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Eating disorders risk and its relation to self-esteem and body image in Iranian university students of medical sciences.
(2016)
Eating disorders are rapidly increasing in young adults. But, a few studies have examined the risk of eating disorders and body image in university students of non-Western societies. The current study aimed to assess eating ...
Return to work and its relation to financial distress among Iranian cancer survivors.
(2015)
Return to work after treatment completion is important for both cancer survivors and society. Financial distress is one of the factors that may influence the return to work in cancer survivors. However, this relationship ...
Analysis of PTPN22 C1858T gene polymorphism in cases with type 1 diabetes of Azerbaijan, Northwest Iran.
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a T-cell mediated autoimmune multifactorial disease. The PTPN22 gene encodes an intracellular lymphoid-specific phosphatase (Lyp) that has been shown to play a negative regulatory role in T cell ...
Iranian cancer patient perceptions of prognosis and the relationship to hope.
(2014)
The aim of this study was to investigate Iranian cancer patient perceptions of their prognosis, factors that influence perceptions of prognosis and the effect this has on patient level of hope.Iranian cancer patients (n=200) ...
Prevalence of exfoliative toxin A and B genes in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical specimens.
The pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus is based on the production of various virulence factors. The frequency of these factors can markedly differ according to the geographical region.In this study, we investigated the ...
The effect of a home-based exercise intervention on postnatal depression and fatigue: A randomized controlled trial.
(2015)
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of home-based low-intensity stretching and breathing exercises on the reduction of 1 and 2 month post-partum depression (primary outcome) and fatigue (secondary outcome) scores. ...
Weight self-stigma and its association with quality of life and psychological distress among overweight and obese women.
(2017)
There are limiting studies evaluating the weight self-stigma and its association with eating disorders and health concerns. However, no study is available evaluating weight self-stigma and its determinants among reproductive ...
Correlation between hip rotation range-of-motion impairment and low back pain. A literature review
(2015)
Background. Hip rotation range-of-motion (ROM) impairment has been proposed as a contributing mechanical factor in the development of low back pain (LBP) symptoms. There is a hypothesis which suggests that a limited range ...
Association between p53 codon 72 (Arg72Pro) polymorphism and primary open-angle glaucoma in Iranian patients.
(2015)
Glaucomatous neuropathy is a type of cell death due to apoptosis. The p53 gene is one of the regulatory genes of apoptosis. Recently, the association between the p53 gene encoding for proline at codon 72 and primary ...
Spiral computed tomographic pulmonary angiography in patients with acute pulmonary emboli and no pre-existing comorbidity: a prospective prognostic panel study.
(2015)
To investigate the prognostic validity of the right ventricular to left ventricular diameter (RVD/LVD) ratio and Qanadli pulmonary artery obstruction score (PAOS) in hemodynamically stable patients with no pre-existing ...