BACKGROUND Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic destructive and inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton manifested by back pain and progressive stiffness of the spine. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to evaluate and identify factors leading to delayed diagnosis of AS in Iranian patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty patients, (53 males, 7 females) with a dia...

Forensic geoscience (geoforensics) is the application of earth sciences to receive reality. There is not enough knowledge about geoforensics in Iran, and so, in this paper the best applications are reviewed. Forensic geoscience can be divided to four major groups: pedology, mineralogy and petrology; geophysics; natural geography and geoscience; remote sensing, location data and Geographic infor...

INTRODUCTION Life expectancy at birth (LEB) is closely associated with the degree of economic and social development in developed and developing countries. This study aimed to examine the socioeconomic factors affecting LEB in Iran from 1985 to 2013. METHODS Time series analysis was used to examine the effects of key explanatory factors (GDP per capita, number of doctors per 10,000 population...

Population of Iran as a Middle Eastern country with its population growth rate of about 1.3% has passed 80 million in 2016. Iran has a young population and it was reported that in 2013 sixty percent of its population was under the age of 30. However, due to a substantial decrease in population growth rate and increase in life expectancy, Iran will face an aging population in coming decades. Wit...

Department of Mycology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 13164 Tehran, Iran Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran Department of Mycology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-331 Tehran, Iran Department of Medicinal Plants and By-Products, Research Institute of Forest and Rangelands, 13185 Tehran, Iran Medicinal Chemistry L...

1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 2Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran; 4Department...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Pooneh Rahimi, RouhAllah Vahabpour, Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi, Syed Mehdi Sadat, Nader Howaizi, Ehsan Mostafavi, Ali Eslamifar, Vida Fallahian 1 Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, 2WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Pasteur Institute of I...

1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran. 2. Neuroscience Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. 4. School of Computer Engineering, Iran Un...

1. Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Dept. of Community Health, Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Medical-Surgical Nursing Abhar School of Nursing, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Abhar, Iran 4. Dept. of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Abhar School of Nursing, Zanjan University of Medical Scie...