Abstract: Background And Objective anemia is one of the main problems of chronic renal failure patients undergone Hemodialysis and erythropoietin is not effective for these patients. Since Vitamin C deficiency in Hemodialysis patients is common، this study was performed to compare the effect of intravenous and oral ascorbic acid consumption on anemia in Hemodialysis patients. […]
Abstract Background: In middle age people, hypercholesterolemia (HC) has been included as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Objectives: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of HC and some related factors in the north of Iran. Materials and Methods: This was a population-based cross-sectional study that enrolled 1995 subjects (997 […]
Abstract Background: Golestan province in northeastern Iran has been known as a high-risk area for esophageal cancer (EC). This study was conducted to assess aflatoxin (AF) contamination of wheat flour (WF) samples in high and low EC-risk areas of Golestan province. Methods: Four WF samples were collected randomly from each of 25 active silos throughout the province in […]
Abstract Background And Objectives Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases. It is a functional bowel disorder characterized by chronic abdominal pain and alternation of bowel habits with no structural abnormality. The prevalence of this disease was estimated 10-20 percent in the world. However، the cause of IBS is still […]
Abstract Background And Objective In recent years the incidence opportunistic fungual infections has in creased dramatically. One of the most common fungal pathogen Candida dubliniensis، colonization and biofilm formation on the surfaces of medical devices. The aim of this study was to evaluate the inhibitory activity of zinc oxide nanoparticles against C. dubliniensis biofilm formation […]
Abstract BACKGROUND The main aim of this study was to evaluate the association between serum cholesterol level and body mass index (BMI) in northern Iran. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study carried out on the 1995 subjects (997 males and 998 females) aged 25-65 years that were selected using multistage cluster sampling method. Plasma cholesterol […]
Abstract: Background and objective: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases. It is a functional boweld is order characterized by chronic abdominal pain and change in bowel habits with no structural abnormality. The prevalence of this disease was estimated 10-20 percent in the world. However, the cause of IBS is […]
Abstract Arthrosclerosis considered one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in industrial and developing countries. The rate of myocardial infarction in some countries is about 2 million annually with 1/4 of them is leading to death. This study was a case-control research, which was carried out as cross-sectional project in two groups, […]
Abstract: Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) include ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD), the etiologies of which are not certainly defined, and are hypothesized to be an interaction between environmental, genetic, and immunologic factors. 1 Recent studies show a gradually increasing rate of IBD in developing countries in Africa, South America, and Asia. 1 […]