Objective and Background: This study aimed at determining the predictors of chronic physical and mental quality of life (QOL) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) focusing on neuropsychological functions post trauma. Materials and Methods: This is a longitudinal study in which 257 patients having inclusion criteria were enrolled. Neuropsychological tasks including logical memory, verba...

chronic liver diseases in children is the result of many different diseases including: metabolic, genetic, infectious, toxic and idiopathic causes. this was a case series study on 133 infants and children with age range 6 month to 12 years old, who presented clinically with manifestation of chronic liver disease and were admitted to children hospital medical center from year 1999 to 2000. in th...

conclusions both the cases discussed in our study have inv(9) as the sole abnormality and are found to confer a relatively poor prognosis. case presentation we present the case of a chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) patient who showed intermittent relapse on treatment, with a rare appearance of clones with dual inversion (9) breakpoints [inv(9)(p22q34); inv(9)(p11q21)]. we also present the first r...

Objective: To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether there are dose-response relationships. Design: Prospective cohort study with four measures of common mental disorders and obesity over 19 years (Whitehall II study). Settings: Civil service departments in London. Participants: 4363 adults (28% female, mean age 44 years at b...

several investigations demonstrated that anxiety is the most common mental health disorder worldwide affected about one in 13 people. anxiety disorders are more commonly reported in western societies but it is also a main health problem in non-western countries as stress and anxiety levels have drastically increased over the last two decades. several wars in middle eastern countries in the last...

human beings have always experienced disasters. a disaster may be brief,but its psychological effects may last for many years. these psychological effects are increasingly well documented.disasters affect not only those immediately involved, but also those whoknow the victims. this is perhaps particularly so when the victims arechildren. commonly when adults hear news of disasters they ask firs...

OBJECTIVES To examine potential reciprocal associations between common mental disorders and obesity, and to assess whether dose-response relations exist. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with four measures of common mental disorders and obesity over 19 years (Whitehall II study). SETTING Civil service departments in London. PARTICIPANTS 4363 adults (28% female, mean age 44 years at baselin...

Objective. Patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP) have been reported to have a greater prevalence of mental disorders and somatization than that found in the general population, but the true association between CWP and mental disorders is unknown. In this study, we investigated whether there is an increased prevalence of mental disorder in people with CWP from the general population. We al...

A C L I N I C A L J O U R N A L O F T H E A M E R I C A N G E R I A T R I C S S O C I E T Y he psychiatric needs of older adults in residential care settings are significant. While increasing attention has been given to the mental health needs of elderly nursing home residents, other facilities, including assisted living facilities, board and care homes, and adult foster care programs, present ...

OBJECTIVE To compare chronic physical health disorder prevalence amongst Australian adults with and without mental illness. METHOD Total n=1,716 participants (58% female) with a mean age of 52 ± 13 years (range: 18 to 89 years) completed an online survey of Australian adults in 2010. Outcome measures including prevalence of chronic physical conditions and self-reported body mass index (BMI) i...