Comparison of azithromycin vs doxycycline prophylaxis in leptospirosis, A randomized double blind placebo-controlled trial.

Introduction: Leptospirosis is an important zoonotic disease in paddy field with 29.5% prevalence rate in Mazandaran province and 4% to 52% mortality rate among hospitalized patients. Prevention is an important strategy for the control of this disease.

Is incident type 2 diabetes associated with cumulative excess weight and abdominal adiposity? Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study.

Aims: To examine the association of the risk of incident type 2 diabetes (T2D) with cumulative excess weight (CEW) and cumulative excess waist circumference (CEWC) scores.

Methods: Adults participants without T2D (n = 4635) aged  ≥20 years were included in the study. The differences between the body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) values and their normal references were calculated until the incident T2D.

Adult Onset Still's Disease With Different Antibodies: A Case Report and Review of Literature.

 Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a rare systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. There is not currently any specific serological markers for AOSD , and  diagnosis still relying on the exclusion of other likely diagnoses. Yamaguchi's criteria are used as a diagnostic criterion which contains negative serologic markers for other collagen vascular diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.

Geriatric nutritional risk index: a mortality predictor in hemodialysis patients.

Recently, the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) has been introduced as a valuable tool to assess the nutritional status of hemodialysis (HD) patients. To determine the predictive value of the GNRI score for death in HD, we studied 145 chronic HD patients (%53 men, mean age 60 ± 16 years). The GNRI score was estimated by an equation involving serum albumin and individual's weight and height.