Body Image and Adjustment among Patients with Heart Rhythm Management Devices following Cardiac Rehabilitation Program: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial.

Heart rhythm management devices save patients' lives. However, they may cause problems with the patient's perspective of their body image. Therefore, given the significance of the heart function and cardiac rehabilitation, this study was conducted to investigate and compare the effect of the cardiac rehabilitation program on adjustment and body image among patients who use heart rhythm management devices.

Differentiating Between Low- and High-grade Glioma Tumors Measuring Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values in Various Regions of the Brain.

Objectives: Our study aimed to apply the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values to quantify the differences between low- and high-grade glioma tumors.

Methods: We conducted a multicenter, retrospective study between September to December 2019. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diffusion-weighted images (DWIs), and the pathologic findings of 56 patients with glioma tumors (low grade = 28 and high grade = 28) were assessed to measure the ADC values in the tumor center, tumor edema, boundary area between tumor with normal tissue, and inside the healthy hemisphere.

Sensitivity to Antibiotics of Bacteria Exposed to Gamma Radiation Emitted from Hot Soils of the High Background Radiation Areas of Ramsar, Northern Iran.

Background: Over the past several years our laboratories have investigated different aspects of the challenging issue of the alterations in bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics induced by physical stresses.

Objective: To explore the bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics in samples of subsp. serovar Typhimurium (), , and after exposure to gamma radiation emitted from the soil samples taken from the high background radiation areas of Ramsar, northern Iran.

Abdominal fat distribution and carotid atherosclerosis in a general population: a semi-automated method using magnetic resonance imaging.

Purpose: Available evidence suggests functional differences in visceral and subcutaneous fat. We investigated the association between quantitative measures of central adiposity with indicators of carotid atherosclerosis including intima-media thickness (IMT) and plaque in a general population using a semi-automated method on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study 200 subjects (52 % female), aged 50-77 years, were randomly selected from Golestan Cohort Study.