conclusions a high prevalence of obesity was found in zahedan students. concurrent high prevalence of obesity/overweight and underweight demonstrates amplitude of weight problems in school children. there is an urgent need for special health programs to conduct proper diagnosis and management of obesity in zahedan. results in the sample, 78.9% were under 85th percentile, 11.8% were overweight (...

INTRODUCTION Smoking tobacco by hookah may seriously affect the health of smokers and those exposed to smoke. This study aimed to compare the effect of educational digital media versus pamphlets on the reduction of hookah use among male high school students in Zahedan, Iran. METHODS A semi-experimental study was conducted on 200 male high school students of Zahedan using multi-stage random sa...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have revealed significant differences between populations for genotypic frequencies of glutathione S-transferase T1 (GSTT1) and M1 (GSTM1) polymorphisms. In order to find the frequency of the null genotypes of GSTM1 and GSTT1 in Iranian populations, the present study was carried out. METHODS The total study subjects consisted of 1340 unrelated healthy Muslims/Irani...

where ∑ ~n is the sum over all lattice vectors ~n = (Lxnx, Lyny, Lznz), nx,y,z ∈ N and Lx,y,z are the dimensions of the unit MD cell and ~xij = ~xj − ~xi. The “daggered” (†) summation indicates the exclusion of all pairs i = j inside the original unit MD cell (~n = ~0). Most molecular force fields provide exclusion schemes to exclude additional pairs, e.g., the so-called 1-3 exclusion excludes ...

OBJECTIVES Thalassemia (thal) is the most single gene disorders in southeast of Iran. About one quarter of total Iranian new thal cases were born in the Sistan and Balouchistan province so the aim of this study is to assess knowledge level and attitudes towards thal in high school students in Zahedan, capital of Sistan and Balouchistan province in Iran. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptiv...

Article history: Received: 4 Aug 2013 Accepted: 1 Sep 2013 Available online: 26 Oct 2013 ZJRMS 2014 Oct; 16(10): 50-54 Background: Plants used for traditional medicine contain a wide range of substances which can be used to treat various infectious diseases. Hence, antibacterial activities of ethanol extracts of 6 plant species were studied against multi-drug resistant clinical isolates. Materi...

Background: There are a few well documented reports about epidemiologic features of brain tumors (BTs) in Iran. The present study was aimed to epidemiologically review the prevalence and trends of brain tumors, treated in a neurosurgical center in Zahedan over five years. Methods: We analyzed the data compiled from 112 patients with brain tumors operated on in Khatam-ol-Anbia Hospital (Zahedan,...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now common place in the university environment.ICT is an indispensable part of the contemporary world. The field of education has certain ly been affected by the penetrating influence of ICT worldwide and in particular developed countries; ICT has made an impact on the quality and quantity of teaching, learning, and research in the traditional a...