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Survival rate and prognostic factors of esophageal cancer in east Azerbaijan province, North-west of Iran.
(2012)
Esophageal cancer in Iran is the sixth most common cancer and is particularly important in east Azerbaijan. The aim of this study was to calculate survival rates and define prognostic factors in esophageal cancer patients.In ...
The health status of the elderly population of Iran in 2012
(2015)
Background: With advancing age comes dramatic increase in the incidence of chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental problems. This study was conducted to epidemiologically describe the health status of the elderly ...
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Prehypertension and Hypertension in Iranian Population: The Lifestyle Promotion Project (LPP).
(2016)
This population-based study aimed at investigating the prevalence and associated factors of prehypertension/hypertension in Iran.The data (n = 2818) for this study were collected in 2015 as a part of the major Lifestyle ...
HIGH MYOPIA AND DIABETIC RETINOPATHY: A Contralateral Eye Study in Diabetic Patients With High Myopic Anisometropia.
(2017)
To examine an association between high myopia and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in diabetic patients with high myopic anisometropia.A total of 116 white diabetic patients (232 eyes) with high myopia (spherical equivalent > ...
Prevalence of oxa-type ?-lactamases among Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from northwest of Iran
(2012)
Carbapenems have been considered as last line antibiotics for treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii but carbapenem resistant A. baumannii has been increased during the last decade in many parts of ...
Bioaerosol exposure and circulating biomarkers in a panel of elderly subjects and healthy young adults.
(2017)
Numerous studies have found that risk of cardiovascular diseases is associated with increased blood levels of circulating markers of systemic inflammation. We investigated associations of acute exposure to bioaerosols ...
Lack of association of CASC8 rs1447295 with colorectal cancer in Iranian population: A multicenter case-control study
(2017)
Several studies reported the potential role of the rs1447295 polymorphism in susceptibility to cancer. This variant located in the cancer susceptibility candidate 8 (CASC8) is a long noncoding RNA (lnRNA) gene and does not ...
Predictors of health-promoting behaviors in patients with coronary artery disease in the Iranian population.
(2016)
This study was carried out to determine the predictors of health-promoting behaviors (HPBs) in patients with coronary artery diseases (CAD) in the Iranian population. In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 250 eligible ...
Association of KALRN, ADIPOQ, and FTO gene polymorphism in type 2 diabetic patients with coronary artery disease: possible predisposing markers.
(2016)
Recently, several genes have been introduced as potential genetic markers for diabetes mellitus and coronary artery diseases (CAD).In this case-control study, the associations of rs2241766 T/G of ADIPOQ, rs9289231 T/G of ...
Coronary artery dimensions: Iranian population versus Indo-Asians and Caucasians
(2015)
Background The dimensions of the coronary arteries have been shown to vary among ethnic groups. There are no data available regarding the normal size of coronary arteries in Iranians. This study aimed to investigate normal ...