A recent article in the Journal by Whelton et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2013;178(7):1076-1084) prompted this commentary about the use of the word "elevated" in medical reports. We believe that the word used in that particular report should have been "higher." The exposure variable was not actually elevated according to what we understand the word to mean in epidemiologic research. Consistent with th...

introduction: caustic ingestions are among the most prevalent causes of toxic exposure. the present 10-year survey aimed to evaluate the epidemiologic features and outcomes of caustic ingestion cases presenting to emergency department. methods: this is a retrospective cross-sectional study on patients who were admitted to a referral toxicology center during 2004 to 2014, following caustic inges...

the aim of this study was to determine epidemiologic features of acute flaccid paralysis (afp) during 2004-2009 in kermanshah province. this cross-sectional descriptive study was done based on data records from kermanshah health care center. in total 89 patients, 0-14 years old were enrolled study, which 36 of them were male and 53 were female. 50.6% of subjects were diagnosed as guillain-barre...

background: it is introduced that unintentional childhood poisoning can be as result of child home environment and characteristics of parents. this study aimed at quantifying the adjusted population attributable risk percentage of risk factor of unintentional childhood poisoning.  materials and methods: the hospital based case- control included 140 consecutive poisoned children who admitted to ...

purpose: to evaluate the etiologic and epidemiologic findings in central retinal artery occlusion (crao) patients in a tertiary eye center in tehran, iran. methods: all patients with crao refered to the emergency department of farabi hospital during 2001-2002 were enrolled in the study. all patients received routine treatment and were followed for 3 months. cardiology consult was done for all p...