7 results match your criteria: "Yazd Azad University[Affiliation]"

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading reason for cancer-related death among women. Neoadjuvant treatment with dual-HER2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2) blockade has shown promising effects in this regard. The present study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of a proposed pertuzumab biosimilar with the reference pertuzumab.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Pediatric hypertension is a critical health issue for children, leading to significant morbidity and mortality among this population.* -
  • The study analyzed 1,035 children and adolescents from Yazd, Iran, to assess blood pressure percentiles, linking data to a larger national survey involving 31,000 participants.* -
  • Findings provided age- and height-specific blood pressure percentiles, helping to define hypertension in children as measurements above the 95th percentile.*
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • - This study examined the prevalence of abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents (ages 6-18) in the Yazd Greater Area of Iran during 2016-2017, highlighting a gap in research on these topics in developing countries
  • - Researchers included 1,035 participants from both rural and urban districts, measuring various components of metabolic syndrome and using standard anthropometry methods in a cross-sectional design
  • - Results showed that 13.2% of boys and 24.7% of girls aged 6-10 had abdominal obesity, while 7.6% of adolescents (9.4% in boys) had metabolic syndrome, with low HDL-cholesterol and abdominal obesity being the most common issues*.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Incidental findings are presented in radiology reports. Many of these findings do not require further investigation; however, some require further investigation and repeated imaging. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of incidental findings on CT scans of patients with head trauma from 2005 to 2015.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Depressive disorders are a major public health problem in developed and developing countries. Recently, several risk factors have been described for depressive disorders in children and adolescents. The aim of the present study was to identify the main risk factors that can affect the incidence of depression in Iranian children and adolescents.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is defined as two or more consecutive pregnancy losses before twenty weeks of gestation. It is caused by a variety of genetics and non-genetics factors. Thyroid autoimmunity could associate with pregnancy loss.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF