Email: [email protected] Abstract Objective Sleep disorders are common in children; they also have a significant impact on the whole family, the parents in particular. Few studies in this field have been performed in Iran; hence the present study was carried out in order to determine sleep patterns and the prevalence of sleep disorders in school aged children in Qazvin. Material and M...

* Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Imam Khomeini International University, P.O. Box 34149-16818, Qazvin, Iran Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper, an iterative sequence for relatively nonexpansive multi-valued mappings by using the notion of generalized projection is introduced, and th...

BACKGROUND Nurses are at risk of percutaneous exposure incidents (PEIs), which may lead to serious or even fatal blood-borne infections. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of PEIs in the last year, among nurses and to assess their knowledge about and frequency of safe method of practice in exposure to blood-borne pathogens (especially, to HBV). MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional st...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MS) has been increasing worldwide. Although Uric Acid (UA) Levels are often increased in subjects with MS, it is still unclear whether uric acid plays a causal role for MS or is a marker. The purpose of this was to examine the association between UA and the MS in Qazvin, Iran. METHODS 529 men and 578 women aged 20 - 78 years attended in cross s...