an upward trend in the divorce rate in iran in recent years has attracted officials, researchers and sociologists towards investigating causes and factors contributing such a social menace. based on the statistics published by the statistics center of iran (sci), the divorce rate has gone up from 1.5 in 1000 cases in 1996 to 2.3 in 1999 and 3.1 in 2006. results of previous studies show that fac...

extractin any era to the present era, risk of changes of family and their adverse effects are not studied and also these adverse effects are now more than any time. statistics show that each year the number of divorce will increase and there is the risk for many families. so, after the second world war ii the rate of divorce is not lower from average of 400,000 cases. the result of research in ...

BACKGROUND To reduce the increasing burden of pneumonia hospitalizations, we need to understand their determinants. Being married may decrease the risk of severe infections, due to better social support and healthier lifestyle. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this population-based case-control study, we identified all adult patients with a first-time pneumonia-related hospitalization between 1994 and...

Limited data are available on the possible changes in cancer risk brought about by widowhood and divorce, an increasing segment of the population. We calculated standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer among 47,000 widows/widowers and 60,000 divorced people, based on the Swedish Family-Cancer Database. Persons had to be identified with the same civil status in the census of years 1960 an...