Background:To assess the quality of life in Iraqi breast cancer women with regard to different Sociodemographic and medical variables. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on 150 women diagnosed with breast cancer and being treated in Iraq. The evaluation was done by using European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core-30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) and QOL_BR23 Questionnaire. All data were conducted directly via hand writing by the patients at the Oncology Teaching Hospital/Medical City complex in Baghdad. When the questionnaire questions were completed by each participant, they were checked up to ensure their suitability for data insertion and then followed by the scoring manual of the EORTC questionnaire. All the data were analyzed by using SPSS. Results: Most of the patients undergoing this study were at the age of ≤ 50 (52.66%), and when they were diagnosed with breast cancer, they were younger than 50 (58.66%). The global health status was high in the case of working participants compared with those who are unemployed, i.e., (p=0.035). However, the emotional status appeared to be significant in the case with the working participants (P= 0.027). Also, the global status appeared to be high in the participants receiving radiation, while it showed insignificant values with the other data. The physical functioning, on the other hand, showed significant results in many places, as in the case with the patients present with no health problems, and high results in radiation, herceptin and hormonal therapy. As for the role functioning, it showed significant results in patients without health problems, patients who underwent radiation, and patients who were free of disease for less than five yeas. Conclusions: The results of this study will help identify gaps in all areas in which patients need additional support. Since the negative effects of the disease and related treatments influenced the patient's quality of life, it has become necessary for health care providers to focus on designing social and psychological interventions to support cancer patients throughout their illness and treatment in a way that it leads to a better adaptation to their disease and improve their emotional status.
Background: COVID-19 pneumonia is an illness that was spreading rapidly around the world and causes many deaths. Diabetes, is considered as a risk factor which adds severity and mortality to COVID-19 infected persons. There are many studies aiming to explain the exact association between diabetes and COVID-19. This review aims to link between diabetes and COVID-19 risk factors, discuss the management of patients with diabetes and COVID-19 and provide perception into the COVID-19 disease complications relevant to diabetes .In this review, many scientific articles and reports about COVID- 19 and Type 2 DM were collected from different databases (e.g., PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science) using keywords such as SARS-CoV2, COVID-19, TYPE 2 DM, Mortality, and CO-morbidities .The result from this study found that diabetic patients has poor prognosis, severe symptoms, worsen outcomes, and the mortality rate is higher among COVID-19 patients who have diabetes mellitus. Many complications associated with diabetes like peripheral neuropathy and vascular insufficiency can make patients more susceptible to infections. One of the sever complication of Covid-19 infection is, the cytokine storm, that result in excessive release of inflammatory cytokines (TNF-a, IL-6, IL-10), and this may be aggravated by the inflammatory process together with the hyper-coagulable condition in diabetic patients. In conclusion: Hyperglycemia is established as risk factor for increased morbidity and mortality in covid 19 infection.
Crown and collar rot of apple trees is a destructive and widespread disease in most areas of the world. Surveys have been done to describe disease symptoms, estimate the disease incidence, and identify the pathogens associated with this disease in southern Syria. Disease incidence was 0.08 -10 % in most studied sites, only in Alroom location it was up to 14.7 % in 2014 and 17.8 % in 2015, with average of 11.8 %. Symptoms included small pale green leaves, sparse foliage, and a reddish-brown discoloration of inner bark of the infected area at the base of infected tree. The isolated fungi belonged to genera and form genera Phytophthora, Rosellinia, Rhizoctonia, Phialophora, Acremonium, Pestalotiopsis, Cylindrocarpon and Verticillium. Phytophthora was isolated from all infected trees, and was the most frequent pathogen (53.7 % of total isolates). Phytophthora isolates recovered from crown cankers of apple were identified as P. cactorum (91.5 %) and P. cambivora (8.5 %). The results of this study are the first report of crown and collar root rot of apple in Syria.Key words: crown and collar rot; apple tree; associated fungi;, Phytophthora; Syria IZVLEČEK GLIVNI PATOGENI, POVEZANI Z ODMIRANJEM KROŠNJE IN GNILOBO KORENINSKEGA VRATU JABLANE V JUŽNI SIRIJIOdmiranje krošnje in gniloba koreninskega vratu jablane je uničujoča in široko razširjena bolezen na večini njenih pridelovalnih območij. Na območju južne Sirije so bile opravljene raziskave za opis bolezenskih znakov, pogostosti pojavljanja bolezni in prepoznavanja njenih povzročiteljev. Na večini raziskanih mest se je bolezen pojavljala z 0,08 do 10 %, samo na lokaciji Alroom pa do 14,7 % v letu 2014 in do 17,8 % v letu 2015, povprečno 11,8 %. Bolezenski znaki so bili majhni bledo zeleni listi, redka olistanost in rdeče-rjavo obarvano ličje okuženih delov na bazi debel dreves. Izolati gliv so pripadali naslednjim rodovom gliv: Phytophthora, Rosellinia, Rhizoctonia, Phialophora, Acremonium, Pestalotiopsis, Cylindrocarpon in Verticillium. Glive iz rodu Phytophthora so bile najpogostejši pathogen in izolirane iz vseh okuženih dreves, 53,7 % vseh izolatov. Izolati vrst iz rodu Phytophthora, ki so se razvili iz rakov v krošnji jablan, so bili določeni kot vrsti P. cactorum (91,5 %) in P. cambivora (8,5 %). Izsledki te raziskave so prvi o pojavljanju bolezni odmiranja krošenj in gnilobe koreninskega vratu jablane v Siriji.
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