High blood pressure increases the risks of stroke, dementia, and neurocognitive dysfunction. Although aerobic exercise and dietary modifications have been shown to reduce blood pressure, no randomized trials have examined the effects of aerobic exercise combined with dietary modification on neurocognitive functioning in individuals with high blood pressure (ie, prehypertension and stage 1 hyper...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to evaluate functional outcome and quality of life using statistically validated tools. METHODS Participating patients were called and asked questions from the Short Form 36 (SF-36), the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire, a pain scale and an additional question on their satisfaction with surgery. RESULTS A total of 33 patients ...

Although gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with an increased risk of maternal and neonatal morbidity, there is no consensus as to the optimal approach of nutritional management in these patients. The present study was designed to assess the effect of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan on glucose tolerance and lipid profiles of pregnant women with GDM....

background: insulin receptor substrate (irs) type 1 is a main substrate for the insulin receptor, controls insulin signaling in skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and the vascular, so it is an important candidate gene for insulin resistance (ir). we aimed to compare the  effects of the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (dash) and usual dietary advices (uda) on irs1 gene expression in women ...

BACKGROUND The Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire is a region-specific self-administered questionnaire that consists of a disability/symptom (DASH-DS) scale, and two optional modules, the work (DASH-W) and the sport/music (DASH-SM) modules. The DASH was cross-culturally adapted and developed by the Impairment Evaluation Committee, Japanese Society for Surgery of the H...