background: iron deficiency and its related anemia, which is the world’s most widespread nutritional deficiency, can be one of the possible consequences of regular blood donation. this research was carried out to compare iron stores in regular blood donors and first-time blood donors in tehran regional blood transfusion center. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 2,149 male blo...

introduction: iron deficiency anemia is an important limiting factor for the number of donations in regular donors. limited data is available on the iron status in iranian donors. this study was conduced to evaluate the prevalence of iron deficiency and its related factors in blood donors at shiraz blood transfusion centre in 2005. methods: this descriptive study was done on all blood donors wh...

background blood transfusion is one of the many ways, through which toxoplasma gondii (t. gondii), a protozoan parasite, can be transmitted to humans. objectives this cross sectional study aimed to evaluate the seroprevalence of toxoplasma infection and related epidemiological features among healthy blood donors. materials and methods a total of 375 blood samples from donors were tested for spe...

background: blood transfusion is one of the most crucial needs of the society in multiple diseases and injuries. the only source of blood is donation. students consist a large and healthy group who are able of providing a large number of blood donation, however, blood donation is rare amongst them. this study was conducted to evaluate students awareness and attitude towards blood donation in ke...

abstract: genotyping of the hepatitis c virus (hcv) is important for designing therapeutic strategies and regional specific diagnostic assays. the aim of this study was to identify the hcv genotypes in hcv infected blood donors. this is the first report on hcv genotypes in blood donors in iran. in this cross-sectional study, 103 blood donors with hepatitis c were investigated for hcv genotypes....

introduction: hypertension is described as one of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease. the prevalence of hypertension is growing among developing countries. in this study, the prevalence of hypertension was studied in individuals who referred to blood transfusion center of ilam city. materials and methods: the present descriptive analytical study was performed based on available data. t...

background: the differentiation between acute and latent forms of the toxoplasma gondii ( t. gondii ) infection is still considered as a complicated issue. this study was aimed to elucidate the status of infection in the blood donors and the probable importance of blood transfusion in the transmission of the infection through detecting both immunological and genetic markers of acute and latent ...

background and aims: cytomegalovirus (cmv) has worldwide distribution, and its prevalence rate depends on factors such as economic and geographical conditions. an important way of the virus transmission is via blood. due to high prevalence of anti-cmv antibodies in blood donors and lack of data concerning its seroprevalence in the region, this study was carried out to determine the prevalence r...

Background: Iron deficiency and its related anemia, which is the world’s most widespread nutritional deficiency, can be one of the possible consequences of regular blood donation. This research was carried out to compare iron stores in regular blood donors and first-time blood donors in Tehran Regional Blood Transfusion Center. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out on 2,149 male bl...