OBJECTIVES Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is one of the major causes of preventable mental retardation in infants. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of CH in Shadegan, Khuzestan Province, Iran from 2012 to 2014 and to identify the risk factors associated with CH. METHODS A total of 203 cases were confirmed from 2012 to 2014 in Shadegan, with 66, 86, and 51 patients reported...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Chronic nonspecific multiple ulcer of the small intestine is a recently proposed enteropathy characterized by persistent blood and protein loss from the small-bowel. We examined possible segregation of the disease in family pedigrees. METHODS All cases of the disease diagnosed at our institution were reviewed with respect to particular focuses on the presence of close cons...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to determine the relation between maternal education and various maternal risk factors, identify the impact of maternal education on the risk of childhood handicap and estimate the proportion of childhood handicap that can be prevented by maternal education. METHODS Data was collected from all married women attending the two major maternity and chil...

Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman For special issue of l’Homme 2013 Regardless of now marriage is locally defined, most people in most places marry (and/or have children with) people who are neither too close (immediate family members) nor overly distant (total strangers). As a result, many members of a given community are linked to each other by multiple direct or indirect ties of consangu...

The rarity of consanguineous marriage in much of the industrialized world, and the current restriction or outright prohibition of first-cousin unions in a majority of US states and in East Asian countries such as China, North and South Korea and the Philippines, has led many commentators to overlook the fact that the Out-of-Africa migration some 60,000–70,000 years ago had been undertaken by qu...

background: congenital hypothyroidism (ch) is one of the most important causes of mental retardation in children and only if diagnosed early, its complications can be prevented. the worldwide incidence of congenital hypothyroidism is one in 3000-4000 live births but 2.2/1000 in iran.  the aim of this study was to determine the incidence of congenital hypothyroidism in kermanshah during 2006-201...