Herbal Treatment of COPD and Asthma According to Persian Medicine: a Review of Current Evidence.

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common pulmonary diseases. The current therapeutic outcomes are not satisfactory and may cause adverse events such as cardiovascular complications. In this study, we aimed to discuss some effective medicinal herbs for the management of COPD.

Clinical Efficacy of Persian Medicine Diet Combined with Western Medicine-Based Diet on Proteinuria in Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Introduction: Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is a common chronic kidney disorder during childhood. The most important characteristic of this disease is proteinuria. The Persian medicine (PM) has important dietary recommendations for strengthening the kidney function and treatment of this disease.

Efficacy of the barley-based remedy, a Persian medicine formula, in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalized patients: An open-labeled randomized controlled trial.

Background: With the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the growing attention of people around the world to the use of traditional and complementary medicines to control of the disease, evaluating the effectiveness of these treatments has received special attention.

Aim: This study aimed to assess the clinical efficacy of a barley-based () remedy combined with conventional medicine in comparison to the conventional therapy in confirmed COVID-19 patients.

Materials And Methods: Seventy COVID-19 patients were randomly divided into barley-based remedy plus conventional medicine (barley-based remedy group) and conventional therapy (control group).

Effect of Ustukhuddus Alavi, a multi-herbal product, on the cognitive performance of adolescent female students.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Ustukhuddus Alavi is a polyherbal formula which is introduced by Persian medicine scholars. It is traditionally used to treat brain disorders and is claimed to do so by preprocessing and cleansing the waste products from the brain. According to Persian medicine, the disposal of brain waste products is necessary for optimal cognitive performance.

Estimating the Cutoff Points of Time-Dependent Risk Factors by Using Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: A 14-Year Follow-up Study-Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study.

Diagnostic accuracy and optimal cutoff points of risk factors is one of the important issues in medical decisions. In order to reassess the cutoff points of markers, longitudinal and time-to-event data of elderly individuals were collected repeatedly through 3 follow-up stages in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. Time-dependent area under the ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curves (AUCs) based on the joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data technique were measured.

The effect of family-centered empowerment program on the family caregiver burden and the activities of daily living of Iranian patients with stroke: a randomized controlled trial study.

Dependence of stroke survivors regarding the ability to perform activities of daily living imposes a burden on family caregivers. The study evaluated the effect of the family-centered empowerment program on the ability of Iranian patients with stroke to perform activities of daily living, as well as on family caregiver burden. In this randomized controlled trial study, a total of 90 pairs of patients with stroke and their family caregivers was selected and randomly assigned to the intervention or control groups.

Prediction of Brain Connectivity Map in Resting-State fMRI Data Using Shrinkage Estimator.

Introduction: In recent years, brain functional connectivity studies are extended using the advanced statistical methods. Functional connectivity is identified by synchronous activation in a spatially distinct region of the brain in resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. For this purpose there are several methods such as seed-based correlation analysis based on temporal correlation between different Regions of Interests (ROIs) or between brain's voxels of prior seed.

Correlation between health literacy and health-related quality of life in patients with hypertension, in Tehran, Iran, 2015-2016.

Background And Objective: Hypertension is considered an important public health problem in developed and developing countries. This disease is closely associated with the quality of life of patients, and it seems that health literacy plays a role in this regard. Due to lack of information on the role of health literacy on the quality of life in patients with hypertension, this study has aimed to determine the correlation between health literacy and health-related quality of life in patients with hypertension.

Effect of health-belief-model-based training on performance of women in breast self-examination.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among women in the world. With prevention and examinations, including breast self-examination, the death rate will be reduced.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of health-belief-model-based training on the performance of women in breast self-examination in the province of Fars (Iran).

Effect of Breathing Technique of Blowing on the Extent of Damage to the Perineum at the Moment of Delivery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Introduction: One of the important tasks in managing labor is the protection of perineum. An important variable affecting this outcome is maternal pushing during the second stage of labor. This study was done to investigate the effect of breathing technique on perineal damage extention in laboring Iranian women.

Effect of Acupressure on Cervical Ripening.

Background: Cervical ripening is one of the main stages of initiation labor. Acupressure in Chinese medicine is considered as an invasive technique, which through reliving oxytocin ripens the cervix. Acupoint Sanyinjiao (SP6) was selected in this study because it is the acupoint selected in gynecology and it is easy for women to locate and apply pressure without medical assistance.

Assessment of the Relationship between Galectin-3 and Ejection Fraction and Functional Capacity in the Patients with Compensated Systolic Heart Failure.

Background: Galectin-3 is a soluble ß-galactoside-binding lectin released by activated cardiac macrophages. Galectin-3 has been proposed for diagnosis and prognosis of HF patients.

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between galectin-3 as a biomarker and ejection fraction and functional capacity in the patients with compensated systolic heart failure.

Iodine nutrition status and knowledge, attitude, and behavior in Tehranian women following 2 decades without public education.

Objective: To evaluate the association of iodine nutrition status and knowledge, attitude, and behavior in Tehranian women after 2 decades without updating public education.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Eight health care centers from 4 district areas of Tehran.

The new nano-complex, Hep-c, improves the immunogenicity of the hepatitis B vaccine.

Prevention of hepatitis B requires a vaccine that stimulates the humoral and cellular immune responses in a balanced manner, particularly those associated with Th1 and cytotoxic T cells. Alum adjuvant is currently used in the hepatitis B vaccine formulations but it lacks the efficiency of establishing such immune responses. Therefore, for accessing a suitable vaccine to prevent this fatal disease, it is essential to design and construct a new adjuvant which can overcome the limitations of the alum adjuvant and can stimulate a strong Th1 response as used along with it.

Legume intake is inversely associated with metabolic syndrome in adults.

Background: Studies on the association between legume intake and metabolic syndrome (MetS) are sparse. The objective of this study is to evaluate the association between legume intake, MetS, and its components.

Methods: This study was conducted on 80 subjects (48% female) with MetS as cases and 160 age and gender-matched healthy controls.

Predicting age at menopause from serum antimüllerian hormone concentration.

Objective: We aimed to estimate age at menopause using serum antimüllerian hormone (AMH) concentration.

Methods: We randomly selected 266 study participants from a pool of 1,265 eligible women in the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study cohort. We measured AMH levels three times at about 3-year intervals.

A comprehensive study on survival trend in Iranian patients with HIV infection and variations according to age and mode of transmission: a 14-year follow-up study.

One of the epidemiological descriptor of a fatal infectious disease is the time it takes from infection to death or the survival period. The present study has focused on trend in survival and death of Iranian nonhemophiliac HIV patients from 1988 to 2002 and has estimated the nonparametric distribution of the survival function of HIV patients with respect to different variables of interest, like mode of transmission, gender and age at the time of diagnosis.

Nonparametric estimation of survival function of HIV+ patients with doubly censored data.

In the analysis of follow-up studies of patients who have been or may be infected by the Type-1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), which causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), one problem of interest is the estimation of distribution of the survival function when the origin and end points defining the survival time suffer interval censoring. In this paper, we have compared Kaplan-Meier, midpoint estimation and sun (1997), by analysis of a cohort study data of Iranian Injecting Drug Users (IDU) who became HIV infected through the using common infected syringe.