background: unexplained infertility is still a challenging issue as to its causes, appropriate management and treatment. evidence implicates early embryopathy or implantation failure as likely causes. objective: this study aims to investigate the effect of local endometrial injury on pregnancy rate in selected unexplained infertile patients. materials and methods: this was a randomized clinical...

Background: Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite, which affects a wide-range of mammals including human. Based on serological studies, T. gondii is one of the most prevalent protozoan parasites. Most cases of toxoplasmosis are asymptomatic or mild and influenza-like, but immunocompromised patients often develop fulminating life-threatening symptoms as pneumonia and encephalit...

Background: Female sexual dysfunction(FSD) is defined as sexual desire disorders,sexual Arousal disorders,orgasmic disorders and sexual pain disorders that result from anatomical,physiological ,medical and psychological multiple factors and cause personal severe discomfortibility and affect quality of life and relationship between individuals. The aim of this study is to compare the prevalence ...

purpose the aim of this study was to determine the effect of ramadan fasting on body composition, calorie intake and physical performance in young female athletes undertaking training sessions during ramadan. methods twelve voluntary female athletes (15-27 years old) were assigned to the research. a prospective study was conducted to investigate the athletes on four different occasions: one wee...

background: epidemiological characteristics of diabetic foot infection in our region are not clear. the purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological features of diabetic foot infection in babol, north of iran. methods: from march, 2005 to april, 2010, the epidemiological features of 450 cases of diabetic foot infection treated in two main teaching hospitals of babol medical univer...

backgroud: intrauterine insemination (iui) is generally attempted before proceeding to more expensive and invasive assisted reproductive techniques such as invitro fertilization (ivf) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi). this procedure is most commonly performed as a therapeutic method for couples with a wide variety of subfertility etiologies, such as low count or low motility of sperm...

conclusions the results suggested that severely thin girl runners has steadily increased. surveys on the health consequences of extreme thinness are necessary for the female adolescent runners. methods body mass index (bmi) were analysed in 9,881 female and 12,786 male runners participating in the annual national road relay races between 1989 and 2014 using the directory of a track and field ma...

background: the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (mets) is increasing worldwide. limited data are available trying to compare different definitions suggested to identify mets. this study aimed to compare the prevalence of mets and its components based on currently available international and iranian national definitions. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 amongfema...

objective: interventions for people suffering from borderline personality disorder (bpd), such as dialectical behavior therapy, often include a problem-solving component. however, there is an absence of published studies examining the problem-solving abilities of this client group in iran. the study compared inpatients and outpatients with bpd and a control group on problem-solving capabilities...