Publications by authors named "A R Rahbar"
Investigation of high-risk areas of electrical damage in the province of tehran.
Ann Burns Fire Disasters
December 2024
Electrical burns are an uncommon type of burn that can cause serious disabilities and mortality. This study aims to provide preventive strategies to investigate high-risk areas of electrical damage in Tehran Province. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study performed on patients with electrical burns referred to Shahid Motahari Educational and Medical Center during 2015-2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Efforts to understand atherosclerosis, a major cause of ischemic heart disease, have linked several lifestyle factors to increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Some studies suggest that cytomegalovirus (CMV), a widely prevalent herpesvirus, is reactivated in atherosclerotic plaques and associated with higher cardiovascular mortality risk. We aimed to explore whether CMV seropositivity and CMV-IgG antibody levels correlate with relevant biomarkers in a cohort of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) and matched controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Depression is associated with major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE). Whether longitudinal changes in depression affect MACE in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) remains unknown.
Objectives: The authors evaluated the hypothesis that increasing or persistent depression predicts MACE in patients with CHD.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focused on how obesity and depressive symptoms are linked to chest pain (CP) in patients with nonobstructive coronary artery disease, revealing that 71.5% of participants experienced CP, with a particularly higher prevalence in those with obesity (77.6% vs. 67%).
- - Out of 814 patients, obesity was found to significantly increase CP occurrence, especially in men, who showed more frequent and prevalent CP compared to women with similar obesity levels.
- - The research concluded that both obesity and depressive symptoms are independently associated with CP, and the impact of obesity on CP in men was partially mediated by levels of depressive symptoms.
Background: The management of revascularization of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) remains controversial. Whether specific patients gain survival benefit from CTO revascularization remains unknown.
Objectives: We investigated whether (i) patients with CTO have higher N terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT pro-BNP) levels than patients without CTO, (ii) in patients with CTO, NT pro-BNP levels predict adverse events, and (iii) those with elevated levels benefit from revascularization.