conclusions using -2.5 standard deviations as the cutoff for micropenis, a newborn infant in golestan province with a pl of < 23.3 mm had micropenis; however, more investigations are needed to clarify this issue. results means of pl and agd of 427 healthy term newborns were 32.1 ± 3.5 and 24.5 ± 2.5 mm, respectively. there was a positive correlation between pl and agd (r = 0.097, p = 0.046). ac...

background to date, no study has addressed the association between race/ethnicity and obesity considering other sociodemographic and lifestyle factors in iran. objectives the current study aimed to study lifestyle and the environmental factors affecting obesity in the iranian subjects of the steps survey, 2011. patients and methods the study was conducted on 8639 subjects (aged ≥ 20 years) in t...

background: although the association between major depressive disorder (mdd) and low self-esteem is well established, we do not know if race and ethnicity modify the magnitude of this link. objectives: using a nationally representative sample of adults in the united states, we explored whether or not race alters the association between mdd and self-esteem. materials and methods: data came from ...

background: for psychiatric disorders, comorbidity is a rule rather than exception. thus it is particularly important to study additive and multiplicative effects of multiple mental disorders on suicidal behaviors. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the ethnic differences in multiplicative effects of mental disorders on suicidal ideation among black adults in the united states...

background: we examined epidemiological aspects of dynamic changes in incidence of ovarian cancer in women of kazakh and russian nationalities in kazakhstan. methods: the material of investigation was primary data on registered patients with malignant ovarian tumors in the whole country. the study was conducted during the period of 1999-2009. evaluation of changes in ovarian cancer incidence in...

background: human leukocyte antigens (hla) are polymorphic cell surface proteins. distribution of hla alleles vary among different racial and ethnic populations in unrelated stem cell registries. determination of hla allele frequencies in different ethnic groups is useful for population genetic analyses. materials and methods: based on data available from the iranian stem cell donor registry, h...

Despite growing awareness of the limitations of group-level analyses in ethnic studies, research on ethnic conflict has paid virtually no systematic attention to variation at the individual or micro level. Addressing that gap, the present paper draws upon data from interviews conducted with members of two broadly-defined categories recently arrived in the Republic of Ireland, Muslims and Nigeri...

anxiety affects the culture of society so that content of each culture has permanent effects on behavior, feeling and psychological features of people. the purpose of this research was the comparison of early maladaptive schemas between two ethnic groups (i.e. kurds and the persians students) with high and low levels of trait anxiety. the research design was descriptive and ex post facto type. ...