Haematologica vol. 85(11):November 2000 quent in Hungary, Turkey and Lebanon3 where it represents between 3 to 7% of the β-thalassemias. However it is very scarce in the island of Sardinia. This mutation was also reported in inland countries of Europe and the Middle East such as Czechoslovakia and Azerbaijan,3 where it represents 14-16% of the molecular abnormalities detected in β-thalassemias....

a Department of Nuclear Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Faculty of Medicine, Rize, Turkey b Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bulent Ecevit University School of Medicine, Zonguldak, Turkey c Department of Nuclear Medicine, Azerbaijan National Institute of Oncology, Baku, Azerbaijan d Department of Cardiology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey e Department of Nuclea...

BACKGROUND There is little information about the objectivity of posttraumatic growth experienced by cancer patients. So, the aim of present study was to investigate the viewpoints of family caregivers regarding posttraumatic growth in cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive study was conducted in one referral medical center in East Azerbaijan Province in northwest of Iran. 120...

The aim of the current study was to characterize the prevalence of latent groups in terms of smoking, hookah, and alcohol in a sample of Iranian high school students. In this cross-sectional study, 4,422 high school students were assessed in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Latent class analysis was applied to determine the subgroups and prevalence of each class using the procLCA in SAS 9.2 soft...

GHOZIKALI M.G. Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center BORGINI A. Department of Environmental Health Engineering TITTARELLI A. East Azerbaijan Province Health Center AMRANE A. Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran MOHAMMADYAN M. Department of Environmental Health Engineering HEIBATI B.* School of Public Health and Center for Air Pollution Research (CAPR) YETILMEZSOY K. I...

Five species of eriophyoid mites were identified during surveys of mite fauna associated with plant species of the family Compositae from Southwest of East Azerbaijan province during 2010 and 2011. Two of them, Aceria virgatae n. sp. from Centaurea virgata Lam. and Aceria xeranthenzis n. sp. from Xeranthemumn squarrosum Boiss., were found to be new to science. No damage symptoms were observed o...

conclusions iranian nurses in east azerbaijan provence have negative attitudes toward different aspects of euthanasia and this negative attitude is not related to religious or legal issues. so, searching for the reasons for such an attitude needs more investigation. results participants had a negative attitude towards all aspects of euthanasia. they reported that they would not participate in e...