the aim of this descriptive and analytical type of study was to investigate epidemiological characteristics of post partum blues in pregnant women referring to maternity clinics in hafiz and zeinabieh hospital. the sample consisted of 400 pregnant women in their third trimester who were visited these clinics over the sampling period. the data were collected through two questionnaires; the first...

Background: The primary aim of this study was to use a joint analysis approach in order to examine the association between longitudinal depressive symptoms and survival in Mexican Americans. Methods: The separate Cox regression and joint modeling were applied to data from the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (HEPESE). Depressive symptoms were measured by ...

background: brucellosis is a bacterial infection mostly transmitted by animals to humans; thus, consideration of sanitary instances is an important preventive method for this disease. therefore, we designed a study in order to reduce the rate of brucellosis in baneh county, kurdistan province, iran. materials and methods: the sources of data were the medical documents of patients diagnosed in h...

The article presents the analysis of changes in preliminary and estimated epidemiological rates: tuberculosis (TB) incidence, TB mortality, clinical social structure new cases. It has been found that against background continuing improvement epidemic situation (reduction incidence mortality), cases detected 2020-2021 deteriorated compared to 2015-2019 which was manifested by higher frequency pu...

BACKGROUND Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is predicted to become a major cause of death worldwide. Studies on the variability in the estimates of key epidemiological parameters of COPD may contribute to better assessment of the burden of this disease and to helpful guidance for future research and public policies. In the present study, we examined differences in the main epidemiol...

Jean-François Trape and Christophe Rogier present epidemiological data and an analysis of the relationship between transmission, morbidity and mortality from malaria which suggest that any intervention aiming to reduce transmission will not, on a long-term basis, reduce the burden of malaria in the majority of epidemiological contexts observed in tropical Africa.