Inflammatory bowel disease, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, tumours, are examples of chronic degenerative diseases that have a high prevalence in developed nations. These chronic-non-communicable diseases have multifactorial aetiologies that considered to be caused by the interaction of environmental risk factors with multiple predisposing genes. Geneti...

background: in this study the overall, age and sex prevalence of diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure were calculated and the association among some risk factors and these two diseases, occurring simultaneously, were studied. methods: in this cross-sectional study 3000 isfahanian men and women between the ages of 15-64 were investigated by using stratified sampling method with multi-stage ...