background and aim: more than 50% of road fatalities occur in the 15 to 44-years old which are the young and active group of the society. one of the effective ways to reduce road accidents is using safety belts. in this study the rate of seat belt use and its associated factors have been estimated in the 15 to 44-years old of kerman. materials and methods: this study was a cross-sectional descr...

background : the pathologies classified as urinary tract infections (uti) can have a deleterious effect on patients who have undergone a renal transplantation.  often recurrent utis will occur, leading to high morbidity, failure of the grafting process overall and even death.  the study presented here seeks to expand the knowledge of recurrent utis in the context of renal transplantation, what ...

BACKGROUND Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events, but its use for prediction of cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in combination with conventional risk factors has not been well defined. METHODS AND RESULTS To understand the effect of HbA1C on CVD risk in the context of other CVD risk factors, we analyzed HbA1C and other CVD risk factor measuremen...

A complex interplay among host, pathogen, and environmental factors is believed to contribute to the risk of developing pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). The lack of replication of published genome-wide association study (GWAS) findings limits the clinical utility of reported single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We conducted a GWAS using 467 PTB cases and 1,313 healthy controls obtained from two...

CONTEXT Previous studies have examined the associations of individual clinical risk factors with risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD), but the combined effects of these risk factors are largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To estimate the degree to which the 4 conventional cardiovascular risk factors of smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes are associated with the risk of ...

Although patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and without conventional risk factors for sudden death are generally considered at low risk, the magnitude of risk in such patients remains unknown, and additional markers of prognosis may permit more accurate risk stratification.1–3 We report a patient with HCM and without conventional risk factors who had a sustained life-threatening ve...

conclusions this study showed that some lifestyle factors, particularly exposure to radiation, chemicals, pesticides, and contact with pets or livestock, can play an important role in etiology of leukemia. results exposure to radiation (p = 0.0001), chemicals (p = 0.02), pesticides (p = 0.01), and contact with pets or livestock (p = 0.0001) were associated with the risk of leukemia, but a histo...

conclusions our study showed severe neonate indirect hyperbilirubinemia is still prevalence in fars province and ethnic and cultural background of the mothers was more effective than school education in preventing hyperbilirubinemia complication. patients and methods all infants less than 28 days referred due to severe indirect hyperbilirubinemia were included. complete history, physical examin...

objective: the study focuses on psychosocial variables related to suicide ideation in young soldiers. method: 1329 soldiers were randomly selected from the infantry forces in different regions. all the soldiers were requested to complete the beck scale for suicide ideation (bssi) as well as general health questionnaire (ghq-28). data were analyzed using correlation tests. results: the results r...

background: anemia in pregnancy is associated with increased rates of maternal and perinatal mortality. objective: to study the prevalence and risk factors of women with anemia during pregnancy in kerman iran. materials and methods: a retrospective cross-sectional study was performed based on 2213 pregnancies delivered during the years 2005-2007 in kerman iran. women with hemoglobinopathies suc...