The association between Parkinson disease and infection/exposure: A case-control study.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent neurological disorder and the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Research has explored the impact of infectious agents, such as the parasites, on neurological conditions, including PD. Given the limited studies worldwide and in Iran, this study aims to investigate the relationship between Toxocara infection and PD.

Women's healthcare autonomy and the utilization of maternal healthcare services in Afghanistan.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between women's healthcare autonomy and the utilization of maternal healthcare services (MHS), including antenatal care services, the services of health professionals at the birth of a child, and facility-based delivery.

Study Design: This was a cross-sectional study.

Methods: This study utilized data from the 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey (AFDHS 2015), which included women aged 15-49 years who had given live birth within the five years before the survey.

Association between Alzheimer's disease and Toxocara infection/exposure: a case-control study.

Background: Infections may contribute to Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. Limited evidence suggests Toxocara spp. infection/exposure could influence AD development.

Armed conflicts and experience of intimate partner violence among women in Afghanistan: analysis of the 2015 Afghanistan DHS data.

Objective: Armed conflicts and intimate partner violence (IPV) impose a burden on individual and societal well-being. Given the history of armed conflict in Afghanistan and the high prevalence of IPV, this study aims to examine the influence of armed conflicts on IPV among Afghan women.

Methods: Multilevel logistic regression models were applied to the 2015 Afghanistan Demographic and Health Survey (N=10 414 women aged 15-49).

Superinfected COVID-19 in a young patient with posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: A case report.

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical syndrome with central nervous system (CNS) symptoms usually related to autoregulatory cerebral failure and high blood pressure. Neuroimaging is critical to diagnosis. Neurological presentations of COVID-19 disease are categorized into CNS symptoms and peripheral nervous system (PNS) symptoms.

The nutritional status of mycetoma affected patients seen at the Mycetoma Research Center, Sudan.

Nutrition plays a critical and crucial role in addressing neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and their complications, as they often contribute to malnutrition, which can worsen the impact of these conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the nutritional status of mycetoma patients, which has not been explored previously. This descriptive cross-sectional hospital-based study was conducted at the Mycetoma Research Center (MRC), University of Khartoum, Sudan.

The association between maternal infection and intellectual disability in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: There is arguing evidence regarding the association between maternal infections during pregnancy and the risk of intellectual disability (ID) in children. This systematic review and meta-analysis are essential to determine and address inconsistent findings between maternal infections during pregnancy and the risk of ID in children.

Methods: The MOOSE and PRISMA guidelines were followed to perform and report on this study.

Medication Adherence Among Multimorbid Patients With Polypharmacy and Its Relation to Social Support at National Guard Primary Health Care Centers, Riyadh.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of nonadherence to medication in multimorbid patients with polypharmacy and its relationship to social support in primary healthcare centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, convenience-sample, non-randomized study in three primary healthcare centers managed by National Guard Health Affairs. The participants included 417 adult patients - (a) with two or more chronic illnesses and (b) who were taking two or more medications.

Epidemiological and clinical profiles of Saudi patients with hyperprolactinemia in a single tertiary care center.

Background: Prolactin is a hormone of the pituitary gland whose main function is the production of milk. Hyperprolactinemia is defined as an increase in prolactin levels above 25 μg/L in women and 20 μg/L in men. Causes of hyperprolactinemia include pituitary tumors, especially prolactinomas.

Pregnancy Complications in Pandemics: Is Pregnancy-Related Anxiety a Possible Physiological Risk Factor?

Background: Birth and pregnancy complications increased by 10.2% during the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Pregnant women are at high risk for anxiety, which might trigger physio-logical stress, leading to pregnancy complications.

Human exposure to aerosol from indoor gas stove cooking and the resulting nervous system responses.

Our knowledge of the effects of exposure to indoor ultrafine particles (sub-100 nm, #/cm ) on human brain activity is very limited. The effects of cooking ultrafine particles (UFP) on healthy adults were assessed using an electroencephalograph (EEGs) for brain response. Peak ultrafine particle concentrations were approximately 3 × 10 particle/cm and the average level was 1.

Impact of Religiosity on Delirium Severity Among Critically Ill Shi'a Muslims: A Prospective Multi-Center Observational Study.

This study assesses the impact of religiosity on delirium severity and patient outcomes among Shi'a Muslim intensive care unit (ICU) patients. We conducted a prospective observational cohort study in 21 ICUs from 6 Iranian academic medical centers. Delirium was assessed using the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU) tool.

Analyzing generalized coherent states for a free particle.

Despite the didactic importance of a free particle in quantum mechanics, its coherent state analysis has long been untouched. It is only recently that it has been noticed and studied in the semiclassical domain. While the previously known solutions, reported by Bagrov et al.

High speed capacitor-inverter based carbon nanotube full adder.

Carbon Nanotube filed-effect transistor (CNFET) is one of the promising alternatives to the MOS transistors. The geometry-dependent threshold voltage is one of the CNFET characteristics, which is used in the proposed Full Adder cell. In this paper, we present a high speed Full Adder cell using CNFETs based on majority-not (Minority) function.

[Contribution to the study of Trichosporon cutaneum (de Beurman, Gougerot et Vaucher), Ota (1926) (author's transl)].

The pathogenicity is studied in vitro and in vivo. White piedra is obtained in vitro on hair applying a technic described by Vanbrueseghem (1949) for the study of dermatophytes. Concerning the in vivo study: retrocultures of the kidneys, the lungs, the brain and the liver of white mice inoculated with T.

Hypothalamic-pituitary functions in patients with transsphenoidal encephalocele and midfacial anomalies.

We have studied hypothalamic-pituitary functions in two patients with transsphenoidal pituitary herniation associated with midfacial anomalies. Both had a defect in the floor of the sella turcica. The male patient had short stature and a low plasma GH level with no response to arginine infusion and insulin-induced hypoglycemia.