Abstract Background Beta-thalassemia is a common hereditary hemoglobinopathy, which is a reason of microcytic hypochromic anemia. Patients with major thalassemia require multiple blood transfusions. This study evaluated growth in thalassemic patient and relationship with ferritin level. Materials and Methods This is a cross sectional study on seventy patients (36 boys, 34girls) with transfu...

The aim of this paper is to project extreme precipitation events in an arid and a semiarid station. In order to project climate change based on general circulation models (GCMs), we have applied LARS-WG[1] downscaling tool. This stochastic weather generator down-scaled the climate of two synoptic stations using HADCM3 model and A2 emission scenario for 2040. We extracted extreme precipitation e...

background this study aim to determine the association between height and cancer in the children aged 14 years at the time of diagnosis in rasht, iran. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study, height of patients with a malignancy (≤14) at the time of diagnosis measured in the standard charts of united states national center for the health statistics (nchs). data were reported by des...

introduction: the idea that factors during early critical periods of life affect on long term health is now a major public health concern. in this study, in addition to investigating obesity prevalence among female high school students in yazd, the relationship between obesity and birth weight was examined. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 312 female high schoo...

the aim of the current research was to compare motor development in 3–6-year-old children from ahvaz with denver developmental screening test ii. themethodology of this research was descriptive – survey. the statistical populationconsisted of children from ahvaz and 1044 children aged between 3 and 6 wereselected from ahvaz kindergartens by cluster random sampling method. denverdevelopmental sc...

abstract background beta-thalassemia is a common hereditary hemoglobinopathy, which is a reason of microcytic hypochromic anemia. patients with major thalassemia require multiple blood transfusions. this study evaluated growth in thalassemic patient and relationship with ferritin level. materials and methods this is a cross sectional study on seventy patients (36 boys, 34girls) with transfusion...