background: health status of children and adolescents is determined to a larger extent by their nutritional status. there are no published studies available on the influence of thinness on childhood morbidity using new world health organization‑body mass index (who‑bmi) for age criteria. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted in primary, high schools, pre‑university and degree colleg...

background: overweight and obesity is becoming an increasingly prevalent problem in both developed and developing world, and is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. although various studies demonstrated pediatric obesity‑related factors, but, due to its ongoing hazardous effects, researchers aimed to assess obesity‑related factors in school‑aged children in rash...

background: some studies have shown the possible role of protein‑energy malnutrition (pem) in persistence of endemic goiter in iodine replenished areas. the present study was conducted to assess the association between pem and goiter in schoolchildren of isfahan, iran. methods: in a cross‑sectional study using multistage cluster random‑sampling, 2331 schoolchildren with age ranged from 6‑13 yea...

background and aim: methods of age estimation with the aid of radiography have higher accuracy compared with other methods. some investigations have been performed in this regard, but the correlation between dental development and body mass index (bmi) has been limitedly researched. in the present study, the correlation between dental development and bmi in the children referring to the dental ...

according to its superficial anatomical location, the thyroid gland is easily accessible by sonography. sonography allows an exact documentation of the size and thyroid volume. the relationship between thyroid volume and anthropometric characteristics is a matter of controversy. the aim of this study was to investigate thyroid volume and its determinants in healthy adult. a cross-sectional stud...

purpose: to determine the correlation between body mass index (bmi) and exudative age-related macular degeneration (armd). methods: this case-control study was conducted on 60 patients with exudative armd and 60 controls, both aged over 50. age, sex, cigarette smoking and blood pressure were evaluated beside bmi. data analysis was performed by spss software, version 9.0 using pearson chi square...

introduction: given the importance of identifying common bile duct diameter in diseases diagnoses and being different in different races, this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between the diameter of the common bile duct and demographic factors and drug addiction in patients who referred to the imaging department of imam reza hospital in birjand during the year 1391-1392. methods: th...

Objective The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between sperm parameters and body mass index (BMI) in the male spouses of couples with infertility complaints, who had applied to our clinic MaterialsAndMethods The male spouses from 159 couples applying to our clinic due to infertility, during a six-month period, were included in the study. In this prospective case control study, ...

background: we aimed to evaluate the effect of body weight and body mass index (bmi) on bone mineral density (bmd) in healthy postmenopausal iranian women.    material and methods: two hundred postm­enopausal women (age between 51 and 69 years) who had presented to the nuclear medicine center at shariati hospital in tehran, iran between april 2012 and august 2013 were included in this cross sec...