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Depression and anxiety symptoms are underestimated risk factors for postoperative prognosis in patients with Type 2 diabetes and peripheral artery disease undergoing partial foot amputation: Results from a prospective cohort study.
No full textOBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and impact of depression and anxiety symptoms on post-operative prognosis and 1-year all-cause mortality in a large unique cohort of patients with Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and peripheral artery disease (PAD) after partial foot amputation (PFA).
METHODS
Prospective cohort study with 1-year follow-up of 785 consecutive patients (mean age 60.9 ± 9.1 years; 64.1% males) with T2D and PAD after PFA. Depressive symptoms were assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and anxiety symptoms by Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS). We used multivariable Cox proportional hazard models to examine the association of depression and anxiety with all-cause mortality.
RESULTS
One-year all-cause mortality was 16.9% (n = 133). 331 (42.1%) patients had PHQ-9 score ≥ 10 indicating major depressive disorder. After adjusting for confounders, PHQ-9 score ≥ 10 was associated with an increased risk of 1-year all-cause mortality (HR = 1.68 (95%CI[1.16-2.44], p = 0.006). Depression dimensions of negative self-feeling and suicidal ideations were independently associated with 1-year mortality (HR = 1.26 (95%CI[1.24-1.55], p = 0.029 and HR = 2.37 (95%CI[1.89-2.96], p 30) were associated with increased 1-year mortality (HR = 2.25(95%CI [1.26-4.05], p = 0.006).
CONCLUSION
Depressive symptoms and severe anxiety have shown independently increased risk of 1-year all-cause mortality in patients with T2D and PAD requiring PFA. Our results indicate that screening for anxiety and depression should be considered under these circumstances to identify patients at increased risk to allow appropriate intervention
Role of Natural Gas Consumption in the Reduction of CO2 Emissions: Case of Azerbaijan
No full textAzerbaijan signed the Paris Agreement in 2016 and committed to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 35% in 2030. Meanwhile, natural gas has been vital component in the total energy mix of Azerbaijan economy and accounted for almost 65% of the total energy consumption. In the overall electricity mix, natural gas-fired power plants generate 93% of the country’s electricity. Since global energy consumption is responsible for 73% of human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, and CO2 makes up more than 74% of the total, this study investigates possible mitigation effects of the natural gas consumption on CO2 emissions for Azerbaijan. Author employed several cointegration methodologies, namely Bound testing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), and Structural Time Series model (STSM). Author of this paper found that when the share of natural gas increases 1 percent in the total energy mix, CO2 emission per capita decreases approximately 0.14 percent as a result of the ARDL, FMOLS, and DOLS models. All three models provide cointegration between the share of natural gas in the total energy mix and reduction in CO2 emissions
Sociological Aspects of Studying the Specific Characteristics of the Youth Social Group
No full textThis article analyses concepts of unorganized young people, passive young people and active young people and their role in society. The presented information define scientific discoveries and suitability of them. The author presented factors which can affect to increase the numbers of active young people over the numbers of unorganized young people and also negative sides of passive young people. Besides that, this article suggests measures to consolidate efforts of the state organizations and non-state organizations in activations of unorganized and inactive young people and to involve them in creative activity
Specific Characteristics of Youth Social Group and its Place in Community Life
No full textThis article analyses concepts of unorganized young people, passive young people and active young people and their role in society. The presented information defines scientific discoveries and their suitability. The author presented factors which can affect the increase of the numbers of active young people over the numbers of unorganized young people and also negative sides of passive young people. Besides that, this article suggests measures to consolidate efforts of the state organizations and non-state organizations in activations of unorganized and inactive young people and to involve them in a creative activit
The Role and Importance of the Concept of Civil Society in the System of Social Humanities
No full textThe article focuses on the concept of civil society, its modern concepts and the question of whether it is one of the basic concepts in modern social sciences and humanities. Analytical information is shown and given that openness as a form of transparency is the main criterion for democratic governance of the state and a condition for the formation and development of civil society structures. Today, in an informed society, civil society in the legal sense is considered as a set of public organizations independent of the state and whose purpose is not to make a profit. Attention is drawn to the fact that modern ideas about civil society are becoming a new concept about the functions of social institutions. According to the author, social stability and civil society are integral concepts in the conditions of modern development of society in Uzbekistan
Should we use microphones in language teaching?
No full textHistorically, teaching language has been in a small classroom with 6-12 students. The number of students in language classrooms with has been increasing. With the introduction of self-sufficiency in Universities, now there are 20-30 students in language classrooms which was unimaginable in the past. With the more commercially available technologies, most prestigious educational institutions from kindergartens, and schools, to Universities are focusing on implementing tech-focused classrooms. These tech devices range from computers and projectors to smartboards. There has been a number of research on the use of technologies in classrooms. However, there has been little research on using microphones in language classrooms. Traditionally, language teachers have been reluctant to use microphones for fear of looking weak, lack technological skills, or just because of the cost of high-priced microphones which have always been out of the average educator’s budget. The author explains the underlining reasons behind the disinclination of using microphones by language teachers. Moreover, how the introduction of microphones will be a great asset for both teachers and students. Last but not least, the implications of the research for the microphone industry
A Critique of the Critical Edition of Bahr al-Maʻāni
No full textBahr al-Maʻāni is a collection of mystical letters of the Chishti Order Sufi, Seyyed Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Din Ja’far Makki Hosseini (732-825 AH/ 1332-1422). The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (The Department of the Encyclopaedia of Persian Literature and Language in the Subcontinent) published it in 2018, edited by Dr. Mohammad Sarvar Molaei. After a lithography print in 1889 in Moradabad, this book is the first edition of Bahr al-Maʻāni, but due to the accumulation of incorrect, illegible, and ambiguous words and phrases, incoherence and disorganization can be seen throughout the book. On the one hand, this is related to the editing process, in which the editor should have revised the misreadings of the author or the scribes by comparing various copies of Bahr al-Maʻāni and the sources used by its author. On the other hand, it is related to the fact that a large part of the book is reciting previous mystical works without mentioning the references. By false omissions and additions, the author has impaired the text’s coherence, fluency, and integrity, and consequently, in many cases, he has left the reader with considerable ambiguities. In this paper, we have tried to analyze these issues in the abovementioned edition of Bahr al-Maʻāni with a critical approach
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No full textCorrection to: Nature Methodshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02660-z, published online 12 May 2025. This article was originally published under standard Springer Nature license (© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.). It is now available as an open-access paper under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, © The Author(s). The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article
A comparative study of the "Nau Tarz i Murassa" and a history of Urdu prose from the earliest times down to 1775.
No full textThe existing material bearing on the first part of the subject was meagre and in certain important respects misleading and incorrect necessitating extensive research in manuscripts. I. Concerning the author of the Nau Tarz i Murassa I have traced fresh particulars, examining 34 sources, the following being new:- (1) 'Ayarush Shu'ara. (2) Tazkira e Sarvar. (3) 'imadus Sa'adat. (4) Tazkira of Hindustani Poets. (5) Anonymous Tazkira e Shu'ara e Shu'ara e Urdu. II. Discovered:- (a) a work by Tahsin, hitherto unknown, namely, the Ruqqa'at i Nadirat i Rozmarra Navisi; (b) the original name of the Nau Tarz i Murassa'; (c) the fact that the composition of the Murassa' was begun in 1768 and not after as hitherto supposed by all authorities; (d) move manuscripts of the Nurassa', and in Germany, of one of which I secured Photostats, collating its 9 copies, tracing, out important omissions, rehandlings and interpolations and preparing its complete text for publications; (e) Poetry by Tahsin of which critical estimate is given. III. (a) Cleared the confusion about the sources of the Murassa' and the real author of the stories by comparing it with 8 manuscripts of the Persian Cahar Darvesh and by determining Anjab, the Spaniard, as the probable author of the Persian. (b) Shown that the Murassa' was probably translated into Persian. IV. Discovered one more Urdu version, the Car Gulshan, of the Cahar Darvesh and compared the Murassa' with seven Urdu renderings in all, providing much new information. The scope of the second part of the thesis is videned by manuscript-study. I. Traced out and discussed (a) Six new prose writers:- (1) shekh Mahmud; (2) Ketelaer, (a Dane); (3) Schultz, (a German); (4) 'Uzlat; (5) Sh seirou Ihrda renderings in all providing much now information. kir; (6) Asrarullah. (b) Two unkown prose works:- (1) The Dakhni incomplete translation of Abdul Fazl's abridged Tuti Nama. (2) The Bengali - Hindustani rendering of the Anvar i Suhaili. (c) Two known but hitherto untraceable pieces of prose:- (1) Sauda's Preface; (2) Fazli's Preface. II. Furnished further information regarding:- (1) Gesu Daraz; (2) Shah Miraji; (3) Miraji of Hyderabad. Many errors of catalogues and writers on the subject have been datected and rectified, and the present writer has set forth original views on numerous points at issue
The Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and Genotypes in Patients with Hemophilia and Other Blood Coagulopathies in Mashhad, Iran
No full textBackground and Aim: Patients with blood coagulopathies treated with multiple transfusions have a high risk to acquire some viral infections such as hepatitis C. This research was aimed to identify hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection prevalence, and the viral genotypes among patients with hemophilia and other inherited coagulopathies in Mashhad, Iran.
Methods: Medical records of 760 patients with inherited coagulopathies including hemophilia were reviewed in Sarvar Clinic of Mashhad. Plasma samples were subjected to detect antibodies against HCV (anti-HCV) by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. HCV RNA and genotypes were determined by a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.
Results: Totally 128 individuals (16.8%) including patients with hemophilia (n=116) and individuals with other coagulopathies (n=12) were found to be seropositive for anti-HCV. They comprised 122 men and six women with a mean age of 31.6 ± 10.5 years. The PCR results were available for 118 patients, of whom 86 individuals (72.9%) were found to have detectable HCV RNA in their serum. The most frequent genotypes were 1a and 3a (49.1% and 35.8%, respectively). HCV genotypes were not significantly correlated with the patients’ age (p=0.477) as well as with the serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (p=0.655) and aspartate aminotransferase (p=0.332).
Conclusion: The patients with blood coagulation disorders had a greater prevalence of HCV infection in comparison with the general population in our region. The most common subgenotypes of HCV were 1a, and 3a, respectively. These results could assist professionals to choose more efficient approaches for the management of their patients.
*Corresponding Author: Mohammad Reza Hedayati-Moghaddam; Email: [email protected]
Please cite this article as: Badiei Z, Ahmadi-Ghezeldasht S, Sima HR, Habibi M, Khamooshi M, Azimi A, Hedayati-Moghaddam MR. The Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and Genotypes in Patients with Hemophilia and Other Blood Coagulopathies in Mashhad, Iran. Arch Med Lab Sci. 2021;7:1-7 (e9). https://doi.org/10.22037/amls.v7.3396
