Background and Aim: Recently some evidence has been presented that periodontal disease is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The hypothesis of this study is that periodontitis may be associated with elevated blood lipid levels, a known risk factor for atherosclerotic disease. Methods & Materials: The levels of plasma lipids was measured in 40 subjects with chronic periodontitis (CP) and compared with those obtained in 40 controls. Periodontal variables included: Plaque Index (PU), Probing Pocket Depth (PPD), Clinical Attachment Level (CAL) and Bleeding On Probing (BOP). Laboratory tests included: total cholestrol, triglyceride, LDL and HDL. Statistical tests used were Kolmogorov-Smimov, Kruskal Wallis, Spearman's rank correlation, Exact fisher and Independent Samples Student t-test. The level of statistical significance was established at P£0.05.Results: There were no statistically significant differences between blood lipid levels in the two groups but in the control group, there were positive correlations between BOP and cholestrol (P=0.01). In the CP group there were positive correlations between PPD and cholestrol (P=0.037), PPD and LDL (P=0.034) and PPD and the number of missing teeth (P=0.019).There were also positive correlations between BOP and cholestrol (P=0.005) and BOP and LDL (P=0.006) in the CP group.Conclusion: The results of the present study suggest that in patients with periodontitis, as the periodontal parameters (BOP and PPD) increase, the blood levels of cholestrol and LDL increase too, but it is not clear yet whether the observed changes in lipid metabolism are the cause or the consequence of periodontitis.

Introduction. To find that is there any correlation between serum cholesterol, triglyceride, calcium, phosphorus and gallstone composition, this study was conducted.Methods. One hundred patients with gallstone admitted for elective cholecystectomy were studied. Serum lipid profile and calcium-phosphorous concentration were measured before operation and were correlated to their gallstone composition.Findings. Cholesterol and pigmented gallstones frequencies were 54 and 46 percent in our patients, respectively. There was not observed any significant correlation between serum triglyceride, cholesterol, calcium and phosphorous concentration and gallstones' composition.Conclusion. It seems that serum lipid profile & serum calcium phosphorous concentration are not a promoting factor to produce specific gallstone composition.

Drug addiction is one of the most important problems of the present age and one of the four major crises destroying millions of lives and devastating huge national wealth. It is commonly believed, among those suffering from CVD and diabetes, that opium affects blood sugar and fat and reduces the risk of CVD and diabetes. We carried out this study to test this commonly-believed assumption. 100 drug - dependent and 100 drug-independent subjects were studied for their fasting blood sugar and triglyceride. Both groups were homogeneous as for age, height and weight; those with history of CVD, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and other chronic diseases were excluded from the study. Drug-dependence was determined through morphine quick test. Findings revealed a significant difference in the rate of blood sugar in cases (94.76) and controls (106.31).Also, the difference of cholesterol level in case and control groups (162.4VS.   185.1)was found to be significant. However, no significant relationship was found between the two groups as for their triglyceride level. Therefore, we recommend further extensive studies as there are no generalizable findings proving the effect of morphine on the reduction of blood sugar and triglyceride.

In Iran, the hydrogenated vegetable oil have a high content of trans fatty acids and high per capita consumption. This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of substitution of hydrogenated oil by sunflower liquid oil on plasma levels of LDL, HDL, total cholesterol and triglycerides in normal subjects. Thirty six healthy inmates participated in this research. They were consuming hydrogenated oil before the study, and were maintained on sunflower diet for one month. Then they were switched to hydrogenated oil regimen for the next two months. Blood samples were collected for measuring the levels of HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, total cholesterol and triglycerids at the beginning and 15 days intervals during the study. The results showed that omission of hydrogenated oil from the diet significantly increases the serum HDL-cholesterol (P<0.001) level and reswitching from sunflower oil to shortening regimen reverts such beneficial effects. No significant difference was observed for the other measured parameters between the two lipid regimens.

Introduction: Inadequate weight gaining is common cause of prolong hospitalization, increased costs and complications in preterm and low birth weight infants. For these reasons, the present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of oil massage on weight gaining in hospitalized preterm infants in NICU of Ghaem hospital.Materials and Methods: This clinical trial was performed in neonatal intensive care unit of Ghaem hospital between April 2007 and April 2008. Sampling was nonrandom and samples were divided randomly to three groups: 1) massage with oil 2) massage without oil and 3) control group. Finally, daily weight gaining was compared between three groups. In this study, 121 preterm neonates (age<28 days) were selected and randomly divided to three groups: 1) oil massage group 2) massage without oil group 3) control group. In three groups, weight gaining was recorded daily and compared together. Results: There was no significant differences in mean gestational age, height and head circumference (p>0.05) between three groups. The Mean of weight gaining on day seven was respectively 105±1.3g, 52±0.1g and 54±1.3g in the MCT oil massage group, the group with massage without oil and the control group. These differences were statistically significant only between the MCT oil massage group and massage group (P=0.002) and also between the MCT oil massage group and the control group (p=0.000).Conclusion: In preterm neonates, MCT oil massage can promote weight gaining, probably by transcutaneous absorption.

Introduction: Metabolic Triad is one of the risk factors of cardiovascular disease s (CVDs) which has an effective, determinant effect on these diseases. Hypertriglyceridemia and abdominal obesity (waist circumference) are among CVDs risk factors and the increase of these factors can predict the occurrence of TM. This project was aimed to investigate the relation of high phenotype triglycerid and waist circumference with CVD risk factors.Material and Methods: In a descriptive cross-sectional study, carried out in the year 2005, in Isfahan, 6123 men were selected based on the results of IHHP's phase I by random-cluster sampling method. Their blood sugar and blood lipids measured by blood sampling. Also, their blood pressure, waist circumference, height and weight measured. They were divided into 4 groups based on their tryglycerid and waist circumference: TgHWH group (TG2³165mg/dl, waist circumference ³102cm), TgHWL group (TG2³165mg/dl, waist circumference <102cm), TgLWL group (TG<165mg/dl, waist circumference<102cm) and TgLWH group (TG<165mg/dl, waist circumference £102cm). Data was analyzed by SPSS software. The variables of these four groups studied by variance test. Regression logestic test, used to determine the prevalence of risk factors. Results: The prevalence of risk factors in TgHWH group was higher than other groups and in TgLWL group lower than others. Also, it differed significantly these groups. The prevalence of TgHWH in the studied population recorded as 20.8%. Cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL cholesterol, Body mass index, and Blood Pressure in this group were higher and the mean HDL, was lower than others.Conclusion: In large population, it is impossible or non-economiccal and time consuming to evaluate all risk factors, in order to predict other CVD risk factors and to determine high risk people. However, according to the high prevalence of risk factors in people with TghWh, this phenotype can be used as a simple tool for evaluation in larger population.