the nomad communities played an important role in the socio-economic status of the iranian society from the beginning of the twentieth century. following the political events of reza shah such as settling strategy, the nomads lost their importance and marginalized. the present paper aims study the social and cultural transitions among the turkman tribe to find out how settling strategy led to t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the breast-feeding condition based on economic status among primary school children and comparison between Turkman and non-Turkman ethnic groups in northern Iran in 2010. METHODS This was a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective research study, carried out on 6882 primary school children (4157 = non-Turkman and 2725 = Turkman) from 112 school of urban and villages ...

BACKGROUND Mother's milk plays an important role in infant's health, and World Health Organization (WHO) recommends infants should be breastfed for 2 years or up. AIM The main objective of this study was to evaluate the breastfeeding status based on parents' educational level with comparison between Turkman and non-Turkman ethnic groups in the North of Iran in 2010. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thi...

Cytochrome P450 2C9 is considered as a vital enzyme for drugs and toxic detoxification in human body. The present study was carried out to assess the distribution of CYP2C9 allele and genotypic variants in two ethnic groups (Fars and Turkman) in the North East of Iran. The present study contained 110 unrelated healthy Turkman origin and 110 unrelated healthy Fars origin people who were referred...

1 Department of Pathology, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 3 General physician, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 4 Department of Biochemistry, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 5 Center for research of Mol...

the people and nation of central asia: turkmans live in the north of afghanistan and the east of the caspian sea and at some parts of turkmenistan and uzbekistan.iranian turk-mans live in the north east of iran in turkman sahra.they have a special, rich and indige-nous culture. there are many fables and beliefs on the making of turkman carpets. here we recall the tale of “agh-morad”3 . mos...

PARIVASH DAVOODIAN*, HABIB DADVAND**, MARZIEH RAZ-NAHAN***, SHAHRAM BAGHESTANI****, ABDOLALI MAHBUBI**** & AYUB BAGERI***** *Depatment of infectious Disease, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran **Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran ***Tuberculosis and leprosy center, Hormozgan, Iran ****Department of Dermatology, Hormozgan University of Medical ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences of obesity rate among three ethnic groups in northern adults in IR Iran in 2010. METHODS The present cross-sectional, analytical study was conducted on 2994 cases of the same age and sex in three ethnic proportions (Fars-native=1625, Turkman=977, and Sisstani=392). The subjects aged between 15 and 65 years old and were selected ...

OBJECTIVE Different findings indicate that CYP2C plays a clinical role in determining interindividual and interethnic differences in drug effectiveness. The ethnic differences in the frequency of CYP2C19 mutant alleles continue to be a significant study topic. The aim of the present study was to assess the frequency of allelic variants of CYP2C19 in Turkman ethnic groups and compare them with t...