Dear Editor: We refer to the interesting letter from Dr Esposito and colleagues in France, describing 2 siblings who lived in severe domestic squalor (1). One was an unmarried woman, aged 61 years; the other was her brother, aged 58 years and suffering from a physical handicap. The authors state that Diogenes syndrome is rare in a pair of siblings and that the few reported cases of a pair livin...

Depression is a common mental disorder that presents with symptoms well beyond depressed mood. Loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, poor concentration, and a multitude of physical ailments may accompany clinical depression. These problems can become chronic or recurrent and lead to substantial impairments in an individual’s ...

Type II diabetes mellitus accounts for 90% of all cases of diabetes, and its inclusion in health evaluation has shown that its complications have a considerable impact on the population's quality of life. The current article presents the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study in Brazil for the year 1998, with an emphasis on diabetes mellitus and its complications. The indicator used was ...

OBJECTIVE We estimated the disability-adjusted life-year (DALY) burden of abusive head trauma (AHT) at ages 0 to 4 years in the United States. METHODS DALYs are computed by summing years of productive life that survivors lost to disability plus life-years lost to premature death. Surveying a convenience sample of 170 caregivers and pediatricians yielded health-related disability over time acc...

BACKGROUND Lived health and biological health are two different perspectives of health introduced by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Since in the concept of lived health the impact of the environment on biological health is inherently included, it seems intuitive that when identifying the environmental determinants of health, lived health is the app...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the level of disability and pain intensity among two groups of governmental employees and sellers who suffering from chronic low back pain.  material and methods: this descriptive – analytic study was performed from dec 2015to mar 2016among employed staff members of education ministry (n=50) and 40 sellers with chronic low back pain who were sel...

The public health impact of schizophrenia can be gauged according to a number of criteria, covering: (i) frequency; (ii) severity; (iii) consequences; (iv) availability and acceptability of interventions; and (v) public concern (Thornicroft & Tansella, 1999). Concerning the first three of these criteria, one of the more powerful ways to demonstrate the broad personal and societal impacts of an ...

results the average age of patients was 34.1 ± 14.6 year. in total 86.4% of the participants were male, 78.6% lived in urban areas, 87.1% were iranian, and 58.6% were employed. a total of 62.1% of trauma patient injuries were traffic related injuries and most of them (75%) were motor cycle accidents. a total of 79.3% of patients had injuries in the extremities with other injuries as follows: he...

background: dietary risk factors constitute some of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular disease in iran. the current study reports the burden of ischemic heart disease (ihd) attributable to a low omega-3 fatty acids intake in iran using the data of the global burden of disease (gbd) study 2010. methods: we used data on iran for the years 1990, 2005, and 2010 derived from the gbd study c...