background coronary heart disease (chd) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in pakistan. the temporal trends in the risk factors for myocardial infarction (mi) and the impact of socioeconomic status on these risk factors remain ambiguous. objectives the objectives of the present analysis were to investigate the potential association between various risk factors and mi in north punj...

background :hypertension is an important public-health challenge worldwide. the prevalence of hypertension greatly varies across countries. the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of self-reported hypertension and to determine related factors in a large random sample of tehran population in 2011.   methods : in this cross sectional study, 69173 individuals aged 25–64 years were sel...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary garlic on the growth performance, intestinal mucosa morphology, and pulmonary hypertensive response in broiler chickens with pulmonary hypertension induced by 3, 5, 3′-l triiodothyronine. chicks were reared for 42 days and treated with triiodothyronine (1.5 mg/kg diet) and 0 (control), 0.2, 0.6 or 1% garlic powder. intestinal segme...

cardiovascular adverse effects are interesting aspects of occupational noise exposure. one possible mechanism of these effects is an alternation in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. our aim was to measure salivary cortisol response to relatively high-intensity noise exposure in a controlled randomized trial study. we exposed 50 male volunteers to 90 dba noise for 20 minutes and compared thei...

twenty patients with intracranial hematoma (ich or ivh) were treated with direct infusion of urokinase through a catheter. reduction of hematoma volume was observed within a few days. twelve patients showed good or excellent outcome. no infection or rebleeding was observed.

Cardiac disease is the main cause of death in both forms of thalassemia; thalassemia major (TM) and thalassemia intermedia (TI). Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is one of the cardiopulmonary morbidities with high mortality that, if not treated, may trigger right-sided heart failure and premature death. PH is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure of ≥25 mmHg at rest or ≥30 mmHg during exercise...

Background: Uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes in truckers can negatively affect their work performance. This paper analyses the first-year data of an eye care program for truckers to assess their need for hypertension and diabetes screening. Materials and Method: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected via eye camps for truckers held between July 2017 and June 2018. Truckers wh...

Hypertensive disorders (HDs) as the most prevalent medical problem during pregnancy, predispose the patient to a lot of comorbidities and may even cause maternal or fetal death. The rate of infertility has been increasing in recent decades. So, we collected and summarized data about the co-existence of these two entities and found that HDs are somewhat more common in women receiving fertility t...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of premenstrual syndrome (pms) treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (ssri) on treatment response of refractory hypertension of the patients. method: this was a triple-blind randomized clinical trial conducted on female patients suffering from refractory hypertension and pms at the same time. we obtained informed consen...