objective: pcos is a multifaceted disorder with multiple potential risk factors (e.g. infertility, diabetes,cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome). pcos affects quality of life and can worsen anxiety and depression either due to the features of pcos or due to the diagnosis of a chronic disease. this study aimed to determine the risk factors of pcos in a group of patients. materials and ...

BACKGROUND/AIM Treating animals repeatedly with intermittent and increasing morphine doses has been suggested to allow some withdrawal during each dosing interval, which causes repeated stress. The present study aimed to test this hypothesis and assess sex-related differences in withdrawal signs and their suppression by clonidine. MATERIALS AND METHODS Male and female rats and mice were admin...

UNLABELLED The objective of this study is the assessment of the association of burnout syndrome with adrenal exhaustion specific symptoms and signs among 116 patients who were exposed to violence or mobbing at workplace and who were treated during 2005 to 2008 in Department of Occupational Pathology and Toxicology Tuzla; to detect symptoms and signs of adrenal exhaustion differences between pat...

More patients in the intensive care unit are surviving their critical illnesses because of advances in medical care. This change in survival has led to an increased awareness of the emotional consequences of being critically ill. Posttraumatic stress disorder has been identified in approximately 9% to 27% of critically ill patients compared with 7% of the general US population. Risk factors suc...

extract: whereas pregnancy period in all societies with different cultures cause to physical and emotional and social signs, so fawcett& york (1985), aim to understand and explain types and how of this physical, emotional and social signs in female and their spouses during primary pregnancy periods and post partum conducted a descriptive study. 70 couples for occurrence type determination of ph...

BACKGROUND When a dobutamine stress echocardiogram is performed, piloerection is frequently found in the scalp area. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to establish the incidence of this phenomenon and its association with other clinical findings. METHODS A total of 218 consecutive patients that underwent dobutamine stress echocardiography in our department were included in the stud...

OBJECTIVE A substantial proportion of patients develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following myocardial infarction (MI). Previous research on the trajectory over time of PTSD in post-MI patients is scant and refers to self-rated posttraumatic symptoms. The aim of this study was to investigate the longitudinal course of an interviewer-rated diagnosis of PTSD and PTSD symptom severity fo...