background: indian tea industry workers are exposed to various exposures at their workplace. objective: to investigate the respiratory health of indian tea industry workers. methods: we administered a respiratory questionnaire to and measured lung function in workers of 34 tea gardens and 46 tea factories. we used correlation matrices to test the association between their respiratory symptoms a...

abstract background: postpartum period is the critically important part of obstetric care but most neglected period for majority of pakistani women. only life threatening complications compel them to seek for tertiary hospital care. we describe the nature of these obstetric morbidities in order to help policymakers in improving prevailing situation. objective: to find out the frequency and caus...

recent epidemiological studies show that obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) and its comorbidity with psychiatric problems is more prevalent among children and adolescents than was previously believed. the primary aim of the current study is to investigate the point-prevalence rate of obsessive compulsive symptoms in a sample of adolescent high school student in iran. a two-stage epidemiologica...

during a 6 year period from september 1992 to september 1998, 165 children with a final diagnosis of henoch-schonlein purpura (hsp) were managed and followed in our center. there were 87 (52%) boys and 78 (48%) girls, with age ranges of 1-16 years and mean age of 7.8 years. forty-one percent of the patients had evidence of preceding upper respiratory tract infection (uri). the main clinical fea...

introduction: air pollution due to particulate matter is a major environmental and health issue in all regions of the world. the aim of this study was to investigate the health impacts of pm10 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤10μm) in khorramabad city, iran in 2014. materials and methods: in this study, pm10 sampling was conducted by a high-volume sampler at flow rate of 1.1-1....