background the pre-marital sex and live-in relationship among young people are increasing at an alarming rate. remote consequences of such high risk behaviors are increase in the incidence of stds (including hiv), unsafe and illegal abortion, adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, single mother child/abandoned child, juvenile delinquency and many more. objectives the aim of this study was to inve...

background: to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on controlled treatment trials of meta-cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders. materials and methods: studies were included if they employed controlled methodology and treated people above 18 years with anxiety disorders. case studies (with less than 4 cases) and single case designed studies were excluded. a comprehensive literature ...

abstract background and aims: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are common among housewives. therefore, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of msds and its predictors among a group of iranian housewives. methods: this cross-sectional study carried out on 600 iranian housewives in 2014 that were selected using multistage random sampling from three cities including karaj, kashan and yazd. ...

patients and methods manganese superoxide dismutase polymorphism was genotyped using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) in 103 patients with mlds and 103 healthy control subjects. conclusions according to the fact that mn-sod gene polymorphisms have been considered as a major risk factor in some malignancies, this single center study did not find any a...

over the past three decades physicians have used light level laser therapy (lllt) for the management and the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and have obtained results that calls for further investigations. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of lllt in treatment of pain symptoms in patients with diabetic polyneuropathy. in this study 60 patients with diabetic periphera...

charcot-marie-tooth (cmt) diseases represent a heterogeneous genetic disorder with more than 80 genes implicated, however sharing a similar phenotype. in recent years, advances in molecular genetics and molecular biology, and also the development of various animal models of cmt, have led to a better understanding. this knowledge represents a prerequisite for the development of future therapies ...

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how to cite this article: babaknejad n, sayehmiri f, sayehmiri k, mohamadkhani a, bahrami s. the relationship between zinc levels and autism: systematic review and meta-analysis. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4):1-9.   abstract objective autism is a complex behaviorally defined disorder. there is a relationship between zinc (zn) levels in autistic patients and development of pathogenesis...

objective sleep disorders are common in children; they also have a significant impact on the whole family, the parents in particular. few studies in this field have been performed in iran; hence the  present study was carried out in order to determine sleep patterns and the  prevalence of sleep disorders in school aged children in qazvin. material and methods this cross sectional study was done...

background: patients with bleeding disorders are frequently infected with hepatitis c virus (hcv). there are few reports on the effect of standard interferon in these patients and no published report on pegylated interferon. the aim of this study was to compare pegylated interferon alpha-2a and standard interferon alpha with ribavirin in patients with bleeding disorders and chronic hcv infectio...