aim and background: this research aimed to compare marital satisfaction between patients with coronary disease and the general population. methods and materials: this case-control study included 50 patients with coronary disease from motahari hospital (fuladshahr, iran) and 50 healthy persons from fuladshahr (iran). the two groups were matched regarding marital status and gender. convenience sa...

Introduction: Despite high level of vaccination against pertussis‚ whooping cough has re-emerged as a health threat, especially in infants. This could be related to expansion of Bordetella pertussis with novel alleles for virulence factors including the pertussis toxin promoter, ptxP3. Compared to ptxp1 strains‚ ptxp3 strains produce more pertussis toxin which results in immune supp...

In the context of Japanese cultural postmodernism, phenomenon resuming literary masterpieces in comic book form appears as a juxtaposition with specific purpose, resulting hybrid which we would regard komiXLit. As part way knowledge, interpret komiXLit an alternative model whose characteristic is that combination two apparently contradicting terms: “high” literature and mang...

Epilepsy is one of the common neurologic disorders in children. Drug side-effects are one of the important problems in treating patients with epilepsy. Using the antiepileptic medication may cause different side effects such as disorder in bone and vitamin D metabolism. Sodium valproate is one of the antiepileptic medications used widely. Some of its side effects include digestive disorder, inc...

Background: Metabolically obese normal-weight (MONW) children and adolescents are characterized by body mass index (BMI) lower than +1SD with metabolic disorders such as hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and/or hypertension. This study wants to determineprevalence of MONW, metabolically benign normal weight (MBNW), metabolically abnormality obese (MAO) and comparethe components of metabolic ...

Semen analysis, sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) and hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST) are usually performed for the evaluation of sperm fertilizing ability. There are some debates over the necessity of SDF and HOST incorporation in male infertility work-up.Semen of 77 men was evaluated by SDF and HOST through three semen analyses. Sperm parameters were arranged into different categories: <5%, 5-1...

Background and Objectives: Sarcopenia is explained as the loss of muscle strength and muscle mass with aging&sbquo; and is one of the major risk factors for metabolic diseases. Cross-sectional studies demonstrate that vitamin D is associated with sarcopenia in both men and women. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of vitamin D supplement consumption on muscle strength, muscle f...