[ effect of health education on elderly women life quality]

Elderly is a physiological phenomenon with many inevitable complications, which their effects significantly can be reduced by individual's life style. Therefore in this study we have evaluated the impact of subjects' knowledge on their lifestyle. This study was a semi experimental and interventional one that has been conducted in Urmia University of Medical Science. Thus 200 women between 54 to 80 years old were enrolled in this study and their knowledge, attitude and behavior toward a healthy lifestyle was surveyed before and 6 months after giving them a proper education. Subsequently the required information gathered from questionnaires and the data analyzed by mcmanaman paired and t paired tests. In this study all data analyzed by SPSS software and the P value less than 0.05 recognized to be statistically significant. The scores of before 5.86 vs. +/- and 6 months after subjects get the required education were 29.16 6.32 respectively [P +/- 34.26<0.001]. This significant difference demonstrates the positive impact of life style education on attitude, behavior and knowledge of individuals in respect to their lifestyle. These results were even more magnificent comparing the literate and illiterate subjects. Based on our study we conclude that education has an important positive role in all elder groups improving their lifestyle

Evaluation o androgen and progesterone levels in women with preeclampsia

Preeclampsia along with its complications seems to be one of the major causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Despite numerous studies, the pathology of preeclampsia has not yet been fully elucidated. This study, therefore, determines whether maternal serum levels of androgen and progesterone are higher in patients with preeclampsia than in matched control subjects. Serum progesterone, free and total testosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone levels were measured in 19 women in their third trimester of pregnancy having preeclampsia, as patient group, and in 17 healthy normotensive pregnant women, as control group, with similar maternal and gestational ages. All women were primigravida with singleton pregnancy. There were no significant differences between the two groups in body mass index, maternal and gestational ages. Progesterone and free testosterone levels were significantly lower [P<0.01] in patients [75.1 +/- 8.6 ng/dl and 2.27 +/- 1.74 pg/dl] than of control group [111.6 +/- 9.71 ng/dl and 3.73 +/- 1.31 pg/dl]. Whereas, the levels of total testosterone [1.02 +/- 0.10 ng/dl vs. 1.37 +/- .019ng/dl] and dehydroepiandrosterone [0.99 +/- 0.13 micro g/dl vs. 0.98 +/- 5.15 micro g/dl] of patients and control groups were not significantly different. Levels of progesterone were pathologically and statistically lower in preeclampsia than of control women with similar age, gestational age and body mass index. It seems that accentuate increase sex hormone binding globulin is the cause of deceased free testosterone in preeclampsia