A swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) emerged as a pandemic in 2009. We investigated the association between the overweight, metabolic syndrome and the severity of disease in the confirmed cases in Qazvin province, Iran. The study sample included all patients over 12 years old with confirmed influenza A (H1N1) in the province of Qazvin, Iran, in the 2009 pandemic, excluding pregnant women. To defin...

Backgrounds and Objectives: Using seat belt has a considerable role in reducing human damage. The aim of this study was to compare trend of seat belt use rate during 4 years, from 2007 to 2010, in Golestan province (northern Iran). Materials and Methods: This was a population-based cross-sectional study that enrolled 3999 subjects aged 15-65 years during four years (2007 = 1000 cases, 2008 = 10...

BACKGROUND Although infection of dromedary camels with Cryptosporidium spp. is rare in Iran, it is considered a zoonotic threat to the keepers and herders of camels. Thus we investigated the prevalence of Cryptosporidium in these two hosts in Yazd Province, a semi-arid region in center of Iran. METHODS This study was conducted during 4 seasons (winter 2008, summer 2009, winter 2009 and summer...

Kun Guo, Daniel J. Hassett, and Tingyue Gu National Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio U...

Mammography utilization is low in Iran compared with other countries. Here a cross-sectional survey design was used to investigate psycho-social and individual factors associated with mammography among 400 women asymptomatic of breast cancer. The study was carried out at the four outpatient clinics of Tehran during the period from July through October, 2009. We found that mammography screening ...

Cancer is the third most common cause of death following cardiovascular disease and accident (Mohebbi et al., 2008; Moradpour and Fatemi, 2013) and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are the most frequent cancers among males and second to females’ breast cancer in Iran (Mohebbi et al., 2011). The epidemiological characteristic of upper GI cancer has markedly changed over recent decades so that oesop...

International Journal of Molecular Sciences ISSN 1422-0067 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms Correction Correction: Vatani, A., et al. Prediction of Standard Enthalpy of Formation by a QSPR Model. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2007, 8, 407-432. Ali Vatani, Mehdi Mehrpooya * and Farhad Gharagheizi Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, P.O.Box: 113654563, Tehran, Iran * Au...