Geographic or ethnic differences in the occurrence of disease often provide insights into causes of disease and possible opportunities for disease prevention. A wide variation on the incidence and prevalence of PsA was reported in different countries. The prevalence in China was similar to the rest of the world, whereas the incidence and prevalence of PsA was much lower in Japan. Among patients...

BACKGROUND Alcohol drinking is a risk factor for harm and disease. A low level of drinking among non-Western immigrants may lead to less alcohol-related harm and disease. The first aim of this study was to describe frequency of drinking in two generations of immigrants in Oslo, contrasting the result to drinking frequency among ethnic Norwegians. The second aim was to study how frequency of dri...

This study was carried out in south-west Tehran province to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices of men, Iranians and Afghan refugees, regarding reproductive health. A questionnaire was used for the assessment. Mean scores for knowledge, attitudes and practices for Iranians were 4.38/30, 13.89/20 and 12.99/31 respectively; for Afghans the scores were 3.79/30, 11.66/20 and 11.88/31. Alt...

In our daily lives we assist to an exponential growth of mobile and fixed devices that surround us, though many of them having limited resources, and not even providing an interface screen. In this paper, we present remoteU¡, a middleware that allows the interaction of those devices with users, resorting to simple but expressive programming mechanisms, and providing efficient implementation and...

introduction: the prevalence of iran deficiency anemia (ida) in pregnant women is in variable between 40-80% in developing countries. there are some differences among different studies on this disorder. so, this present study is been performed for evaluating the prevalence of ida among pregnant iranians with systematic review and meta analysis method. method: this study is based on received inf...

I enthusiastically studied Parviz et al. article (1). It was an exceptional description of the possibility that great Persian and Andalusian physicians like Haly Abbas and Ibn Rushd might be familiar with optic neuritis and its relationship with paresthesia. This has not only been significant in medical history and proves the role of Persian traditional medicine in promoting science but also pr...