Afamin, which is a human plasma glycoprotein, a putative multifunctional transporter of hydrophobic molecules and a marker for metabolic syndrome. Afamin concentration have been proposed to have a significant role as a predictor of metabolic disorders. Since NAFLD is associated with metabolic risk factors, e.g., dyslipidemia, insulin resistance and visceral obesity, it is considered as the hepatic manifestation of the metabolic syndrome. The objective of this study is to determine Afamin levels in hypothyroid patients with and without fatty liver disease and compare the results with controls. Also to study the relationship of Afamin level with the Anthropometric and Clinical Features (Age, Gender, BMI and Duration of Hypothyroidism) , Serum Thyroid Hormones (T3, T4 and TSH ), Lipid profile(Serum Cholesterol, TG and HDL), Liver Enzymes (GOT , GPT and ALP ) Levels , Renal Function Tests (blood Urea and serum Creatinine), Glycemic Parameters (F.B.S and HbA1c levels), Serum Hematological Parameters (PCV, MCV and WBC) and Serum Protein Parameters (Total Protein, serum albumin and serum Ferritin). Ninety individuals participated in this study and classified into three groups: G1: Hypothyroidism with fatty liver disease patients, G2: Hypothyroidism without fatty liver disease patients and G3: control subjects. All study cases were chosen from the Specialized Center in Endocrinology and Diabetes in alrisafa side / Baghdad. The age ranges of G1, G2 and G3 were (32-64), (23-67) and (24-40) years, respectively. Gender distribution shows increase in female to male ratio in all the studied groups. Results demonstrated the mean values of serum Afamin in G1 (277.688±157.725 ng/ml) and G2 (337.020±231.095 ng/ml) were very significantly higher (P=0.0001) than the mean serum Afamin in G3 (4.030±2.796 ng/ml), While the mean value of serum Afamin in G1 (277.688±157.725 ng/ml) was slightly lower than in G2 (337.020±231.095 ng/ml). The Receiving Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves analysis for serum Afamin used as a test to diagnose subjects into cases and control groups was done, and a determination of the “cut-off value” which have optimum sensitivity and specificity to diagnose disease was performed.
The electrical activity of the heart and the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal are fundamentally related. In the study that has been published, the ECG signal has been examined and used for a number of applications. The monitoring of heart rate and the analysis of heart rhythm patterns, the detection and diagnosis of cardiac diseases, the identification of emotional states, and the use of biometric identification methods are a few examples of applications in the field. Several various phases may be involved in the analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) data, depending on the type of study being done. Preprocessing, feature extraction, feature selection, feature modification, and classification are frequently included in these stages. Ever
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In this study, two types of local plants were chosen, the first is the plant golden pothos Epipremnum aureum and the second is the Iraqi Sheikh's chin plant Tribulus terrestris L, for the purpose of making a comparison between them in terms of their possession of chemical groups with antioxidant activity in order to use them as a natural alternative to using antioxidants Industrial that cause negative effects on human health, the samples were prepared using the method of water and alcohol extraction (ethanol 70%) for both plants. It revealed the presence of a number of chemical groups (tannins, carbohydrates, phenols, flavonoids, alkaloids) for both plants, the aqueous and alcoholic extracts. Coumarins are only found in the sheikh's chin pl
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We studied, in this paper, the semiotics of the visual image of women in the discourse of empowerment, through three models of advertising images expressing the particularities of the Saudi Arabian environment.
We aim to know how the mark operates and how it is interpreted, as a semantic process in which the meaning ranges from description to interpretation, and we studied two hypotheses:
-The advertising image is a structure in which the mark corresponds to the reality and the discourse to the context.
-The significance is not found in the visual sign or in the textual sign of the advertising image, but in the creative event that opens up to the social, cultural, and psychological context, and creates a field of dia
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Background: Obesity is considered an important risk factor for periodontal disease. It has been reported that reactive oxygen species linking both diseases, systemic melatonin supplementation as antioxidant therapy, was addressed as an adjuvant to scaling and root surface debridement (SRP) to enhance the treatment of periodontitis. Objective: To investigate the efficacy of systemic melatonin administration in periodontitis-obese patients as an adjuvant to scaling and root surface debridement (SRP). Methods: A randomized clinical trial was conducted at a dental-specialized center. Eighty subjects were included and allocated into group-I: twenty periodontium-healthy, normal-weight people; group-II: 30 obese patients with stage-III tre
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Maintenance of hospital buildings and its management are regarded as an important subject which needs attention because hospital buildings are service institutions which are very important to a society, requiring the search for the best procedure to develop maintenance in hospitals. The research is aimed to determine an equation to estimate the annual maintenance cost for public hospital. To achieve this aim, Al-Sader City Hospital maintenance system in Al-Najaf province has been studied with its main elements through survey of data, records and reports relating to maintenance during the years of the study 2008-2014 and to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat points in the current system through Swat analysi
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