relation between ABO blood group and pre-eclampsia in primipara women

Background and Aims: Preeclampsia is one of the causes of maternal mortality whose leading cause is still unknown. This study was conducted to investigate the relation between blood group and pre-eclampsia in primipara women

Materials and Methods: This case-control study was performed on 100 pirmipara women in Gonabad city. The samples were assigned, by census, into two groups of case [with pre-eclampsia] and control [without pre-eclampsia]. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Chi-square through SPSS software Ver.16

Results and Conclusions: The incidence of preeclampsia in the blood group of A, B, AB, and O were 36%, 34%, 22%, and 8%, respectively. Also, there was a significant difference between blood group O and blood group non-O to preeclampsia [p<0.001]. The findings showed that the women with A and B blood types require special care with an emphasis on controlling and preventing the factors which cause hypertension/preeclampsia during pregnancy

Natural oils enhance IL-10 and IFN-alpha production by human PBMCs cultured with malassezia furfur

Malassezia furfur is alipophilic yeast that causes skin disease. To evaluate the level of IL-10, IFN-alpha and IL-12P70 in co-incubation of M. furfur grown on different forms of natural oils with PBMCs of healthy individuals. PBMCs were obtained from blood samples of normal volunteers. M. furfur was cultured in different culture media containing almond oil, fish oil, walnut oil, full-fat milk, and a fat-free medium; and the yeasts grown were harvested and used for co-incubation with PBMCs in vitro. The IFN-alpha, IL-10, and IL-12P70 levels were measured at different time intervals using ELISA methods. Generally, IFN-alpha and IL-10 levels in the coincubation of yeasts with walnut oil group [WOG] and fish oil group [FOG] were higher than those in the almond oil group [AOG] and full-fat milk group [FFMG]. Although the IL-12P70 was higher in groups such as AOG, FOG, and WOG; the increase was not statistically significant. The results demonstrated that the type of fat used by M. furfur in the culture media can influence the immune response and increases IFN-alpha and IL-10 levels in an early time point of the culture system

Opium can differently alter blood glucose, sodium and potassium in male and female rats

To determine the effects of opium on serum glucose, potassium and sodium in male and female Wistar rat, opium solution [60 mg/kg] injected intraperitoneally and the same volume of distilled water was used as control [7 rats in each group]. Blood samples were collected at 0, 30, 60, 120, 240 and 360 minutes after injection from orbit cavity and the values of serum glucose, sodium [Na+] and potassium [K+] were measured. The data were then analyzed by the repeated measure ANOVA based on sex and case-control group. P < 0.05 considered as significant difference. Serum glucose increased significantly at 30, 60, 120 and 240 minutes after opium solution injection, in female rats compared to a control group. However, the male rats had this rise at 30, 60 and 120 minutes after opium solution injection compared to control group. While serum glucose in male rats was significantly higher than females at 30, 60 and 120 minutes, this value was higher in the female rats at 360 minutes. Therefore, serum glucose alterations following opium injection was significantly different in groups and in the sexes at different times. Sodium [Na+] rose at 60, 240 and 360 minutes significantly in all rats compared to control group. However, sodium alteration following opium injection was significantly different only between treated and control groups but sex-independent at all times. Potassium [K+] increased significantly at 60, 120, 240 and 360 minutes in male rats, compared to a control group. In female rats K+ significantly raised at 30, 120, 240 and 360 minutes. Therefore, the alteration of K+ in male and female rats was found time dependent and sex independent. According to our results, opium increased serum glucose in male and female rats differently, and it interferes with metabolic pathways differently on a gender dependent basis. Opium raised serum Na+ and K+, thus it interfere with water regulation and blood pressure via different mechanism

Study of relationship between different kinds of finger print and blood pressure in infected and non-infected patients afflicted with blood pressure, hospitalized at Ali Ebn Abitaleb Hospital in Rafsanjan, in second half of 2002

Conceding the wide effect of high blood pressure on different organs of body and its different complications and as this disease doesn't have any signs and people don't aware about their dieses when they are affected by finger print and modifying the association between that and finger print, it is possible to diagnose the disease on them and take the right treatments. In this research which was case-control research we collected fingerprints from 100 persons that were at Ali-Ebn-Abitaleb Hospital and 100 normal persons that the same paper is used and characteristic in two group classified in 3 categories: whirl Arch loop and from the SPSS and t-test method was made for statistic analysis. Results showed from 2000 samples of finger print that were taken from 100 persons that had blood pressure and 100 persons that didn 't have blood pressure, the average loop fingerprint in blood pressure group was 3.82 +/- 2.27 and in non blood pressure group 6.5 +/- 1.81 that has the significance deterrence [P value=0.023]. The average Whirl fingerprint in blood pressure group was 4.73 +/- 2.59 and in none blood pressure group was 2.29 +/- 1.93 that has the significances difference [P value= 0.002] and the average arch finger print in blood pressure group was 1.43 +/- 1.55 and in none blood pressure group was 1.04+0.93 that has the significance difference. [P value=0.0001]. Among fingerprints and high blood pressure are relationships and on the basis of the resolutions of research possibility of taking to high blood pressure in people that have whirl fingerprint is more

Immediate intravesical instillation of mitomycin C after transurethral resection of bladder tumor in patients with low-risk superficial transitional cell carcinoma of bladder

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of immediate intravesical instillation of mitomycin C after transurethral resection of bladder tumor [TURBT] in patients with low-risk superficial transitional cell carcinoma [TCC]. A total of 43 patients with low-risk superficial bladder cancer were randomly assigned into two groups after the surgery; 22 patients in group 1 were treated by immediate instillation of mitomycin C after TURBT, and 21 patients in group 2 received placebo. The two groups were compared using urine cytology and cystoscopy during the 24 postoperative months. Recurrence within the first 3 months was reported in none of the patients in group 1 and 5 in group 2 [P = .02]. Of these, 4 had recurrence of tumor in the primary site. At 12 and 24 months, there were 1 patient [4.5%] in group 1 and 8 [38.1%] in group 2 with recurrence [P = .007]. We had no patients with multifocal recurrence in group 1, but 3 [14.2%] in group 2. Nine-month tumor-free survival rate was 95% in group 1. Three-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month tumor-free survival rates in group 2 were 76%, 71%, 66%, and 62%, respectively [P = .007]. None of the patients in group 1 and 3 in group 2 [14.3%] experienced some degrees of tumor progression [P = .06]. Immediate instillation of mitomycin C after TURBT seems to be effective in the recurrence reduction and increase of recurrence-free interval at least in short term