this research was undertaken to evaluate and determine the risk of gas fluids and leakage of persian gulf star refinery on the environment in bandar abbas. through collection and compilation of research findings, we attempted to identify and work on factors leading to environmental risks. the risk factors were identified by hazop team and the risk score was calculated by multiplying the probabi...

Case vignette: a 60-year-old man visits his physician for assessment of his 10-year cardiovascular risk. On the basis of his systolic blood pressure, lipid profile, smoking status, and the fact that he is nondiabetic, the Framingham risk score estimates his risk to be 8%. The physician wonders if he could further specify the patients risk by performing an additional test like coronary calcium s...

BACKGROUND SCORE, OST and ORAI risk assessment tools could reduce the cost burden of BMD tests by selecting the high risk patients to osteoporosis. In this study we compared the ability of these risk assessment measures to assess probability of the osteoporosis among post-menopausal women. METHODS 211 post-menopausal women aged 45-88 years enrolled into the study. All of the patients underwen...