Recent political events in the United States have created a political climate that promotes prejudice against Middle Eastern, Iranian, and Muslim people. In this study, we were interested in investigating two questions: (1) How welcome do Iranian-American men and women from various religious backgrounds (Muslim, Jewish, or no religious affiliation) feel in their new homeland (specifically, how ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to develop reference data for the Iranian population for anthropometric values and cardiometabolic data in comparison with those in Americans, as representative of a Western population. DESIGN The present cross-sectional survey, conducted as part of the baseline survey of a community-based interventional study (the Isfahan Healthy Heart Programme), u...

This study examined the relationship between three mental health constructs and perceived cultural attitudes toward homosexuality among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. Specifically, differences in perceived cultural attitudes and depression, self-esteem, and perceived stress between 49 Iranians and 47 Americans were compared. It was hypothesized that (a) perceived cultural attitudes tow...

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...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged Iranians yesterday to rejoice in their final break with the “ world-devouring plunder’’ America, and the Tehran gov­ ernment began mobilizing the people for a “ holy war” of belt-tightening and possible rationing to grapple with econ­ omic woes. President Abolhassan BaniSadr declared there was “ no reason to worry” about the U.S. econom ic em bargo ag a in st I...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: blacks have a higher incidence of diabetes and its related complications. self-rated health (srh) and perceived stress indicators are associated with chronic diseases. the aim of this study was to examine the associations between srh, perceived stress and diabetes status among two black ethnicities. materials and methods: the cross-secti...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...

Received: 22/Jul/2008, Accepted: 8/Mar/2009 Objective: Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) catalyses the S-methylation of thiopurine drugs. Low activity phenotypes are correlated with several mutations in the TPMT gene and adverse drug reactions. The molecular basis for dissimilar enzymatic activity of TPMT has been established in Caucasians, African-Americans and Southwest Asians, but it rem...

To explore lay conceptions of characteristics of an ideal sense of humor as embodied in a known individual, our study examined elicited written narratives by male and female participants from three different countries of origin: United States, Iran, and Turkey. As reported in an earlier previous study with United States-based participants (Crawford and Gressley, 1991), our study also found that...