Hemophilia is the most common congenital coagulative disorder which exposes the patients to many problems because of lack of coagulative factors, higher risk of viral infections and other complications. This study was designed to detect the prevalence of hepatitis B and C infection in hemophiliac patients referring to Kerman Samenalhojaj Center. For this purpose, 97 hemophiliac patients were st...

Background: Diet is considered as an important contributor to the development of the cancers. In the present study, the association of dietary patterns with gastric cancer risk was studied. Methods: In the present case-control study, 192 newly diagnosed gastric cancer patients and 365 subjects as control group were included. The participants in each group underwent face-to-face interview. For ...

Background: This study was to estimate the frequency of prehypertension and to characterize patient awareness and associated cardiovascular risk factors in an urban population in Iran. Methods: During a hypertensive awareness program, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 2036 people. All participants completed a questionnaire about their demographic and anthropometric indices and were as...

conclusions cervical cancer screening, comprising of both pap test and hpv testing, is an essential part of the routine health care for women as it can facilitate the detection of abnormal cervical cells. hpv infection can produce abnormal pap test results; also, certain types of hpv are associated with cancer. therefore, it is important to diagnose abnormal cervical tissues before the developm...

background: high fasting plasma glucose (fpg) is one of the main leading risk factors of ischemic heart disease (ihd), stroke, and chronic kidney diseases (ckds). we estimated population attributable fraction (paf) and attributed death of these fatal outcomes of high fpg at national and subnational levels in 25–64 years old iranian adult. methods: we used national and subnational data of the no...

aim : the aim of this study was to review our experience with gestations in autoimmune hepatitis patients. background : there are only limited data describing pregnancy in patients with autoimmune hepatitis. patients and methods : retrospective analysis of pregnancies with autoimmune hepatitis followed in centro hospitalar do porto, portugal in the last ten years. results : we reported nine pre...

Recent research has incorporated situational factors into assessment of risk. Working from a rational appraisal framework, however, these studies have not emphasized contextual features that might introduce motivated risk assessment. In the current study, participants (N = 40 male undergraduates) lowered their risk perceptions for STDs following the induction of a sexual motivation. In an initi...