conclusions every 10 μg/m3 increase in the concentration of the pollutant no2 in the studied cities led to increase in the rr of myocardial infarction, cardiovascular diseases, and obstructive pulmonary disease by 0.4%, 0.2%, and 0.4%, respectively, in 2011. higher rr value can depict mismanagement in urban air quality. the lower level of rr value might be achieved if some control strategies fo...

Paul C. Turner*, Elizabeth F. Taylor, Kay L. M. White, Janet E. Cade and Christopher P. Wild Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University...

ABDISSA NEGASSA∗, ANTONIO CIAMPI†, MICHAL ABRAHAMOWICZ†,‡, STANLEY SHAPIRO† and JEAN-FRANÇOIS BOIVIN†,§ ∗Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx NY, USA [email protected] †Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada ‡Clinical Epidemiology, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Can...

As a scientific discipline, epidemiology has helped liberate the practice of public health and medicine from dogmatic thinking over the past century. This commentary highlights some integrating principles to explain why epidemiology is a problem-solving discipline. The first of these is that epidemiology is an information science. Epidemiology generates information for decision-making at all le...

this investigation was done in kennan from march 1989 to march 1993 to study the epidemiology of cancers in this province and to compare the results with a previous study performed in this area and some available statistics. a total number of 288 1 new cases of malignancy were registered and the crude relative frequency of cancers was studied. gastric cancer with a frequency of 9.7%, malignant ...

dr. rouzitalab and coworkers have presented a study (p:34-40) on epidemiologic assessments of enucleated eyes for malignant melanoma of choroidal in patients referred to shiraz university of medical sciences hospitals (1990-2005). they have correctly emphasized on the lack or rarity of epidemiologic investigations of diseases in iran and particularly in the field of the ocular cancers. surely s...

background: immune thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is a disease characterized by decrease of the peripheral blood platelet count. the disease presents in acute and chronic forms. because of the importance and high prevalence of itp, it was decided to study the therapeutic response of patients with itp. material and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted at ghaem hospital, mashhad, iran. ...

patients and methods from april 2009 to november 2011, all patients with gu injuries referred to our hospital were studied. the data including age, sex, type of injury, mechanism of trauma, and prognosis of patients was collected and analyzed. results from a total of 3450 patients, 66 (1.91%) had injuries of the urogenital system; 49(74.24%) were male and 17(25.75%) female. the patients’ mean a...