Results. The results show that among girls the lifetime illicit drugs use increased statistically significantly from 2.5% in 1999 to 7.5% in 2003 and to 15% in 2011. Among boys the trend was also increasing, the prevalence of illicit drug use was 14.2% at T1, 18.1% at T2, and it increased dramatically to 30.6% at T3. The percentage of students reporting cannabis use was almost identical with th...

introduction & objective: obesity is an independent risk factor of cardiovascular diseases. clinical studies have showed that the blood pressure is significantly related with the decrease of body weight. the objective of this study is to evaluate the trend of high blood pressure and also the trend of obesity based on the bmi during the three descriptive crosssectional studies, which have been d...

pemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune disease, in which the role of th17 cytokines needs to be further explored. this study was performed to assess serum levels of three interleukins (il) required for th17 differentiation (il-1β, il-6 and il-23) and two specific th17 cytokines (il-17 and il-22) in a group of patients with pemphigus vulgaris, at baseline, 3 weeks and 6 months after of treatment. c...

background: along with the prospers of scientific production there is a need for measuring and evaluation of university’ s scientific productions by means of accepted international indices to make comparison between academic institutions. this study aims to evaluate the scientific production of faculty members affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences (sbmus) in web of scienc...