OBJECTIVE To assess the national prevalence of short stature, underweight, overweight and obesity in 6-year-old Iranian children before school entry. DESIGN Cross-sectional nationwide survey. SETTING Mandatory national screening programme before entrance to elementary school in 2008 in Iran. SUBJECTS All Iranian children entering public and private elementary schools. RESULTS The study ...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become one of the competitive advantages for companies around the globe and the dynamic force driving the process of global integration through information. Governmental organizations are increasing their adoption of these systems for various benefits such as integrated real-time information, better administration, and result-based management. Reaching the...

OBJECTIVES Pneumatized articular eminence or tubercle (PAT) is an air cell cavity in the zygomatic process of the temporal bone. Pneumatization of articular eminence may be seen incidentally on panoramic radiographs (PRs) as a unilocular or multilocular radiolucent defect. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and the pattern of PAT on PR in an Iranian population. MATERIALS AND M...

BACKGROUND Anthropological studies based on highly polymorphic HLA genes provide useful information for bone marrow donor registry, forensic medicine, disease association studies, as well as designing peptide vaccines against tumors, and infectious or autoimmune diseases. OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the genetic relationship of Iranian Arabs and Jews using HLA-class II gen...

BACKGROUND Iran is one of two main target markets for tobacco smuggling in the WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region. The Iranian government has a local tobacco monopoly but there is high demand for international brands. Informal reports show about 20% of cigarette consumption is smuggled brands. This pack survey study is the first in Iran to gather validated information on use of smuggled cigaret...

Case presentation: A 12 years old Iranian girl, who lived in Brazil for 5 previously to the stroke and was bilingual (Persian Portuguese). On October 2016 girl suddenly presented seizures, hemiparesis aphasia. Tests immunological, infectious coagulation diseases were normal; echocardiogram showed a 39 × 17 mm tumor left atrial cavity, that surgically excised 20 days after. The patient came our ...

he interest in using and conducting clinical trials in developing world is rising promptly. Knowing the importance of this kind of research in generating therapeutic evidence, many clinical researchers in developing countries including Iran are getting involved in performing clinical trials. Authors performed a quick search in ISI Web of Knowledge database (May 2008) which shows interesting res...