S everal studies have suggested that vascular changes precede the development of metabolic disorders in first-degree relatives of subjects with type 2 diabetes, indicating that being a first-degree relative of a subject with type 2 diabetes is a risk per se for vascular dysfunction (1–3). However, these studies have failed to control for relevant metabolic and inflammatory variables that are us...

background: sleep apnea is associated with increased risk ofdiabetes mellitus. however, no studies have compared sleep apneasymptoms in diabetic patients and their first degree relatives.the purpose of our study was to investigate high risk for sleepapnea syndrome, in diabetics and their first degree relatives forprevention of diabetes in family.methods: as a part of a cohort study, all of diab...

Two independent samples of students were asked to allocate fictional lotteries of varying dollar amounts to their blood relatives. In both studies, a reliable genetic relatedness by lineage interaction emerged, such that the genetic effect was a more positive predictor of percent of money allocated for relatives of a direct lineage (e.g., parents, grandparents) than it was for peripheral relati...

Coronary heart disease risk factor levels were studied in 184 first-degree relatives (sisters and brothers) of non-insulin-dependent diabetic subjects (124 relatives with normoglycemia, 34 relatives with impaired glucose tolerance [IGT], and 26 relatives with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus [NIDDM]) and in 215 relatives of nondiabetic subjects (194 relatives with normoglycemia and 21 re...

hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors of vascular heart disease. control of hypertension in different age groups has a significant effect upon the control and prevention of vascular heart disease. a familial pattern is observed in the distribution of blood pressure in different societies. family history of hypertension has a profound effect on the future risk of deve...

introduction: this review reports the current results of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) in patients who had received transplantation in the hematology-oncology and sct research center, tehran, iran. methods: in iran, from 1991 through 2010, a total of 3170 hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have been carried out. the male/female patient ratio was 1909/1261 with a median age...