Meysam Olfatifar

Student Research Committee, Epidemiology Dept., Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, I.R. Iran

[ 1 ] - Pattern mining analysis of pulmonary TB cases in Hamadan province: Using space-time cube

Background and aims: One of the most common approach to understanding spatial and temporal trends of event data is to break it up into a series of time snapshots. Therefore space-time cube method applied in order to portray the likely trend in occurrence of the pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases. Methods: In this study, information of all patients with pul...

[ 2 ] - شیوع عوارض مزمن بیماری دیابت و عوامل خطر مرتبط با آن در بیماران مراجعه کننده به مرکز دیابت شهر همدان

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is the fifth leading cause of death in most countries of the world. Diabetes causes disability, high cost of treatment, and increased mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of chronic complications of diabetes and its related risk factors in patients referred to a diabetic's Center in Hamadan. Methods: The study population of this cro...

[ 3 ] - Analyzing the Survival of Patients with Breast Cancer with a Multistate Model

Introduction: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer and one of the most common causes of death in women. Metastasis is also a challenge for breast cancer patients, affecting their survival. This study aimed to determine the survival rate and measure the factors affecting the progression of the disease from the time of diagnosis by considering metastasis as an intermediate condition usi...

[ 4 ] - What We Know of the Prognostic Value of Lymphopenia in SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Background: Although by comparing the number of deaths to the total number of cases one may conclude that most of the infected cases are recovering, taking a look at the increasing statistics of deaths shows that SARS-CoV-2 continues to take its toll. Since lymphocytes are the main immune cells battling with rapidly evolving viruses, it comes as no surprise to assume that a decreased number of ...