BACKGROUND The health sciences literature incorporates a relatively large subset of epidemiological studies that focus on population-level findings, including various determinants, outcomes and correlations. Extracting structured information about those characteristics would be useful for more complete understanding of diseases and for meta-analyses and systematic reviews. RESULTS We present ...

conclusions the findings of the current study will be beneficial in prevention of rtcs and its associated complications and hence will be vital for policy makers, health service managers and stakeholders. context despite considerable attention given to health statistics of road traffic crashes (rtcs), the epidemiological aspects of injuries resulting from rtcs are not fully understood in iran a...

INTRODUCTION. PLANNED observation of phenomena as they occur must be the main tool of investigation in man, experiments as in animals being impossible, but planned observation and analysis is surely the very essence of epidemiology. Yet it would seem to be characteristic of work on human anomalies that many people are working directly on these, or on relevant problems, in narrow fields and maki...

acute myeloblastic leukemia is one of the important malignancies in children. for better managing the prognosis of this disease, there should be enough information about common features of this malignancy. the aim of this study was to evaluate these common features in children with acute myeloblastic leukemia. a total of 104 eligible children less than 15-year-old have been referred from 2007-2...

In December 2019, a new virus called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causing severe acute respiratory syndrome emerged in Wuhan, China, and rapidly spread to other areas of China and other regions of the world. Since it was discovery, COVID-19 has spread to several countries and to this date, affecting about 2,329,651 people and caused about 160,721 deaths.  Since most COVID-19 infected cas...

conclusions considering the high occurrence of the mortality and the injuries of the rtis compared to that of the other types of accidents, more attention to rtis in planning and interventions seems necessary. background road traffic injuries (rtis) are the leading cause of injuries and the second cause of mortality in iran. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiologica...

there are few published reports on epidemiological studies concerning rubella in iran. the level of antibody in vaccinated individual’s declines gradually and the chances of infection in these people are much greater to those naturally immunized by infection. therefore, it seemed logical to determine the level of antibody in non vaccinated female students, aged from 18 to 26 years of isfahan un...

BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was once considered to be highly associated with intellectual disability and to show a characteristic IQ profile, with strengths in performance over verbal abilities and a distinctive pattern of 'peaks' and 'troughs' at the subtest level. However, there are few data from epidemiological studies. METHOD Comprehensive clinical assessments were conducted...

The dynamics, control, and evolution of communicable and vector-borne diseases are intimately connected to the joint dynamics of epidemiological, behavioral, and mobility processes that operate across multiple spatial, temporal, and organizational scales. The identification of a theoretical explanatory framework that accounts for the pattern regularity exhibited by a large number of host-parasi...