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Tehran & Beijing stress importance of implementing MoUs

siavash — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:23:10 +0000

Tehran & Beijing stress importance of implementing MoUs

TEHRAN (Iran News) Tehran – ISNA – Hemmati met and held talks with Cong Peiwu at the Ministry of Economy in Tehran on Monday.

In this meeting, Hemmati followed up on the negotiations that took place during the BRICS Economic Ministers’ Meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, stressing the importance of implementing the MoUs between the two countries.

He also considered the holding of the Joint Commission for Economic Cooperation between the two countries as a suitable platform for negotiations on economic, trade, and investment cooperation, and welcomed the holding of the 19th Joint Economic Commission in Tehran.

Cong Peiwu, for his part, stated that Beijing aims to expedite the implementation of the MoUs and enhance practical cooperation to deepen relations between the two countries.

Both sides also highlighted the commitment of their statesmen to comprehensive development, expressing hope that consultations between senior officials of Iran and China will continue to expand bilateral relations.

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Chronic stress harm hippocampus

reporter 1222 — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:59:01 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Chronic stress due to work can harm health. According to a study by the Swedish scientists, the volume of the hippocampus (memory center) is reduced in people who have been experiencing stress at work for a long time.

Russian experts found that prolonged chronic stress leads to the accumulation of stress hormones in the hippocampus, resulting in inflammation and death of neurons, threatening dementia, emotional disturbances, strokes. Moreover, a decrease in nervous tension cannot reverse this process: As experiments with rodents have shown, the stress hormones’ level remains dangerously high even a month after the end of stress tests, medicine.news.am wrote.

American cardiologists, in their turn, revealed a negative effect of nervous exhaustion on the cardiovascular system. Emotional burnout increases the risk of developing atrial fibrillation by 20 percent.

Scientists from the universities of Sao Paulo and Harvard, in turn, found that chronic stress turns hair grey, BBC reported.

Not only adults but also children may face chronic fatigue syndrome, Scientists from DePaul University and Children’s Hospital Ann & Robert Lurie found out.

Chronic fatigue syndrome affects all aspects of a child’s life, such as a physical condition or school and participation in extracurricular activities, experts warn. According to the data obtained, the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome among children was 0.75 percent, which is comparable to adult results.

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A stressful pregnancy reduces the chances of having a boy

reporter 1222 — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:17:30 +0000

Moms-to-be who undergo a stressful pregnancy are less likely to have a boy and may also have a higher risk of preterm birth, according to a study published Monday. Iran News quotes the story by CNN.

“The womb is an influential first home,” said lead author Catherine Monk, director of women’s mental health in OB/GYN at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Even though the sex of a baby is dictated at conception, pregnancies with boys are more vulnerable to mishap, she said.

“We do know that males are more vulnerable in utero, and presumably the stress in these women is of a long-standing nature,” Monk said.

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Nature typically assures there are an average of 105 boys born for every 100 female births; after all, males were more likely to die from accidents or fighting wild game.

But in this study, women who had higher blood pressure and other signs of physical stress had four boys for every nine girls (ratio 4:9); while moms who were psychologically stressed had two boys for every 3 girls (ratio 2:3). All of the women had healthy pregnancies.

“Other researchers have seen this pattern of a decrease in male births related to traumatic cataclysmic events,” Monk said. “One of them being President Kennedy’s assassination and the other being the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.”

Pregnant women who were physically pressured were also more likely to give birth prematurely than unstressed mothers. However, mentally tense moms-to-be had more birth complications, such as longer labor, than the moms with physical stress.

Role of social support

Yet when the expectant mothers received social support, such as having someone they could talk to or count on for help with their problems, the risk of premature delivery disappeared — a surprising discovery, Monk said.

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Even more surprising, the more social support a mother received, the greater the chance she had of having a male baby.

“The support could be from family and friends,” Monk said. “It could be a sense of belonging in a religious community. It’s the sense of social cohesion and social connectedness which research suggests is a buffer against the experiences of stress. It means you take a break from it.”

Social support is critical for building confidence in a new mom, said Dr. Christina Penfield, an assistant professor of maternal-fetal medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center, who was not involved in the study.

“Pregnancy is a pivotal moment in women’s lives coinciding with a redefinition of self, family, and community,” Penfield said. “It is therefore not surprising that several studies have demonstrated that when we provide social support programs to pregnant women we see improvements in their psychosocial outcomes.”

Chronic stress and pregnancy

An estimated 30% of pregnant women report psychosocial stress from job strain or depression and anxiety, according to studies.

While this study did not explore just how stress might impact the pregnancy, others have pointed to the role of the stress hormone cortisol.

Cortisol is part of the body’s “flight or flight” alarm system and is meant to dissipate once the danger is over. Chronically high levels can increase blood pressure and make an individual more prone to illness.

One study found pregnant women under pressure had higher levels of cortisol; those levels were also present in the baby’s amniotic fluid at 17 weeks gestation.

“Stress during pregnancy can be harmful for both mom and baby,” said Laura Berman, assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine.

“Being stressed while expecting can increase a woman’s chance of postpartum depression. It can also lead to preterm delivery and low birth weight,” added Berman, who was not involved in the study.

However, Penfield cautions against reading too much into an association between maternal stress and adverse outcomes.

“These studies can only suggest an association and cannot establish causation,” she said. “For example, some women who report high stress may also have decreased sleep, irregular or unhealthy diets, or increased rates of substance use. It is unclear whether it is the ‘stress’ that causes the adverse outcome.”

Stress is part of life

Stress is part of everyday life. In fact, “good” stress motivates and focuses attention. It’s when stress becomes overwhelming or constant that it is unhealthy.

“Most women report experiencing at least one stressful life event in the year before giving birth, so experiencing stress in pregnancy is often unavoidable,” Penfield said.

“When faced with stress, the best mothers-to-be can do is minimize the impact of the stress on their daily life and try to maintain good sleep, nutrition and exercise habits,” she added.

“I find meditation to be an incredibly useful tool for managing stress,” said Berman. “Unlike exercise, which can be difficult for moms who are very far along in their pregnancy, meditation works for every stage of pregnancy and every size of woman.”

Another useful tool, Berman said, are pregnancy support groups, as well as couples’ therapy for moms and dads-to-be who want to make sure their relationship is on the right track before the baby comes.

Monk suggests the best time to plan a more stress-free pregnancy is just as prenatal care begins.

“Why not check in and ask yourself, how are you managing stress? Do you have tools? Do you need some more help? Where’s the extra help going to come from? I think it’s an ideal time to do that.”

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Iran’s Rouhani, Turkey’s Top General Stress Confronting Common Threats

reporter 1222 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:10:03 +0000

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar underlined the necessity to safeguard geographical borders in region and fight terrorism, and reiterated the two neighboring countries’ willingness to boost defense cooperation.

During the meeting held in Tehran on Monday, Rouhani said confronting terrorism and safeguarding geographical borders in the region were the most important goals that Iran and Turkey tried to achieve through development of cooperation and bilateral relations.

“Any change in geographical borders will cause insecurity and instability to spread throughout the region.”

Iran and Turkey, as two important countries and the pillars of stability in the region, could play an influential role in resolving regional issues if they stood by each other, the president noted.

He said the central governments in Syria and Iraq should be strengthened in order to maintain the two countries’ territorial integrity, facilitate the war on terror and prevent alterations in geographical borders.

Rouhani then described terrorism, insecurity and instability as common threats facing Iran and Turkey in the region.

Urging closer military cooperation between the two neighboring countries, Rouhani said, “The armed forces of Iran and Turkey can establish constructive relations in order to repel regional threats through further expansion of cooperation and exchange of experience.”

Also at the meeting, Turkish chief of general staff said his country respected territorial integrity of all regional countries, including Syria and Iraq.

He also voiced Ankara’s readiness to develop cooperation with Iran in the fight against terrorism.

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Ebtekar Stresses Importance of Cooperation With Belgium

reporter 1222 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 04:33:32 +0000

TEHRAN – Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar says economic and trade cooperation between Iran and Belgium and their commonalties are of special significance.

Speaking to speaker of the Belgian House of Representatives Siegfried Bracke in Tehran on Saturday, Ebtekar said cooperation to scale down terrorism and violence in the region and certain European countries is among priorities of Iran’s cooperation.

She said Iran’s scientific and technological achievements have been very effective and these stand as an opportunity for expansion of cooperation.

Ebtekar referred to progress in the fields of women and family, and said women accounted for 35 percent of the literate population in Iran in after victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, but the figure has now reached 85 percent.

She added that furthermore, women account for half the academics and efforts are underway to offer 30 percent of managerial posts to women in Iran.

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