OBJECTIVE To examine the association between wheezing in children and adolescents and living downwind of the dispersion plume of atmospheric pollutants emitted by the Guamaré Petrochemical Complex, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. METHODS Cross-sectional study of wheezing in children and adolescents (aged 0 to 14 years) living in the vicinity of the Guamaré petrochemical complex i...

* Corresponding author: Mahin Seyedhejazi, Department of Anesthesiology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Tel: +989141150981; Fax: +98-4115262280; E-mail: [email protected] © 2014 mums.ac.ir All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permi...

background & aims of the study: petrochemical industry is an important industry in the economic development of the country that causes employees have exposure with several kinds of contamination. the aim of this study was semi-quantitative assessment of the health risk of occupational exposure to chemical materials and investigation of spirometry indices between employees of petrochemical indus...

Address: 1Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation, University of Bradford, Richmond Rd., Bradford, BD7 1DP, U.K., 2Department of Pharmaceutics, Pharmacy Faculty, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt, 3Biotechnology Research Center and Pharmacy, Faculty and Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz 51664, Iran, 4Department of Chemistry, University of North Texa...

PARISA LOTFOLLAHI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD, MOHAMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMAD MOGHADAM & ENRICO DE LILLO Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bu-Ali Sina, Hamadan, Iran Department of Crop Production and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Univ...

Marzieh Abdolalipur, Raheleh Janani, Majid Mahalleii, Mohammad Bagher Hoseini, Masoumeh Mohammadzadeh. Neonatal MD, nursing head nurses of NICU, head of research committee of Alzahra hospital, Tabriz University of medical sciences, Iran; Neonatal MD nursing head nurses of NICU, head of research committee of Alzahra hospital, member of educational board of nursing and midwifery, Tabriz Universit...