conclusions in veterans' family, psychological health of the veterans and marital adjustment of the parents have a significant relationship with their children's quality of life and happiness. results global severity index (gsi) scores of veterans and veteran's age were inversely correlated with the scores of children's quality of life, while marital adjustment of parents and number of rooms in...

conclusions because the intestinal parasitic infections are a health concern in areas with poor nutritional and socioeconomic status, intervention programs, including health education and environmental sanitation, are required. background intestinal parasitic infections are one of major health problems, especially in developing countries. several factors, such as geographical location and socio...

background: prevention of  suicide is one of  the most important issues of  community medicine in the world. because of  high accessibility of  people to different drugs in our society, one of   the easiest ways of  suicide is intentional self‑poisoning. in this study, demographic factors and health status of  the patients with intentional self‑poisoning were evaluated. methods: a cross‑section...

background: the most fundamental way to decrease the burden of noncommunicable diseases (ncds) is to identify and control their related risk factors. the goal of this study is to determine socioeconomic inequalities in risk factors for ncds using concentration index based on non-communicable disease surveillance survey (ncdss) data in kurdistan province, islamic republic of iran in 2005 and 200...

background: previous studies have reported the antifertility activities of sulfonamides. this study was designed to evaluate the effects of co-trimoxazole and its co-administration with folic acid on ovarian tissue in female rats. methods: a total of 54 rats were randomly divided into 9 groups (n=6) . group i served as the control and group ii (vehicle) received saline. other groups, iii to ix,...

this study aimed to investigate the potency of silymarin (smn) and melatonin (mel) on restoring the pancreatic  cells in streptozotocin (stz)-induced diabetic rats. male wistar rats were divided into five groups, including: control (c), untreated diabetic (d), smn-treated diabetic (50 mg/kg, orally), mel-treated diabetic (10 mg/kg, i.p.), and smn plus mel-treated diabetic rats. diabetes was in...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary influence of aspirin on growth performance, antioxidant status and mortality in the broilers subjected to cold-induced ascites. a total six hundred 1-d old male broilers (ross, 308) were randomly allotted to four treatment groups, with five replicate pens per treatment and 30 birds each. the experimental groups were kept in a cold c...

height measurement is an important part of nutritional assessment especially in children. however, in such cases as hospitalized or certain kinds of malformations or disabilities, height cannot be measured accurately. we aimed to determine appropriate height predictors in iranian healthy children for further use in disabled and/or hospitalized children. a total of 730 apparently healthy childre...