BACKGROUND Diabetic patients are more prone to oral infections and periradicular lesions due to changes in their immune system and qualitative and quantitative changes in normal flora of their mouth. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of periradicular lesions in diabetic patients in Babol, North of Iran. METHODS From October 2011 to March 2012, 135 diabetic patients who refer...

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiological characteristics of fatal traumatic accidents in patients referred to a hospital in Babol, Northern Iran. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study being performed during a 1-year period including all the dead trauma patients referred to Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Babol. We included all those patients who were transferred to our center to trauma and i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to find the relationship of MPV (Mean Platelet Volume) levels and platelet counts as markers of inflammation between simple and complex febrile seizures. MATERIALS & METHODS In this retrospective comparative study, we investigated the recordings of 356 children between 5 months and 6 yr with diagnosis of simple and complex febrile seizure (SFS&CFS) in Amirco...

abstract background and aims: medical students are exposed to various infectious diseases during their clinical training period, including measles and rubella. in iran, to control the outbreaks of measles and rubella a mass vaccination campaign was conducted on 2003. the present investigation evaluates immunity to measles and rubella in a group of babol medical students and determines the preva...

1 Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Noshirvani Institute of Technology, Mazandauan University, P.O. Box 47148-71167, Babol, Iran 2Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashad, P.O. Box 91779-48974, Mashad, Iran 3Faculty of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, P.O. Box 15914, T...