iabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine metabolic disorders. Dual endocrine deficits of impaired insulin action (insulin resistance) and inadequate insulin secretion create an environment of chronic hyperglycemia and general metabolic disorder (1). Development of novel medicine prototypes with systematic and intensive investigations of plants for new agents to treat diabetes mellit...

Gas turbines incur a loss of output power during hot seasons due to high ambient air temperatures, and input air cooling systems are often used to partly offset this problem. Here, results are reported for an investigation of the utilization of a heat pump to cool the inlet air of a gas turbine compressor. The analyses are carried out for two climates: the city of Yazd, Iran, which has a hot, a...

1Infectious Diseases Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 2Department of Modern Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran *Corresponding author: Seyed Hossein Shahcheraghi, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran, Tel: + 98-9132531389; E-mail...

1Department of Mathematics, Hubei University for Nationalities, Enshi, Hubei 445000, China 2Department of Mathematics, Yazd University, P.O. Box 89195-741, Yazd, Iran 3Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland 4Department of Mathematics Education, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea 5Department of Mathema...

To assess the daily salt intake of people aged 20-74 years based on the 24-hour urinary sodium excretion in urban population of Yazd, a population-based cross-sectional study was conducted. This is a substudy of Yazd Healthy Heart Project in Iran. From 2004 to 2005, two thousand people of the urban population of Yazd city, aged 20-74 years, were enrolled in the main study. Overall, 219 voluntee...

1- Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Infectious Diseases Research Center, School Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 2- Yazd Health 3- General Courses Department, 4- Hematology Blood Banking, Paramedical School, Gerash Gerash, 5- Biostatics Epidemiology Health, 6- Faculty Shiraz Shiraz, , [email protected]

Correspondence: Z Ansari Cardiovascular Research Center, Afshar Hospital, Jomhoori Blvd, Yazd, Iran Tel: +98-351-5231421 Fax: +98-351-5253335 Email:[email protected] Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors are increasing in developing countries. Previous studies have shown a high prevalence of CAD risk factors in Iran but Geographical prevalence is not uniform. The present s...

Background Phlebotominae sand flies are the main vectors of leishmaniasis and some other diseases. Materials and Methods Using sticky traps, sand flies were collected fortnightly from outdoors and indoors areas of selected sites. Results A total of 2032 specimens (498 in the city and 1534 in the outskirts of Yazd) belonging to 11 species were collected. The activity of sand flies started in...

BACKGROUND Road traffic deaths are a considerable public health problem and a major source of lost financial and human resources. Most mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to measure road traffic fatality rates and years of lost life, and also to depict a view of trends in road traffic deaths from 2004 to 2010 in Yazd city, a province in central Ir...