Oxidative balance and mental health: Exploring the link between prooxidant-antioxidant balance and depression in hypertensive and normotensive individuals, accounting for sex differences.

Background: Existing studies have suggested a link between oxidative stress levels and depression. Additionally, factors such as gender and conditions like hypertension have been shown to influence oxidative stress. This ten-year follow-up cohort study aims to examine the association between prooxidant-antioxidant balance (PAB) and the onset of depression and its symptoms in both hypertensive and normotensive individuals, while considering gender differences.

Are individual analyses of multiple short urine collections throughout the 24 hours superior to a standard 24-hour urine collection in precipitation risk assessment of healthy subjects?

Purpose: The commonly used 24-hour collection technique has been the mainstay of diagnosis for supersaturation but has some certain limitations. Hence, superiority of multiple short urine collections as a new alternative in precipitation risk assessment was assessed compared to the standard 24-hour urine collection among healthy subjects.

Materials And Methods: Individual urine samples of 26 healthy subjects were acquired every 2 to 3 hours throughout the 24 hours.

World competitive contest-based artificial neural network: A new class-specific method for classification of clinical and biological datasets.

Many data mining methods have been proposed to generate computer-aided diagnostic systems, which may determine diseases in their early stages by categorizing the data into some proper classes. Considering the importance of the existence of a suitable classifier, the present study aims to introduce an efficient approach based on the World Competitive Contests (WCC) algorithm as well as a multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (ANN). Unlike the previously introduced methods, which each has developed a universal model for all different kinds of data classes, our proposed approach generates a single specific model for each individual class of data.

Behavioral Reference Model for Pervasive Healthcare Systems.

The emergence of mobile healthcare systems is an important outcome of application of pervasive computing concepts for medical care purposes. These systems provide the facilities and infrastructure required for automatic and ubiquitous sharing of medical information. Healthcare systems have a dynamic structure and configuration, therefore having an architecture is essential for future development of these systems.

The Correlation between Troponin and Ferritin Serum Levels in the Patients with Major Beta-Thalassemia.

Background: Thalassemia is a hereditary hemoglobinopathy whose most common complication is cardiac involvement which ends up in these patients' death. Since troponin is a sensitive and specific marker for the detection of microinfarct, we studied the relationship between troponin and ferritin serum levels for early diagnosis of cardiac involvement in these patients.

Materials And Methods: This case-control study was performed on 80 patients, including 40 patients with major thalassemia and normal echocardiography and 40 healthy volunteers ranging from 6 months to 16 years old.

Beta-Thalassemia in Iran: new insight into the role of genetic admixture and migration.

Iran with an area of 1.648 million km(2) is located between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Iranian population consists of multiethnic groups that have been influenced by various invasions and migration throughout history.