background: the prevalence of obesity is increasing and many countries are struggling with its high rate and serious complications. as a result of distinct diet in obese children, they may be susceptible to nutritional deficiencies in particular, iron deficiency. this study aimed to examine the relationship between obesity and iron indices. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 206 elementary...

the hallmarks of leukocyte adhesion deficiency (lad) are defects in the leukocyte adhesion process, marked leukocytosis and recurrent infections. these molecular and clinical manifestations result from an impaired step in the inflammatory process, namely, the emigration of leukocytes from the blood vessels to sites of infection, which requires adhesion of leukocytes to the endothelium. over las...

introduction: online medicare is a method in which parts of a medical process, whether its diagnostics, monitoring or the treatment itself will be completed by using online services. at the first step the students were registered for using the system. they participated in estimating depression scale; anxiety scale and clinical interview by online medical care system.  subsequently, the lab exam...

background: iran has a large group of patients with severe congenital factor xiii deficiency (fxiiid) and trp187arg mutation that is most disease causing mutation of fxiii in the world is only observed in southeast of iran with 352 patients with fxiiid. 743 patients with fxiiid was observed in 17 provinces of iran but tehran city with more than 12 million population has no any registered patien...

multiple risk factors are introduced for multiple sclerosis (ms). recent studies have suggested a possible correlation between vitamin d deficiency and an increase risk of ms. this study was therefore undertaken to compare vitamin d levels in new cases of ms and their relatives as healthy controls. seventy five new diagnosed ms patients and 100 matched healthy controls among their relatives wer...

background : there is no data available regarding vitamin d status among patients with hip fractures in iran. this study aimed to determine whether postmenopausal women with low trauma hip fractures have lower vitamin d levels comparing to the control group.   materials and methods: vitamin d (25-ohd) level and the prevalence of hypovitaminosis d among 73 postmenopausal women with fracture of t...

absence of nutritional knowledge is one of the most important reasons of nutritional deficiencies. the aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practices of women about iron deficiency anemia in yazd and orumiyeh. this cross-sectional study was performed on 298 and 242, 15-49 year- old women in yazd and orumiyeh, respectively. questionnaires were prepared to collect the partici...

background: given the relationship of vitamin d deficiency with insulin resistance syndrome as the component of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), the main aim of this study was to compare serum level of 25- hydroxyvitamin d [25(oh)d] between pcos patients and normal individuals. materials and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted to compare 25(oh)d level between117 normal and 125 untre...

iodine deficiency has been considered in iran since 20 years ago and has been acknowledged recently. we studied iodine deficiency disorders in 1618 neishabourian students. 60% of children had palpable and 2.5% had visible goiters. height and weight of these children were lower than international and tehranian children but higher than isfahanian children. hormone studies showed increased t4, dec...

Background: Vitamin D (Vit D) deficiency is one of the major nutritional deficiencies in children. Obesity has inverse association with vitamin D levels. The aim of this study was to determine the differences in response to conventional treatment for Vit D deficiency and insufficiency in obese and normal weight children and adolescents.Methods: This nested case control study was conducted in 69...