context: to evaluate treatment success and hypothyroidism following main methods of radioiodine therapy of toxic nodular goiter (tng); calculated versus fixed dose and high versus low dose of radioiodine. evidence acquisitions: we searched medline and scopus databases from inception till july 2013, for clinical trials that compared two different methods of radioiodine administration in tng. the...

BACKGROUND The findings of epidemiologic studies on the association between fiber intake and prostate cancer risk remain conflicting. We aimed to examine this association by conducting a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. METHODS Relevant studies were identified by PubMed (1966 to March 2015) and Embase (1974 to March 2015) database search through March 2015. We included epidemiologica...

About 30% of persons over 65 are subject to at least one fall during a year. A number of published studies identify statistical relations between risk factors and the probability of fall in terms of odds ratios. However such information has been exploited only partially to build fall risk assessment tools. In this paper we introduce a tool based on the representation of risk factors as odds rat...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic studies have shown that the consumption of soy foods may be associated with a reduction in cancer risk in humans. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis on the association between soy consumption and prostate cancer risk in men. DESIGN We systematically reviewed studies obtained through a thorough Medline literature search and identified ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of non-financial information analysis and risk-return analysis along with financial information in increasing the selected banks and financial institutions of Tehran Stock Exchange portfolio efficiency. To evaluate the efficiency of the portfolio, the Treynor's ratio was used and attempted to determine the Treynor's ratio of the selected opt...

background : this study evaluated the role of family history of cancer and gynecologic factors in relation to the etiology of ovarian cancer in a low socioeconomic population in iran. methods : from 2007-2009 we conducted a screening program on women with insurance coverage provided by the imam khomeini relief foundation. a total of 26788 women participated in this study of whom 76 cases had ov...

the present study aimed to evaluate the distributions of high-sensitivity c-reactive protein, tc-hdl ratio and 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases among iranian adult population. we conducted a cross-sectional study on a total of 2125 adults aged 25 to 65. data of the third national surveillance of risk factors of non-communicable diseases (surfncd-2007) was used. anthropometric indices, bl...