background elimination of suicide attempts is impossible, but they can be reduced dramatically by an organized planning. the present study aimed to survey the suicide trends in fars province (iran), during 2004-2009 to better understand the prevalence and status of suicide.   methods this survey was a cross-sectional study. the demographic data were collected from the civil status registry betw...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate short-term effects of publishing revised lower risk national drinking guidelines on related awareness and knowledge. To examine where drinkers heard about guidelines over the same period. DESIGN Trend analysis of the Alcohol Toolkit Study, a monthly repeat cross-sectional national survey. SETTING England, November 2015 to May 2016. PARTICIPANTS A total of 11 845 adu...

  Background Elimination of suicide attempts is impossible, but they can be reduced dramatically by an organized planning. The present study aimed to survey the suicide trends in Fars province (Iran), during 2004-2009 to better understand the prevalence and status of suicide.   Methods This survey was a cross-sectional study. The demographic data were collected from the civil status registry be...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic studies report inconsistent findings on the association of fruit and vegetable intake with the risk of cardiovascular disease. OBJECTIVE The objective was to examine the relation between fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease. DESIGN We studied 9608 adults aged 25-74 y participating in the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Su...

BACKGROUND Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide. It has an increasing trend. This study investigated the epidemiological trend and morphological changes in skin cancer in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was done using existing data, extracted from the National Cancer Registry System and the Disease Management Center of Iranian Ministry of Health between 2003 and 2008...

background: esophageal cancer is the sixth cause of death in the world, there was a lack of population‑based information on the trend and incidence rate of esophagus cancer, so this study aimed to determine the incidence and pathological changes of esophagus cancer in iran. methods: in this study, data were extracted from annual cancer registry reports of iranian ministry of health between 2003...