Background Children are more likely to be burned than other age. The aim of this study was to determine the burn-related factors in children in Kermanshah province, Iran. Materials and Methods   In the present hospital based case-control study, 198 under 15 years age children who were burned ( from beginning of spring 2016 until the end of spring 2017), enrolled into the study as cases and 19...

background: to determine the risk factor for acute diarrhea disease in children. methods: in the survey, 220 cases and 220 controls were involved. cases were children with loose watery feces, pathologically diagnosed as acute diarrhea by the physician, and enrolled from the emergency ward as the incident cases in dr. sheykh hospital, mashhad, northeast of iran. control group too, was enrolled f...

background: a crucial part of a case-control study is the selection of a sample of controls that represent the base-popula­tion from which cases were drawn. controls may be matched to cases by one or more potentially important confounding vari­ables, such as socioeconomic status. in the united kingdom, one method for control selection has been based on the pa­tient list of the general practice ...

introduction: diabetes mellitus (dm) is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world and the most challenging health problems of the twenty first century. this disease is common in yazd and has a high prevalence in the province. due to not available analytic study, the aim of this study was to determine the risk factors of type 2 diabetes among the adult yazd population, iran. materials...

â  background: the relationship between subfertiltiy and celiac disease has been well described and may be the only presenting feature of celiac disease. therefore, this study was designed to show the prevalence of celiac disease in unexplained infertility among iranian patients in tehran, iran. â  methods: this case-control study includes 125 patients with primary unexplained infertility and 1...

abstractintroduction: the role of breast-feeding in protection against childhood acute leukemia is uncertain. in this study, we tested the hypothesis that breast-feeding decreases the risk of 300 patients we investigated childhood acute leukemia. materials and methods: in a case control study, we inrestigated 300 patients, aged 2±13 years, with acute leukemia, as well as 300 controls, individua...

background: although lebanon is a highly polluted country, so far no study has specifically been designed to assess the association between outdoor air pollution and chronic bronchitis in this country. objective: to assess the association between exposure to outdoor air pollution and chronic bronchitis in lebanon. methods: a pilot case-control study was conducted in two tertiary care hospitals....

background and objective: recently, childhood poisoning has become one of the most pressing concerns in injury epidemiology. the aim of this study is to identify the main risk factors in unintentional childhood poisoning. materials and methods: the present study is individual method case-control based in a hospital (case; n=140, control; n=280) in tehran 1392. cases with controls are matched on...

background and objective: job stress can have a direct impact on the incidence of work-related injuries and unsafe behavior and the highest rates of occupational injuries are in the health professions. therefore, as we did not find any studies regarding the physician's assistants job stress; this research was performed to determine the relationship between job stress and occupational injuries a...