks for all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer mortality. Design, Setting, and Parti...

AIM To assess the survival of the primary arteriovenous fistula created for dialysis in 463 chronic hemodialysis patients, because the main causes of morbidity among such patients are associated with vascular access-related complications. METHOD We analyzed 269 (58%) men and 194 (42%) women with median age of 58 years (range 12-83), who underwent 0-14,784 (median 1,584) hours of hemodialysis....

Current U.K. guidelines on the management of borderline personality disorder include specific recommendations about the duration of therapy and number of sessions per week that patients should be offered. However, very little research has been conducted to examine the impact of these aspects of treatment process on patient outcomes. We therefore undertook a systematic review to examine the impa...

Objective: Diabetes is a common disease and its prevalence rate is rapidly increasing. Aim of present study was to review the hypoglycemic effects of Nigella sativa (N.sativa) extract and endurance training in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: In this experimental research from 50 streptozotocine induced diabetic rats, 32 rats with more than 300 mg/dL fasting blood g...

D the growing interest in daily hemodialysis (DHD), logistic and economic factors limit its dissemination. Not the least of these factors is the lack of uniform criteria for measuring efficiency. From November 1998 to November 2000, 19 patients were on DHD in our unit. The dialysis prescription was bicarbonate buffer; 6 sessions per week; 2 – 3 hours; blood flow 250 – 350 mL/min; individual K, ...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of contextual interference on balance of mentally retarded people. for this purpose, 40 educable and mentally retarded boys in qazvin city (mean age 24.45 ± 3.120) were randomly divided into two groups: blocked and random practice. after the pretest, given their practice arrangement, subjects in each group performed their workout for 4 ...