OBJECTIVE The increased survival in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) patients implies the development of chronic damage, occurring in up to 50% of cases. Its prevention is a major goal in the SLE management. We aimed at predicting chronic damage in a large monocentric SLE cohort by using neural networks. METHODS We enrolled 413 SLE patients (M/F 30/383; mean age ± SD 46.3±11.9 years; mean d...

background: fire and explosion hazards are extremely important in processing units. this study was performed to identify the risk centers, the potential damage caused by fire and explosion, and the days of production cessation in the processing company. materials and methods: the present qualitative case study was conducted using dow’s index in 2015. the fire and explosion hazard index and leve...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of long-term garlic supplementation (500 and 1000 mg) on dna damage index resulting from exhaustive exercise in non-athlete students. 26 male non-athletes (mean+sd age 21±1.23 years, weight 69.38±8.28 kg and height 178.9±6.11 cm) were divided randomly into three groups: the placebo and 2 garlic supplementation groups (500 and 1000 mg/day) (the...

OBJECTIVE Damage accrual in SLE has been previously shown to be an independent predictor of mortality. We sought to discern which SLICC Damage Index (SDI) domains are the most important predictors of survival in SLE. METHODS SLE patients (ACR criteria), age > or =16 years, disease duration < or =5 years at enrolment, of African-American, Hispanic or Caucasian ethnicity were studied. Disease a...

to study genetic diversity and drought tolerance in sesame genotypes, an experiment in a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2010-2011 was conducted at the agricultural research field, university of birjand under stress and non-stress conditions. the aim of this study was the testing of yield, tolerance index and bi-plot analysis. materials included genotypes birjand, kh...