background there are few reports from iran about the epidemiology and clinical features of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). this study aims to determine the epide­miologic profile and clinical features of ibd in northwest iran referral centers. methods in a cross-sectional setting, we evaluated 200 patients with definitive diagno­ses of ibd who referred to tabriz educational hospitals during t...

Abstract Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine that may have critical consequences on patient’s quality of life (QOL). Many disease-specific QOL tools have been developed recently. The McMaster Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) is one of them. The aim of this study was to translate into Persian and eval...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune and progressive disease. In patients with RA, persistent disease activity ultimately results in irreversible radiographic damage of the joints with persistent functional loss as a consequence. Disease activity measures assess a disease state at a particular time point. In order to evaluate the course of the disease in daily clinical practi...

Leishmaniasis represents a serious threat to the health as one of the most important neglected tropical diseases as designated by the World Health Organization. The disease is endemic in 82 countries, among them Tunisia is an indigenous area for cutaneous Leishmaniasis. In a previous work, two tritepenic acids namely oleanolic and maslinic acids have been isolated from olive leaf extract. In th...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the most common autoimmune disease. It is characterized by the presence of hundreds of autoantibodies against many organs and tissues, including the presence of a large number of autoantibodies, which are specific to self-antigens mainly of nuclear origin such as Smith antigen, double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), anti-Sjögren’s syndrome-related antigen A and B (SS...

background: given the lack of consistency in the literature regarding the reliability of the ankle-brachial index (abi) as a valid screening tool and an independent risk indicator of cardiovascular events and mortality, we compared it with angiography as a reference standard test. methods: this case-control study, conducted between 2010 and 2011 in tehran heart center, recruited 362 angiographi...