Prospective cohort evaluation of hirsutism and anthropometrics in a south east asian PCOS population

Epidemiological aspects of head and neck cancers in a population of south east region of Iran

Introduction: The geographical distribution of head and neck cancer shows considerable variation and it is site dependent. The review of the literature shows few data concerning the head and neck cancer patterns in Iran. The purpose of this study was to represent epidemiological aspects of head and neck cancers in south east of Iran. Materials &Methods: In this retrospective study, from a to...

How Far Behind Are the South Asian Countries in Relation to East Asian

We define as South Asian countries those countries that start with Iran and end with Bangladesh in Asia. Wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “Western” developed and EastAsian countries. Statistical methods such as multidimensional scaling and ...

Association of ethnicity and acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery in a South East Asian population.

BACKGROUND Postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent and serious complication after cardiac surgery. Clinical factors alone have failed to accurately predict the incidence of AKI after cardiac surgery. Ethnicity has been shown to be a predictor of AKI in the Western population. We tested the hypothesis that ethnicity is an independent predictor of AKI in patients undergoing cardiac ...

Food Security in South and South East Asian Countries

East Asian Medicine in South Korea

This paper deals with East Asian medicine in South Korea, a topic quite under-studied in social science in comparison to traditional medicine in other East Asian countries. It was only in the late 1990s that Korean medicine started to gain the attention of social scientists, sparked by controversies surrounding the pharmacy debates. Korean researchers based at Korean and Western academic instit...