OBJECTIVE The Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS) is a new self-report screening measure designed for older adults. Due to the burgeoning Iranian population of older adults and the need for validated, culturally-appropriate screening measures for anxiety in Iran, the purposes of the present study were to translate the GAS into Persian and to explore its preliminary psychometric properties. METHOD I...

UNLABELLED We provide the first reference values for bone mineral content and bone mineral density according to age and sex in Iranian children and adolescents. The prevalence of hypovitaminosis D was high, and levels of physical activity were low in our sample. Multiple regression analyses showed age, BMI, and Tanner stage to be the main indicators of bone mineral apparent density. PURPOSE N...

BACKGROUND Inequality in households' and individuals' consumption expenditures is one of the most important aspects of health status difference among households and individuals. OBJECTIVES We investigated the impact of some macro-economic factors specially inequality factors on the Iranian rural health status since 1986 through 2012. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a longitudinal ecologic...

Two new species records of Oplitidae, Oplitis exopodi Hunter & Farrier, 1975 and Oplitis sarcinulus Hunter & Farrier, 1976 are redescribed based on Iranian specimens from leaf-litter forest in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. A key to the Iranian species of Oplitis is presented.

Sara Forootan, Mohammad Reza Forootan, Yalda Mousazadeh. Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Medical Student in Bushehr University of Medical Science, Bushehr, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of...

Padideh Nasseri, Michael A. Nitsche and Hamed Ekhtiari* 1 Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Translational Neuroscience Program, Iranian Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, ...

318 Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases | Volume 6 | Number 4 | July 2012 kidney calculi, the clinical features and risk factors of urolithiasis were evaluated.1 They concluded that urolithiasis remains a serious problem in Iranian children. In addition, family history of urolithiasis, urologic abnormalities, metabolic disorders, and urinary tract infections were associated risk factors for pedi...