Shahram Rahmati, Mohammad Basir Basiriani, Mohammad Rafienia*, Jaber Yaghini, Keyvan Raeissi, Saeid Hosseini and Sattar Kabiri Department of Biomaterials, Nanotechnology and Tissue Engineering, School of Advanced Medical Technologies, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, 81744176, Iran Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 84156-83111, Iran ...

By increasing the number of cardiovascular procedures, iodinated contrast media (ICM) is one of the most common agents used for diagnostic and prognostic and also therapeutic cardiac interventions. Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is one of the most leading causes of hospital-acquired renal insufficiency (1). Following cardiovascular invasive procedures, CIN occurs in about 3.1 to 31% of pati...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to evaluate the changes over time in the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rate of hypertension in intervention and reference areas of a comprehensive community trial with reference area. METHODS Data from independent sample surveys before and after implementation of the program (2001 vs.2007) were used to compare differences in the intervention and references ...

BACKGROUND Dietary assessment is the first step of dietary modification in community-based interventional programs. This study was performed to validate a simple food frequency questionnaire (SFFQ) for assessment of selected food items in epidemiological studies with a large sample size as well as community trails. METHODS This validation study was carried out on 264 healthy adults aged ≥ 41 ...

1 Department of Neurology, Isfahan Neurosciences Research Center, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2 Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 3 Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Isfahan, Iran 4 Medical Students’ Research Center, School o...

1 Department of Radiology, Image Processing and Signal Research Center, Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 2 Department of Radiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Department of Pathology, Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Med...

Zahra SHAKERAN, Mehrnaz KEYHANFAR*, Gholamreza ASGHARI, Mustafa GHANADIAN Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Isfahan Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical ...

1Department of Infectious Diseases, Nosocomial Infection Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 2Department of Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; 4Department of Microbiology...