tuberculosis (tb) is one of the 10 leading cause of deaths in developing countries. understanding the cause and risk factors of tb death and lowering them can reduce its mortality rate. the aim of this study was to assess the cause and risk factors for death of tuberculosis. a retrospective descriptive study was conducted in khuzestan province in the south west of iran, from 2002 to 2006. medic...

objectives this study aimed to measure road traffic fatality rates and years of lost life, and also to depict a view of trends in road traffic deaths from 2004 to 2010 in yazd city, a province in central iran. materials and methods this retrospective case study analyzed road traffic deaths that were classified under the v01 - v99 codes of the icd-10 in yazd province from march 2004 to march 201...

from a total of 656 broiler farms with the permission of exploitation in guilan province, data was gathered from 20% of active farms including 85 units (capacity of over 1663000 portions of broiler chickens) to evaluate the management of nutrition and nourish using questionnaire. the questionnaires were completed by the interview method. the methods of making feed, feed formulation, the shape o...

BACKGROUNDS Even though the incidence and mortality from stomach cancer declined dramatically, it remains the third most frequent cancer worldwide. This study analysed the incidence and resulting mortality, and possible reasons for any differences identified between the Slovak Republic and other countries. MATERIAL AND METHODS Analysis of national data covering the period from 1968 to 2006. T...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews of high-quality evidence are used to inform policy and practice. To improve community health, the production of such reviews should align with burden of disease. This study aims to assess if the volume of research output from systematic reviews proportionally aligns with burden of disease assessed using percentages of mortality and disability-adjusted life years (D...

conclusions invasive interventions increased bacteremia susceptibility in burn wards. mortality rate had a direct association with bacteremia prevalence and increased by larger burn area. results thirty-nine males (48.1%) and 42 females (51.9%) included with a mean age of 32.06 ± 17.46 years. in patients without bacteremia, 57 patients did not need catheterization (89.1%), however in patients w...